8 YEARS OF FIVE NIGHTS WITH MAC TONIGHT!
Can you believe it? Five Nights with Mac Tonight is about 8 years old as of today. It warms my heart to see a FNAF fangame I was in love with this old. Plus, what's a better way to celebrate it, with posting a major devlog! OH BOY, DO WE HAVE LOTS OF STUFF TO DISCUSS ABOUT FOR THE MOD TODAY!
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What is New?
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If you may have seen on one of my previous posts, I stated that the art here was outdated n stuff...well, comparing the banner I made back in 2024, I present you the newest revamp of it! Were still to this day making it to where the gamepage will be more decorated than it already was as it was lacking of it. On top of that, we may release an alternative page on Gamebanana for those who been wanting it.
Now, as you may tell...there are also a few major changes...aka the elephant in the room...as you see, Boyfriend (which was somewhat teased in the loading screen art) and Girlfriend has received design overhauls as I was never happy with the previous direction that the designs that this mod ever had. They do infact have their sprites ready, except as of Boyfriend cause he's somewhat out of style, outdated as of design, and getting revamped a bit. Although, here are the static idles just in case your...ya know...curious. As of now we will be stating that any previous assets that were made out of style will be cleaned up and remade to be par in style so there will be no future art clashes.
What other changes have been made?
As I am aware that the icons and stages were posted on the wiki page for about a while now, it is in fact no surprise that those icons and stages are outdated compared to the visuals that we are showing now. I was stupid back then when starting this mod and I wanted to do something different but, turns out you'll get a pitch and a fork together on ya. For that, I am sorry for making everyone feel like they wanted to hate me for what I was doing.
The Remade Visuals
Some stuff may be outdated compared to as of now but take a look at some comparisons here as were finna lock in and actually take this mod seriously.
Comparison from 2024
Now in 2025
What are the plans as of now for the mod?
Well for those who don't know, regardless of what we shown, this mod is still in early dev but in fact has been picking up speed as of recently. Some members even suggested certain things to be saved for later or even release certain things that are easy to show off as of right now. What we can confirm as of now is that, we are working right along to be updated with the base game and other mods by our one and only, ROADMAP!
As for those who are confused, I'm going to state what each version of these releases of the mod will contain.
V0.5 Demo Release: The demo release will be mixture of a couple story mode songs and possibly a bonus song or two. This release will also be a perfect opportunity to get people's feedback on what needs to be changed or suggested, etc...
V0.6 Polish/Clean: This hotfix will be to fix or change anything that has been suggested from the demo or even cleanup what we aren't positive about the mod, and maybe even release a certain surprise if we aren't happy with certain results.
V0.7 Pitstop: This pitstop won't be as much as it may either remove or revamp certain things and add in a few bonuses before the full release of the mod being V1.
V1 Full Release: The full release will contain all of the story mode content from Week 1 & 2, all bonus songs from freeplay, additional Easter egged cameos, Voice Acting, Hidden Codes, & Much more.
V1.5 Hotfix/Remaster: The Hotfix of 1.5 will be to fix any bugs encounter on V1 Fully and add any additional songs that we would be comfortable of showing or even remastered sprites and songs.
V2 Expansion Release: There will be no disclaimer on this as there are certain surprises to be expected for the Expansion. The same will go for any future releases after V2.
SHOWCASES
All that what else is to be released as of now is the first song of the first week being Mac Tonight's Song "Half Past Six" (Composed by: DJ ULTRAVIOLET) and the full gameplay showcase of "Husk" (Whenever their premiers are up, go ahead and check them out.)
https://youtu.be/TLLmyynZgqA?si=3qrpGZyGYJGTs5JK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydOcupY5QWE
Kickstarters!
As for the what I want to show last, I'll show some concepts on what Got me to fully Kickstart this mod with either concepts by me or other members of mine! Just know that this won't spoil anything as these are only concepts and not even planned for the mod! (Concepts by Me, G-NUX, and NotheNot)
My General Thoughts
Now comes the journey that has been endoured from me (Jay W. Speaking here). Five Nights with Mac Tonight being this old has made me feel nostalgic in many levels, even if the series didn't have the best story. What makes this fangame series special to me is that it somehow got me to fully watch one person that I always loved as of their content, that being "TheNextGenius" and even inspired me to make projects of my own.
The whole inspiration thing didn't hit me fully up until late 2023 to early 2024. It grew on me even more as I then started to rewatch gameplays or even replay the games myself. That being said, I always wanted an FNF Mod based off of this series from about 2022. The game series was somehow getting attention as of that time and no matter what, I wanted this to happen more than a Mac Tonight 4. Unfortunately, I forgot about this whole thought process from 2022-2023 as I was just trying to stay out of FNF from the time being. I just had no interest at the time and I couldn't have cared less bout it as the Official Base game wasn't updated till April of 2024.
After trying to get back into Friday Night Funkin Fully when the Weekend 1 update released, I then had gotten reminded of Five Nights with Mac Tonight pretty heavy as I then realized that it was turning 7 at that time. I then gotten the full chance that since no one did a mod out of the series, then I figured I would make it. Here we are now with it being a reality. It makes me tear a bit after seeing something I wanted to happen actually come to life and I couldn't have done it without the following people I'm going to mention.
SPECIAL THANKS:
G-Nux
DanVoltz
JunkedLowTep
DextertheStick
Electric
NotheNot
BProject
Shade
Linkadoo
Oh and ofc...for anyone on the team who did help on this project that I did forget to mention (Its a big ass list so I can't name off everyone so I am sorry for anyone I did forget to mention)...A big massive thank you to yall as well!
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
@TheRealNextGenius 
: As the king as I call you, I wanna give a big thank you for being an awesome guy who did infact inspire me to make this project. Even though your doing reviews n such on your new channel, I still won't forget for what you pulled off for the old days and I wish ya good luck for what you do in the future! Also, Happy Birthday!
@Malrat_ 
: And now, I forgot to state it last year, But a MASSIVE THANK YOU for supporting this mod and even helping to get this mod some attention. Plus, with how far you came, I am happy to know that I was interested enough to make a project based on a series that has been enjoyable. I wish you good luck on what you do after The Lost Ones: Treasure Island.
Its a wrap
And to end things off, we can't wait to showcase whatever the mod has to have in store whenever the time is ready! I may include things that I may have forgotten in this post but again, thank you to anyone who has been supportive to this project as it really does warm my heart that people enjoyed the idea of this. And to leave it off, I'll be generous and leave this post as a QNA as well (BUT PLEASE, ONLY ASK QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE MOD). Anyways...Happy 8th Anniversary to the Mac Tonight series and see you again soon! - Jay W.
Quick Note
For any Mac Tonight fans who wants to play this mod whenever a version drops in the near future, I recommend you play the base game or certain mods first to be prepared cause this mod is set and planned to be a set stone of a challenge.
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