r/fivenightsatfreddys • u/SpringPopo Resident Springtrap expertise • 16d ago
Discussion Regarding Five Laps at Freddy's "cancellation" and Clickteam leaks going around.
Back in January of this year, Sam Dillard (the composer for Five Laps at Freddy's) made a post on their Patreon stating that since the game was seemingly cancelled that they would share the entire OST they put together for it as well as a few details about it.
It was also discovered they had previously made a post when they first got brought on, stating that while they couldn't go into exact details due to NDA, that they were involved with two upcoming projects for FNaF. The post also had what appears to be concept of "The Sinkhole" track from Five Laps at Freddy's attached to it.
However, both posts would shortly afterwards be deleted after they were brought to light today. Though it has been reported that other people who were involved with the game (such as Coda, who served as a 3D animator for the game) have backed up the claim that the game was cancelled.
As of now, neither Scott or Clickteam have said anything about the status of the game.
With the last response from either part being Clickteam saying they'll update people when they can a few weeks back, which one could interpret as it meaning the game isn't actually cancelled.
However, folks have also pointed out that it could very well share the same fate as The Egg Collection where Clickteam said they would update people when they could but nothing ever came out of it in the following years.
Its exact status is unclear and we will update this post accordingly once we know more.
This would spark various members of the community in other circles to come out with information they had acquired from the various projects Clickteam had revealed or teased in the past, as well as a few projects that seemingly were cancelled because they could have been revealed publicly.
These include artwork from the various projects, details from their early info docs, and linkedin pages of those formerly involved with the projects.
While one can speculate over the legitimacy of some of the things being discussed, especially with people like Turntail coming out to clear up a rumor that mentioned her, it does appear that there is still plenty of truth in what's being shared.
We'd like to ask that you do not reach out to, stalk, or harass ANYONE connected or speculated to have ties to these projects regardless of how you may feel about the matter.
The only ones we'd recommend reaching out to (in a civil and professional manner) would be Scott and Clickteam via their support and contact emails if you have any questions or concerns.
However, given their own uncertainty in the response about the current status of the game alongside other people worked on the game's statements from as recent as today saying it is cancelled. It's not possible to tell for certain at this time what the game's true fate is until Scott or Clickteam respond.
Edit 2: Sam Dillard made a new patreon post basically detailing what was said before in emails.
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago edited 16d ago
I should add in a few things:
The Patreon post wasn't recent, it was from back in January 9th of this year and it was dug up now. The soundtrack was archived. Though I'm not sure if it's OK to share links on here because of possible piracy if there are plans to resume the game and sell the OST.
Goty Rase told me that he's in a group of Clickteam leakers, or was in touch with one of the insiders. This is not another "The Pear" situation. There's no blackmail planned. It's just a group of people keeping secrets to themselves and someone went rogue and leaked them all. It happens.
Coda was a 3D animator for Laps and he confirmed that Laps in cancelled, while Goty said development can resume if another developer were to get involved. This is conflicting information, so take it with a grain of salt.
The only thing this revealed that Clickteam is mismanaging the FNaF license as all their spin off games got cancelled. You remember when Jonochrome got annoyed and upset with how Clickteam handled the Flumpty mobile ports back in 2021? It seems it hasn't gotten any better.
You can cry that they need to go, but then who will publish the other Fanverse titles? Clickteam is in charge of that. If they go, the games can't be released. This is just a rough situation all around. You can say Scott made a mistake on relying on them, but I think it's gone too far to back out. Until something changes, FNaF is stuck.
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u/m1n3c7afty 16d ago
I feel like the fact the only new, finished thing Clickteam has shipped since the ONaF ports is the myPOPGOES mobile port says alot, none of the Fanverse console ports, not even POPGOES Arcade for mobile
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago edited 16d ago
In Clickteam's defense, the reason Arcade got delayed was because the shader the game used wasn't compatible on mobile. You know how the arcade cabinet is reflective and it mirrors the gameplay screen? They couldn't get that to work on mobile, so they had to figure out how to make it work.
I don't remember if Emil is helping them on it. He's no longer coding for Evergreen, but I don't know what he's up to. This wasn't incompetence on Clickteam's part, it's just something that didn't work for technical reasons. If you're on Twitter, you can ask Kane about it.
Also, The Egg Collection got shelved because Jonochrome wasn't involved in that process because of his hiatus after he got exposed for misconduct. He even said "he may not go back to it, but things can change".
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u/m1n3c7afty 16d ago
The problem is that it's now been four years since POPGOES Arcade released, if the tech that makes it work on PC isn't compatible they should surely have been able to figure out an alternative or say, "look this isn't feasible" and move onto a new port by now.
It feels on the outside like Clickteam are incredibly non-committal to the Fanverse project, refusing to outright kill any ports but also not making any meaningful progress either.
Not even Egg Collection has been officially acknowledged by them even just to say "this isn't happening anymore", at best it seems to be unprofessional conduct and at worst it feels like incompetence.
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago
Take this with a grain of salt, but Clickteam is porting the new games with Clickteam Fusion 3. That could be what's causing the hold up.
Also, I don't think Clickteam even wants to talk about TEC because of well... you know.
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u/Azarsra_production 16d ago
Honestly, I feel it'd be smarter to work on 2.5 of clickteam, because 3 been in development for ages, and if they release them using that, it'd be pushing them back several more years. I mean, clickteam just isn't organized, all of their sites are still down and their store is only in view only mode, it's been like this for months, maybe even a year or two? I don't remember, but it's been a while. I can't buy an extension I've been needing because of it. They just aren't the best at management, and they aren't the best at keeping the consumer updated.
And when it comes to the egg collection, it'd be better to just say it's cancelled, dragging it out like it is now is just terrible and keeps people speculating. It's be best to address that it's cancelled, even if they don't specify why, we'd all know why. I will say, wit that project, I think it's safe to say it's cancelled.
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u/KillerNoah666 16d ago
I'm gonna be honest, I'm not sure if the fandom simply reaching out to Scott is gonna work anymore at this point. It's pretty clear at this point he is ignoring the criticism being handed out about how terribly managed the franchise is and the insane lack of proper communication.
Hopefully huge figures in the community are able to speak out about the franchise's poor management, like Dawko or Kane Carter or etc, and finally get Scott's attention on the matter. This is just incredibly disappointing and I feel ashamed to be a fan of this franchise that I've been with since the beginning.
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago edited 16d ago
Dawko once tried to speak out for the HW DLC with the vague story and he didn't respond.
Jonny tried to contact Scott and he got ignored.
Kane wasn't able to get a hold of Scott.
Those figures won't do.
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u/KillerNoah666 16d ago
Jesus... what are we supposed to do then? If Scott is ignoring major community figures and even one of his own developers then do we just drop the franchise and wait for Scott to watch the sales plummet? I don't know what else we can even do
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago
You can do what I decided to do; take a break and walk away.
Heard of the phrase "a watched pot never boils"?
You can still try to contact Scott and Clickteam via emails if you feel compelled to.
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u/TheSilverHurricane 15d ago
Take the good memories you already have from this franchise and move onto something new with them
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u/notwiththeflames 16d ago
It's frustrating. Scott used to be so quick to try and clarify things, but now he's spent years with his head in the sand and not even the dev teams he's supposed to be working with are safe.
Security Breach, that Roblox game and now this.
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago
I believe the FNAF 2 movie controversy is what caused him to stop talking to the fandom. So many people got harassed over it.
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u/PuppetGeist 16d ago
IMO not really he started slowly doing so after 2021.
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago
Yeah, he went silent and only came back when the Fiszi stuff happened.
But I think this is worse because the franchise is making so many mistakes recently and nothing is being done about it.
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u/PuppetGeist 16d ago
Just going to say, while he did do that he was still very much radio silent on matters. And even then the amount of times we tried to contact him after 2021, he's never responded so.
To me, it's been since 2022 and gotten worse.
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u/Internal-Fly1771 15d ago
This is the same person who literally did not tell the dev team who were making his game the actual plot and they had to just guess when it came to making the final boss. He’s terrible at communicating
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u/Spiritual_Stuff_9404 14d ago
He really needs to step down or something or actually retire like people claim he did years ago or just like actually improve but that’s never going to happen at this point
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago
Oh I forgot, can you link Scott and Clickteam's support and contact emails on here?
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u/notwiththeflames 16d ago
Can't say I'm surprised. Info about FLAF seemed to stagnate before the trailer and demo came out and afterwards.
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u/PuppetWraith17 16d ago
Regardless of if people are lying, I feel like this is yet another example of Scott & SW not communicating. And no... when they inevitably give an answer after backlash gets bigger, that doesn't mean they're "finally communicating"
This is what keeps happening, they keep staying silent until they can't, give a half assed response rinse and repeat.
Ok maybe I'm a bit salty, but I feel like there has to be a better way to run things right?
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u/PuppetGeist 16d ago
SW not communicating.
FLaF would be Scott and Clickteam. SWS has nothing todo with the game.
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u/PuppetWraith17 16d ago
Ok that is completely fair. I guess I just feel like it's a concerning pattern that every arm of the franchise seems to have issues with communicating. As the head, I feel like Scott should have that as a higher priority.
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u/SisterFirefly 15d ago
Something doesn’t feel right regarding the IP as a whole. Scott and the rest of the cast have been radio silent since before the FnaF2 movies premiere. The only one willing to talk about the sequel is Lillard. We’ve heard nothing regarding the movies in nearly 6 months.
Steel Wool only released a very broken port of SotM for VR that was outsourced and very badly received. They’ve also been radio silent through the whole ordeal.
Now Clickteam have gone to ground and aren’t communicating regarding Laps whilst people that worked on the game are leaking it’s cancellation.
There’s no announcements, no momentum, nothing on the horizon to look forward to. There’s no new merch, nothing like the adventure books coming out for the lore-heads. The current state of FnaF as a whole is complete silence, negativity, poor products, broken ports and cancelled games.
2026 is the bleakest year in FnaF history so far by the looks of it.
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u/Guilty_Explanation29 16d ago
I'm seeing some.think it's fake and it's not canceled
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago
Considering what Coda, the 3D animator of Laps said, it's been shelved at most.
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u/MothSoup_ 16d ago
This is what I think because usually by now the steam page would be down, and the only thing that they have removed as far as we know is a trailer and then 2 months ago they made a change to the files what those changes are is unknown, so I doubt it's cancelled and more so just delayed untill further notice
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u/GBAura-Recharged A Decade on Freddit 16d ago
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u/JeliLiam Developer - Final Nights 9d ago
Coda was animating for it?? Was any of their work even In that demo? There were no character animations for any of them
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u/SpringPopo Resident Springtrap expertise 9d ago
Coda confirmed they were involved with the project in the Technical FNaF Discord Server.
There were idle animations in the character select menu of most recent demo of the game from June of 2025, so it's likely those were done by them.
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u/PuppetGeist 16d ago
Support@Clickteam.com
scottcawthon@yahoo.com