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My Take
Cawthon is one of my favorite underdog stories in modern gaming. Before Five Nights at Freddy's became a cultural juggernaut, he was a Texas developer quietly making family-friendly Christian games that went nowhere. Most people would have quit; he turned the rejection into fuel and built a horror franchise practically single-handedly. That arc, failure metabolized into something massive, is exactly the kind of grit I admire in a creator. He proves you don't need a studio army to leave a dent. For a self-taught designer from Bell County to define an era of indie horror is genuinely remarkable.
Overview
Scott Braden Cawthon (born June 4, 1978) is an American video game developer, writer, and producer. He created Five Nights at Freddy's, a series of horror video games which expanded into a media franchise. Cawthon began his career developing family-friendly Christian video games to minimal success.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Scott Cawthon
- Name (Japanese)
- スコット・カーソン
- Reading
- すこっと・かーそん
- Born
- June 4, 1978 (age 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Horse
- Origin
- Bell County, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- game designer / computer scientist / screenwriter / director / animator
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Five Nights at Freddy's | — |
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://scottgames.com/
- Xhttps://x.com/real_scawthon
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Cawthon
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.