Game Theory: FNAF, Four Games. One Story. And FNAF Theory Talkback!

No, you're not dreaming, it's possible to put the pieces of Nass together, it's just a nightmare trying to do it. Hello Internet, welcome to

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, where it's another day, another mathematical timeline, don't worry, I promise this will be the end of me. I'm trying to put it all together at least up to the stern world of ferns maybe that means I can finally do the undertale you guys want that well it seems like a popular choice let me know in the comments now let me start this episode by making it very clear that I think the

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of dreams is in fact what Scott intended.

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s that feature Fanat's crying boy for real, that is, there really is a birthday party and he really gets bit and the events of each night at Freddy's in all

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where a security guard. is attacked by robots is taking place in his mind as I said in the last episode, the clock rings along with Scott's own statements both during the live stream and on Steam I was 100% sold on that theory that I like a lot of You guys aren't one hundred percent satisfied with that explanation, sure the main game sequences with you as a security guard may be in the mind of a child, but the underlying

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here about a serial killer stalking the restaurant hallways It is too detailed and too well developed. just being inundated here for me are the big problems that dream theory doesn't address one the crying boy is afraid of those yellow suits for a reason remember what you saw you know what will happen if he catches you these are lines that his The friend imaginary Fred Bear repeats over and over again.

He feels much more sinister and real than all of this. The children saw something scary and misunderstood and in the shadows the puppet does not have a good explanation according to dream theory. Clearly the puppet is one of the most important forces in this game, but he does not clearly fit the dream model. Many other theorists have said that it is a symbol of the boy's actions and his own dreams, but later in this episode I will show that that is not true, if anything, of the boy. would be the security guard in these dreams helpless and scared, not the puppet, I don't believe it, three If Scott confirmed the theory with most of my staff, it would be a strange move for him to go out of his way to say that a chain of the events was correct if it really didn't make sense and finally number

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, the theory of dreams, what are just dreams within dreams, what are these five nights in the beginning and then there are many small problems, Like a little boy's dreams are so detailed. to include concepts that most adults don't know about, like sister locations and precise minimum wage rates, so I combed through last year's worth of theorizing to find the interesting but also logically best-supported chronology of events that tells the

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of the Rise and Fall of Freddy Fazbears Admittedly, there are still gaps and logical leaps that I'll be sure to point out, but right or wrong, this is the flow of events that I think creates the most satisfying narrative for the series, which is why this one is dedicated to all. you guys on reddit YouTube Twitter and in the comments you've been sending me theories for months think of this as my end of year gift to you right or wrong this box is opening the story begins at fredbear family diner the first The location It was revealed to us by the phone guy and staff, and indirectly confirmed by Scott when he approved my phone application.

Theory. Honestly, I don't think there's much to debate here. A child is murdered outside the establishment by a mysterious figure, the purple one. type that escapes unnoticed, the restless soul of the victim happens to inhabit a puppet that would later haunt the corridors of the pizzeria boom. It is not necessary to insist that, in the wake of the tragedy, the owners sell the Fred Bear name and the character's resemblance to a larger company that will soon be known as fazbear entertainment. From there the timeline picks up in 1983 a scene on the television of the crying boy since purchasing the franchise Fazbear Entertainment has distanced itself from the last restaurant by redesigning Fredbear into a golden singer with a yellow Rabbit Partner, they also released a popular television series Fredbear and Friends, as well as a line of products that include plastic toys and stuffed animals of all the characters, but perhaps the biggest addition has been a sister restaurant location where Fred Bear's friends are. heading Freddy foxy chica and Bonnie known as Freddy fazbear's pizza and that's our first big reveal that fredbear's snaf fours themed restaurant and Freddy fazbear's final pizzeria are open at the same time, we know this thanks to the phone guy tapes discovered in snap three for those of you who haven't heard those times enough to memorize them.

I am very jealous of your life, but secondly, let me refresh your memories. The tapes welcome them to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and then mention a tragic incident at a sister location that results. in the yellow snap-zip suits that are being dismantled, so let me translate that for all of us not familiar with corporate buzzwords, a sister location is defined as another business owned by the same parent company, e.g. KFC Pizza Hut and Taco Bell are sister companies with one parent company that holds them all together is Yum Brands, yum you're right, ah I could go with Pizza Hut right now.

Pizza Hut Lunch Buffet, you are the best non-sponsored hashtag on this one, when a forest fredbear's is the sister place to freddy fazbear's. pizza with the parent company being the fazbear entertainment corporate structure to win, what this all means is that the unfortunate incident that the phone guy mentions in the three tapes is the crying child being bitten, which in turn is the inciting event that causes the two to recently hand over yellow suits to navigation at a location that the phone guy with the gold Freddy and Bonnie gold suit talks about to be stored in the safe room of the location at this point in the line of time, still open and hidden in the back of the restaurants, enter the purple boy shortly after the yellow suits are decommissioned morph naff three tapes reveal that a guy on the phone warns employees not to take the clients back to the safe room and to stop moving the yellow suits in the following days, the safe room is sealed with the request to quote, do not tell family, friends or insurance.

Now the reps call the guy who may not be aware of what's going on here, but we're not. This is June 26, 1983, the date of the missing children incident that we learned about through newspaper clippings taped to the walls of Naff One. We are in the middle of the The day an employee dresses in a costume lures five children back, kills them, and then stuffs their bodies into the suits, although he is caught and taken into custody. The fact that all of this occurs in the restaurant's secure room, which remember, are invisible to the animatronics and security cameras means that the actual murders are not on camera, as such, the children's bodies remain missing hidden in the suits and the murderer cannot be charged due to lack of evidence.

All of this is represented in the game by the cunning gogogo. minigame where the game design parallels the design of Finesse One Location Hybrid Cove, on the right, a dining area and, as we see in the minigame of giving gifts, giving life, from the staff to the puppet, save the children giving them life inside the animatronic suits. so now at this point in the timeline we have freddy foxy chica bonnie golden freddy and the puppet alive and well, not alive, dead and then reported, you get the idea? Additionally, the company closes the safe rooms to avoid any responsibility for the murders and eventually the pizzeria closes and the old animatronics are removed due to the sanitary conditions of the restaurant as we see once again in the newspaper clippings of the staff 1 the smell of bodies rot inside the machines starts to invade the place so now let's pause there for a second, so far everything has been pretty well substantiated with evidence, but before we go any further, let's back up for a minute with a crying child.

Remember that one of my biggest concerns about dream theory is that the crying boy is afraid of the yellow suits, but there is no good explanation for why. And what if the reason the crying boy is afraid of the yellow suits is because he saw the missing children incident? What if you saw the employee dressed as a yellow animatronic attracting children? Yes, this would mean that The Missing Children Incident would occur before the yellow suits are removed and before the boy is bitten, but it's a theory that works for many different reasons. Firstly, he is always at pizza places, especially towards the end of the day, so he would definitely be in a position to see something like this secondly it explains his irrational fear of yellow suits because he saw people being taken to the part of back and never return.

Third in the ranks, remember what he saw and know what will happen if he catches you, that psychic friend. Fred Bear keeps repeating it makes a lot more sense now and finally and perhaps most importantly look at this line these are my friends if this were true this line takes on a whole new meaning I always thought that line was weird like what your imaginary friends are I guess , but then why would his stuffed animal collection be with him when he dies? Why is this such an important detail that Scott decided to include? It wouldn't really be, but what if they were literally his friends?

The children who disappeared and were stuffed and the stuffed animals that were there in the final scene did not represent his stuffed animals but the spirit of his friends, the ones in suits, who were there with him as he dies now, that gives you a reason to be afraid of this restaurant, but we can go one step further, there is one more problem with a crying child, we still have to cover what happens to him when he dies at the end of math, since my original theory put him in the puppet because of the design details, but in retrospect, that was wrong reddit user 3 ie Y IJ 3 ie 3 IE reddit user 3 I used a text color analysis during the ending sequence.

All the final lines are not in the yellow used for the psychic friend fredbear, but rather a mysterious. New whitish color for the final lines of your broken. I'll put you back together. It's a subtle detail, but it's very clear that this is an intentional difference that Scott included in the games, so who's talking? Solder who else except the figure we know. Brings to life the children who die in events related to the entertainment franchise Fazbear are the puppets who promise to right the pizzeria's wrongs by bringing peace to the crying child spirits How do you plan to do this?

Well, look what he says, we're still your friends. no, I'm still your friend, the puppet using the plural here means that there would be multiple spirits present in this final scene who consider themselves friends of the crying boy, but we also see this, I'm still here, the others are gone, they are now fillers, leaving only the one with the ability to transcend the animatronic adapts to the puppets, this makes a lot of sense if we again assume that the crying boy knew the children who were dissected during the missing children incidents and look at the last line that the puppet says: I will put you back together.

We've all assumed that his point of view refers to the crying child, but consider for a minute that the puppet is playing the pronoun game to steal a phrase from the cinesins and instead refers to the plural you, you five , they are broken and I will put you five back together, he is planning to reunite the spirits of these five friends, which makes me so sure, well, we see what happens, it is the conclusion of the whole story, a minigame of three is the day happier, we see the birthday boy crying once again, five children. and skins featuring the same five animatronics with the birthday boy representing golden fredbear, you can even compare the locations.

They are both long hallways with three tables and the fourth slightly to one side. The balloons are also the same color, red, green, purple, yellow and blue. the exit is where the fredbear stage is and the exit which if used results in a bad ending because the souls don't get peace is where the boy was bitten and who is it that we see in this minigame that brings everyone together again, the simply puppets. just like he promised the boy he would do on his deathbed and here's the best part: how do you get to this minigame right by playing many others including the zero one stage game which is accessed by typing the numbers three nine five two four eight? on the wall why are those numbers important is the hexadecimal code for the color of the purple man only it is backwards is the waypositive from this, that yes, it has inspired so many different communities to interact with this franchise in many different ways.

You have all the artists on deviantART who are taking their favorite animatronics and making fan art. them, you have all of us theorists on YouTube, you know, coming up with theories, talking about it, doing live streams like this, talking to you guys in the comments to find out what the story is behind this, that's amazing, but, your point, Scott, by doing this, you've inspired so many people to be independent game designers to go out and make their own fan games to show that, hey, you can be a guy that has a passion and look what you can accomplish, look at what you can do and that's an incredibly positive thing.

Positive impact leaving it for a very dark and scary game, no buts and for a game that often gets a lot of hate because it runs out, money is stolen and all that, but you have everything the reason, as if you knew it. that has inspired so many people to create, you know, be creative, make their own videos, make their own art, make their own games, it's an incredible legacy to leave behind and, like you said, even if it's forgotten in the future, already You know. or like if it starts with Scott and six nights at Tommy's becomes the next thing or whatever you know becomes the next game and it was inspired by five great nights, that's amazing, so I think that's a really good point.

What about us, Mike doc? Oh, any ideas, and well, if he wasn't without hugging many of you, I mean, close, yeah, oh, yeah, one of my best friends is Russ and without Five Nights at Freddys, the men's women and I. I'm not even sorry you tube without five nights at freddys enjoyed a career on YouTube without the game and that has had a very profound impact on me because when it's all that and let's say I won't do this anymore and I will always remember this game and always I will remember Scott and a loser and everyone who was part of me looks at me like pawns.

My life is a good boat. I mean, it's been a whole year, yeah, all that worrying about me and yeah, what Russ? He said, well, also a lot of songs, oh yeah, the musicians like he would hate, they want to fight and shoot at the cemetery. I can't believe this name is me, yeah, shameless promo peak because smoking because these 15 fusions tonight, five nights at Freddy's. I don't know who, that's easier to do to make a real game and we'll escape a great opportunity for people who haven't even done ghosts before: there's no Trojan egg and no Joel gang, which seems to have so many fun night games based in five nights at freddy's and some of them are incredible losses, one of my favorites is a night at flumpty's, yes, absolutely incredible you know, but all the games also belong to stock market game developers like the boogeyman, which which is really good news for those inspired by the nap. and he swore that Street spin-up inspires and everyone wants to play a really good one too, but the games are like you survived until 12am. m. at 6 a.m. m., it's not for nothing that they have a mystery like you said man and it's really good, you know, to lose moments with a lot of mystery and it seems that five nights at Freddys has inspired a lot of people, including me too.

Yeah, I just want to say hello quickly, John, because he had a night at Flumpty's. I know he had some problems dealing with his game and ended up not making a third and I know he had a lot of self-doubt. I just want to say that it makes some great games and all of them are honestly one of the best fan games out there or the most creative and Emily was a good fan game but it also changed a lot of game design and her son broke the rules of the game in some ways and changed it to know his own style, yeah, cool, it's Mike, any conclusion for you as to yeah, as we wrap up this middle part, oh, okay, you know, the records of rastmouse keys and the dog go well and I was just saying: Oh, it makes fun because I like it only myself.

Personally and for many other people, I'm sure it's been a great inspiration, yes, and I think the fact which I think the honesty phase is almost like an example of the possibility of, you know, not just being independent online game developers, but literally. any independent Kristin who is alone or in a small team of what they can accomplish, you know, in the age of the Internet we don't need a big team or like news production budgets, we can make you meet a guy, meet a man of family. who lives with a wife and kids and lives and works at the dollar store and how far you can go you know people like me and you, you guys are mad at your dog, who you dress like best friends, you know markiplier, well we don't start, you know, rich or you know, famous, we built it over time and we didn't have to wait, you're rich, slight, slight, bills, you're rich and famous in this extra time, oh man, my hashtags, Mike, it's cool, It must be going very well for no one, nothing, Hollywood. you don't know anything Kardashian is the place where we were born you know something it's something that has happened and what you are are you an artist or game developer or youtuber or whatever I think this shows that you can do things that you can do for yourself, no It's not You need to go into science to see people and build a big company to leave a mark.

You can just do something interesting, yeah, and it's interesting because we keep saying you know Scott was the guy who did it. This is all a one-man marketing machine, you know, he inspires indie developers in a lot of ways, he's very much a developer of the YouTube generation, right, we're all, you know, speaking for YouTubers on general, you know? You're writing scripts, you're editing your audio editing, you're doing all these different things because you're passionate about it, because you love it, because you have something that you want to share with an audience and with viewers, and Scott did that.

You know, even though his first two games weren't successful, he persevered and you know he found so he found that spark that lit a fire under so many people and it's similar to YouTube creators where you know they're trying for years. They know how to make all these different videos, stay engaged with their community and then finally, all of a sudden, that's the one that finally hit on something and there it is, you know, and it's a really interesting story parallel to Scott. in kind of a gaming world with YouTube and like the world of entertainment or video creation and how similar those mentalities are to me, you know, one of the things I mentioned before, one of the big impacts that I think will happen en You're going to see a lot more aimed honestly at the theorists of the world, you know, I think the gaming industry is recognizing the mediocre stories and the stories that are like last minute or that haven't really been thought about from an audience perspective.

It's not going to fly as much anymore, yes, it will sell some issues or whatever, but if you really want to generate that wave and that enthusiasm around your franchise, giving them Easter eggs, crossovers, allusions to other things, references that then a community . they can build around it and begin to rebuild and come together. I think you're going to start to see a lot of that for better or worse, one of the great thoughts that have emerged through the chat about the social phenomenon that is snap. and basically how it was, it was this little indie game and then it's this incredible phenomenal success and how that changes the game for video games in general for the gaming industry, yeah, that's who that is that's Calvin ball ball in the chat, but I also want to say that there were many others and the chat goes very fast, yes, Calvin Ball is the one that we were able to take out, yes, I mean, it is very true, as this game shows, yes, like the game.

A core component and the gameplay was that perfect fusion of what YouTube really loves, which is scary reactions, you know, it's like, oh, you know, it's fun to see people scared because YouTube, at its core, is based on a relationship. between a creator and the audience and the person who's watching right, then you know when you're scared, when you're excited, when you're happy, those are the moments where you're most true to life, like those are the true moments of humanity and It's like you know that when you're scared you don't care about how you look or how you act or how you sound, you're just scared, and I think that's one of the main reasons why horror games in general have worked as well. on YouTube you can see those kinds of genuine moments with some of your favorite creators and Scott was able to get that right, but then he also had the foresight to say, well, there's something deeper and richer here and it's really changed.

Ubisoft is a very good example where you know you have that Assassin's Creed single-player campaign and you review it and then it's done right like there. there's not a lot of subtext there's not a lot of unsolved mysteries maybe a few easter eggs here there but it's very much like a linear experience while the downside is dropping all these little things there are unsolved mysteries there's incomplete information that people want to back it up and figure it out so I think you know the different animatronics that represent different personalities and people say you know they're all fictional characters and they're going to behave pretty similarly but seeing people root for Foxy is my favorite or oh I love Bonnie or Oh so sexy girl or what am I crazy, but you know, it hit that perfect formula that really spoke to people's personalities and affected so many people, one of the other things that Rast pointed out earlier about inspiring a group of Creators, one of the other communities we haven't mentioned is the 3D animation and machinima community, which again is one of those small, up-and-coming community types that are especially when it comes to driving faff. like tens of millions of views on every video where you know people come in and 3D animate these characters and create their own stories around them, you know they go on their own adventures with these characters and that's a whole new part of you. , You know. games, entertainment, digital YouTube video that, like I've never seen in any other game, really looks like machinima and halo and stuff, it's been kind of a thing, but at the level where people 3D animate these characters and then they make them come to life. these videos are another thing that I think is super cool and there's this whole community there and there's John b13 who met his girlfriend through max Oh John b13 yeah boy gamer met my girlfriend Zeus math ha There's been a couple of those that have see, yeah, and it's and it's so true, I mean, yeah, your pee, you're an OTP, guys, are you the one for the couple over there?, oh love, I love his love , guys, for half of your love, nafiz life, you know, and just to carry around. from everything you just said, I met you all through this, you know the community of theorists expanded exponentially from this, as you know, when, when were careerists a thing before, before, I think it was , I think they know it nicely. of some of the mental episodes of Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog, like how fast is he, there were a lot of debunking episodes and like Matpat is wrong and therefore people and therefore there were a lot of other channels that were doing , you know, their own versions. of theoretical videos 8-bit goldfinches one, you know, nog G noggin is one, you know, it occurs to some others that they were doing it, but snaff took that and multiplied it by, you know, ten times, 20 times because now everything Suddenly everyone has their own theories, everyone sees our theories and sort of builds on them and comes up with their own explanations, and not even just on YouTube, but on the thousands and thousands of Reddit threads trying to find solutions here.

Theorizing became a genre that really solidified itself as a genre through this game and really became popular on YouTube through this game, which is pretty awesome, you know? That's really cool and even speaking from personal experience, as you know, Nath was. He was a big subscriber driver for us, he introduced a lot of people to who we are and what we do, so it's fascinating to me because you always hear about the butterfly effect and we're all familiar with it. until dawn and like the butterfly effect, domino effect, this and that, and what Scott has done with a game has affected so many lives in such a positive way and I'm sure you know there are people who say, "Oh, he affected my life in a negative way because I".

I'm sick of these snap videos, but that's a small price to pay for the number of people who found fan bases online who found an outlet for their personalities, their passions for their artwork, you know, they found something that they spoke to them and their identity in a way that nothing else did and so across the board, you know, say what you want about the games, the story, the gameplay, whether I hate it or not, the positive impact it has had this series is simply tremendous and earthy. -killer for video games for YouTube for all of our personal lives and for the community of viewers who are excited about the blog, the movie, you know it's not going away anytime soon, but you know, I think it's great. time to look back and say hey, you know whatthis is a game we like, you said doctor, oh, the one we've lived with for the last year, it was part of the YouTube rewind, you know it's part of our culture, now you know.

The outside world outside of YouTube probably still doesn't know what Five Nights at Freddys is, but for us it's been so absorbing and such an important part of who we are and what we do that you know you shouldn't pay. service and taking the time to thank Scott for what he created would be a disservice because it really has been, you know, quite the journey and Scott is five Oh Patrick lips on a wh three three t wheat bread I give this broadcast five Scots out of five okay I think this is a good place to wrap it up yeah I feel like that was a good wrap up so thank you all for joining in and thank you Ryan who was on the stream earlier so doc.

Oh Mike Raz Balki Ryan. and other 8 bit gaming Ryan guys, if you haven't checked out their channels please do, they are a lot of fun, they go even deeper than I do on a more regular basis, but they also do things that aren't just about math, you know there are other games out there, so I know it's awesome, so go check them out, you know, play Yoshi's Woolly World, you know, play all the fan mail. Actually, I'm going to look at you guys. I know, check out some of these other fan-made games that we're playing now in life, so you might want to try some of these out because I haven't had a chance to play them, so I'll definitely check them out one night. at Flumpty's so I'm excited it's great so guys watch the stream subscribe to them again doc.

Oh, Mike Raz Balki. 8-bit games get some love on YouTube and Twitter, thanks for all your work, thank you. Thank you so much for joining everyone's channel links and Twitter handles will appear in the description. They're not there right now, but we'll include them right after this, yeah, and they can also explain how to watch the video after yeah and so on, just as a reminder for everyone who's tuning in right at the end here just a quick reminder yeah are just tuning in if you missed part of the broadcast as soon as it ends, it will be posted live publicly on YouTube on the Game Theorist channel as the last episode of Game Theorist because it's the first 17 minutes of our game theory.

This was a great experiment that we wanted. This is a great event. We wanted this to be a great event. We'll have the first 17 minutes as proper game theory regarding Rhind. Watch it from the beginning and then tune into all of our kind of analysis, next steps, thoughts, things like that that we've been talking about with all these great guys that came on board. us today so you know, thank you as an audience and thank you all for an increase, yes, and thank you to the viewers, because you know, an incredible 2015, honestly, this year has been crazy and obviously snap has been a much of that, but as you know, the theorizing that you have been sending to all of us on Twitter and in the comments, the requests for new videos, you know, the discussions that you have wanted to have, have been incredible and have been very exciting and I can't wait to continue seeing what happens with both Nath and games in general in 2016 and again and again ALICE and all these other things now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go see Star Wars because I haven't seen it yet Star Wars.

I've been working on this video right after reading the chat. I can tell you the whole plot. Oh no, no, you know a lot about Star Wars. Well, don't worry, don't worry about what you read. there, okay, many lives and I'm sorry, okay, so thank God I was so good. Voldemort appears as Darth Vader's boys. Oh, Yoda, Yoda and gremlin, there is no Star Wars gremlin crossover, yes, Yoda, gremlins, tyent, no, okay, well, well, so you know. I've been working on this theory all week, you know, and a special thanks to Earl who edited this video. together and was an absolute champ, this one was on a tight schedule and then we have the last minute addition with the release of the book and things like that, so thank you, thank you and thank you all for an amazing 2015, I hope you enjoyed it. and remember it's just a theory, a game theory, let's all do it together, okay?, ready, set, okay, one, two, three, but hey, that's just wait, wait, okay, let's try it one more slide, Gosh, okay, one more time.

I'll start with him, but hey. and then you guys come up with that's just a theory okay there we go here we go we got it this time guys don't worry but hey that's it and hey that was just a live stream too thanks for look, oh, hey, let's say. bye everyone in the chat like we do you can start spamming the people left in this in the chat now spam it so yeah spam. Smike is like spam, jonbi, see you, Mr. Jenny Guzmán, here he comes and there he went, aha, let's see. Jemmy gravy, good night from the UK, darling, that bath, sweet dreams, the gem gave us more, she also joined us for a game theory, so there you come in as a duo.

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