Five Nights at Freddy’s was created by American game developer Scott Cawthon.

Quick answer

  • The creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s is Scott Braden Cawthon, an independent video game developer.
  • The first Five Nights at Freddy’s game was released in 2014 and quickly grew into a major horror franchise.

A bit of background

Scott Cawthon had previously made small, family-friendly and Christian-themed games before turning to horror. After one of his earlier games was criticized for its characters looking like creepy animatronics, he used that exact idea as inspiration and built Five Nights at Freddy’s around scary mascot-style robots.

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