(Cover Animatronics design by: Wak)

("Pizza Tower" Fedetronic and Lucatronic by: Wart)

In honor of the 10th Anniversary of the series overall, and the upcoming 10th Anniversary of this game in particular, Here are finally, for all of you to know, behind the scenes and insights behind the "Stuffed" series, and connected projects. Featuring questions by @Ontherunfromit and Wak (https://x.com/WaksWorld)

Stuffed: The Real Begin

• What’s the thought process behind the making of this mod? Are there any specific reasons for how and why the game was made and why the story was chosen?

Honestly? I was bored that day, and I thought: “HEY, I wanna see if I can use TEXMOD on FNAF, let’s make it about that crappy animation everyone somehow loved!”… needless to say, that’s what I did, and made a Lore on the go, at the time I wasn’t thinking of expanding the Lore much more than it was, but… guess I went overboard!

• Why and how did you find FNAF?

So, I originally saw a GIF of Foxy running down the hallway, but I thought it was some sort of a Robotic “Will E Coyote” thing or something, then I saw one of my favorite Youtubers playing it, and as I learned it was about Animatronics, which was a Topic of interest and love since I have passion for robotics, I was caught in it… more for the Robots than the whole Possession and murder mumbo jumbo.

• What inspired Fredrick, Lucky, Pup, Strongman, and Heleonore? Do you have a pic of the doll that inspired Strongman

Frederick was based on a French Wolf drawing I made in high school after learning about FNAF, Wolfy Le Wolf, but since at the time my modeling skills were Non-existent, despite the passion for 3D, I had to use what I could on SFM, such as TF2 props and retexturing a Foxy Model… Lucky and Helenore just were put there because I needed someone to take out the originals, nothing much thought about, but their name were still based on my friend “Luzardo”, and one of my Exes, “Helen”… Pup was conceived only to give a more original background to Frederick as a “Ventriloquist”, and Strongman… I honestly wanted the Strongman to be this mysterious figure in the shadow, shown only when pressing the lights as only Eyes, and reveal a-la Golden Freddy, to tease who should have been the Mascot and face of Stuffed. Not only do I have the photo of the doll Strongman was based on, but It’s also still in my possession as of today, and it’s a “Vintage Sicilian Knight Marionette”.

• Why the typo in Real Begin’s title?

Cause It was too late to correct since I was in a haste and honestly it was just a mod and didn’t really care much… although, It still drew the attention in a way, and as we know, even bad publicity is good publicity.

• What are the eyes in the office?

As I’ve mentioned previously, that was the Strongman hiding in the ceiling, just to explain why He’d appear like Golden Freddy instead of appearing out of thin air… It’s just a quirk of mine trying to explain any detail I put.

• Why are there anime posters?

Just to add a bit of personality, plus there was a Cover of a very old draft of the Alfredo Novels I was working on at the time and just a random character of a Manga I was reading at the time.

• The wiki said something about you recording Bob or Gordon Ventura’s voice lines, but they couldn’t work cuz they were overlapped by Scott Cawthon. Is this correct?

That was Bob, and they couldn’t work because… well… TexMod only replaces textures and I had no idea how to edit files inside a Clickteam game without having to re-do it from scratch.

• Are there any screenshots or plans for this remaster that we never saw

No Screenshots, but the plan was to re-imagine in a better way the Story of the First Stuffed, retconning the animation and mod, and make it better tie into the Second Game, basically a replacement of the First one, with its own “Look at the Approaching animatronics until they get back to the corner and reset their cycles while checking on the Strongman’s cage on your back before He free’s himself and attacks you”.

• What inspired the remaster designs

I was trying to diverge them from their “Knock-off” origins by giving them a bit of their personality… I really wanted them to no longer be called “White Bonney”, “Pink Chica”, “Bootleg Foxy” etc…

• What inspired Puppel? Ghost in the Shell?

Nah, just because FNAF had a Red Puppet, Candy had a Blue Puppet… I wanted to make the Yellow Puppet! My brain wanted at all costs to have a Blue, Yellow, and Red trio since it reminded me of “Sonic Heroes”.

• Any reason as to why Pup rides a TV as opposed to running?

Mmmh… Maybe because She’s a Ventriloquist Puppet and running would take ages, plus, if the Textures had properly loaded, the Jumpscare would have shown that the TV was running over the Guard.

• Why does Fredrick lose parts on the cameras?

Rule of Cool… That’s it. That’s the answer!

Stuffed: The SFM Animation and History

• After over a decade of being, what was even the plot?

Three new animatronics are possessed by the souls of the latest three guards that were Stuffed into and would avenge themselves and as they passed on, their robotic bodies would break down as… I honestly dunno, I just wanted to make a sad scene with the Godzilla vs Destroyah sad music.

• How come the models have more detail than the mod ones?

‘Cause it was more difficult to constantly pose the Mod Models as they moved around the Pizzeria, and as I said, it was done out of boredom in just one day, I did it all due to haste.

• Will the history vid be re-uploaded for archival purposes

Ooooooooh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, OH HELL NO! The more that video becomes Lost Media the better for my sanity!

• What gave the ideas for HFS?

Just to give a more Sci-Fi explanation of how Humans would possess an Animatronic, as basically a Mind-Transfer caused by the stuffing with the brain getting in contact with the Chip.

• Any specific reason as to why there were three guards? Who were they?

I wanted to include Myself, my friend, and my Ex together in the plot… just a quirk of mine… Oh yeah also because I needed to explain why 3 Animatronics were possessed.

Stuffed 2: Five Nights at Fedetronic’s (Thinking about it, “The Night at Fedetronic’s” could have been a great twist… to make it all place in one Night, with Night renamed into “Hours” and the Hours into 10 Minutes)

• Do you remember what the original Stuffed 2 (the Fnaf 2 mod) was going to be about?

Nope… Was actually about to do it out of boredom like the first one, just to try the first new original model I’d made at the time… again, the moment Ironic approached me with the offer to Code it from scratch, I went Overboard.

• What inspired each of Fedetronic’s crew (Jadie, Luka, Jack, etc)

Welp, Fedetronic, of course, was me with the Style I used to wear at the time, Luca was again based on Luzardo (Altho, since I couldn’t yet model Hairs properly, instead of receding hairs I took Rock Lee’s hair, a Bowl Cut, and put them on Lucatronic… to this day I dunno how they look like Afros), Jadie was based on my friend “Jade”, Jack instead because I always wanted to make a “Jack-in-the-Box” animatronic, finding it interesting, especially with the whole “Spring-as-Legs” gimmick… But also to Reintroduce Pup in a more grown-up look, and… Well… Black Beast of Fun just because I wanted to make a Monty Python reference… oh and of course, the return of the oldies in the Scraps Room.

• Who is Frederick Right’s Son from the calls?

I honestly have no idea, I just wanted to have someone else being the Phone Guy that isn’t me… I would have loved to be Frederick’s voice, but I knew well someone would have likely tried to kill me since at the time I wasn’t great at voice acting.

• Why is there a whole Monty Python reference in the form of The Beast?

Because at the time I was very invested in the Monty Python movies, especially the Holy Grail one, and so I thought it’d be a nice reference making the Beast as a tribute… Altho She completely diverges from the Black Beast of Aaaargh, being more a Kind and Shy misunderstood lass who loves to eat candies and just wants some company, hence why She wouldn’t waste any time running to the office… In fact, the jumpscare animation isn’t She jumping to eat you, but attempting to get on your lap… but every sane person knows a 1-ton piece of hardware ain’t good for your bone, no matter how much Iron that is, it’s not the edible one.

• What inspired the “door timer” mechanic

I mostly wanted to give an original twist to the single-door mechanic, make it so that people couldn’t just keep it shut the whole night, and make it perfect for some… surprises.

• Why is Fedetronic self-aware?

I wanted to diverge from the “Possession” formula of the typical FNAF and Likewise FanGames, I wanted to explore more the idea of “How bad could it go if you were to make your Mascot so intelligent for Interaction purposes that they can find it enjoyable to turn you into their special stress-toy?” and from there it escalated into a Robot with a God-Complex.

• Is there a reason for Jadie being unique?

Like Her inspiration, Jadie is a robot who loves nature and life in general, kinda like Android 16 from DragonBall Z, so, Her being unique in not wanting to hurt anyone made her the perfect antithesis to Fedetronic, His opposite.

• why is Jadie your fav Stuffed character?

I just like everything about her, Her design, her personality, the hardships she endured, and how she keeps a smile on her face despite everything, a trait that carried over to her TftGG version… which is the same person, although not of the game canon.

• Why are the old robots golden? 

Their suits lost all the colors over time, hence revealing the sponge material used.

• Who are Author Fedetronic, Mascot Fredrick, and Shadow Fedetronic?

Just silly easter eggs never meant to be taken seriously… well… Author and Shadow Fedetronic were more teasers for a possible re-design of Fedetronic, while Mascot Frederick was a Teaser for the Remaster Redesigns.

• Any reason as to why Fedetronic has Prototype Laa Laa’s jumpscare noise? Coincidentally reused sound effect?

Many made this question… not really… Many ACCUSED ME of stealing that jumpscare sound… but little everyone knows that there’s this magical website called “Freesounds.org”, and most of the jumpscare sounds I’ve found, and MANY OTHER CREATORS used, all come from there, because, GASP, it’s royalty free sound effects, what a shock!

• What made you make Lucky a cat?

Because I wanted to change him from Rabbit to Cat, to move Him away from the “White Bonney” allegations, and also because Luzardo loves cats.

• Why did you give Lucatronic and Jadie no hands?

Cause Hands are hard to model, I literally used I6NIS Freddy model hands for Fedetronic… If I were to continue the Updates, just like Fedetronic, even the other would have Had new ones.

• What were all of the animatronics' original personalities and how have they changed over time if they did?

Fedetronic was a sadistic sociopath, literally toying with the Night Guard and forcing the others to go along his plan, or else He would have made Modern Art out of their scraps, and Burgers out of the guard; Lucatronic was the Simpleton Sidekick; Jadie the kind and caring antithesis; Jack the “Squidward” of the group (I can’t blame him, all day sitting in a box and taking care of toddlers); Pup would have been like her father, Bad at making puns, but more energetic and friendly; And the Black Beast of Fun, as mentioned, not only would She have been Kind and Shy, but her love for candies would have been used to make herself a Candy dispenser for the kids at the Arcade… The Strongman would have stayed this mysterious and cold entity who would keep with his programming of Stuffing people in suits as commanded by Gordon, and the original trio…. Be as flat as paper in terms of personality… just feral husks of their former selves.

Stuffed 2 - Episode 1: The Return of Fedetronic

• What inspired both Plaguetronic, Flora, and Tigerlight?

I love Plague Doctors and wanted to add one, also in reference to Dr. Plague from the Alfredo Novels I was writing at the time (Altho the delivery wasn’t the best) 2- Flora was made with the intent to give depth to Frederick Right and change the formula and turn the Night Guard part of the Defense System, and as well… not human. 3- I wanted to reference an old toy of mine, and the idea of a Broken Down Tiger with a flashlight mounted in his mouth playing “The Bright Side of Life” (In reference to “One Mangle Night at Freddy’s” Video would have been a fun idea.

• Is Flora possessed at the very least?

No, no, no, no AND NO!!! I didn’t want to have ANYTHING related to supernatural and possession, simply wanted a tragic backstory for Frederick Right to have been so desperate to turn His dead daughter into a robot.

• Given nearly EVERY render was finished, was there a beta or an alpha of the gameplay?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH… no…

• What were the gameplay mechanics?

No doors, just check the cameras, but the new challenge would have come in the form of inputting the ZLKA password as fast as possible before the jumpscare triggered, and as each night passed, the time frame would have gotten much shorter, and with the big number of Animatronic’s around and Frankentronic needing to be kept in check via the box… it would have been hell… a true challenge compared to the last one.

• Who is the yellow Spring-Bonnie-looking guy in one teaser?

That was supposed to be a Stuffed 3 concept of a Golden Frederick Wolf, capable of switching between the remains of all the other Animatronics’ costumes and using their abilities, but never went much further with the concept… The fact that I practically predicted the Mimic still blows my mind…

• Do you still have the trailer?

Everything I consider an Old-Shame turns into Lost media… but if you search “El Regresso de Fedetronic” you may find it on YouTube.

Stuffed 2 - Episode 2: The Real End

• What were the gameplay mechanics

It was meant to be like Sister Location… around the times of FNAF 4, in which each night you’d have to go to a different room, avoid the Cluster Animatronic of the night, and then play a maze-like minigame where you would have destroyed the Fedetronic Virus and disabled the Cluster animatronic, or else, Jumpscared. It would have featured Boss Fights similar to the game “Snatcher” by Kojima, where you’d have to click on the target to deal damages before they’d damage you.

• Why does Mikeltronic exist?

As a way to include that (pathetic, Lying, abusive, disgusting) friend that Luzardo and I had at the time… My biggest regret and a reason why I never considered it in any way to return... but the idea of him exploding still...

• Any reason for making Pup female or bringing Strongman back?

Pup being female would have been a shock revelation and finally stopped the whole association with Foxy… and Strongman, well… I felt that the one Animatronic that was hyped up as a great villain was being underutilized, so, I tried to give him justice.

• Why does Mikeltronic have a bomb?

Not that He had a bomb… just that Fedetronic knew how to hack him and make his endo overheat enough to make the battery Explode, and their batteries ain’t your typical Cellphone Lithium batteries, something more… stronger.

• What happened to the earlier version that took place in a horror attraction?

Scrapped by the sheer complexity of making it Free-Roaming.

• Why the cluster?

Cause I fell in love with the concept after seeing the Cluster from Steven Universe, I was intrigued by the idea of forcing broken Sentient Robot together, and would have fit Fedetronic's twisted nature and, as I mentioned earlier, the idea of him turning dissenters into modern art with their scraps… I wanted to make it clear He wasn’t joking around.

• Who is this Penelope the cat?

Oh, just an easter egg, She was made in memory of one of my Kitten who at the time passed away and I was devastated… I love my cats, and every loss was quite harsh.

• What were the ghosts for

Ghosts were something akin to the Phantoms but would have actually killed the player, and their existence would have explained that they were basically “Ghosts made of Radio Waves that would have damaged Flora’s Circuitry once in contact with Her”, since, in order to hack into the minigames, Flora was once again the protagonist, now with Gene acting as Mission Control outside the Location notifying her of incoming dangers.

• Gameplay and setting? The story mentioned an airship.

Kinda explained earlier, the Airship part would have been the setting for the Final confrontation with Neo-Fedetronic, with Strongman joining the fight in a 3 way confrontation.

Stuffed 3: Grand Reopening

• Why was Jadie evil all of a sudden

When you get abused as much as She was abused, eventually, she would have ended up like her abuser… and may have been as well infected… Altho short answer… I wanted to make her into something akin to Circus Baby.

• Who initiated what this game intended to be? You or IronicRobots?

I don’t remember, I think I quit and He wanted to make it, but I still wanted to give an incipit to give a start, I think?!

• Why Dapper Fedetronic?

I dunno, honestly everything in this Game would have contradicted Episode 2, actually, this one was an Alternate path where Episodes 1 and 2 never happened, hence why the endings would have been drastic, as well the developments.

• Who were the Babies? Those sons of Lucky and Heleonore?

Yes, I wanted to play with the weird “Interspecies Children” trope as it happened with Shrek 2 between Donkey and the Dragon… just something silly, a Mix of the Bidybabs and Freddles.

• What were the mechanics?

Basically, if the Animatronics would have reached you, you’d had to make use of one of the Maintenance mechanics shown in the tutorial to make them go back to their place. The Room would have been circular 360 degrees and checked all around you. No Cameras.

• Was this a good fangame or not, given you had someone else do it for you

Since it never became a thing… I can’t properly tell…

R.o.M. – Rights of (the) Machines

• What was the plot for the original ROM?

The very first ROM, so, not connected to Stuffed, was about a young teen called Frederick, who used to live alone as He was abandoned as an infant, and his foster father, “Ferdinand Wolfcastle”, was the lackey of the Martian Colony Supreme President “Lucas Philips”, 24/7 on duty, and one day, He’d met an abandoned Android named Leonora, who he took home, and after He’d adopted two more, a Shorter one named Kimberly, and a more traditional Robot (Similar to a Fallout “Ms. Nanny”) “Bells”, He would start to feel so much sympathy for the Machines, treated as slaves, and as He confronted Wolfcastle about it, He would reveal him He was a clone of the original Frederick Right, kept alive only because the President was too sentimental toward the last reminder of his old friend… this led Frederick to take advantage of a guided tour at the Right Robotics labs, disable the inhibitor, and with the help of a Sentient Power Armor “JACOB”, start an uprising, which led the Clones to be released against the Robots, while Wolfcastle would have reveleaed to have been always against Lucas, and with the inhibitor off, the Original Frederick Right, as an AI, would take over, and sent a nuke, enough to let Robots and sympathizers to survive, Clone unaffected, while Lucas and dissenters would have ended up Mutated into Supermutants, which would have opened the doors for a pair of Sequels, as the titles were: “Rights of Machines”, “Rights of Mutants” and “Rights of Mankind”.

• Were the Bartholomew gang part of ROM?

Yeah, but only as part of Puppel’s gimmick, as she was a puppet master, controlling little animal characters that could act as actors while having semi-sentience, and not being total extensions of her.

• Any reason to mash up Jack and Beast?

Because I think people complained about how unoriginal a “Jack-in-the-Box” animatronic was, and since I wanted to make Jack very miserable, I thought: “Why not make his new background being eaten by the Beast Nonstop?!”.

• What was the thought process for redesigning Pup into a human girl named Pamela?

To make sure she was no longer connected to Foxy, and more a more extroverted and flirty foil to the Shy and Kind Jadie, acting like a twin sister toward Her.

• Was there a story? How much was planned?

IF THERE’S A STORY!? I HAVE AN ENTIRE NOVEL WRITTEN FOR THAT, which would have tied to the new Novel Draft I was making at the time “Rights of Machines”, with the Stuffed part being a prequel to it… And I still have the E-book somewhere, both in Italian and in English.

• Who is the abandoned animatronic in one of the teaser images? Frankentronic?

There are 2 of them… The Strongman now turned into a Cluster, and “Boogeyman”, a completely pitch black animatronic with a deep voice, inspired by “The Beast” from “Over the Garden Wall”… He would have been subtle, cold, threatening, and twist just like Fedetronic… but thousandfold, as the Puppeteer who put all the Animatronics inside the abandoned restaurant against each other.

• Will the showcase vid be re-uploaded?

Why are you constantly asking me to reupload videos that I lost/ERASED years ago… If something’s an old shame of mine, it gets *BLIP* deleted from history, it never happened!

• Were there more returning Stuffed characters in this version that we don’t know of?

I don’t think so. I think I did kind of introduce them already, and the fact Fedetronic was renamed into Frederick Jr. and Lucatronic in Lucas was a way to retcon the existence of the classic ones outside the Predecessors “Bartholomew” “Billy” and “Charlotte”.

Desolate Abandon

• If Alphus was gonna return, were the other robots (Mirad, Malenz, etc) going to?

Nope, Alphus would have been the only one cause It was the case also for how it happened with “Desolate Room” and “Desolate Hope” having only Alphus as the returning one, while accompanied by a new cast, but a Returning enemy being “Viral Code”.

• Why did you make this game?

I didn’t make the game, I was just conceptualizing it, originally Abandon was someone else’s project which I was interested in joining, and was in charge as a writer at first, but as the guy never gave a response in months… and for all I know He canceled it and disappeared out of the blue, while in the meantime I went overboard as usual… Knowing full well it might not have been a thing in the first place, but a fool can always dream sometimes.

• What was the story

Sooo, While following more a Megaman Structure, by combining the platforming of Desolate Hope, with the progression of the map like the Desolate Room, the group would have gone deeper and deeper into the cyberspace of the SuperComputer AIXIS, who was in charge of an important mission to terraform the planet but was infected by “Viral Code”, who this time, learning from his past mistake, created “Doppelganger” as a new Virus, who would have changed its form to mimic our heroes during their journey, while other viruses like Sonar, Clock-Owl, Rubik, and Luminatis would have been its mooks with their quirks… eventually Viral Code would have panicked and attempted again to bring back online “Model 0” now sporting a fancy “Mk. II” which would turn from a huge face into a Humanoid Form following its merge with Viral Code Himself.

Stuffed: Chronicles of a Sister Location

• Was there a planned ending

In the form of an RPG Maker game, set in the abandoned Burger kingdom, Jadie, and Strongman would stumble into Frederick Right’s secret lab under the Restaurant, discover his military Robot factory, and eventually his study on the “Glitch-Core”.

• Why did you come back to Stuffed after Sister Location?

Maybe I simply hated myself and felt the need to make right was I thought was wrong.

• How come a majority of the animatronics have the same endo skeleton, unlike the original games? It resulted in very wonky proportions and bad design IMO.

I wanted to change from the old style to a new one, especially the endos being more Sci-Fi and detailed than the old ones to make them more distinct.

• What inspired the idea to change the names of the OG reskin trio (Bart, Charlotte, Willy)

Because… Because… I dunno…

• What inspired Poppy the Clown?

I wanted to make a more stylized design, and Poppy the Clown sounded cool on paper, having a more skinny build, and a unique face reminiscent of a rubber mask.

• Are you aware of the Easter egg in TRTF Rebooted of the Chronicles Fedetronic’s in the newspaper?

Honestly… no… like… AT ALL!

• What was Flora gonna do in Chronicles?

She was supposed to be a Robotic staff member of the “Pam’s Italian All you can eat Arc” following the Burger Kingdom one, leading to the Pizza Emporium arc… before the whole RPG Maker ending idea, considering the Chronicles were supposed to be a Retale of the overall game lore, before diverging for the worse.

Stuffed Fedetronics 3.0

• Exactly how much was Scout and Blackboy given control?

Total control… I wasn’t really following any of it, actually, the Re-Code was originally meant to be an Extra-mode for Refilled as “Classic Mode” but became its own thing.

• Was this a good enough ending for the game canon?

I think I have been clear enough about how I never was a fan of the “Supernatural” aspect of the FNAF Fangames, and always wanted to be on the Sci-Fi part… worse of all… If the story was about Fedetronic… WHY the sudden jump to Possession and the old restaurant?!

• Why did you make this with Scout and Blackboy? What made you get back into this series?

I didn’t make it, I left them total autonomy as I didn’t want to be involved in the series anymore, since the constant seeing it being taken, then abandoned, then taken, attempted to be turned into something that didn’t even respect the source material, just made me realize… this series is doomed to never have a proper execution or conclusion.

• Are you aware 

Aware of what?

Stuffed 2: Refilled & Stuffed: New Beginning

• What convinced you to greenlit the project

The fact that Scout was going for a remake that would have been respectful of the source material enough to not drastically change the Main Character and the setting.

• What other details existed from the versions other than Scout’s vision

First of all, they wanted to make it take place in a TV Studio (?!) and Fedetronic would have been like… Dressing Fancy like a vintage Chucky Cheese (!?) and would have been an escape room game, for as far as I knew… But the team behind it wasn’t really a fan of the series, but I’d rather not talk about it.

• Are there any characters planned that we don’t know about? How different was the story from the books or games?

It would have introduced Bob’s wife and would have explored a new dynamic between Gordon Armstrong (Frederick Right’s replacement), and Gene Ventura, as some sort of Mentor and Student, a Pedestal that would eventually break as Gene learned the truth of the Stuffed Murders.

• Who got the best redesign in your opinion?

Lucatronic, He was just as He always was supposed to be, like, no bowl cut, no “Afro”, just a nerd with receding hairs.

• If Scout left, do still have the models? (Given the Buff Refilled Lucatronic shitpost u did)

I do not, but Wart does… If I recollect, either She or Boi passed the models to me for a test in Cinema, or rather, my attempt to make “Pixar-looking” posters for the location.

• I know the game wasn’t programmed, but was there any sort of plans for gameplay

I have entire documents for “Cutscenes”, “Mechanics”, “Lore”, and “Night Calls” (+ Overall Plot), as I offered myself to be the writer of the series, and every time I finished a document I would share with the team waiting for Feedback… but as I said earlier, the team was made mostly of non-fans of the series, and that lead to the majority of them to not only snob the docs, but even dared to say “Probably they weren’t good anyway”, without even consulting them for Feedback… At least unlike them, I took my part seriously despite having other projects and a job in my hands.

• How many games would have been in Refilled? Two? Three?

I dunno, Scout was getting overzealous about it, I would have been fine with just the Refilled of Stuffed 2, but He was planning also the “Real Beginning refilled”

• Is it official? If so, can the official Wiki document it?

I don’t think so, considering how I decided to take Stuffed in my hands again but completely rework it to officially and canonically make it fit the Lore of “Tales from the Golden Garden”, which has many characters from there, now in new forms.

Tales from the Golden Garden

• Origins for Alfredo?

Here comes the story of how Alfredo came to be: Originally, back in high school, my teacher asked us to make an essay (Or rather a brief story) with a Character named Alfredo… Since I was invested in “Legend of Dragoon”, I made “ALFREDO AND THE 12 DRAGOONS”, a story where I ended up killing him off… but I got so fond of the Character that I then made a series of small RPG Maker games, which brought some characters around him, and from those games, I started to make Novels about him, fleshing out his personality, and after almost more or less 15 years, ALFREDO evolved into many iterations, till his final version.

• Origins for Greta, Eva, and Ivan?

So, Greta and Eva, like the other “Lamias” (The new official name for the Scaboddas, as a way to reconceptualize Lamias from Half-Reptilian Girls to Biomechanical Frog Girls) came from another Novel Draft about a stranded Eva adopted by the eccentric scientist Otto von Octavio, it was the third concurrent series along RoM and Alfredo, before the great merge of all the three series into one… Ivan instead… well… He was part of the original cast of the Alfredo Novel drafts, although originally known as Navi, and friendlier and flamboyant goody two shoes (Think about a mix between Deltarune’s “Ralsei, which wasn’t even a thing at the time LOL, and Ned Flanders… that “Navi”) from the No-nonsense young man We know. Almost every character in the series comes from all three different concepts, with Lloyd and Morgante being instead from one of the first totally different concepts/Drafts of the merged universe.

• What inspired this series? What gave you the idea to make this?

The idea was that, instead of making 3 different universes, to use all that worked and that could work together, and make an original universe on its own, a Fantasy world whose roots come from Sci-Fi elements, with the various civilized species being alien species who settled there, and working on the Alien Frog concept into Biomechanical ones, struggling like the Android in RoM were, and making sure that Alfredo and Eva would be the main duo, with Ivan’s inclusion (Due to its vital part in the old Alfredo Novels) making it into the best trio ever existing in all draft made till I started the final version.

• Favorite TftGG Character?

Eva, period, She’s like that character that despite being beautiful, her best trait comes from her spunky and energic personality, in a way childish, but also someone who likes to tease others and have fun, while also being quite bright when it comes to serious situations, especially if it involves protecting someone close to her, and her bond with the other characters is another great trait of her, from her Best Friendship with Ivan and Alfredo, the sibling-like dynamic with Alfredo and Kimberly, to her sense of freedom.

• Least Favorite TftGG Character?

Brody… Oh… Brody… there’s no character that I could make so Unlikable, a petty and whiny miserable carbon-copy that in order to feel the slightest importance and compensate for his minority complex, had to sell the people that loved him the most… what I’ve planned for his plotline in the series proper will be a huge example of the sentence “Uh-oh, it’s the consequences of my actions”… But He’s currently contending that place with 2 other Characters who will be revealed in the future… I fear I’ll eventually redeem him or something… disfigured tho.

• Is Diamond Gears in some way, an SU reference of some kind?

Oh boy, I would lie if I said no, but there’s more to it… It came out as I was playing “Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain” and I could name my faction the way I wanted… and I made it “Diamond Gear”… I liked it so much it stuck… although, in a recent rewriting of the final draft of the Pilot Comic, before releasing the Paperback, I’ve reverted to “Right Robotics” as I wanted to simplify the Lore and give more influence from Right in the history of the world, plus his obsession to name everything he made with “Right” (Right Enforcers, Right Judgement, Right Robotics, THE RIGHT ORDER… just to nail how much he fears to be forgotten).

• If there are characters from previous work, Stuffed or Desolate Abandon, that you would put, what would it be

You may be surprised… almost every Stuffed character appears in there, in a way or another, and the LoreBook and Novels would have explored this evolution of them, as well as Characters who call themselves in a way but in reality where characters we knew in the past, as a way to connect the separated RoM/Stuffed and Forever on Earth/Eva Story drafts into the lore of TftGG, re-elaborated within the canon, lore and myth of this universe.

• Why did you decide to fit Stuffed into its canon?

Rather than seeing the series being bastardized further and then dropped with no conclusions, I’d rather handle it myself and make it a vital part of a bigger story. And I’m not regretting this, since great characters I loved came from it, such as Charlotte and Jadie.

• Any reason to gender-bend Strongman for TFTGG??

The gender-bend actually happened during the “Sitcom-Esque” draft of RoM, one where bitter Indie Author Frederick Right would have fallen in love with a chubby android, which was Jadie, and whose slice of life stories were based on scenarios I made in “The Sims 4” as an experiment, and The Strongman was meant to be a Trans Male character, originally known as Charlotte, whom Frederick met in his “Shady” past before He’d start a healing journey with also the help of him Roomie “Lucas” and his now Teenage son “Gene”, and their sentient WC, with AI and holographic Avatar “Leonora”, all three acting as Wingmen, with Strongman in it… Eventually, I decided in the TftGG Canon to reverse it, as the Animatronic Strongman being turned into a female-looking Simulacrum, as the “Ideal image” of Herself, rather than being a mere tribute to Fred’s grampa.

• Will TFTGG get a published release?

Probably during the course or end of 2026, cause not only do I want the Character sketches artist to have a human pace in making them, but I have to make the Italian translation too. Overall, the Paperback and Kindle version of the Pilot Comic, with included Lorebook entries, an Artbook with the concept sketches and 1 extra chapter, still, I’m going extra wild, and with my new Agenda, I am organizing ANY SINGLE LORE DETAIL AND TIMELINE to help me with the writing of the proper story… although, I think I’ll first start a series of Short Novels called “TftGG – Origins”, each one exploring a part of the century prior the current events, one about Eva’s Origins and how she indirectly caused world-changing catastrophies such as the Dinosaurs extinction, the Year 0 War between Angels and Devils, and many others, one telling the Origins of Frederick Right, his love and admiration for his grandfather, his hatred for the Venturas, and the creation of the Burger Kingdom, one that would have been a remake of the original Eva’s story following her adoption by Otto, and how the events will lead to the discovery of the Archipelago, and a Remake of the first RoM draft, with the story of Beta, his meeting with Leonora, and how his brainwashing led to the start of the Dreamers War… OH, and maybe a very short RPG Maker game featuring the Founding King’s first exploration of the Golden Garden, which is meant to be a 1:1 remake of the original RPG Maker game Alfredo debuted… Trust me, I got a lot of stuff cooking, and the main story would be much WILDER!

Miscellaneous (Oh boy we are almost at the end)

• Current thoughts on Steven Universe given your history with it and your old fanfic?

This question came at the right time as I’ve been re-watching some clips of it, and Honestly, I am glad I used to like it, because, while it has its flaws, it really inspired me in a few things, for example, Roger, Alfredo’s father, being like Greg Universe, or the fact that I always imagine Jadie’s voice being Pearl’s because IT FITS, or Eva being basically Amethysts, and Greta Peridot! Steven Universe was quite the inspiration, especially for Eva’s Story draft… one would have figured out since I based an entire species on frog species which determined their position in their social pyramid… but also Alfredo’s current character could be seen as a Steven who was dealing with trauma at very young age, and how it affects him despite being overall a nice kid.

• Would you be willing to give the keys to Stuffed to anyone if a fan remake by anyone else is coming?

I’ll make it simple… No, No, No and No!

• Current thoughts on the Fnaf franchise and fangame scene as a whole?

Honestly, while the latest Security Breach and its DLC kinda went in a direction I liked more (More Sci-Fi and AI stuff rather than Possession), the Fandom makes me not want to join in the discussion, let alone the fangame scenery which is a mess, and I’m glad not being associated to that.

• Thoughts on other fangames Like the Fanverse ones such as Flumpty’s, Candy’s, The Joy of Creation, or POPGOES?

I already said something earlier, but I would like to add… the Fanverse initiative was a disaster ready to blow up and made official.

• What other projects do you have in store aside from the other three currently

Kinda want to continue doing the FedzToonz GMod animations, they are fun, and I like the idea of showing exaggerated 1-min slice of life episodes of my everyday life, with Sarah (my Mascot Gree’s new official name), Luzardo and Mephisto and another Close Friend being cameos or involved in specific episodes, with the cast planned to get expanded in future seasons with the inclusion of Debby and the poor soul who dares to get in my close circle… but not a project that I’d dedicate much time, but be laxer in when to make a new episode, especially while working on the Paperback for the TftGG Pilot comic and the series proper.

• What was Misfits Six Nights of Terror? Allegedly it’s canon to Stuffed because it was by IronicRobots.

It’s not canon and it was just a game he made that had a reference, but since none of the previous Stuffed outside TFTGG is canon, neither that is.

• What are your plans for future content outside of webcomics?

As I said, the Toonz is one, Webcomic is already over and will be made available in paperback with lots of extra content before proceeding with a Novel Series… Other than that, I have no idea what else to do.

• Your go-to KFC order…NOW!

1-Person bucket with O.R. Cob, Tender Crispy, and 2 Hot Wings + Pepsi Zero… And let’s add a small Snackbox with 2 Hot wings… and extra fries…. Mmmmh… I love their fries...

• What are your thoughts on others making their own versions of Stuffed?

My previous experiences makes me distrustful and careful, only a few may have my grace to go undisturbed with their vision.

• Do you think Fedetronic would buy an OF if he could?... Actually more of a Lucatronic thing perhaps idk.

If the OF is about minced meat sculptures and Torture ASMRs… I guess He would!?

• Why did you give some of the characters (mainly referring to the books) thighs thicker than a bowl of oatmeal got damn 0_o

Can we… not talk about the Chronicles’ designs? There’s a reason I’ve deleted from existence those renders (EVEN THE MODELS) and act as if they never existed… The only exception may be the Frog-designed characters, chubby, muscular, and short-stacks, especially when the style is more cartoonish… unlike those abominations that were mixed with realism.

• What was the inspo behind the human Stuffed characters?(Robert,Gordon,Toby,Gene,etc.)

Honestly I dunno, they just… came… maybe because I needed humans for the Stuffed series other than Robots… besides, Outside Gordon and Toby, whose names were just the first that came to mind, Bob and Gene were actually a reference to “Bob’s Burger”.

• Do you think the lost media around your projects is lost for good, and are there any that aren’t lost? Plus is it possible for either Scout and/or Blackboy to have rigged blender ports of the Stuffed 2 models? (assuming they exist due to the new renders made for the 3.0 update and the game page around that time)

Lost, I made sure about that! Besides, I have no idea if they ported the models or not, I never touched a blender so…

And with this one, we've reached the end of the 10th Anniversary QnA!

Hope you've endured and enjoyed the long read, and see you all on future releases and projects! CIAO AND ARRIVEDERCI!