So, this is honestly one of the coolest projects I've seen! Everything about it feels both nostalgic and uncanny, from the visuals to the gameplay, it all just works!
One thing I was curious about was the score, and how you gain points... if it's fine for me to do this, I'm gonna share what I found:
- At the end of every night, the remaining breaker stress you'd be able to amount (aka, 100 - current breaker stress value) is multiplied by 10 and added to the score. Finishing the night after blacking out the breaker means no bonus. I'm not sure what happens if the blackout happens due to Freddie.
- Every time you successfully deal with Benny or Chickadee at the doors, you gain 50 points.
- You gain 5 points for every second (more or less) you spend stalling Benny or Chickadee in their respective last cameras.
- You gain 30 points every time you successfully ward off Foxie.
- Dolly gives you jacksh*t
Now, Freddie is the only weird one, and on top of that, Nights 4 and 5 seem inconsistent with how you gain points. Like, at first I thought you gained 50 or 60 points every time you scanned Freddie in the garage, plus a bonus related to the total amount of times he moved... but it doesn't seem 100% consistent. On top of that, from some footage I saw, Nights 4 and 5 just give you extra points besides the current night score and the breaker bonus. The value isn't consistent either, and sometimes it's just non-existent. So, if it's ok to ask... what's up with that?
Edit: Ok, so I may have figured out a few more things:
- The unexplainable bonus on later nights might actually come from some scans of the garage while Freddie was somewhere else. Every time the garage was scanned with nothing in it during a night, it seems to add a 100 point bonus at the end.
- Furthermore, a playthrough I saw had a 40 point bonus at the end of the night after blacking out and having Freddie play his jingle. I'm not sure if that's the actual reason, but it seems to be the case, I could be wrong.
- The only thing left is the point value you get from dealing with Freddie and I'll be honest, I think it actually depends on how slow or fast you are at pressing the Scan button when he is in the garage. I'm probably wrong, but the longer you take, the greater the point bonus, and if that's the case, I assume it only increases by 1 per "second" (the same time unit as Benny and Chickadee's stalling bonus), starting from a base value of 50. I assumed it was related to the amount of laughs Freddie did before going to the garage, but after counting them, it doesn't seem to be the case.