![]() You can’t have a rhythm game without music, and the soundtrack created by Kawai Sprite is suitably energetic and motivating. As a matter of fact, many characters that are known as being residents of Newgrounds are present here! Among those included are: Meat Boy, Zone Tan, and even Hellbender. As a result of their affinity for Newgrounds, the art in their game heavily resembled those early 2000’s flash games that inspired it, with flat, 2D characters and backgrounds with interesting designs. These users grew up loving the site, and rhythm games, and with those passions, they set out to create a game that would go on to become a phenomenon. For those of us who didn’t exist in the early 2000’s, Newgrounds is a website that specialized in all kinds of flash-based games. It was created in the October 2020 Ludum Dare Game Jam 47 by a collection of faithful Newgrounds users: Cameron "Ninjamuffin99" Taylor, David "PhantomArcade" Brown, Isaac "Kawai Sprite" Garcia, and evilsk8r. The origins of Friday Night Funkin’ are fairly humble and subdued. Let’s get funkin’! Greatness In The Making Before you dive into this toe-tapping extravaganza, here is everything you need to know about this future classic rhythm game. The newest rhythm game currently available, and one that has exploded in popularity in a very short amount of time. ![]() This is where Friday Night Funkin’ was born. As the physical peripheral-based rhythm game died out and started disappearing from arcades, a new haven for the genre would pop up: the internet. ![]() ![]() This infatuation for the gaming populace at large would slowly wane, but there was always a smaller group of people that held the love for rhythm games in their very bones, and would go on to make many iterations of the genre using different styles and formulas. You couldn’t enter an arcade (when those existed) without hearing the loud, invigorating music or feeling the thump of the players stomping on the floor buttons that corresponded with the icons on the screen. The early 2000s were awash with rhythm-based video games. ![]()
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