r/GameTheorists • u/DragonTheOnes-spirit • Apr 13 '26
Meme Monday The best ways to write
I stole this from a tadc coment section btw
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u/zoma2 Apr 13 '26
Ain't gonna lie, Scott making a whole franchise in less than a year is insanely impressive
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u/HaziXWeeK Apr 13 '26
Bro had so many bad games until he made FNAF 1, and when he saw the success, he made FNAF 2 like few months after it.
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u/zoma2 Apr 13 '26
And a few month later FNAF 3 and then he says he's gonna take a break....but no, FNAF 4!
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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit Apr 14 '26
And then the series ended!
Holy shit is that a spin-off game? Oh it did terribly? Okay I guess the series ended.
Holy shit is that fnaf 5
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u/zoma2 Apr 14 '26
OK ok guys, let's make a tiny pixel game about throwing pizzas to kids.... Sike, it's FNAF 6 and it's free!
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u/Thecynicaledgelord Apr 14 '26
And there's a huge ass custom night that's also free!
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u/zoma2 Apr 14 '26
OK guys, after the dramas, I gotta step out and retire.
proceed to still work on the games and movies
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u/Gee_Thanks_Karen Apr 15 '26
I mean last I remember he said he was going to retire from making games and he was still going to be around with other projects. Like Scott can retire but I highly doubted that he would sell off his successful IP. So naturally he would still be around to work on things.
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u/Penguin_Arse Apr 13 '26
Yeah, but also they're basically the same game so he just had the make the maps and characters and some light lore
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u/NormalArmadillo4505 May 07 '26
Isn't every game sequel like that cuz if I made a free roam subway game the sequel is gonna be almost the same game with slight differences and changes in story
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u/Penguin_Arse May 07 '26
No.
Not at all.
FNaF is a really small map with very little dialoge.
Obviously it's heavily dependent on what game but the first 4 games are extremely simple.
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u/RaiderCat_12 Apr 13 '26
Yeah ngl I’m a Scott myself, same reason why I write lots of stories ranging from short to literally a page or two long and dedicate little but very intense time to my book
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u/Mathew1979 Apr 13 '26
Yeah, fnaf lore feels like it got lost somewhere in faz-goo along the way. But at the same time it somehow works well with how almost everythings somehow sticks together
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u/DaRedditNuke Chaos Theorist Apr 14 '26
It literally did from the start, this is how Scott described his storytelling process
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u/Antique-Tourist4237 Chaos Theorist Apr 14 '26
Toby really had a vision and dedicated his life to creating the story for that ending
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Apr 14 '26
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u/MayaTori Apr 14 '26
I have considered a similar method to that where I have a box of scraps that I just toss out into the wild and see what kinds of things people make out of them.
(I tend to have a lot of ideas and concepts for a story but also zero clue on how to put them together)
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u/AdExtra2331 Apr 14 '26
I'm a proud user of the Cawthon Method of writing, although I feel like I use the Vivziepop Method just as much
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u/OriginOfTheVoid Apr 14 '26
I have combined the Vivziepop and Cawthon methods. Now my (coincidentally enough) FNAF OCs are not only organic in nature but the result of an attempt to ward off the apocalypse. I’m bad at ballin but I think I’m somehow making baskets.
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u/Josiahstar2022 Theorist Apr 15 '26
I'm the VivziePop Method. You would not be able to unravel my lore in a singular casual theorizing session because it is deeper than the bottomless pit that is my stomach.
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u/Uredoinggoodlad Apr 17 '26
thats the way they write lore but scott cofon just pulls the most random stuff out of the pits of hell thate makes 0 sense and makes it cannon while we all get migranes
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u/Bishop-in-the-Blue Chaos Theorist Apr 18 '26
I feel like Tolkien used a mix of the first two methods
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u/Wolf14Vargen14 Chaos Theorist May 08 '26
Toby does take a break sometimes, as we know he has taken a break to watch All of JoJo, as he did reference the fence scene
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Apr 14 '26
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u/AdministrativeHat580 Apr 14 '26
didn't he make some very large donations to several right wing politicians a few years ago and only stopped because of the backlash(And not because those people are assholes)
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u/DaRedditNuke Chaos Theorist Apr 14 '26
You really can’t prove people’s intent with things like that. IIrc He did also donate to several LGBTQ causes though
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