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Dogman, how do you write SO WELL!?!? I love all your characters and I need to know what/where you find inspo from...

Ha. Every writer is just someone who apes the creative processes of their inspirations. For video game writing specifically, there's two answers for me.

Toby Fox is always gonna be a huge inspiration for me. I've written plots and characters before and had to abandon ideas after realizing I'd accidentally written part of UT again. Even some of the ideas I used were undeniably inspired by UT in a subconscious way and ofc, I included several explicit references to UT in my last series. Toby's a very clever guy who likely pays very close attention to the art he consumes and tries to figure out how to maximize how much his work connects with his audience. Whatever his process is, it works.

The other answer is a lil funnier: Scott Cawthon, but specifically the legend, not the man. For context: Back in the earlier days of the FNaF fandom, people had a hyper-inflated view of Scott Cawthon's writing skills that largely came from how little of a presence he had back in those days. In the vacuum of Scott actually explaining his own process in detail, people got caught up in his genuinely creative way of hiding exposition in his games using cryptid and (then) unexpected methods, and a narrative formed (one that he's since refuted.)

While he never implied it tmk, fans broadly believed that he constructed these sweeping and complex narratives with tons of cohesive moving parts, with the games essentially acting like the mere tip of his lore iceberg. People even thought he wrote so much that he had whole games worth of lore outlined from the beginning! In the first Dawko interview he gave, he clarified that this wasn't the case and explained roughly what his process was (basically just outlining rough theme ideas + aesthetics for future titles.)

However, that legend made younger-me's mind run wild and any time I wrote a story, it became very difficult for me to not keep writing down ideas while completing the grunt work that followed me finishing my scripts. When I finished DSaF 1, I already had DSaF 2's draft written and by the time 2 was done, I had enough lore for a 3rd game on paper (and a lot more stuff that I didn't use.) By the time three was out, I had pages upon pages of unused concepts/story ideas and more or less just had to decide to call it quits or else I'd be pumping out entries forever!

That's why if you go back to those older games, there's references that directly refer to future plot-points in pretty casual/easy to miss ways. (Like Henry's mention in DSaF 1, Dave being heartless in DSaF 2, Jack being soulless in 1, and even Blackjack being Jack's soul in 2. Most of 3's major plotpoints are implied somewhere in 2 and some of 2's in 1.)

DT is much the same. By the time I finished writing it, I had fairly detailed drafts for arcs for each of the characters, some early material ended up getting completely recontextualized (and even modified in small ways to not conflict with the wider ideas I came up with.)

I get really into writing my stories/characters and I always wonder exactly how things ended up where they are, what characters think about but don't say, etc etc. This is why I have an obscene amount of Crown lore that I have very little to do with rn (since he impacted the whole world so deeply.)

This extra stuff also includes plenty of sequel material ideas, though I didn't think I'd even get a chance to use them since DT performed pretty meagerly before the big release and I was expecting to have to move onto something new. Though it turned out that Scott didn't actually write his games this way (by his own admission), it's the correct answer for what my core writing inspiration for writing game narratives is.

Hope this helps!

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Quick new pinned post: You can get Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim on steam right now for $8! It has roughly 18-25 hours of content, 26 endings, a completely original OST with 69 tracks and more!

I'm also currently working on a DLC for the game featuring 8 new endings, some new music, voice acting and a ton of character appearances! So, if you're seeing this post and are interested, follow me for more!

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The God of wormholes

Artfight attack I did for @clandestinesnee (sneesnaa) glad you liked it!!!

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we love ibis paint x in this house (yes i am working on an animation to test ibis's capabilities)

lefty!!! lefty is five dollars !!!!

(yes this is my profile picture because art block and i must find ways to motivate myself)

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ibis paint x animation update has removed its limit on my sheer power and i will be abandoning flipaclip in favor of funny app i can draw on accurately with my finger and have mastered over the course of 5 and a half years

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no one will see me for like a week after help wanted 2 comes out. i will be LIVING in vr. screams

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okay it's been a WHILE and i haven't posted anything fnaf on this acc yet and literally all the lore thoughts are in my brain. i'm boutta do some wizardry shit extracting this information from my tangled thoughts alr bet

rrrrrr i don't even know where to start ??

alr for one, help wanted is after pizzeria sim :] which sounds really obvious but me about *checks watch* a year ago was coping via sb being before ps and right it SOUNDS stupid but it's at least. less stupid than afton beInG aLiVe aGaIn cus he always comes back like i was never gonna believe that ma boi henry's efforts all amounted to nothing. although sb before ps thing is easily shut down. however i can say with quite a measure of confidence that the pizzeria underground is not pizzeria sim.

according to the tales at the pizzaplex epilogue (not the security breach map necessarily) in the underground pizzeria, there's a storage room, main dining room, arcade, lobby, party rooms, stage, backstage, kitchen, employee's lounge, a furnace room, restrooms, maintenance room, a room with robotic parts, and the office at the end of the front hall.

idk if michael in ps would have had any employees or if they even had, like, paychecks coming out of the business money. henry is NOT selling an entire-ass pizzeria to michael there's no way. boy said "room and some tables" and if that secretly means an arcade and party rooms and kitchens and a furnace room (??) then my life is forfeit ig /j

also the epilogues say nothing about the pizzeria being burned, but instead they specify that the mimic is burned. 🤔

also pizzeria sim established that afterward the entire story would be basically erased from memory and put to rest. henry set ps on fire to ensure that the story dies right then and there, that no one knows what happened, ever. BUT. help wanted. *brain exploding noises*

my best guess is that the mimic was a witness. looks at the image below

basically what the quote (mr burrows) is saying is that the Mimic1 program takes from a memory and recreates it. which would explain why mimic is trying to repeat it all. and how would the mimic remember it unless it saw it all with its own two eyes?

and see, this ^ makes sense to me. but what i'm stuck on is just. who. this guy is. the mimic was shipped in with other old animatronics in the epilogue! who the fuck is the mimic!! it was described to have rabbit ears and retractable limbs which is crazy! and it goes like spider-mode at one point which makes me think of ballora somehow.

but edwin murray was the one who created the mimic, and in the epilogue the mimic is an entire model that's been purged. did edwin, like, give the patent to fazbear entertainment after losing his son? so is the burnt one is the OG mimic? literally the first and now last of its kind? that's crazy. this is so cool. also my brain needs a break so ima post more some other time.

a lot of this was me just posting things i have a lot of evidence for and, below the image, speculation/questions. just setting a foundation so i have somewhere to start. :D

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okay i'm alive i just went on this crazy (undocumented) brain journey that was wild

my hyperfixation swung from fnaf to rottmnt to lego monkie kid and then BACK to fnaf. i wanted to stay with the legos so bad and i tried to reject fnaf for like a month but now here i am anyway lmao

i remembered this site exists (been busy with school and now uni) so hey now i gave somewhere to ramble about fnaf lore to someone other than my roommates 😎

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“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.” 

Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon

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he HATES his ass

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i was supposed to have posted this like 15 min ago but fr i keep getting distracted by all the cool stuff on my timeline

okayokay rottmnt old art dump!!!! :]

btw the second photo (raph) was before my brother expertly taught me how to draw men so broad shoulders were an untouched domain at the time LMAO

also featuring my triceraton oc in the last picture because she's so comfy to draw and she is my baby fr and i might rant about her story sometime :D

i like drawing the turts. they be very fun to draw! :] i have recent art but that will be a separate post

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Projection,

refers to a type of defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory, wereby unacceptable feelings and self-attributes within an individual are disavowedand attributed to someone else.

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Apocalypse be damned, my boy can work a walkman and groove it 🕺 [ALT BELOW]

D: ...hold the phone.

L: wha-

D: HOLD. THE. PHONE!!!

D: Do you know what this is, Nardo?

L: Oh, did the apocalypse finally make you lose your marbles, Nerdo?

L: wait a sec...

L: Is that... A WALKMAN?

D: Walk with me dear brother

L: Do you think this baby's still got some juice in it?

D: Juice or no juice, I can fix it in a jiffy! Piece of cake

L: AUGH! I wanna listen to some tunes so bad

L: Don't you wanna groove a lil Dontron?

D: While it may attract enemies around the perimeter and distract us from the task at hand...

D: I THOUGHT YOU'D NEVER ASK!

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T&e side comic that is unrelated to the fic continuation, more out of self indulgence since ive been tackling a cold myself

Be sure to read my buddy @apatheticrobots latest chapter and shower them with kudos and comments! They will cherish every bit of it~ ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

Extra bit with audio below ü

A-chee!

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soooo…how do you all feel abOUT REFOUND FAMILY?

Part 1:) Part 2 Prequel

If Nickelodeon doesn't give me content with the future timeline, I'll make it myself~

And It's not angst, I PROMISE

Also, these little comics are getting a little out of hand, so I guess they need a tag. So now I'm going to super originally call it "Cass apocalyptic series" because why not

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OKAY you know what?? THEIR SIZE DIFFERENCE??