History VideoGame / FridayNightFunkin

The free version will be updated with some of the paid content after its release, but after the Kickstarter was announced, ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' underwent an extended hiatus in terms of updates so that they could focus on developing the full game. It was later confirmed that new content would arrive for the free version of the game, with the first post-Kickstarter update, adding [[HarderThanHard Erect difficulty]], additional playable characters, and animated cutscenes, [[https://twitter.com/PhantomArcade3K/status/1504260799803666437?t=UYIQ9ssTkdRU3_Da6SnwAw&s=19 which was released on March 30, 2024.]].

The free version will be updated with some of the paid content after its release, but after the Kickstarter was announced, ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' underwent an extended hiatus in terms of updates so that they could focus on developing the full game. It was later confirmed that new content would arrive for the free version of the game, with the first post-Kickstarter update, adding [[HarderThanHard Erect difficulty]], additional playable characters, and animated cutscenes [[https://twitter.com/PhantomArcade3K/status/1504260799803666437?t=UYIQ9ssTkdRU3_Da6SnwAw&s=19 being planned for an as of unknown date]].

** Weekend 1's main death animation [[spoiler:ends with Pico knocked onto his back with blood gushing out of his belly due to the knife lodged into him by Nene. This is highly reminiscent of his death animation in ''Pico's School'', which is almost the same except his arms and legs were in the air]].

''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' (often shorted to just ''FNF'') is an open-source RhythmGame created by ''Platform/{{Newgrounds}}'' users [[https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/ ninjamuffin99]], [[https://phantomarcade.newgrounds.com/ PhantomArcade]], [[https://evilsk8r.newgrounds.com/ evilsk8r]], and [[https://kawaisprite.newgrounds.com/ KawaiSprite]]. The game was made by the group as part of a game jam, [[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/friday-night-funkin Ludum Dare 47]], and has since gained a following for its unique Newgrounds-animation art style and funky music -- and arriving just as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash was being discontinued (while plenty of people headed to Newgrounds before they created a Flash emulator) certainly didn't hurt.

** Week 7 begins every song with cutscenes in a similar fashion to old-school [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] animations.

* GenreThrowback: Its simple addictive gameplay, fun yet abrasive tone, art style, and cameos come together to make a love letter to classic [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] content, particularly what one may find on Newgrounds, especially Newgrounds works from the TurnOfTheMillennium.

''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' (often shorted to just ''FNF'') is an open-source RhythmGame created by ''Platforn/{{Newgrounds}}'' users [[https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/ ninjamuffin99]], [[https://phantomarcade.newgrounds.com/ PhantomArcade]], [[https://evilsk8r.newgrounds.com/ evilsk8r]], and [[https://kawaisprite.newgrounds.com/ KawaiSprite]]. The game was made by the group as part of a game jam, [[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/friday-night-funkin Ludum Dare 47]], and has since gained a following for its unique Newgrounds-animation art style and funky music -- and arriving just as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash was being discontinued (while plenty of people headed to Newgrounds before they created a Flash emulator) certainly didn't hurt.

''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' (often shorted to just ''FNF'') is an open-source RhythmGame created by ''Website/{{Newgrounds}}'' users [[https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/ ninjamuffin99]], [[https://phantomarcade.newgrounds.com/ PhantomArcade]], [[https://evilsk8r.newgrounds.com/ evilsk8r]], and [[https://kawaisprite.newgrounds.com/ KawaiSprite]]. The game was made by the group as part of a game jam, [[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/friday-night-funkin Ludum Dare 47]], and has since gained a following for its unique Newgrounds-animation art style and funky music -- and arriving just as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash was being discontinued (while plenty of people headed to Newgrounds before they created a Flash emulator) certainly didn't hurt.

* GenreThrowback: Its simple addictive gameplay, fun yet abrasive tone, art style, and cameos come together to make a love letter to classic [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] content, particularly what one may find on Website/{{Newgrounds}}, especially Newgrounds works from the TurnOfTheMillennium.

* GuestFighter: The game features several special guest rappers, most of them being famous Website/{{Newgrounds}} mascots from the site's history:

** Week 5, "Red Snow", has you fight against your girlfriend's parents in a mall, with plenty of [[TheCameo cameos]] from various Website/{{Newgrounds}} media. [[spoiler:The final one, "Winter Horrorland", starts out with the Christmas Tree decked out with intestines and a severed head in Girlfriend's likeness as a startopper. The mall is abandoned, and Girlfriend's parents have been replaced with a monster with a lemon for a head, singing about eating Boyfriend and Girlfriend]].

* TeensAreShort:
** Boyfriend is nineteen years old, with Girlfriend and Pico implied to be the same; the three are ''much'' shorter compared to adult characters like Girlfriend's parents, and Boyfriend is only a bit taller than Skid and Pump, two children. {{Justified|Trope}}, as the three are [[SuperDeformed intentionally drawn shorter than they'd actually be]].
** {{Averted|Trope}} with Senpai and the Background Freaks in Week 6, who have normal heights for teenagers.

-->'''Tankman:''' Well, well, well, what do we got here?
-->'''Boyfriend:''' Beep!
-->'''Tankman:''' We should just ''KILL'' you, but what the hell -- it's been a boring day. Let's see what you've got!

%%Do not add tropes specific to mods - such as Whitty, FNF Minus, the Corruption mod, etc. - as they are not official. Add them to their respective pages instead, which are handily indexed on the Fan Works page - and if the work doesn't have a page, feel free to create one.

* EvilHand: Mommy Mearest's hand is corrupted in the second song of her week and she is constantly holding onto it during her static poses.

* SurpriseCreepy: The game certainly is comedic, cartoony and fun, but it doesn't have that T rating for nothing.

* DuelsDecideEverything: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]. OverprotectiveDad refusing to let you date his daughter? Soldiers and assassins coming after your head? HumanoidAbomination wants to eat you alive? [[SealedEvilInACan Evil spirit trapped]] [[HauntedTechnology within a video game]] wants to escape into the real world? The answer is always the same: [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer beat them in a rap battle]].

* ExcusePlot: While WordOfGod has stated there ''is'' an actual plot to the story, something confirmed through both [[spoiler:Spirit in-game monologuing about Daddy Dearest's status as both BigBad and GreaterScopeVillain]] and [[AllThereInTheManual various posts by the creators about the lore]], the lack of cutscenes for most Weeks and SpeakingSimlish-type singing for the characters means there's very little of that plot visible in-game. Even taking into account WordOfGod, what little plot is available as of the Tankman update build is that Daddy Dearest is an OverprotectiveDad trying to kill Boyfriend for dating his daughter. While that tangentially connects to all the other Weeks through AllThereInTheManual, the actual reasons for most of the other characters' presences are still unexplained. That said, there are plans to elevate from an excuse plot to a genuine plot with ''The Full-Ass Game'' through every week having their own cutscenes with dialogue.[[invoked]]

''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' (often shorted to just ''FNF'') is an [=HTML5=] RhythmGame created by ''Website/{{Newgrounds}}'' users [[https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/ ninjamuffin99]], [[https://phantomarcade.newgrounds.com/ PhantomArcade]], [[https://evilsk8r.newgrounds.com/ evilsk8r]], and [[https://kawaisprite.newgrounds.com/ KawaiSprite]]. The game was made by the group as part of a game jam, [[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/friday-night-funkin Ludum Dare 47]], and has since gained a following for its unique Newgrounds-animation art style and funky music -- and arriving just as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash was being discontinued (while plenty of people headed to Newgrounds before they created a Flash emulator) certainly didn't hurt.

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[[caption-width-right:300:"Gettin' freaky on a Friday night, yeah!"]]

* BigRedDevil: Week 4 introduces five men working for Girlfriend's parents, one driving the limo Mommy Mearest and the Boyfriend are standing on and the other four dancing on top of another limo in the background -- they have pink skin, large toothy grins, and black horns coming out of their flat tops, evoking the standard demon appearance. Interestingly, unused sprites for the backup dancers, part of a scrapped FunnyBackgroundEvent in which they're knocked and visibly decapitated by an occasional lamp post, show that their horns are legitimate, and not hair like Daddy Dearest has.

%%--> "God! F'ing! Damn it! Well played, you little ''shit!''"

* HeroVsVillainDuet: Many of the tracks technically qualify as this, as they usually feature an antagonist challenging the Boyfriend to some sort of singing competition that the two then partake in, even if most of the time the lyrics are gibberish.

* LikeParentLikeSpouse: In the final song of Week 7, Boyfriend is carrying Girlfriend in his left arm, with their poses being near-identical to when Daddy Dearest had Mommy Mearest on his lap during Week 5, making a good parallel between The Girlfriend's parents and her relationship with The Boyfriend.

* MickeyMousing: Everything that moves bounces to the beat, with the pace even being adjusted for songs with a quicker tempo. In particular, "Bopeebo" has musical stings and sound effects after each of The Boyfriend's verses, which are all timed to him doing a VSign.

* ShadowDiscretionShot: Before the final song of Week 6, [[spoiler:we see Senpai's shadow gasp in pain before his face explodes, allowing [[GhastlyGhost the Spirit]] [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealed inside]] to finally appear and fight the Boyfriend]].
* SickeninglySweethearts: Lampshaded in the bonus track on the soundtrack album, which has one lyric comparing the Boyfriend and the Girlfriend's social media messages to a game of ''TabletopGame/CandyLand''.
* SimonSaysMiniGame: The game zigzags this trope -- while its tutorial and first few songs are based on copying the singer's notes and timing, eventually the game will slip in additional notes as the Boyfriend begins harmonizing with his opponent.

-->'''Tankman:''' "Well, well, well, what do we got here?"

-->'''Tankman:''' We should just ''KILL'' you, but what the hell -- it's been a boring day. Let's see what you've got!"
* SuperDeformed: According to the creators, Boyfriend, Girlfriend, and Pico are drawn in a chibi art-style, meaning that they're not really supposed to be that short in real life. That said, the creators have also implied through various posts that even if the Boyfriend was designed normally, he'd still be short enough that the Girlfriend would have to kneel down just to make proper eye-contact.

** Week 5, "Red Snow", has you fight against your girlfriend's parents in a mall, with plenty of [[TheCameo cameos]] from various Website/{{Newgrounds}} media. [[spoiler:The final one, "Winter Horrorland", starts out with the Christmas Tree decked out with intestines and a severed head in Girlfriend's likeness as a startopper. The mall is abandoned, and the Girlfriend's parents have been replaced with a monster with a lemon for a head, singing about eating the Boyfriend and the Girlfriend]].
** Week 6, "Hating Simulator", is about Boyfriend and Girlfriend [[TrappedInTVLand getting trapped in a dating sim]], the protagonist of said sim cheerfully challenging Boyfriend to a sing off for Girlfriend's hand. By the second song, Senpai's polite personality is [[BitchInSheepsClothing revealed to be a facade]], and by the third, [[spoiler:his body bursts open to reveal a murky pink spirit, the colorful schoolyard becoming a dark, wavy location. The spirit reveals that Daddy Dearest put him into the game, implied to be because he wanted to date the Girlfriend, and that he wants to steal Boyfriend's body so he can escape the game and get revenge for himself and all the other unfortunate suitors]].

* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: The trailer mocks potential players of the game as not being able to have enough game to win over the Girlfriend's heart, but admires their confidence.

''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' (often shorted to just ''FNF'') is an [=HTML5=] RhythmGame created by ''Website/Newgrounds'' users [[https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/ ninjamuffin99]], [[https://phantomarcade.newgrounds.com/ PhantomArcade]], [[https://evilsk8r.newgrounds.com/ evilsk8r]], and [[https://kawaisprite.newgrounds.com/ KawaiSprite]]. The game was made by the group as part of a game jam, [[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/friday-night-funkin Ludum Dare 47]], and has since gained a following for its unique Newgrounds-animation art style and funky music -- and arriving just as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash was being discontinued (while plenty of people headed to Newgrounds before they created a Flash emulator) certainly didn't hurt.

''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' (often shorted to just ''FNF'') is an [=HTML5=] RhythmGame created by Newgrounds users [[https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/ ninjamuffin99]], [[https://phantomarcade.newgrounds.com/ PhantomArcade]], [[https://evilsk8r.newgrounds.com/ evilsk8r]], and [[https://kawaisprite.newgrounds.com/ KawaiSprite]]. The game was made by the group as part of a game jam, [[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/friday-night-funkin Ludum Dare 47]], and has since gained a following for its unique Newgrounds-animation art style and funky music -- and arriving just as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash was being discontinued (while plenty of people headed to Newgrounds before they created a Flash emulator) certainly didn't hurt.