The Joy of Creation

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The Joy of Creation

The Joy of Creation or TJoC is a Five Nights at Freddy's fan-game created by Nikson. It got cancelled after Nikson announced he got bored with the project and has moved on. Though it got turned into The Joy of Creation: Reborn four months after the original TJoC.

The Joy of Creation was inspired by Five Nights at Freddy's 4 and another horror-game called BOOGEYMAN.

Gameplay

The Joy of Creation has only one available mode called 'Survival Mode'. The goal in survival mode is that you have to live as long as possible without getting jumpscared by the Ignited animatronics.

You play as a character named 'Scott'. There are four Ignited animatronics in the game. You have a flashlight with limited batteries which you need to defend yourself by shining your flashlight at the animatronics.

The animatronics start off at certain locations in your house. e.g. Freddy starts in the closet in front of you. Chica starts in the left closet. Bonnie starts in the hallway to your right. And Foxy starts off at window behind your back.

A screenshot of Ignited Bonnie swiftly closing the door.

You have to use your listening and sight-seeing skills to survive the animatronics for a long amount of time.

Development

Nikson first started development on The Joy of Creation on November, 2015 after Those Nights at Fredbear's and Unreal Shift at Freddy's got cancelled. He announced that the The Joy of Creation will not have free-roam and will have 'custom-animatronics'.

The game's demo was released 3 days after the gamejolt page was created. Nikson stood silent for ten days until he announced the game will have a complete change over with style and mechanics. Seven weeks later Nikson announced that the game will be cancelled and would not be continued.

Nikson once again annouced a few months later, that he will be holding a vote for people to tell him if he should not or revive the game. 500+ people voted on reviving the game. Nikson then started to develop the new titleThe Joy of Creation: Reborn.

Trivia

• The title The Joy of Creation may be a reference to a book called The Autobiography of a Yogi.
  • ​A chapter references the joy of life: Sir, it is lamentable that mass agricultural development is not speeded by fuller use of your marvelous mechanisms. Would it not be easily possible to employ some of them in quick laboratory experiments to indicate the influence of various types of fertilizers on plant growth? You are right. Countless uses of Bose instruments will be made by future generations. The scientist seldom knows contemporaneous reward; it is enough to possess the joy of creative service.
• ​BOOGEYMAN is similar to The Joy of Creation.
  • This is because in BOOGEYMAN, you have to shine your flashlight at different areas in your bedroom to scare the BOOGEYMAN away.

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Room screenshots

Mechanic Icons

"The Joy of Creation" Teaser Trailer (Five Nights at Freddy's Fan Game)