Famously known for creating the horrors of the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise, Scott Cawthon is an indie video-game developer, animator, and writer residing in Texas, America.

Cawthon’s earliest works had appeared at around the 2000’s with no valuable recognition. At this decade, Cawthon had created many mediums of video games and films. A film such as “Noah’s Ark: Story of The Biblical Flood” for Hope Animation as Cawthon is a Christian.

But some of his other games such as “Bogart”, “The Desolate Series”, and “There Is No Pause Button!” had gotten quite the recognition. However, according to interviews, one of Cawthon’s games “Chipper and Sons Lumber Co.” had received harsh and negative reviews, saying that the characters acted and were portrayed a much animatronic-esque behaviour. Sending Cawthon in too a deep depression, even thought about quitting developing for good, he took the flaws of “Chipper and Sons” to his advantage which set the foundation of the entire “FNaF” franchise.

While Five Nights at Freddy’s was being developed, Cawthon held a crowdfunding campaign to fund the game. It raised no money.

After the debut-release of Five Nights at Freddy’s in August 8, 2014, it was given a huge approval of recognition through the internet, especially from the gaming community. Many giving it outstanding reviews and even sensational gamer, Markiplier, stating it to be the “SCARIEST GAME IN YEARS”. Some developers praising the game even made their own versions and parodies based on the mechanics of the original Five Nights at Freddy’s; these resulted at an estimated 1000 clones, while only 200 were documented.

This later followed to many releases of sequels with more follow-ups of good and positive approvals. Though, up until the fourth installment of the FNaF series, the most-subscribed YouTuber, PewDiePie, uploaded his gameplay of playing the game. Though many had hoped his reaction to be “over-the-top”, PewDiePie was not affected by the jumpscares or the horrors of it. He even states in the video “If you’ve played the first three games, you’re practically immune to the jump scares by now,”. Putting into perspective to many viewers that Cawthon’s success on the series may be running out. Besides than all this, Cawthon has been criticized on how he’s just creating the games in such a quick time-frame that he’s only just pumping them out for money due to its monumental success.

Cawthon then released the first spin-off series to the FNaF franchise, “FNaF World”. But this was later discontinued a year after its release saying that it was “broken” and that he will that his “time and effort would be better spent on new projects”.

The fifth installment of the FNaF franchise, “Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location” was released in 2016, which brought in new varying gameplay mechanics (such as the ability of transporting to a room to another) that was never found in the past games. And, Sister Location was the first game in the franchise (except for FNaF World) to have proper voice acting.

In 2017, Cawthon hinted towards a sixth installment in the FNaF series, but later cancelled it as he said:

But after forcing myself to keep working on it day after day, I realized something- I just don’t want to work on this*“
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In the same post, he also hinted that he might develop “a pizzeria tycoon game” in the future.

After some hints and teases, the “pizzeria tycoon game” was titled “Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator”, released in December, 2017. Though fans were excited to see the new project, many were bamboozled to see that the game was surprisingly the official sixth installment of the franchise. It didn’t have much new mechanics to introduce as it brought back the recurring mechanics of click and survive from the first few games.

In February 2018, Cawthon posted a Steam update where he hinted at some future ideas for “Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator”.

…An endless tycoon mode with new items and new day-to-day challenges, or some kind of ultimate custom night?

After the overwhelming support on the idea of an “ultimate custom night” to wrap up the series, Cawthon announced that there would be a roster of 50 characters in total; but this was changed to 57 characters with surprise additions.

The full second spin-off was released in June 28, 2018.