The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative

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Fazbear Fanverse
Information
Creator(s)	Scott Cawthon Clickteam Emil Macko Kane Carter Nikson Jonochrome Felipe Moraga (formerly)
Genre	Horror Point-and-Click RPG
Status	Ongoing
Installments
No. of Games	5
Chronology
First Installment	One Night at Flumpty's (August 22, 2020)
Latest Installment	myPOPGOES (April 3, 2023)

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“Because every franchise needs a multiverse!” — The official tagline, Fazbear Fanverse

The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative, also known simply as the Fazbear Fanverse, is a collaboration by Scott Cawthon and creators of popular Five Nights at Freddy's fan games, first announced on August 21, 2020.

This project is, in Scott's own words, "a giant collaboration involving several fangame creators who have made some of the most popular fangames over the years here in the community. It's a project that's designed to invest into those franchises, give back to the developers, and hopefully bring new entries to those franchises as well!".

Description

Cawthon's goal with this project is to support creators of some of the most popular Five Nights at Freddy's-inspired fangames out there. As such, he will help fund the development of new games for these series. Along with that, some older games in the various series will be remade due to the use of assets that were either copyrighted or made by uninvolved people. This must be done for another part of the project: releasing these series for sale on console and mobile devices in series bundles. Series involved will also end up producing official merchandise, such as Youtooz collectibles and plush toys. More series may be added to the project in the future depending on the success of the initial releases. As far as his involvement, Cawthon said he is simply funding everything and letting the creators work on their projects and interact with the community at large as they normally would. While it is clear that the Fazbear Fanverse games are confirmed to be officially part of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise as a whole, they will remain in their own continuity (although POPGOES and Five Nights at Candy's are confirmed to take place in the same universe) and thus not canon to the story of any official continuities of the original Five Nights at Freddy's series.

However, not all fangames will get officially endorsed or licensed for the initiative due to copyrights, vulgar content, etc. Some games for example include: Five Nights at Treasure Island, Five Nights at Wario's, Dayshift at Freddy's, Five Nights at F**kboy's, etc.

Series

The Fazbear Fanverse art by POPGOES concept artist StupidButterfly.

Below is a list of official Fanverse series, with currently announced projects involved.

Five Nights at Candy's

Main article: Five Nights at Candy's (Series)

Five Nights at Candy's is a series by Emil Macko, who is making Five Nights at Candy's 4 and FNAC FUR, as well as updating the first three Five Nights at Candy's games for consoles and Steam.

The Joy of Creation

Main article: The Joy of Creation (Series)

The Joy of Creation is a series by Nikson, who is making THE JOY OF CREATION.

POPGOES

Main article: POPGOES

POPGOES is a series by Kane Carter, who is developing POPGOES Evergreen, among other projects. The series is ongoing, with the first spin-off in the series, POPGOES Arcade, released on June 12, 2020 on Game Jolt, with its expansion, POPGOES and the Machinist, released on July 1, 2022, on Steam alongside the full game. The second spin-off in the series, myPOPGOES, was released on Game Jolt on April 3, 2023, and set to release on Steam on August 1, 2024.

One Night at Flumpty's

Main article: One Night at Flumpty's (Series)

One Night at Flumpty's is a digitally-animated parody fangame trilogy by Jonochrome. The series is officially completed, with the final game, One Night at Flumpty's 3, releasing on Game Jolt, App Store, and Google Play on October 31, 2021. The planned console ports that were being developed by Clickteam have been put on hold for an indefinite amount of time.

Five Nights at Freddy's Plus

Main article: Five Nights at Freddy's Plus

Five Nights at Freddy's Plus was a remake/re-imagining of the first Five Nights at Freddy's that was previously under development by Felipe Moraga. Phil announced his termination from the project on August 4, 2023, and a day later, the game was removed from Steam, seemingly finalizing its cancellation.

Cancelled/Considered

Below is a list of games that were either considered or were canceled before/after Scott saw the titles.

JOLLY

JOLLY is an indie point-and-click survival horror video game series created by Ivan "IvanG" Gonzales. The series was being considered for the Fazbear Fanverse; however, IvanG shared a teaser in a now deleted X/Twitter post before even responding to Scott on the deal. This post alerted the other developers of his involvement and prompted them to contact Scott to inform him about the teaser and the copyrighted material JOLLY is based on; this ultimately led to the series not being added.

Aftonbuilt

Aftonbuilt was an indie action survival horror video game that was being developed by Jelatine. Upon sending in the final pitch demo to Scott Cawthon for review, even after positive reception, Scott saw the title as too big of a risk and decided to not sign them on the initiative. JeliLiam would reveal the project and release the pitch demo on April 12, 2022.

Chomper's

Chomper's was an indie free-roam survival horror video game that was being developed by Cody "Ultranite" Hughes. The game was in development for half a year, but before Ultranite could get a finished pitch demo to send to Scott, they were removed from the initiative a week before signing NDA's. The lead developer, Yu Ro, would upload most of the content the team made for the title on Game Jolt, along with the Fanverse pitch demo.

Trivia

• This is the first time Scott has collaborated with creators who created popular Five Nights at Freddy's fan games.
  • Scott may continue collaborating with more fan-game creators if the initiative is successful at launch.
• The trailer for the mobile ports of One Night at Flumpty's was released early on the official Clickteam LLC YouTube channel on October 27th, 2020.
• On April 1st, 2021, Mairusu claimed that his Five Nights at Freddy's fangame, Five Nights in Anime, would be part of the next wave of The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative, complete with a "teaser" on the Scott Games website. However, he revealed the next day that it was an April Fools' Joke.
• Kane Carter revealed on Twitter that he has sent Scott a pitch to add a possible reboot of CHASE Animatronics, a fangame he made as part of Team EKS, to The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative once he is done working on POPGOES Evergreen and Emil is done working on Five Nights at Candy's 4.
• Scott registered another company, Fazbear Fanverse, LLC, on October 26, 2021.
• According to Kane Carter, Fanverse characters such as Candy the Cat and Popgoes the Weasel were capable of being added to Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, as a manager from Illumix, Inc. had mentioned that they were considered part of Scott's official roster. However, this never occurred prior to the game's closure.

Video

The Fazbear Fanverse Explained

Kane Carter explaining the Fazbear Fanverse initiative. (Outdated)