Five Nights At Pico's

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> "***Survive until 6 AM
>  Defend yourself from the characters of Pico's Palace
>  Acting dead won't save you this time
>  Don't look them in the EYES!!!***"
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**Five Nights at Pico's** is a FNaF fangame created on Scratch by DATUS3r and Proppy, officially being the first game in the Five Nights at Pico's series of games. Public betas were playable beginning on October 19th, 2014 with the game being fully finished by November 21st.
Since it was the first full game both developers had worked on, it stands out for the worse as one of the roughest games in the series, visually and mechanically.

Since both developers were new to programming, they likely created the game thinking it would be a simple but fun start to creating their own games. The game was developed with the mindset of assuming people already knew how to play the original FNaF, evident by one of the calls assuming the player knows what they're doing and the power and AI being a greater challenge than the original FNaF.

Outside of these changes, the game plays almost identically to the original game, with the Piconians (default Scratch character assets) taking the roles of the four animatronics. Pico behaves like Freddy, Tera is Bonnie, Nano is Chica and Giga is Foxy.

## Story

You take the role of a night guard (later to be jokingly revealed as Luke Skywalker) who just got the job at Pico's Palace, a TOTALLY WONDERFUL place for children and adults alike. The main attraction of the establishment is the Piconian band, consisting of Pico, Tera, Nano and Giga.

You receive phone calls from your friendly neighborhood Darth Vader who gives you tips for how to defend yourself with the doors and lights and the story behind the place such as previous guards who left their positions abruptly without informing management and malfunctions technicians were facing with the characters causing them to move around at night.

By the end of the game, it becomes clear to Vader and hopefully to the player that the Piconian characters are too dangerous and beyond repair, and the player is encouraged to leave their job. At the end of Night 5, you (Luke) receive a paycheck for your work with a tip of $1000 by Vader for managing to stay alive and well.

After the events of this game, Pico's Palace is shut down.

## Gameplay

The goal of the player is to survive the five nights, each harder than the last. Each night starts at 12 AM and ends at 6 AM.

You are given three primary mechanics: Doors, which are used to prevent anyone from entering the office and tearing your face to shreds, Lights, which are used to see the blindspots outside your room, and Cameras, which are used to monitor the characters' positions around the building.

The building runs on limited power, given 100 at the start of the night. In addition to draining on its own to keep the building lights on, EVERYTHING takes power to toggle- door, lights and cameras all consume 1 power upon being clicked, unlike the original FNaF.

Each character has a different movement pattern but their goal is the same, to reach the office and kill you. Luckily with the doors you can stop that from happening, but if you're too slow or run out of power, they'll take their chance and attack.

The aim of the game is to conserve your power well and fend off each of the characters until 6AM arrives.

## Content

The game has five nights, no more, no less. Left over in the files is the text "Night 6 coming soon" but it was never implemented into the game.

## Trivia

* It is the only game in the series to be drawn bitmap/raster style. The rest of the games would use vector graphics for the locations.
	+ As the game progressed in development, it is possible they were slowly learning vector more and more. This is evident by the night counter appearing pixelated for Nights 1-3 and the number being vectorized for 4-5.
* Clicking on Pico's eye on the menu screen will play Golden Freddy's scream and create so many clones of the object that it will crash the browser/offline editor, similar to the game closing in the original FNaF.
	+ This is also the case with the very rare Golden Scratch.
* Assuming Luke is paid minimum wage for his job, by calculating using the amount on his paycheck the game would technically take place between 2007 or 2008.
* Giga starts on the Show Stage, unlike Foxy in the original FNaF. She almost immediately leaves it and enters the Restroom no matter the night.
	+ This trait was removed in the Remastered version., as Giga starts each night hiding in there.
* Originally, cars were meant to drive by in the Courtyard camera, but the idea was scrapped likely due to difficulty animating it.
* In the earliest betas of the game, two variations of the first phone call would be chosen to play at random: the Darth Vader version which was used in the final game and a much louder more generic robotic voice which was scrapped and deleted pretty quickly.
* Darth Vader was voiced by Proppy. DATUS3R ended up voicing Pico's laughs heard in the game.
	+ Unlike the original FNaF, Pico only has two laughs instead of three like Freddy has.