Long before Scott Cawthon created FNaF, he made several other games that were more family friendly. Even though they had mostly positive reviews, players often critisized the art style due to most characters looking like animatronic animals. This very nearly drove Scott from making video games alltogether, until he had the idea to utilize the style by making the main characters of his next game animatronics, thus leading to the creation of Five Nights at Freddy's.