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Friday Night Funkin' by NinjaMuffin99 (also known as "FNF"), is a rhythm video game and webgame, released on itch.io and Newgrounds in late 2020 as a demo as well as being downloadable on Windows, Mac and Linux offline also on itch.io.[1][2] The gameplay simulates a rap battle with characters in the style of spray paintiing by PhantomArcade3k and evilsk8r, with a soundtrack that incorporates elements of pop music, chiptune, and hip-hop by kawaisprite
Release[edit]
Friday Night Funkin' was released in October 2020 on the website, playable and downloadable on the website Itch.io as a the first build of the game and contains the first stage (week) of the game) with Boyfriend rap battling Daddy Dearest in order to win over Girlfriend, this game was being developed in one of the Internet's oldest webgame repositories, in a game jam called Ludum Dare. NinjaMuffin99 has dubbed the October 2020 Build as the Ludum Dare Build, he also said that the game was in very early stages, he was thinking on expanding on the game and said to think of the build more of a prototype than a demo.[3][4] An updated version of the game released on Itch.io and Newgrounds (for the first time) on November 1st 2020, it includes an updated title screen with a new song accompanying it, a menu, a tutorial, updated Boyfriend head assets and a second stage with Sr Pelo's Skid and Pump,[2][1] It quickly became one of the most-viewed games on the site. One of the lead developers, Tyler Cameron, "began receiving requests from “thousands of people” to keep developing the game"[5]
The game quickly went viral and acquired several million views in a matter of weeks, with new content being added regularly in the form of new "weeks" featuring new songs and new characters. It was covered by gaming websites Polygon[6] and Techraptor[7], receiving favorable coverage. The game is still being worked on and currently has six weeks to go through in the game.
Gameplay[edit]
The game is a rhythm game where the player must press a sequence of arrows in correct time and rhythm with the music to simulate the player's protagonist participating in various forms of "rap battles" and other musical contests. If the player misses too many arrows, they fail the song and the lights in the venue extinguish. It has received comparisons both to the Bemani/Dance Dance Revolution series, and Parappa The Rapper.
Characters[edit]
Boyfriend is the protagonist of the game, a rapper with blue hair.
Girlfriend is a beautiful girl whose heart the boyfriend is trying to win, and who helps teach him to "rap battle."
"Daddy Dearest" is he girlfriend's father, a former rock star, who seeks to test whether or not the boyfriend is skillful enough to win his approval to woo his daughter.
The Mom is the girlfriend's mother and wife of Daddy Dearest, a pop singer who tests the boyfriend as well and performs with a crew of backup dancers.
Skid and Pump are a pair of Halloween-costume displayed children known as, a cameo from the Spooky Month series of web animations by Sr Pelo.
Pico is a cameo from the game "Pico's School" by Tom Fulp, also released on Newgrounds, about a school shooting.
Monster (dubbed by fans as Lemon Demon) is a mysterious creature with a lemon for a head who appears at night, he was a unused character and his unused song called Monster. Lemon Demon makes his first used officially appearance in week 5 where he appears in song three of the week called Winter Horroland, torments the two main characters and wants to "eat your girlfriend." He along with Girlfriend are the only characters in the game currently to actually talk and sing in the game.
Senpai is a character that appears in a "dating game" called Hating Simulator inside a Playstation 1 like Console, He is later shown as a Spirit in week 6 where he appears as such on song three of the week called week Thorns.
Reception[edit]
To be added
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN". Newgrounds. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Friday Night Funkin' by ninjamuffin99, PhantomArcade". itch.io. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ↑ "Friday Night Funkin' (Ludum Dare Prototype) by ninjamuffin99". itch.io. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ↑ "Friday Night Funkin' - Ludum Dare Website". ldjam.com. Retrieved 2021-02-23. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Staff writer(s)/no by-line. (2020-11-21). "South Cariboo game designer reaps success". BC Local News. Cariboo. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ↑ Lee, Julia. "TikTok's algorithm led me to an amazing rhythm game". Polygon. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ Jackson Wery. "Friday Night Funkin' Fondly Recalls Flash Games". TechRaptor. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
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