#KICKSTARTER FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN UPDATE#

The Week 7 update resulted in a large influx of fan art and posts to Twitter showing excitement over the new update dropping (examples shown below, left and right).īoyfriend (shown below) is the protagonist of FNF. On April 19th, Polygon reported on the success of the campaign. The campaign received a massive response, raising over $765,000 in two days with over 18,000 backers. A trailer was also released teasing what was to come, including playable characters, a custom song charter and 20 more playable weeks (shown below).

#KICKSTARTER FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN FULL VERSION#

On the same day, the official Kickstarter page for Friday Night Funkin': The Full-Ass Game, meant to fund a full version of the game and with a total goal of $60,000, was posted. This led the devs to make the game unavailable temporarily, still unplayable by April 20th.Ī certain game is crashing the site due to an influx of traffic, enjoy a classic while we get back online. Shortly after the Twitter announcement of the Week 7 update, Newgrounds crashed due to a massive increase in traffic. It features three new stages played against antagonist and Newgrounds mascot Tankman (shown below).

Week 7, aka the 'Tankman' update, released on April 18th, 2021, and added the songs 'Ugh,' 'Guns' and 'Stress' to the game.

#KICKSTARTER FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN SIMULATOR#

Week 6 added the songs 'Thorns,' ' Senpai' and 'Roses,' in which Boyfriend and Girlfriend are transported into a dating simulator and must rap battle a character named 'Senpai' to escape ('Senpai' shown below). Week 5, aka the 'Red Snow' update, adds the songs 'Eggnog,' 'Winter Horrorrland' and 'Cocoa' to the game, which are fought against both of Girlfriend's parents and Monster in Christmas-themed levels ('Winter Horrorland' shown below). Week 4, aka the 'Mommy Must Murder' update, adds the songs 'Satin Panties,' 'M.I.L.F.' and 'High' to the game, fought against The Mom, wife of Daddy Dearest ('Satin Panties' shown below) Week 3, aka the 'Pico' update, add the songs 'Blammed,' 'Pico' and 'Philly Nice' to the game, fought against Pico ('Pico' shown below). Week 2, aka the 'Spooky Month' update, adds the songs 'South' and 'Spookeez,' fought against the characters Skid and Pump ('Spookeez' shown below). Week 1, aka the 'Daddy Dearest' update and the initial state of the game, includes the songs 'Fresh,' 'Dad Battle' and 'Bopeebo,' which are fought between Boyfriend and Daddy Dearest (example shown below). Notably, these updates have not been released weekly. As of April 2021, six updates have been released, each including new stages. Since the game's release, the development team has released six updates, each titled 'Week X,' 'X' being the relevant update number. On November 24th, Kawai Sprite uploaded the main menu track for the game, 'Gettin' Freaky' to YouTube (shown below) followed by the rest of the OST on later dates to a playlist titled 'Friday Night Funkin' OST.'

On November 15th, Newgrounds posted a teaser for the game to YouTube, garnering over 934,000 views in just over a month. ( PhantomArcade3K & evilsk8r doin art, kawaisprite doin music) /5YYMDSLo9v- ninja_muffin99🆖 (ninja_muffin99) October 5, 2020 The game was ultimately awarded 314th place overall, taking 15th place in the audio category specifically.īeen programming since Friday, rhythm game WIP

#KICKSTARTER FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN FOR FREE#

In the comments section, ninja_muffin99 confirmed that the game would be available for free on Newgrounds, and that it started as a 'weekend project for the Ludum Dare game jam.' Later that day, ninja_muffin99 tweeted a link to download and play the game on itch.io, where you can also download the game's full source code, as well as a link to vote for it in the Ludum Dare competition. The post received over 7,000 likes and 1,500 retweets in just under 3 months, with many commenters expressing excitement over the project. On October 5th, 2020, programmer ninja_muffin99 tweeted a short preview of Friday Night Funkin' for the first time, saying, 'been programming since Friday, rhythm game WIP & evilsk8r doing art, doing music)' (shown below). The game features programming by ninja_muffin99, art by PhantomArcade3k and evilsk8r, and music by kawaisprite, all frequent Newgrounds collaborators. Friday night funkin game, newgrounds, flash games, dance dance revolution, gaming, anime, mods, videogame mods, ninja muffin, rhythm games, ninja_muffin99, phantomarcade3k, evilsk8r, kawaisprite, dimension lord, gettin' freaky, alextg33, ronanech, miistniįriday Night Funkin' is a rhythm-based battle rap video game, similar to Dance Dance Revolution and PaRappa the Rapper, released on itch.io and Newgrounds in 2020.

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