Scott Cawthon
Scott Cawthon (born July 26, 1971 ) is an American game developer and novelist and screenwriter . He was best known for the Five Nights at Freddy’s game series.
Life
About Cawthons private and family life is only known that he in Salado in the US state of Texas is living, married with two sons, Ian and Braden did that for him his games test . Otherwise he completely withholds information about his life.
He is a graduate of the Houston- Texas Art Academy . Cawthon is a very religious Christian and a member of Hope Animation , an official film and game project that claims to be trying to spread the message of Jesus Christ through modern media.
Career
Scott Cawthon had already produced several strongly Christian-oriented animated films such as Noah's Ark, The Pilgrim's Progress, A Christmas Journey and Jesus Kids Club . In addition, he developed numerous games of various genres, including: Legacy of Flan 1 - 4, There is no Pause Button !, Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. and Rage Quit! .
The stumbling block for the game series "Five Nights at Freddy's" was the game Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. , in which anthropomorphic beavers go about their daily work (namely chopping and processing wood). Game fans complained vehemently that the characters in the game looked "like animatronic dolls " and that their stares and convulsive smiles were "lifeless and terrifying". Other games from his hand have also been criticized. At first, Scott was disappointed and depressed as a result. But then he got the idea to use the reviews of animatronic game characters in Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. as a stimulus for a horror game. The inspiration for the individual animatronics provided him with famous, real existing animatronics from various amusement parks and franchise pizzerias (e.g. Chuck E. Cheese’s ), as well as characters from the Muppet show .
According to current statistical lists of portals selling games such as Steam and Twitch , Five Nights at Freddy's was downloaded up to 4,694 times a day via iPhone and PC up to June 2015, which results in an approximate daily income of $ 12,880.00 (corresponds to around € 11,560.00). Scott Cawthon has now donated $ 256,500.00 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (a well-known children 's hospital in Memphis , Tennessee that specifically treats children with cancer and leukemia ). If Five Nights at Freddy's had n't been such a surprise hit, he would have had to give up his professional career as a game designer.
Scott Cawthon is now also a successful novelist. His first work, entitled Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes , was published in December 2015. His second work, Five Nights at Freddy's: Durchgeknallt , was published on June 27, 2017. The third of his books is titled The Fourth Closet and was published on July 26, 2018. He is also involved in the script for the film Five Nights at Freddy's .
Interaction with fans
Cawthon very rarely gives interviews and usually lets discussions about his games go on without any recognizable intervention. Sometimes, however, he expresses himself on discussion forums about the series of questions from fans, usually without revealing anything specific about the series, especially when it comes to the plot.
The development of the games, about which the fans have only been kept up to date with cryptic teasers and trailers , has been designed very openly at Ultimate Custom Night . Cawthon kept fans informed of new game content as soon as it was added.
Cawthon is also known for deliberately misleading its fans, which is why he is often referred to as a troll . For example, he released " demo versions " of several Five Nights at Freddy's parts , which when played turned out to be completely different games to which only a few graphics from the Five Nights at Freddy's series were added, or he gave his Birthday as February 31st.
Works
Games
| Surname | genre | Publishing year |
|---|---|---|
| Floppy disk | Shoot 'em up | 1995 |
| RPG Max | role playing game | 2002 |
| Dinostria | role playing game | 2003 |
| Elemage | role playing game | 2003 |
| Gunball | Shoot 'em up | 2003 |
| Legacy of Flan | role playing game | 2003 |
| Legacy of Flan 2: Flans Online | role playing game | 2003 |
| Legacy of Flan 3: Storm of Hades | role playing game | 2003 |
| Lost Island | Action | 2003 |
| Mega Knight | role playing game | 2003 |
| Thanks Knight | Action | 2003 |
| Phantom Core: The Moon Mission | Action | 2003 |
| RPG Max 2 | role playing game | 2003 |
| Ships of chaos | Shoot 'em up | 2003 |
| Stellar Gun | Shoot 'em up | 2003 |
| Was | Shoot 'em up | 2003 |
| Flanville | Action | 2004 |
| Junkyard Apocalypse | Action | 2004 |
| Moon Minions | role playing game | 2004 |
| Chup's Quest | Action | 2005 |
| Flanville 2 | Action | 2005 |
| Legend of White Whale | role playing game | 2005 |
| Metroid: Ripped Worlds | Action | 2005 |
| Bogart | Action | 2006 |
| Bogart 2: Return of Bogart | Action | 2006 |
| The Misadventures of Sigfreid the Dark Elf on Tuesday Night | Action | 2006 |
| Weird Colony | role playing game | 2006 |
| Legacy of Flan 4: Flan Rising | role playing game | 2007 |
| MOON | Action | 2007 |
| The Desolate Room | role playing game | 2007 |
| Iffermoon | Shoot 'em up | 2008 |
| The Powermon Adventure! | role playing game | 2010 |
| Doomsday Picnic | Action | 2011 |
| Slumberfish! | Puzzle game | 2011 |
| Slumberfish !: Catching Z's | Puzzle game | 2011 |
| The Pligrim's Progress | role playing game | 2011 |
| Fighter Mage Bard | role playing game | 2012 |
| The Desolate Hope | Action RPG | 2012 |
| There is no pause button! | Jump and run | 2012 |
| Use Holy Water! | Shoot 'em up | 2012 |
| 20 Useless apps | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Aquatic Critters Slots | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Bad Waiter Tip Calculator | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Chipper and Sons Lumber Co. | Action | 2013 |
| Cropple | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Forever Quester | Action | 2013 |
| Golden Galaxy | Action | 2013 |
| Mafia! Slot machine | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Pimp My Dungeon | Action puzzle game | 2013 |
| Platinum Slots Collection | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Rage Quit | Jump and run | 2013 |
| Scott's Fantasy Slots | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Spooky scan | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Vegas Fantasy Jackpot | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Vegas Fantasy Slots | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| Vegas Wild Slots | Puzzle game | 2013 |
| 8-bit RPG Creator | Puzzle and role play | 2014 |
| 8-bit RPG Creator: Cuddly Creatures | Puzzle and role play | 2014 |
| 8-bit RPG Creator: Zombies Attack | Puzzle and role play | 2014 |
| Bible Story Slots | Puzzle game | 2014 |
| Chubby hurdles | Jump and run | 2014 |
| Dark Prisms | Puzzle game | 2014 |
| Fart Hotel | Face | 2014 |
| Five Nights at Freddy's | Survival horror | 2014 |
| Five Nights at Freddy's 2 | Survival horror | 2014 |
| Gemsa | Puzzle game | 2014 |
| Hawaiian jackpots | Puzzle game | 2014 |
| Jumbo Slots Collection | Puzzle game | 2014 |
| Kitty in the crowd | Hidden object | 2014 |
| Magnum Slots Collection | Puzzle game | 2014 |
| Pogoduck | Jumy | 2014 |
| Shell shatter | Puzzle game | 2014 |
| Sit 'N Survive | Survival | 2014 |
| VIP Woodland Casino | Puzzle game | 2014 |
| Five Nights at Freddy's 3 | Survival horror | 2015 |
| Five Nights at Freddy's 4th | Survival horror | 2015 |
| FNaF World: Halloween Edition | role playing game | 2015 |
| FNaF World | role playing game | 2016 |
| Sister Location: Mature Edition | Survival | 2016 |
| Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location | Survival horror | 2016 |
| Stupid | Shoot 'em up | 2017 * |
| Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator | Survival horror | 2017 |
| Ultimate Custom Night | Survival horror | 2018 |
| Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted | Survival horror | 2019 |
| Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery | Survival horror | 2019 |
| Freddy in Space 2 | Jump and run, collectathon | 2019 |
* Developed 1989-1994
Books
- Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes (2015)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Crazy (2017)
- The Freddy Files (2017)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Survival Logbook (2017)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet (2018)
literature
- Torill Elvira Mortensen, Jonas Linderoth, Ashley ML Brown: The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments . Routledge, London / New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-317-57446-0 .
- Kerri Duncan Valentine, Lucas John Jensen: Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives . IGI Global, Hershey (Pennsylvania) 2016, ISBN 978-1-5225-0262-3 .
Web links
- Caleb McLemore: 15 Facts About Five Nights at Freddy's and the Series Creator Scott Cawthon on rantgamer.com (English), last accessed on May 17, 2018.
- François Lionet: Interview of the author of a top paid game in AppStore . at clickteam.com , last accessed on May 17, 2018.
- Tasos Lazarides: The Next 'Five Nights at Freddy's' Will be ... a Novel Called 'Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes'? . Internet article on toucharcade.com (English); last accessed on May 17, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Short biography about Scott Cawthon on biographicsworld.com (English); last accessed on July 2, 2019.
- ↑ Jeffrey Matulef: Five Nights at Freddy's creator releases spin-off novel. In: eurogamer.com. Gamer Network, December 18, 2015, accessed August 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Jerome Delos Santos: Five Nights at Freddy's: Twisted Ones Novel Early Copy Out, Story Details Leaked (Spoilers). (No longer available online.) In: thebitbag.com. Tune Media, June 13, 2017, archived from the original on July 31, 2017 ; Retrieved August 25, 2018 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christopher Groux, 'Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet' Plot Description Revealed. In: newsweek.com. Newsweek, March 8, 2018, accessed August 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Scott Cawthon: Upcoming Projects Mega-Thread! In: Steam. Valve, July 19, 2018, accessed August 25, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cawthon, Scott |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American video game designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston |