Friday Night Funkin' (Kickstarter Campaign)
Friday Night Funkin': The Full Ass Game is the current title for the full version of Friday Night Funkin'. The game's Kickstarter campaign ran for a month until its closing on May 18, 2021, 5:31pm EDT.
Overview
Friday Night Funkin': The Full Ass Game is a project created by the developers of Friday Night Funkin', ninjamuffin99, PhantomArcade, Kawai Sprite and evilsk8r, who would go on to found The Funkin' Crew Inc. and are currently its shareholders. The announcement of the project's Kickstarter campaign was made on April 18, 2021, coinciding with the release of Week 7 as a Newgrounds exclusive.
The campaign's original funding goal was $60,000 (USD), which it reached in the first 2 hours of its public announcement. Adding onto that, it surpassed over $1,000,000 in pledges in the first 3 days. After the campaign had closed, it had officially funded a total of $2,247,641 by 58,561 backers.
The full game has not been given a formal release date outside of guesses from the developers, but it is known that the game will show up on Steam two weeks before it is released.[2] ninjamuffin99 also stated in 2021 that the full game would not arrive for a few more years and that April 2022 was the rough timeframe with the original $60,000 Kickstarter budget goal in mind.[3]
Initial Goal Plan
The following content is planned for the complete base game within the scope of the $60,000 goal:
- 20 New Weeks
- 3 songs for each new week, totaling 60 new tracks.
- New Gameplay Mechanics
- New ideas/concepts for expanding gameplay and creating more unique levels. (A "battle mode" is hinted to be one of these ideas as the animation of Boyfriend throwing his microphone is referenced.)
- Cutscenes
- Animated cartoon-esque sequences that take place during and out of gameplay, similar in execution to the cutscenes in Week 6 and Week 7, to expand the game's world and provide some context to the levels.
- Local 2 Player
- Play with or against a friend.
- New Playable Characters
- Play as other characters apart from Boyfriend in Freeplay or 2-player mode. Characters will have their own unique poses and voices, the latter of which changes the music's vocal track by replacing Boyfriend's voice. In 2-player mode, the same will occur for the opponent's voice.
- Online Leaderboards
- View the top scores for every song and difficulty level from players around the world as well as friends.
- Polished Visuals and Interface
- Improvements to visuals such as menus and basic additions such as a results screen.
- Robust Mod Support
- Make the game simple and inviting to mod.
- Custom Song Charting Interface
- Create custom, playable charts through an in-game chart maker for any audio file put into the game.
- Translations
- Support for as many languages as possible to allow fans from all over the world to enjoy the game.
- Artist, Musician and Voice Acting Collaborations as Well as Cameos
- Unique art style shifts, new playable characters, cameo appearances and voice acting from potential game contributors.
Web Version Updates
As ninjamuffin99 corroborated in a Tweet, the versions of Friday Night Funkin' currently on Newgrounds and itch.io will continue to receive future updates during development of the full game. Though the updates will contain some of the levels and tracks intended for the full game, players will not be able to experience all there is to offer through the web versions alone. The full experience will only be found with the release of the complete game, which players must purchase.[4]
Stretch Goals
Stretch goals could be achieved by donating more money beyond the original set goal. Each stretch goal reached means more additions to the final game. All of these stretch goals were met on May 10, 2021.
- $85,000 - Mobile Build
- $185,000 - Custom Character Creator
- $215,000 - Sharing Network
- $415,000 - Fully Animated Cutscenes
- $615,000 - 5 Additional Weeks
- $665,000 - Online Multiplayer
- $865,000 - 5 Additional Weeks
- $965,000 - 10 Additional Playable Characters
- $1,165,000 - 5 Additional Weeks
- $1,465,000 - Erect Difficulty
- $1,865,000 - 10 Week Epilogue Story
Bigger Stretch Goals
These stretch goals extend beyond the ones listed in the image seen on the campaign page. By the end of the campaign, none of these stretch goals were reached. Most of them were likely jokes and never intended to be reached.
- $3,000,000 - PlayStation 1 Port
- $4,000,000 - Friday Night Funkin' Sakuga
- $5,000,000 - Pico's School Remake & Pico's School 2 Release
- $10,000,000 - Nightmare AU
Rewards
There were several rewards for supporting the campaign, depending on how much money a backer pledged. Most pledges bundled the non-physical and non-limited rewards with them. The rewards include:
- Credits Attribution ($5)
- Digital Art Book ($10)
- Digital Copy of the Full Game ($15) [10 day limited-time pledge reward]
- Digital Copy of the Full Game ($20)
- Pico Stickers ($25) [Limit of 50, sold out]
- Enamel Pin ($30)
- Physical OST - Volume 1: Cassette ($32)
- Physical OST - Volume 1: CD ($35)
- FNF Poster ($40)
- Physical OST - Volume 1: Vinyl ($46)
- T-shirt ($50)
- CD, Cassette and Vinyl Combo of the Vol. 1 Soundtrack ($65)
- Vinyl Test Pressings of the Vol. 1 Soundtrack ($120) [Limit of 10, sold out]
- Tankman Statue ($150) [Limit of 200, sold out]
- Boyfriend Figure ($300) [Limit of 50, sold out]
- Personal Illustration ($500) [Limit of 50, sold out]
- Self-Insert Background Character ($1,000) [Limit of 10, sold out]
- Intro Message ($1,000) [Limit of 5, sold out]
- Self-Insert Playable Character ($5,000) [Limit of 5, sold out]
- Digital wallpaper ($9,999)
- We Tell You That You Suck ($10,000) [Limit of 3]
- This pledge is a joke.[5]
Trivia
- PhantomArcade posted a teaser of the Kickstarter trailer on March 3, 2021, while not revealing what the trailer was about.[6]
- The news of the game's Kickstarter campaign had been accidentally leaked weeks ahead of its announcement in a news article by 100 Mile Free Press.[7][8]
- In a caption for one of the images in the Kickstarter page, Girlfriend is misspelled as "Girlfried."
- Friday Night Funkin': The Full Ass Game has been one of the fastest-grossing Kickstarters to ever be supported, overtaking similar games that were funded via Kickstarter like A Hat in Time and Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse.
- ninjamuffin99 admitted that the Kickstarter was inspired by how much the Kickstarter for Homestuck made and how fast it grew in popularity.[citation needed]
- 20 new weeks have been promised in the Kickstarter trailer. With stretch goals reached, an additional 25 weeks (15 regular weeks and 10 epilogue weeks) were also said to be added. Adding the 7 weeks that had already been implemented by the time the Kickstarter campaign was launched, the 20 new planned weeks and the 25 stretch goal weeks brings the total number of weeks in the game to 52, or, in other words, 1 year.
- However, in a Twitter Space, PhantomArcade said that 60+ weeks are planned for the game. He also stated that there are probably more ideas for concepts and mechanics than the developers actually have time to implement throughout the 60+ planned levels.[9]
- The Nightmare AU, despite not having reached its stretch goal, was confirmed to make an appearance in the game regardless by PhantomArcade on Twitter.[10]
- The song used in the trailer, Klaskii Romper, is from Kawai Sprite's Bandcamp album Plop!, on which it is the 6th track.[11]
- It can also be heard in the cutscene for Stress.
- Interestingly, Kawai Sprite had originally made a special song specifically for the Kickstarter trailer. However, this song was scrapped as PhantomArcade felt as it didn't match the overall intended vibe of the trailer, so he used Klaskii Romper in its place instead.[12] The song Kawai Sprite originally made has yet to be released.
- Needlejuice Records is the manufacturer for the physical albums of the game's soundtrack. They initially announced the production of the first volume on April 8, 2021 on Twitter, with PhantomArcade soon confirming the collaboration later in a Tweet of his own.[13][14]
- In the Kickstarter trailer, there's a section dedicated to celebrating the community, where many popular Friday Night Funkin' mods and fan-characters are shown. The characters and mods highlighted are, in order of appearance:
- OR3O, replacing Girlfriend in Friday Night Funkin': CG5 Edition
- Whitty, an original character seen in V.S. Whitty Full Week
- Friday night funkin, but bad
- Monika, as seen in Monika (DDLC) - New Song + Default Senpai Reskin, and Dalia, an original character replacing Girlfriend, seen alongside Monika and appearing in Funkin' with Dalia
- GenderSwap BF over GF, GenderSwap GF over BF and GenderSwap Pico, all showcased together
- CoryxKenshin and Momo, as seen in Coryxkenshin and Momo girlfriend mod
- Ronald McDonald, as seen in an eponymous mod, and XOXO, an original character replacing Boyfriend, seen alongside Ronald McDonald and appearing in XOXO Boyfriend skin
- Fresh (SiIvaGunner)
- Bopeebo (In-Game Version) (SiIvaGunner)
- Baldi, as seen in Baldi over Week 6
- Hatsune Miku, as seen in an eponymous mod
- South (SiIvaGunner)
- Blammed (SiIvaGunner)
- Tulio Triviño, as seen in the Tulio Triviño from 31 Minutos mod
- Friday Night Funkin’ Clay Mod
- FL-chan, as seen in the similarly titled mod FL Chan
- Hex, from VS Hex Mod
- Lila, as seen in Lila over Daddy Dearest, ENA, as seen in ENA over Boyfriend (Playable ENA), and Chara, as seen in Chara - From UNDERTALE/ DONTFORGET, all showcased together
- Friday Night Funkin': Corruption
- Friday Night Funkin: Neo
- Henry Stickmin, as seen in a YouTube video titled "FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN' mod HENRY STICKMIN over BF (WIP)"
- Ayana, from Ex-GF Over Mom Mod + New Song
- Beach Brother, from an eponymous mod
- Tricky the Clown, as seen in a teaser for a then-upcoming update to The Tricky Mod
- B-Side Remixes
- Friday Night Funkin' Minus
- Multiple other forms of unofficial Friday Night Funkin' media are also shown off in the trailer, including a clip of some of the characters in VRChat, a knockoff racing game and several titles for videos on YouTube.
- One of the video titles included is a Lost Bits video by TetraBitGaming.[15] Interestingly, an unused doodle in Tankman's lip sync Flash file vulgarly insults TetraBitGaming in its title. The doodle in question, titled "suck your moms dick tetra bit gaming", depicts a creature with spikes on their chest and belly who is labeled "you're mom."[16] In a live stream that PhantomArcade did in late 2022, he expressed frustration about TetraBitGaming's disclosure of unused concept sketches from Flash files, which led PhantomArcade to have to scrap the unused stalker designs due to modders tracing the characters before they could be used officially.[17]
- In the Kickstarter trailer, when the segment for Week 7 is shown, the Tankmen that point their guns at Girlfriend are not seen, and Girlfriend herself isn't holding her arms up.
- Digital Steam keys will be given out to each backer that pledged enough money to obtain the game.
- The full game's estimated price is planned to be between $20 and $30,[18] though the source code will remain available for free on GitHub.[19] Additionally, ninjamuffin99 encourages players to pirate the game if they cannot afford it.[20]
Trailer
Gallery
"Story" header
"The Plan" header
"Stretch Goals" header
"The Crew" header
"Rewards" header
"Risks and challenges" header
Updated stretch goals image with a response from the team
Another updated stretch goals image with a new response
