01-05-2021

Friday Funkin Night



New games show up everywhere, whether that be the hallowed halls of Steam, the ultra-cool venue of itch.io, or the seedy punk dive of Newgrounds. All of these places and many more are necessary because the more there are the easier it is to get games in front of people’s eyes. Newgrounds has always been a loud screaming mess of crazed gaming overload, which is exactly what it needs to be for its audience to learn to create just about anything they can think of. For the most part these games aren’t really designed with the idea of breakout success in mind but sometimes it happens anyway. The latest to have that happen is a music-rhythm game called Friday Night Funkin’, which has been seeing regular content drops of new music and levels and getting more popular with each one. This got so intense that last night’s Week 7 release killed Newgrounds stone-cold dead and necessitated the update being removed until the site could handle the traffic.

2 days ago The cartoon rhythm game Friday Night Funkin’ is getting a full version complete with 60 new songs, a 2-player mode, and online leaderboards, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Friday Night Funkin' (FNF) features a range of fresh, original songs to play along to, ranging from easy to hard. The unique soundtrack in Friday Night Funkin' was composed by KawaiSprite (Isaac Garcia). Ongoing Development. FNF is an open-source game with an active development community, and plenty of fan-made mods that expand the gameplay. The cartoon rhythm game Friday Night Funkin’ is getting a full version complete with 60 new songs, a 2-player mode, and online leaderboards, after a successful Kickstarter campaign.

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Friday Night Funkin’ is usually described as a bit of Dance Dance Revolution mixed with Parappa the Rapper, which is absolutely accurate. The arrows fly up from the bottom of the screen and you need to tap one of the four directions in time to the beat, and the overall setup of each level is a call-response of rhythm. The Boyfriend loves The Girlfriend but her demon parents disapprove, and this is a problem that can only be solved by rap battles. Thankfully there’s no voice, and instead the excellent soundtrack integrates perfectly with blips and boops as you hit the notes in time to the song. The challenger on the left goes first while you get a sense of the beat and note pattern and then it’s your turn, trying to match the music as each new verse gets more crowded with note cues. When the tune really takes off both challenger and Boyfriend may end up rapping together, their combined rhythms bringing the soundtrack alive in a way that electro-boops really shouldn’t be capable of. Friday Night Funkin’ is good fun to great music, and being free on Newgrounds has boosted its popularity beyond all expectations.

The next step, of course, is to turn Friday Night Funkin’ into a full game, and its Kickstarter launched with the Week 7 release to instant success. The $60,000 goal has been hit with an x11 multiplier as of this writing, earning a huge number of stretch goals including online multiplayer and an extra fifteen songs to go with the sixty that had been planned. It seems pretty likely that the stratospheric goal of the ten-week epilogue (three songs per week, so another thirty, plus two more fifteen-song stretch goals along the way) is going to be cleared without too much trouble, and maybe with a little luck and a whole lot of support the PS1 (yes, original Sony PSX) version on disc will actually happen.

Viral Game, Friday Night Funkin’ is Getting An Upgrade 20 April 2021, 9:30 am The Newgrounds viral sensation Friday Night Funkin’ is getting a ‘full version’ called, Friday Night Funkin': The Full Ass Version. Friday Night Funkin is a open source and free-to-play rhythm game reminiscent of the classic Dance Dance Revolution. This version is optimized for chromebook.

Friday Night Funkin’ is live on Kickstarter now. Head on over and take a look, and maybe help it along the way to the coveted PS1 version.

Popular content-sharing website Newgrounds has crashed as a result of being overwhelmed by demand for the latest update to Friday Night Funkin', the wildly popular rhythm game. The crash is a testament to the game's staying power, as its popularity has only grown over the last few months despite being incomplete.

Friday Night Funkin' tells the story of The Boyfriend, who is ecstatic to be in a relationship with The Girlfriend. Unfortunately for The Boyfriend, The Girlfriend's parents are demons, and over the course of many weeks, The Boyfriend has to survive many rap battles to sustain his relationship. While the gameplay draws very heavily from Dance Dance Revolution, its charming character designs, catchy music, and clever references have quickly endeared the game to many Internet users, who eagerly look forward to each content update.

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While fans knew the game's Week 7 update would go live sometime in the near future, it was unexpectedly dropped on the Newgrounds site midway through Sunday. While the game normally has a dedicated web version, the update first went live on Newgrounds, promptly causing the site to crash. The game disappeared from the site soon after, with Newgrounds promising to improve infrastructure and get the game back online quickly.

A certain game is crashing the site due to an influx of traffic, enjoy a classic while we get back online. #FNFweek7https://t.co/bt6nrkVlLbpic.twitter.com/QRqImwQn9x

— Newgrounds.com (@Newgrounds) April 18, 2021

Newsgrounds' tweet includes a segment of the TANKMEN animated series, which is appropriate, since Friday Night Funkin's Week 7 update is themed around it. The TANKMEN series depicts a grim and crudely humorous post-apocalyptic world, and many may recognize it from the Newgrounds logo. Given the range of references included in Friday Night Funkin', it's not surprising to see the game add another one. That said, it is quite a jump from Week 6, in which The Boyfriend appeared to enter a cursed dating simulator game.

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While Friday Night Funkin' is a fun game, its longevity may just stem from the creativity of its fan base. Fans have written clever lyrics for each week's songs, created a number of well-regarded mods, posted great remixes of the game's songs, and much more. Most impressively, fans have been able to make exciting crossover mods with PaRappa the Rapper and other characters that could likely not be done in the official game for legal reasons.

It's an exciting time for rhythm games beyond the success of Friday Night Funkin'. In addition to the release of high-profile rhythm games like Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, upcoming indie titles like Unbeatable have sold gamers on the promise of simple and addicting rhythm gameplay. Plus, with the newly-launched Kickstarter for Friday Night Funkin', fans will be seeing much more of The Boyfriend in the future.

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Friday Night Funkin' is available on Newgrounds and Itch.io for in-browser play.

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