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TAOFNIA IS CANCELLED...

Hey guys, It's been a while since I posed here bu I have some important and rather sad news...
"The Adventures of Five Nights in Anime: A New Beginning" is officially being cancelled... No, this is not a joke...
I know this is quite a shock and very sudden but there are a few reasons why this is happening.

1. Lack of motivation: I lost the spark I once had with it back when I first started making the game hard to work on in the first place. Part of me felt I had to force myself to work on it and it just stopped becoming fun.

2. Struggled to find identity: This game had a hard time standing out compared to the other novels (Such as FNIA: Golden Age and FNIA: Expanded since they use the same assets and a couple other major similarities). While overtime the story became unique, when people look at a single frame of the game, they'll most likely think it's from Golden Age instead.

3. Artist troubles: Getting someone to help change the overall style and graphics has became way too complicated, I've gone through so many different artists without success.

4: Felt very limiting: Without anyone to really change to some custom poses or expressions, sometimes things said in the story does not match up what they actually do ruining the immersion.

5. Want to focus on FNIA: Awakens: Unlike TAOFNIA, FNIA: Awakens has easily became it's own thing compared to everything else and there is still much more untouched potential with it. I still have lots of motivation left for this universe.

So now what? Will I have any plans for a novel in the future?
Yes, but it will take place in the FNIA: Awakens universe.

What will happen the extra Voice Actors that were originally going to be there?
Well obviously the animatronics are gonna remain the same but as for some characters that appear in TAOFNIA will get another opportunity in the upcoming confirmed novel. I'm planning to take some of the now-scrapped ideas of TAOFNIA and apply them to the new novel. The new novel will actually be a prequel to the current FNIA Awakens game so there will have to be some lore changes in order for that to work smoothly.

For now TAOFNIA will remain up for anyone to download/archive if they want to as nothing else will be done with it. It'll be fully taken down later.
Yeah I know some of you will be sad about it but on the bright side this leads to new opportunites later on. Thank you guys, I'll talk to y'all later :FreddyHeart:

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Sad to hear it, though can I suggest having someone repost your old works you no longer use that you can trust or create a dedicated account just for your old works you no longer working on?

But, If you like, I could setup a temporary repost in the future as I more than one version on 4 devices to stay there until you change your mind. I just need to set my desktop back up again at a new location as the 3.4 desktop version is on there. I just won't do it on discord mainly how the platform is now security wise. 

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I think after all the work you did on it, you should still keep it up, even use it as a motivation to use for other aspects for any new games! I'm saddened that this is cancelled, but doesn't mean it can't be used for other stuff! Hope the best for you and the mobile version plus the google play version was a nice touch too, don't delete those as those would be lost media! Use this game as a stepping stone

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It'll get reposted by someone else in the future. I don't want it to overshadow my current works if I'm never gonna do anything with it ever again. With a new novel being confirmed, some scrapped ideas/content will be reused for that. 

People are starting to archive my stuff, I may even keep a copy on file just so I have it.

Yeah I understand that, I just like having it from the official source but I completely understand. Can't wait though to see what you make as you always have good ideas! :>

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Why take it down later at all? It still has a lot going for it so new an old fans should be able to return or try it out.

Someone else will repost it later in the future. I don't want it to overshadow my current works since I'm not doing anything with it anymore

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Upsetting i was starting to enjoy this but cause you lost the love you enjoyed working on this i guess it can happen if someone working on it slowly goes from enjoying working on a fun project to it now feels like a job sad to see this cancelled but I hope that any other projects you work on you don't lose that spark if you start to then just take a break from it no one will hate you from wanting to stop working on this so you can relax and give your mind time to recharge 

Thanks.
The newer universe (FNIA: Awakens) has a lot more motivation behind it. I even have plans to make a novel around it to replace the cancelled game which I'm hoping will reach the level TAOFNIA once had.
It may be the end of this chapter, but not the end of the story

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Alright Can't wait to see the new version just again if you need to take a break from working then do it sure it may annoy some people but the mind that works on this needs to take a break

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I understand, eventho this saddens me quite a lot...
Hopefully it will lead to more genuene and passionate FNIA projects to come to life my friend! ^^

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Yeah, this isn't the end of me making FNIA novels though. Just the end of this specific story...

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Yeah...I would've loved to see where thas story would've went ^^'

I still look forward to what other FNIA projects you'll do.

Take care of yourself man! X3 

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Maybe I'll reveal the end of how it probably would have gone in the future. Though once again it'll feel very similar to how The Golden Age is with the confrontation of William Afton

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Well, one of my goals is to encourige more FNIA games and projects, so wouldn't have minded personally XD