Trivia / POPGOES

• Approval of God: It is one of the few Five Nights at Freddy's fangames that Scott Cawthon personally approved to be included into the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative, giving Kane a legal permission to commercialize the series as well as funding to develop more games.
• Creator Backlash: One of the game's programmers now heavily regrets working on the game, out of a belief that Kane ruined the game's lore by using plot points from a previous iteration of the story.^note The plot point in question, Simon Fitzgerald experimenting with the blood of children out of a belief that it could increase his lifespan, is actually supported by the game itself in several hidden images.
• Development Gag: The Machinist, titular Big Bad of POPGOES Arcade's expansion "Popgoes and the Machinist", is revealed to be none other than Morse the Mole, a character who was supposed to appear in the original POPGOES as one of the enemy animatronics, but ended up not only becoming unused, but even earning the enmity of the game's developers.
• What Could Have Been: Because of the game's long development cycle, a lot of things were changed before release.
  • The game was originally a lot different than the final version, so much so that the developers refer to this earlier version as Popgoes '15, while calling the final version Popgoes '16. Little is known about this earlier version, though the project leader himself admits that the earlier version was pretty bad.
  • Popgoes '15 was going to have a sequel, titled POPGOES Encore. It would've taken place on a movie set based off the location and the rumors around it, and it was a tower defense game instead of the point-and-click of the first game.
  • A more traditional sequel was planned for Popgoes '16, known simply as POPGOES 2. The game would have been set in Fritz's house, and included Dreamcatcher versions of the main five animatronics.
  • There was also a prequel comic called POPGOES: The Plastic Grave. Later, it was decided to change it into a novel, before it was scrapped entirely.
  • The team also planned for a free expansion to the original game, titled The Silent Night. It would've been a long and trippy extra night, with only one animatronic attacking: Grave Stone.
  • The game was originally going to be titled Popgoes' Pizzaria, but for some reason, the site they uploaded the game to wouldn't let them use apostrophes in the title. They got around this by shortening the title to POPGOES.
  • A sequel and even a remake to POPGOES has been in the works, but was cancelled.
• Word of God:
  • Five Nights at Candy's and this series exist in the same continuity, but any implications of this are never explored.
  • Simon Fitzgerald, AKA The Purple Guy does not possess Simon, the robot recreation of the former that appears in the grave ending.