Been honestly wanting to speak out on these for a while now, just to get my thoughts out of the gutter and explain how I feel about the projects I've made prior compared to the ones I'm doing currently. Kinda a rant, but it gets it off my chest.

All of my older fangames to me are overall just mediocre, or hell even shitty lol and I'm gonna sit here and type how I feel about each one so feel free to read this if you even want to. they'll be separated and named if u do wanna read specific ones instead.

Let's begin:

Five Nights At Bradly's franchise (2017 onward):

The game I started off with, wayyy before AGP was even a thing in mind. This was my first ever fangame, and at this time I had little to no experience with any 3D software so I went to my friend @Finish_Ham and basically asked him to code/render/do everything for the game (it's lazy absolutely but I didn't know what I was doing at the time), the only thing I had were characters I came up with prior and recolored Gabocart FNAF models to start with something. Everytime I look back at the games they're absolutely not good, but at the time it astounded me and gave me the motivation to move forward because at the time I genuinely felt they were amazing and when the game released I felt I could move on in the community and do something I was never comfortable with at the time which was to expand and grow into game development. The game series overall had its ups and downs, but they're memories that I still hold onto because they're my characters that sadly went slapped onto models I didn't make. I'd say arguably the best is Bradly's 2, the rest honestly fell short and could've been improved. I feel these games for my first were okay, but as of recent standards are shitty. (Hints why I'm also remaking the games, just haven't shown stuff off yet). There's not too much to say on these minus they're old and not that good so gonna move along.

A Golden Past franchise (2020 onward):

Gonna start off with saying I'm gonna describe each chapter so this might be the longest text here but it's fine.

A golden past chapter 1:

The game came out alright honestly looking back at it, it started rough in 2019 and 2020, but when the major update dropped I feel it became better. It was a simple game (too simple) that started off the potential the series had. I still appreciate chapter 1 as compared to my other projects to follow it stayed alright lmao. I don't ever see it as "the best fnaf fredbear game" or "fnaf 0", never gonna claim those period. I made these for fun and to improve myself. The game itself is a boring sleeper 100%, but to me after Bradly's I really appreciate the hard work the game had. So I still somewhat like it. The reboot I wanna make it into something better and have it be what should've been how the series started.

A golden past chapter 2:

Starting off, I hate it. Well from the stance it's literally FNAF 2 but fucking BLUE. Or well it can also be compared to open source. I admit when we got to chapter 2 I had 0 ideas, and rushed into it so it's my fault and I want to prevent that from happening again. I made a post saying chapter 2 won't be a fnaf 2 remaster upon its reboot and I will say it's true because I don't want to make that same mistake again. @William_Fazworth is helping to prevent that as well. But back to how I feel about what's currently released of chapter 2; I personally think outside of it being fnaf 2 the game is decent, from working standpoint, the team worked really hard on the game, so I give them the upmost appreciation despite how terribly I directed the game. I think the game is ass, and everytime I see it I feel down about it, it's not what I had wanted but made anyway. Overall, the game could've been better but it went down a path I learned to never go down again.

A golden past chapter 3:

(CANCELLED), honestly when I first cancelled this chapter I think a year ago now at this rate I was genuinely down about it and felt I had failed the community and even myself. The game I can say was an improvement over chapter 2 or even chapter 1, but it just fell into another FNAF 1 remake, it absolutely had different mechanics, but in the general scheme of things it was a FNAF 1 looking fangame. I did personally enjoy it, however what slowed me down was I had no ideas and didn't know where I was going with the story. All the stress got to me and I let it go. It took me many MONTHS to figure out if I wanted to reboot the series since I always felt bad about it, and well I did and that's where Chapter 1 is, the restart of the series as a whole.

Fredbear's Resort:

Oh boy, this game. OH MAN THIS GAME. I hate it to death, from a development standpoint this is one of my worst fangames I've ever made. The game had potential because of the location, a resort based map in a FNAF game sounded pretty cool on paper, and what did I do with it? Made a goddamn 2016 looking diner with public pack models (EXCEPT ONE THAT WAS CUSTOM MADE). I really question my mindset with the game after chapter 2 especially, it should've showed improvement but it didn't and overall I hate it. I appreciate those who DO like it that's why it's even back up in the first place, but I'll never feel happy with it. That ALSO goes for the "v2 remake" I had going, it genuinely was cool, it had unique ideas, but this was hit at so many halts because I was never happy with the styles. It did have my custom models, but I didn't like them and I went through messes of remodels, then back to mine, it was terrible. Then I started getting BORED of Fredbear games, because I made too many. (even on my alt with backstory, I'll get to that next). I made a rant post before saying I'm done with Fredbear games, and as I said I absolutely am. The exception is chapter 1 of the AGP reboot and that's because the series didn't deserve what it got as it had/has potential even still, it just happens to start with Fredbear lmao. But yes, after AGP I'm not doing Fredbear shit anymore unless it's to help friends who are making their own. I wanna do OC FNAF games, or even original games one day. So overall, the game sucks to me lol.

Fredbear's backstory (FredGames1 alt account):

This account I did explain why it was made I will just link it here to prevent me explaining it here: https://gamejolt.com/p/pinned-introduction-apgsngdp

the account I don't use anymore, but there's still a fangame there (a serious one) that I wish to talk about.

The game itself was actually okay, I liked it way more than the AGP games and ESPECIALLY resort, the flaw it has though, while the mechanics were diverse and it was slightly harder of a game, the visuals just didn't carry and get this? NO FUCKING STORY!!!! So the name makes 0 sense, so I don't like it in those senses, but from a gameplay standard it's actually pretty damn alright. Not much to say on it besides I'll probably never use the alt gamejolt account much anymore, but it's there if u wanna check the games released over there out lol.

When The Lights Go Dim:

HERE'S where we get to things I am proud of, not the sappy feels anymore. While yes, this is just yet ANOTHER remake to checkbox to my name, I'm actually proud of how it came out. There are absolutely room for improvements, but I genuinely think I tried the hardest on it and I'm so glad we pulled through, huge props to the team who helped with it. The game isn't perfect definitely not, but from recent standards with myself improving I think it's my best work.(not the best fangame, or anything competitive, but best to me compared to my other works). I am absolutely doing a major update to the game fixing specific flaws and adding some things the base release didn't have so that's fun. This game easily puts me in a position where I need to continue to grow and keep going with the mindset of having fun, not comparing myself or feeling like shit all the time. To keep my chin up and keep improving for my future projects. I have tons to learn and I'm all here for it.

There's many more projects to come, but I can't explain them here. I know this is a huge random post, but it gets this off my chest. I could probably explain things better, but that'd make this post basically into a phone book so gonna avoid that and keep it as it is right now. If you read this I appreciate the time u took to do so. I apologize to those who I worked with/talked with before and didn't handle criticism well, I changed that and I'm more open to it as I want to improve. I just hope the path stays open and I keep going to become the better version of myself over time. Till next time when I post more projects updates! Thank you all very much, I mean it! <3