Five Nights at Candy's 4,
The Joy of Creation: Ignited Collection,
POPGOES Evergreen,
One Night at Flumpty's 3,
Five Nights at Freddy's Plus.
These five fangames can be called official now, they are funded by Scott, and they will also get console ports and merch that will be legally sold.
This doesn’t mean these games suddenly became part of the canon, they will still do what they want, but they are official,
so in theory, you could call them “canon”. Canon means official.
Just like “The Silver Eyes”, it is canon, but it follows a different timeline.
This news is something the community really needed, the post has almost fourteen thousand upvotes, which has never been done by any other Freddit post yet.
No other post got to ten thousand, and Scott ranks top three on the top-rated posts.
Scott made this post more than a week ago and every dev team has made some comment by now,
we know a bit about each of these games, and I’ll do a summary of what we know about them.
Five Nights at Candy's 4 has been in production for over two years.
An ARG that first announced the new game took place on Freddit in June 2018, but development eventually came to a halt when work on “Chef Wanted” started.
The game was a collab between Emil, Kane and Turntail, but then, Chef Wanted development stopped when POPGOES reboot started and Emil was programming Arcade 2020 Edition.
It may all seem chaotic, but there was always some logic behind these breaks on various games.
Emil admitted three months ago that he needed a break from FNaC4 work.
He rushed the game at first, but problems appeared, he was running out of ideas, there were holes in the gameplay to be fixed,
and the game went back into the planning phase. In the meantime, Emil had the opportunity to work on various other games,
he was programming Chef Wanted, he released a remastered version of FNaC1, he released POPGOES Arcade 2020 Edition along with the rest of the team.
As he wrote in the post, it helped him a lot, it made more sense than sitting in a corner for two years, writing FNaC4 concepts.
In the meantime, he learned a lot about programming, about game dev. The game will still come out, Chef Wanted will still come out, this break and over a year of additional planning was a good idea according to Emil.
Two weeks ago, Emil made a post saying a little more about the characters in his game.
In short - Emil says there will be tons of new characters in the game, more than in any previous FNaC game.
More animatronics, but also more human characters, we will also get a lot of original characters,
they won’t be just new variations of the same robots, Penguin, Blank, Chester, but completely new characters.
The protagonist will also be a new character, Emil admitted that the first three games are a "Mary Schmidt saga"
so we can expect that the new protagonist will be completely unrelated to her or her family.
The game takes from Sister Location, so that's where it’s coming from, just like SL introduces Baby or Ballora, FNaC4 introduces its own new characters.
The latest news that came out after the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative announcement also clarifies, how everything will look like.
All four FNaC games are a part of the Initiative and Emil will update them to version 2.0 to improve the experience,
slightly improve visuals, balance gameplay, eliminate bugs so that all games can be easily transferred to consoles and mobile devices.
It is also worth noting that FNaC1 will not be taken into account, because the game has been remastered and we will get FNaC1 Remastered on consoles instead.
The remaining games won’t receive a full remaster but will be updated.
Along with this news, Emil showed us a new teaser featuring Candy as well as his mini-clones.
It looks similar to Nightmare Freddy and the Freddles and it seems that Emil took some inspiration from FNaF4 here.
Each FNaC game is inspired by two games, FNaF1-2, 2-3, 3-4,
but when it comes to FNaC4, Emil always talked only about Sister Location, he didn't say anything about FNaF4.
However, it seems he is taking stuff from this game, precisely because of this animatronic here.
Sister Location technically has Baby with Bidybabs and Ballora with Minireenas,
but this seems more fitting as a parallel to Freddy, where the small fellas are just small clones of him.
But that's all from FNaC. The game has been around for a long time, so this part of the episode was a bit longer.
Also, keep in mind that the game won't be called "FNaC4", it's just a working title, the game is going to have a title, but it seems Emil doesn’t want to announce it just yet.
The second fangame Scott mentioned in his post is The Joy of Creation: Ignited Collection.
The Ignited Collection will be a major remake of the previous three games in the series,
the original game, Reborn and Story Mode, all as different modes in one application.
Halloween Edition won’t be taken into account. The modes will be completely separate from each other and you can play whatever you like without unlocking stuff.
Every game is meant to be rebalanced, to be more replayable, and of course, Nikson wants to improve on everything he didn't like about previous games.
The original The Joy of Creation was pretty poor and we were just spinning on a swivel chair.
Nikson is still working on Dark Deception, he can’t devote his full time to TJoC and believes it will take a year to finish the fangame, it should come out sometime in 2021.
So far, Nikson has shown how the animatronics will look like in the new The Joy of Creation.
For this game, he got permission to use edited models from Help Wanted and he showed the difference between the original models and the ones he will be using now.
I won’t lie, I don't really like when people do "boring old pose versus epic new pose" because it just undermines the old models more for no good reason.
I liked how Emil did it in FNaC Remastered, although it was mostly textures and lighting here.
Anyway, we can see that the animatronics in TJoC have changed a bit and the new ones look better.
POPGOES was supposed to be called POPGOES 2020 Edition initially, but it turns out that they won't manage to release the game this year, so the name had to be changed.
At first, there was a placeholder name, "The POPGOES Reboot", but then a short 20-second reveal of the title appeared on YouTube.
The game is called "POPGOES Evergreen". An interesting name and it turns out that it has some deeper meaning, many meanings.
Evergreen generally refers to plants that are green all year round.
Popgoes Pizzeria is represented by a forest, so the name fits, green is also the main color used in the game, the main character has a green power color after all.
Evergreen is also a parallel to The Dead Forest, the cancelled sequel. There was a dead forest, and no we have eternal green, eternal forest, there is a contrast between one and the other.
There are also additional reasons, but they would be spoilers so we will figure them out after release.
I like the title, it's cool, simple, unique, it doesn't add any Re-born, Re-printed, because “Re-” is very popular with remakes and it sounds a bit boring now.
There have been some new teasers released after I discussed the POPGOES Arcade 2020 Edition last time, so it's worth taking a look now.
We got the gamejolt page and we’ve got a teaser of Popgoes holding Blackrabbit's head along with it.
We could also see more of Popgoes in the gamejolt thumbnail, they had three attempts before they were satisfied with it.
The final version is a remake of a thumbnail from the original POPGOES page. This new one looks very powerful.
It was also shown in color recently, and along with that, the full design of Popgoes was shown.
For now, people call him "Evergreen Popgoes” to distinguish one from the other.
You can see significant differences between it and the original design. Originally Popgoes was just another Toy Animatronic, but now it's clear he's a brand new character, a new robot.
His hands are nice, very human, I imagine they come in handy when working in a pizzeria.
He has a texture resembling 3D printed material, he has clothes. The head is rounder compared to the original and the colours have changed a bit, the face is mostly dark.
I am sure that some people will find it difficult to move on from the old model, but I think it is a clear upgrade,
the new Popgoes looks great in my opinion, I quickly got used to the new design.
I don't think the original is now ugly, I still like it, but Evergreen Popgoes is really, really cool, looks like a great pizzeria mascot, looks like a better version of the original Popgoes.
Some more details, Popgoes has a camera in his right eye. Only in the right one, a single cam is enough for him.
Besides Popgoes, we know more or less how Evergreen Stone looks like.
At first, we only got his sign, but then, on a charity stream moderated by Freddit Discord,
Kane showed a teaser with Stone’s silhouette, and he looks insane.
It seems he will have a scarf like in his minigame sprite, but he looks tough, especially compared to the original Stone. I love this design already.
Kane commented on the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative but there wasn’t much new information.
He mentioned an upcoming teaser, but it’s referring to Stone teaser I’ve already shown.
He confirmed on Twitter that only Evergreen and Arcade 2020 Edition will be ported to consoles. Previous games are not considered, not even as some Legacy Edition.
Flumpty. For many people, Flumpty is the most anticipated and most unexpected fangame on the list.
Jonochrome had dramas, he rudely criticised Scott, deleted his games from gamejolt, but that’s all old news now.
Both Flumpty games have been updated to get rid of copyrighted characters, but the original versions are still available for download.
Jonochrome posted a teaser, as well as two videos, one short and one longer that explains what's going on in all this.
This won’t be another attempt at One Week at Flumpty's, a game that Jonochrome worked on a few years ago, that was eventually cancelled.
Some ideas are going to move from the old game to the new one, but it won't be too similar.
In April, he made another video in which he talked about the Flumpty Lore, and in short, he said he didn't see the point in it, Flumpty doesn’t need lore.
Flumpty has always been a funny figure with no purpose, and he should be this way. The only lore here is silly jokes here and there,
some simple explanation of who the characters are and what they do here.
One Week at Flumpty's tried to introduce a deeper storyline here, but ONAF3 won't repeat it anymore, Jonochrome doesn't want anything like that anymore.
ONaF3 will follow a similar pattern to ONaF1 and 2, single night, increasing AI, Hard-Boiled Mode,
but it won’t specifically try to remake FNaF3 as its predecessors did more or less.
So far, we haven't got too many details about the game, but it's in the works, and we'll get teasers eventually.
Finally, we have FNaF Plus, a remake of the original FNaF1, in works by Phisnom.
You may associate Phil with FNaF Open Source that he’s recently worked on, a remake of FNaF2
that was meant to have public code, so everyone could edit it a bit, characters, mechanics, etc.
The problem was that it wasn't an ordinary fangame, but a direct competition to FNaF 2, and someone could simply recreate the game with this code, so it was deleted.
The name was changed to “Another FNaF Fangame” but it was also removed.
According to Phil, Scott had the game removed but he was impressed, so he offered Phil the opportunity to make a real, official remake.
Official, but still non-canon, so Phil can work on it freely.
As Phil admitted, he will only remake the first game, he won’t make a series of remakes but will try to put as much dedication into this one game as possible.
We've already got the first teaser with the new Freddy and you can see that it's a completely new design.
It isn’t that different, it is still supposed to look like an ordinary Freddy, but the design was developed more.
I would call this set “Classic Plus” as a reference to the name of the game.
Anyway, this game sounds very promising. Phil is ambitious, and he doesn’t need to create something completely new, but to improve an existing game.
I imagine that the gameplay will be slightly developed, he will change stuff that he didn’t like, add something new,
and at the same time introduce some graphic changes, story changes, maybe add mini-games, maybe reference later games to make it all look more solid.
I imagine Phil could safely add FNaF2 references here, show Toys, give more background to the Bite,
give more background to the murders taking place in a completely different time, with slightly different robots, he is able to mention all of this in the game.
Scott wasn’t able to do that, because back in the day he didn't plan the series that much forward.
Phil can add some mini-games that Scott added in the second game, and since the game is non-canon, he can easily change stuff.
He can make a story that begins and ends in one game, he can introduce a new character, he can open up the Safe Room and use Spring Bonnie however he wants.
As for now, we can only guess, but everyone will likely agree that the FNaF1 remake is a very ambitious project and a lot of people are hyped for it.
I am looking forward to POPGOES Evergreen the most, but FNaF Plus is very close, second on the list. Then FNaC, then TJoC, then Flumpty.
I wonder if FNaF Plus will get any merch, seeing as it uses more or less Classic animatronics.
Even if there are differences, we don’t know if it will be enough to make into figures, into POPs.
Until we see the full design, this POP figure still fits as a counterpart of this animatronic. We'll see eventually.
That’s pretty much all we know about these games now. I don't know yet how I’ll work with it in the future,
but I could make regular Fanverse videos if the developers will give enough news at once.
Of course, if there is something bigger, I will make a separate episode for it, but I like the idea of gathering all news in one vid.
Scott has really done something great with the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative and I am very happy with how it looks like,
the chance it has given the devs to promote themselves, to do something bigger.
Fanverse is currently in the first wave and if it succeeds, Scott admitted he would love to do a second wave, so I won't be surprised if we get even more official fangames in the future.
I imagine a lot of new fangames will come out now as people will want to participate in Fanverse.
That's it for today, so thank you for watching. Tell me what are you the most hyped about in this whole project, I'm curious what people are looking forward to the most.
