WeekEnd 1: Due Debts

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WeekEnd 1, titled Due Debts, is the eighth level in Friday Night Funkin'. It was released on the 30th of April, 2024.

Unlike other weeks, WeekEnd 1 features Pico as the player character instead of Boyfriend, and Nene takes Girlfriend's usual place on a stereo to watch the rap battles and track combos.

Overview

Opponent

Pico faces off against Darnell, his and Nene's trigger-happy pyromaniac friend.

Location

WeekEnd 1 takes place in "The Alley." This location is set near a gloomy city in the Philadelphia area during a storm with rain and smog. Silhouettes of skyscrapers can be seen in the background skyline, in front of which is a highway on a bridge with a dead end that has no barrier and lampposts along the highway that are lit. There is a construction site nearby to the right. On the ground below, there is a traffic light with horizontally arranged signals on a green light, with cars passing nearby. There are brick walls to the left with graffiti on them that has the word "Newgrounds" in white paint, along with wired fencing on top. The sidewalk in front has a green tint, and there are carpets and torn newspapers on the curb, with a storm drain situated between these.

Unique Effects

Darnell and Nene have various special animations. Nene will laugh at Pico when the player messes up, and Darnell has a laughing animation of his own. Darnell can kick graffiti cans at Pico. Nene has an animation for when Pico is low on health. Darnell and Pico have a song where they fist fight.

Tracks

  1. Darnell   Darnell Icon.png
  2. Lit Up   Darnell Icon.png
  3. 2hot   Darnell Icon.png
  4. Blazin'   Darnell Icon.png

Cutscene Tracks

  1. GAY (Instrumental)
  2. Chase!
  3. Talkin' Smack
  4. Explosive!
  5. Fight!

Trivia

  • When the update first released, a large number of players were running into an at the time unknown error that only read "null object reference", which would cause the game to crash. This bug would usually occur when completing Darnell though there were reports of the bug happening on other songs and sections of the game as well. This error quickly became a meme in the community, and even caused it to trend on Twitter for a short while.
    • The cause of this bug appeared to be because, ironically, the crash handler made for the game was crashing.[1][2]
  • The update adding WeekEnd 1 was delayed multiple times. It was originally supposed to be released in Q1 2022,[3] but the release date was changed to the 30th of April, 2022,[4] due to more time being needed.[5] It was later delayed again in order to further refine the production of the update, with no new release date being given.[6]
  • WeekEnd 1 was leaked ahead of its official release due to a link to an early test build of its update being accidentally left in the GitHub repository for Friday Night Funkin'.[7][8] Lead animator and artist PhantomArcade confirmed the leaks were real via a Tweet[9] and Twitch live stream titled "FNF work, it leaked, no point in hidin it".[10] The download (which was on Newgrounds) was only accessible to Newgrounds supporters.[citation needed] It was later made private when the leak was discovered.
  • This is the first week where the player character is someone other than Boyfriend; in this case, Pico.
    • This also marks Pico's fourth appearance in the game, the other three being his own eponymous week as an opponent, Week 5 as a background character, and Week 7 as a supporting character taking Girlfriend's place on the speakers during Stress.
      • Nene's appearance in WeekEnd 1 also marks the second instance of a character other than Girlfriend being on the speakers after Pico's appearance in Stress. However, rather than reusing Girlfriend's speakers, Nene has her own, which are actually A-Bot taken apart.
  • WeekEnd 1 continues after the events of Week 7.[5]
  • WeekEnd 1 is the holder of the longest time between released weeks.
  • The scene in the first cutscene where Darnell is spray painting may be a reference to artwork done by MindChamber for the Pico stickers on the now-defunct Newgrounds store.[11]
  • PhantomArcade originally wanted WeekEnd 1 to be very off-kilter and weird, but ninjamuffin99 mentioned that a break from weirdness was needed and that the game could use something "cool." This is why Darnell became the opponent of this level, as PhantomArcade then thought of a cool character and suggested Darnell. Once PhantomArcade had decided on the opponent and drafted a scenario, development moved forward as evilsk8r helped to refine the character and stage design, Kawai Sprite composed songs that fit the art and mood of the story and interactions, and PhantomArcade requested new gameplay elements that he drafted and sent to ninjamuffin99, who worked on the math and code to bring the concepts to life.[12][13]
  • Originally, WeekEnd 1 was internally called Week 8.[14]
  • This is the fourth week where something is moving along in the background. The first were the subway trains during Week 3, the second were the passing cars in Week 4, and the third was Steve in Week 7.
    • The cars in the background actually adhere to the traffic lights. When the light is green, they'll drive as normal, and when it turns red, they'll stop at the light and resume driving when it turns green again.
  • Pico's final blow in Blazin' is a reference to Pico's Unloaded, where he defeats the last of the Überkids in a very similar manner.
  • The rain that falls during this stage isn't just a simple overlay, but actually a true shader. If the player looks closely, they can see refractions in the rain. This effect was coded by a pixel artist and programmer named saharan.[15][16]

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ EliteMasterEric (May 1, 2024). "I FIGURED IT OUT THE CRASH HANDLER IS CRASHING". From Twitter.
  2. ↑ EliteMasterEric (May 1, 2024). "A fix for the null object reference bug* has been pushed to our private repo, so the next release build you see will have a fix. Going to work more on getting the repo ready for public release hopefully that happens ASAP.". From Twitter.
  3. ↑ Kawai Sprite (December 29, 2021). "South (ERECT Remix) - Friday Night Funkin' OST". From YouTube. Archived from the original on December 30, 2021.
  4. ↑ PhantomArcade (March 16, 2022). "Video". From Twitter.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 PhantomArcade (March 16, 2022). "more time was needed beyond Q1, so this sneak peak was prepared. music by @kawaisprite Cut1 animation by @Unseriousguy Cut2 animated by Sade Cleaned by @MatchRagamuffin You'll get a better look at it once the latest piece that continues after Week 7 releases Pico Day". From Twitter.
  6. ↑ File:Under Construction.jpg
  7. ↑ Ritz (March 23, 2022). "FNF Darnell Week 8 leak". From YouTube.
  8. ↑ Kade (April 25, 2022). "btw the fnf leaks got leaked because of a build file in the github repo, it linked to a public test version of the week 8 build with the darnel stuff. I wasn't the one who found it, but this was found like idk a month before the trailer dropped.". From Twitter.
  9. ↑ PhantomArcade (April 25, 2022). "come on down bitches, live https://twitch.tv/phantom_arcade". From Twitter.
  10. ↑ framework (November 20, 2022). "FNF work, it leaked, no point in hidin' it". From YouTube.
  11. ↑ File:Pico, Darnell, and Nene stickers.jpeg
  12. ↑ bbpanzu (April 27, 2023). "PhantomArcade:". From Twitter.
  13. ↑ PhantomArcade (October 23, 2021). "The theme of the weeks is a bit random. Week 6 was for pixel day, so then I felt visual novel theme worked best, so it become very chiptune lovey-dovey. Though, for the mom, as I was planning her Kawaisprite said he wanted to do a specific genre of music. For the next levels, I was going to immediately do more weird stuff, but Ninjamuffin said he felt like the game needed a break from weirdness and needed something 'cool'. So then I thought of a cool character, drafted a scenario, and the gears got moving. Evilsk8r helped refine the design of the character n stage, Kawaisprite made songs that fit the art and mood of the story / interactions, and I made requests for new gameplay elements that I drafted and sent to Ninjamuffin who's doing the heavy lifting of math n other shit to code and bring to life.". From "PhantomArcade AMA" on Reddit.
  14. ↑ MtH (May 10, 2023). "a lot of stuff ive said about upcoming fnf coNtent is either intentionally vaguE or trolling, some of it is also me conflating daRnell/week8 shit because it was still calleD week8 internallY. out And about thing waS never real, pls Stop qrting me it's emBarrassing". From Twitter.
  15. ↑ ninjamuffin99 (May 2, 2024). "the rain shader effect for FNF was made by the crazy smart @shr_id who actually recently got his Ph.D. in engineering for COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS!! What was made for FNF barely scratches the surface of his brain, everyone should check out their work https://oimo.io/works". From Twitter.
  16. ↑ saharan (May 1, 2024). "congrats on the new FNF release!! i wrote some shaders and graphics stuff 🙏". From Twitter.
  17. ↑ MtH (April 30, 2023). "i forgot the background was like that". From Twitter.
  18. ↑ PhantomArcade (May 30, 2022). "ha, you nailed it. I went with the easiest option so I could do some special animations jeff style". From Twitter. Archived from the original on May 31, 2022.
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