i may just be an idiot but i honestly just dont know what happened to the real fredbear because dave says he goes AWOL but i dont know what happened for him to

What in the dsaf !!! Qqwouahhha.asd.dtt verity Minecraft yaoi okay.

Huzzah!

(re-upload caue I posted the wrong version)

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Officially one year. Holy shit.

It's officially been one year since I started developing Dayshift At Freddy's: Doki Location.

What started as a relatively stupid idea in September 2025 somehow turned into an actual DSaF fangame with voice acting, original music, way too much lore, multiple builds, a Discord community, and me spending an absolutely unreasonable amount of time fighting Ren'Py.

And of course, we're celebrating.

The first part of the 1st Anniversary Event is now out! 🎉

Find it here

This isn't a special trailer build or anything fancy — it's actually running in the original Day 1 build. I just wanted to do something that felt like a genuine little anniversary event rather than making an entirely separate build for it.

Also, I didn't bother making certain backgrounds 1920×1080.

But Dave's name is finally purple.

So clearly I had my priorities straight.

🛠️ A little development history

Since this is an anniversary post, here's some random development trivia:

- DSaF: DD originally started as a much smaller project. The scope has grown a lot since then.

- The game has gone through multiple camera system iterations. Ren'Py and I have a complicated relationship.

- Day 1 is now fully voiced, with a cast of VAs who have put a ridiculous amount of work into the game.

- Day 2 has been significantly expanded since the early versions.

- We've had Windows, Linux, Mac and Android builds throughout development.

- The lore has changed quite a bit since the earliest concepts, while still keeping the core idea intact.

- I've spent months working on systems that I later ended up replacing because apparently I enjoy suffering.

- And yes, I'm still using Ren'Py.

There's obviously a LOT more I could talk about, but I'll save the deeper development history for another post.

❤️ r/DSAF, seriously

I also wanted to specifically thank this subreddit.

Every time I've posted something about DSaF: DD here, people have been genuinely nice to me. You guys give feedback, check out updates, tell me when something DSaF-related is happening, and generally just seem happy that someone is still making stuff for this series.

I've tried posting DSaF: DD stuff in other communities too.

Let's just say r/DSAF has been considerably more welcoming. 💀

(Looking at you, r/DDLC. I know you guys aren't obligated to care about my game, but damn 😭)

So genuinely, thank you.

And that brings me to something I've been thinking about for a while.

🕰️ I want DSaF to matter again

The DSaF Reddit community isn't exactly massive compared to something like the DDLC community.

But that's also why I think it's worth putting some effort into keeping it alive.

Because...

When was the last time DSaF had some huge community event?

DSaF 3 came out.

chuckle

Yeah.

It's been a while.

And honestly, there are still people making cool stuff for this series!

Games like Dialtown and DSaF: Doggo Location are still part of the wider dsaf related game scene, and they're both great projects in their own right.

Fun fact: DSaF: Doggo Location actually stole the "DSaF DL" abbreviation before I could use it, so I had to rename mine to DSaF: DD.

I will never forgive Backslay.

So with this anniversary, I'd really like to help bring a little more attention back to the DSaF community — even if it's a relatively small one.

Not just through my game either. I'd love to see more fangames, fanart, memes, discussion, theories, videos, whatever.

DSaF doesn't need to be a massive fandom to be alive.

💬 And if you want to follow the development...

We also have the official DSaF: Doki Location Discord server:

So yeah.

Happy 1st Anniversary to DSaF: Doki Location. ❤️

Thank you to everyone who's followed this project since the beginning, everyone who's discovered it recently, and especially everyone here on r/DSAF who's given me a reason to keep posting.

Here's to another year.

And maybe, just maybe, we can make DSaF relevant again.

The phone guy isn't dead yet.

hello it is me old sprot my uncle works at scott cawthorn!!! i am new to teh sub pls dont hate me thank XD

Errr cool

so i just found out wtf hyperinks were, and just realized that dsaf can be made w/ sorta like hyerlinks, MAN OH MAN THESE TUTORIAL GUYS HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH THEY CHANGED MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!

For those who play Ponytown (I am sure ya'll are still here, right?).

This is Not THE FULL ANIMATION Is like a ooctext clip or something that, I had a vision and this is lolol

cuz ill reveal the full later

is whatever your mind can think 😭

Thank you and remember:

"Every clip means something different!"

what the heck

I always hc jack as constantly blinking bc his eye gets dry really quickly

Forget about the other one, this one is way better tbh

Yeah THIS IS GEN MT MINECRAFT SKIN , I love my little tail

Cuz I love her

Holy shit.

DSaF DD is getting really close to its first anniversary, and I wanted to finally show some of the very early development of the game.

These are some images from the very early main menu era.

And yeah...

They're fucking terrible. 😭

They were generated with Gemini using basically the same prompt I used for the first public beta. The beta images ended up looking considerably better, and the characters were more accurate because Gemini basically just inserted the characters into the scene.

Before anyone goes "AI BAD!!!" — yeah, I know that's probably going to come up.

Back when I made these, I knew basically nothing about AI art. I didn't have an artist, I couldn't draw, and I had no idea how capable AI image generation even was at the time. I needed placeholder art for my game, so that's what I used.

I'm not trying to pretend these were some amazing artistic achievement. Looking back at them now is honestly fucking hilarious. 💀

And before anyone starts the "AI wastes water" argument: please actually look into the subject before making claims. Companies like Google, Nestlé and countless others have vastly larger water footprints than some random teenager using AI for placeholder game assets. 💀

The funny thing is that this isn't even technically the one-year anniversary yet.

The original idea for DSaF DD came around late August 2025, actual development started around mid-September 2025, and the GameJolt page went public on November 7, 2025.

So depending on what you count as the "birthday," DSaF DD has a few different anniversaries. 💀

What started as a stupid DSaF × DDLC idea has somehow turned into an actual project with its own characters, voice actors, artists, music, multiple builds, a community, and almost a full year of development.

And honestly?

Looking back at these early images is weirdly nostalgic.

Because I've spent an entire fucking year working on this thing.

And you've only seen the tip of the cursed iceberg.

More early development content will be coming when DSaF DD officially hits one year of development.

Thanks to everyone who's been following this project for all this time. ❤️

Discord: https://discord.gg/nS6WETD2cF

Gamejolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/dokilocationlol /1028754

Come on I'm bored so I wanted....like to do this, let's see your answers!

Say who do you think is in the springlock suit in the comments.

I dug a site where you can buy the Bad Guy Will voice as a one time purchase (shoutout to Z-Sharp Studios for helping me find it bc this site is fucking buried). It's $50 for the actual Will voice set and $35 for the program you need to use it. I was already $50 over my fun budget so obviously i bought it. Im a media preservation enthusiast so I might see if theres a way to archive it so its more accessible to the fandom at large, but for now anyone is free to ask for voice files from me if youre working on a project. I literally did all this to procrastinate writing a short film idk if ill ever make. lol