Friday Night Funkin'

Friday Night Funkin'
The Friday Night Funkin' logo. It has a blue outline with splatter-like shapes in several areas. The text "Friday Night Funkin'" is further outlined in black, and the shiny magenta-pink words "Friday Night" are above the off-white word "Funkin'". In the word "Friday", the dot in the letter i is diamond-shaped and divided with two vertical and two horizontal lines. The text has graffiti-style letters with paint dripping down the bottom of the word "Funkin'" and onto the extended black outline.
Developer(s)The Funkin' Crew Inc.
Director(s)PhantomArcade[1]
Designer(s)
  • PhantomArcade
  • evilsk8r
Programmer(s)
  • ninjamuffin99
  • EliteMasterEric[2]
  • fabs
Artist(s)
  • PhantomArcade
  • evilsk8r
Writer(s)PhantomArcade
Composer(s)
  • Kawai Sprite[3]
  • Saruky
  • Saster
EngineHaxeFlixel (OpenFL, Haxe)
Platform(s)
ReleaseTBA
Genre(s)Rhythm
Mode(s)Single-player

Friday Night Funkin' (also known as Friday Night Funkin': The Full Ass Game) is an upcoming rhythm video game developed by Funkin' Crew Inc. and released on Newgrounds in 2020.[4] The game is developed by a small group called The Funkin' Crew Inc., which consists primarily of Cameron "ninjamuffin99" Taylor, David "PhantomArcade" Brown, Isaac "Kawai Sprite" Garcia, and evilsk8r. The game is also open-source.[a] It shares some gameplay features with Dance Dance Revolution, PaRappa the Rapper, and the "Dance Contest" minigame from Club Penguin, and borrows aesthetic influences from Flash games.[5] The game has been credited with driving users back to Newgrounds, a site that rose in popularity in the early 2000s.[6][7][8]

The game revolves around the player character, Boyfriend, who must defeat a variety of opponents in singing and rapping contests in order to continue dating his love interest, Girlfriend. Gameplay involves hitting notes with timed inputs while avoiding running out of health for the duration of the song.[9][10]

The game was initially created for the Ludum Dare 47 game jam on October 5, 2020.[11] An expanded demo was released on November 1, 2020, with updates continually released in the following months. A full version of the game backed by Kickstarter, titled Friday Night Funkin': The Full Ass Game, is in development.[12]

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  2. ^ "WEEK OF 2024/02/23 - Charting a Course From Frustration to Delight". Funkin.me. February 3, 2024.
  3. ^ Sears-Allen, Diamond (May 17, 2021). "Bust A Move On Your Keyboard In Friday Night Funkin'". StudyBreaks. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  4. ^ Watts, Rachel (July 15, 2021). "Friday Night Funkin' is the DDR beatboxing game driving players back to Newgrounds". PC Gamer.
  5. ^ Wery, Jackson (January 29, 2021). "Friday Night Funkin' Fondly Recalls Flash Games". TechRaptor. Archived from the original on February 3, 2021. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  6. ^ Arellano, Patrick (December 22, 2021). "10 Most Beloved Flash Games, Ranked". CBR. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  7. ^ West, Evangeline (March 9, 2022). "Is Newgrounds' Friday Night Funkin' worthy of the hype?". Softonic.
  8. ^ Watts, Rachel (July 15, 2021). "Friday Night Funkin' is the DDR beatboxing game driving players back to Newgrounds". PC Gamer. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  9. ^ Cheeda, Saim (April 27, 2021). "10 Things You Need To Know Before Starting Friday Night Funkin'". Game Rant.
  10. ^ Williams, Leah J. (May 13, 2021). "Friday Night Funkin' Is The Internet's Latest Toe-Tapping Obsession". Kotaku Australia. Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Davies, Patrick (April 2, 2021). "Kickstarter launched for Friday Night Funkin'". 100 Mile House Free Press. Black Press. Archived from the original on April 2, 2021. Retrieved April 5, 2021.


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