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Popular content-sharing website Newgrounds has crashed as a result of being overwhelmed by demand for the latest update to Friday Night Funkin', the wildly popular rhythm game. The crash is a testament to the game's staying power, as its popularity has only grown over the last few months despite being incomplete.
Friday Night Funkin' tells the story of The Boyfriend, who is ecstatic to be in a relationship with The Girlfriend. Unfortunately for The Boyfriend, The Girlfriend's parents are demons, and over the course of many weeks, The Boyfriend has to survive many rap battles to sustain his relationship. While the gameplay draws very heavily from Dance Dance Revolution, its charming character designs, catchy music, and clever references have quickly endeared the game to many Internet users, who eagerly look forward to each content update.
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While fans knew the game's Week 7 update would go live sometime in the near future, it was unexpectedly dropped on the Newgrounds site midway through Sunday. While the game normally has a dedicated web version, the update first went live on Newgrounds, promptly causing the site to crash. The game disappeared from the site soon after, with Newgrounds promising to improve infrastructure and get the game back online quickly.
A certain game is crashing the site due to an influx of traffic, enjoy a classic while we get back online. #FNFweek7https://t.co/bt6nrkVlLbpic.twitter.com/QRqImwQn9x
— Newgrounds.com (@Newgrounds) April 18, 2021Newsgrounds' tweet includes a segment of the TANKMEN animated series, which is appropriate, since Friday Night Funkin's Week 7 update is themed around it. The TANKMEN series depicts a grim and crudely humorous post-apocalyptic world, and many may recognize it from the Newgrounds logo. Given the range of references included in Friday Night Funkin', it's not surprising to see the game add another one. That said, it is quite a jump from Week 6, in which The Boyfriend appeared to enter a cursed dating simulator game.
While Friday Night Funkin' is a fun game, its longevity may just stem from the creativity of its fan base. Fans have written clever lyrics for each week's songs, created a number of well-regarded mods, posted great remixes of the game's songs, and much more. Most impressively, fans have been able to make exciting crossover mods with PaRappa the Rapper and other characters that could likely not be done in the official game for legal reasons.
It's an exciting time for rhythm games beyond the success of Friday Night Funkin'. In addition to the release of high-profile rhythm games like Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, upcoming indie titles like Unbeatable have sold gamers on the promise of simple and addicting rhythm gameplay. Plus, with the newly-launched Kickstarter for Friday Night Funkin', fans will be seeing much more of The Boyfriend in the future.
Friday Night Funkin' is available on Newgrounds and Itch.io for in-browser play.
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Treading New Ground
If you are like me, it may have been two or three or a dozen years since you’ve visited Newgrounds, but it is still bustling with activity; still a hub for community content like digital art, animations, and flash games. One particular game that has gain a ton of popularity in the past couple of years is the open source rhythm game Friday Night Funkin’. The free version available now has several levels with a few songs to play in each, but the creators are looking at releasing a full game after a Kickstarter campaign. Oh, and they already crushed their funding goal.
Recently, the development team released “Week 7”, which actually crashed Newgrounds servers from all the activity. What a full game would include would be 20 additional weeks (which would be 60 new songs), animated cutscenes, local multiplayer, different playable characters, extensive mod support, online leaderboards, and collaboration with more visual and musical artists. Their Kickstarter goal of $60,000 has been eclipsed tenfold in just a day, and it will run for another 29 days. The stretch goals they have reached include a mobile version, a custom character creator, a sharing network, fully animated cutscenes, and is approaching 5 additional Weeks.
If more of their stretch goals are reached, there will be 10 more Weeks added, 10 more playable characters, a harder Erect difficulty, online multiplayer, and an epilogue for Week 10. There are also more distant stretch goals between $3,000,000 and $10,000,000, but let’s see how they do in the next couple of weeks. Though the “Full-Ass Game” is funded, it is unclear how many platforms it will reach beyond PC and mobile devices.
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