Friday Night Funkin - Getting freaky on a friday night

[Colloid]

Per a friend who’s watching the Kickstarter out of curiosity, this DDR clone is now at over $900k.

Personally, I’m half convinced someone’s using this to launder money - I know people on the Internet are retarded, especially in numbers, but almost a million dollars for this? Yandev must be seething

It’s not too much of a stretch if you break it down as 180,000 people giving a $5 tip on Kickstarter, itch.io or wherever. These FNF videos get millions of views on YouTube so even if we only assume a fraction of those people go on to donate that’s still some big money. Even $5 per person adds up fast when a good chunck of the internet is enjoying it.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

It’s not too much of a stretch if you break it down as 180,000 people giving a $5 tip on Kickstarter, itch.io or wherever. These FNF videos get millions of views on YouTube so even if we only assume a fraction of those people go on to donate that’s still some big money. Even $5 per person adds up fast when a good chunck of the internet is enjoying it.

Fair enough, and it’s entirely possible I’ve just missed the boat when it comes to hype on FNF. I’m still somewhat skeptical, though I’ll at least own up if proven wrong.

 

[Kamikaze]

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I am very surprised we dont have a thread on this. The game and especially its mods have had a lot of popularity and ive seen some very cringe stuff in the fandom.

for those who don't know "Friday Night Funkin' is a free-to-play and open-source rhythm game. Developed by a team of four Newgrounds users, the game has a play style that is similar to Dance Dance Revolution and PaRappa the Rapper, and with an aesthetic reminiscent of Flash games popular in the early-to-mid 2000s"- Wikipedia
Here is the link to the game https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/770371. Its currently down because the newground servers couldn't handle the load.
Here is the link to the exe https://ninja-muffin24.itch.io/funkin. It is currently a week behind because ninja muffin in all his great thinking decided to have a newgrounds exclusive week 7 release for a little while.

Its made by 4 people mainly
Ninja muffin -https://twitter.com/ninja_muffin99
Phantom Arcade -https://twitter.com/PhantomArcade3K
evilsk8r -https://twitter.com/evilsk8r
kawaisprite -https://twitter.com/kawaisprite
Also apparently johnny utah -https://twitter.com/JohnnyUtahNG is also helping out based on the kickstarter and tweets.

They released a Kickstarter recently that raised the needed amount in under 30 minutes.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/funkin/friday-night-funkin-the-full-ass-game/

The modding hub for this game is mainly on gamebanana https://gamebanana.com/games/8694

Tried it; confused about the hype.
MC looks like a tool. Yeah, a "no-sign" shirt and backwards cap; very edgy.

 

[Colloid]

A big part of the charm for me personally is how this game really nails the early 2000’s flash game aesthetic like in Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers. Sure you can call it grungy amateur shit, but it’s sort of heartfelt to me.

 

[Staffy]

Not a fan of this game's music. I could be getting too old but I can't just really understand the appeal. I'm not able to appreciate the cutesy voice and the songs.

 

[Gravemind]

Not a fan of this game's music. I could be getting too old but I can't just really understand the appeal. I'm not able to appreciate the cutesy voice and the songs.

For me, it's less about the "cutesy voice singing" and more about those nasty ass beats most of the songs have. They have a melodic composition that's almost inexplicably satisfying to the ears.

 

[Toolbox]

For those claiming that because the game is 'simple' it won't maintain popularity, look at FNAF. That series started out as a game where almost all you did was sit in a room awaiting screamers and pushing a few buttons, and somehow started a huge fandom that lasts even to now. I guess time will tell if ninja muffin can maintain developing this game to equal what Scott pulled off.

 

[Colloid]

I think this game will be fine as long as Ninja Muffin prioritizes writing good songs and beat maps over the autistic lore that some fans are already trying to dredge up. Too many games these days get so hung up on telling an all-encompassing story to satisfy autistic fan questions and theories that the gameplay is under-developed as a result.

It’s already happening with this one where I see fans on Twitter @ing Ninja Muffin with these really stupid questions like, “If the girlfriend’s parents are demons why isn’t the girlfriend also a demon?” “Why does week 6 happen inside of a video game, and who was Senpai before they were trapped in it?” “Why does Pico bother to rap battle boyfriend if he’s hired to assassinate boyfriend?” “If x were to happen, would there be y?” These retards are already overthinking things too much. The best answer to all of these questions is and will always be, “It’s a rhythm game, who gives a shit?” Call me an oldfag but what happened to just playing games because they’re fun? People shouldn’t need a wiki’s worth of pointless trivia details to enjoy a game these days.

I do respect that Muffin is humoring some of these questions with throwaway on the fly responses for now, but part of me worries that this will become a potential problem that drags the game and it’s fandom downward.

 

[Becomemysoulreaver]

I thought Dave was the one doing the story and art, and Muffin was programing and game design in general

 

[Peasant]

Even as someone with no experience with rhythm games, FNF doesn't strike me as anything outstanding, but I've enjoyed it a fair bit and the art and music are charming. Playing the various mod content can be a bit of a surprise as all of the ones I've played thus far are an order of magnitude more difficult than the base game.

I'm not entirely convinced that the feasibility or lack thereof of playing the game with a pad is a strike against it; it's not as though an entire genre must adhere to a single control scheme.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

 

[Dave.]

So Friday Night Funkin just smashed expectations on Kickstarter far exceeding the goal of $60,000:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/funkin/friday-night-funkin-the-full-ass-game

Which means that it currently meets it's stretch goals as follows:

And here's the team working on it and the head of the team that I totally don't want to physically assault in a game of Boxing Match on Roblox:


I'm placing my bets this game is going to end in disaster.
>ninjamuffin is an asshole
>ninjamuffin rejected my ideas
>ninjamuffin is lazy
>ninjamuffin grooms kids
>ninjamuffin sent me sexually charged texts
>ninjamuffin doesn't know how to manage money
>ninjamuffin, this is MY project, not yours
>ninjamuffin isn't diverse enough
>ninjamuffin's cast is so white
>ninjamuffin, where's the LGBT characters?
>ninjamuffin is sexist why are all his characters so sexually charged?
>ninjamuffin is a racist because he is
>ninjamuffin is a terrible leader
>ninjamuffin got into an altercation with me at work
(these are headlines I'm predicting that are going to come out when a fellow employee throws him under the bus speaks out)

 

[epigenes]

I'm placing my bets this game is going to end in disaster.

do you not know how easy this game is to mod? making additional content for FNF is ridiculously easy

also, the prospect of tom fulp remaking pico's school is fucking hilarious

 

[Dave.]

do you not know how easy this game is to mod? making additional content for FNF is ridiculously easy

I'm aware of how easy the game is to mod, the problem is there's a point where clout blinds people. Ninjamuffin is currently the head honcho. He's the one getting most of the recognition along with Kawaii Sprite. What concerns me is that eventually the fame and clout this game is getting right now is going to cause an ego war in the project of who's putting in the most work and who's getting the most recognition. Those green text quotes are good examples of how someone could eventually throw someone under the bus.

 

[Out Bob]

>ninjamuffin, where's the LGBT characters?

Isn't the main character bisexual

>ninjamuffin's cast is so white

One of the characters they are wanting to get was some black chick that the author was friends with
Considering that they now have to add 20+ more characters, I have some doubts that the cast is going to be fully white

Like that should even fucking matter lol

I do agree that something is going to terribly wrong tho lol

 

[SSF2T Old User]

I played the original game... it's not bad, but they HAVE to make the steps perfectly sync up with the music similar to DDR/StepMania for this to actually work. My biggest issue with the original game were that there were many 1/8ths that should have been 1/16ths and vice-verse.

But yea, here's hoping this doesn't turn into another MightyNo9 or Yooka-Laylee

 

[Rusty Crab]

This is going to attract an awful lot of parasites looking to cancel.

 

[Dave.]

I played the original game... it's not bad, but they HAVE to make the steps perfectly sync up with the music similar to DDR/StepMania for this to actually work. My biggest issue with the original game were that there were many 1/8ths that should have been 1/16ths and vice-verse.

But yea, here's hoping this doesn't turn into another MightyNo9 or Yooka-Laylee

I've noticed that some songs are impossible to "FC" because the inputs are really wonky and jank. Jacks you can forget about because the kade engine can't handle it. (Midfight Masses would be a fun mod if that was fixed)

 

[Cantercoin]

This is going to attract an awful lot of parasites looking to cancel.

it was already happening not even a full week in when the demo came out

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

it was already happening not even a full week in when the demo came out

What did they accuse him of doing? Being a white penis-havermale?