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“PhantomArcade is an animator. He leads the story, makes the characters, and animates them all for his arch rival Ninjamuffin to implement into the game. He uses Adobe Flash CS4.”
― Friday Night Funkin' Kickstarter campaign description

David Brown, better known online as PhantomArcade (also formatted as Phantom Arcade), is the director, lead animator and lead artist for Friday Night Funkin'. He is mainly responsible for the game's animation, art assets, and character designs with co-artist evilsk8r, along with writing the story for the game and drafting new mechanics and gameplay elements. He also worked with Bassetfilms to create the character Monster.

Involvement

PhantomArcade was one of the artists contacted by ninjamuffin99 for the game he wanted to make for Ludum Dare 47. ninjamuffin99 had been asking for help from other artists who were all currently too busy to help, but eventually got PhantomArcade on board for the project alongside another artist, evilsk8r. As both the game's animator and one of its artists, he was tasked with creating initial character designs for the game with evilsk8r. They created the game's characters based on a "boyfriend and dad scenario," which led to the creation of Boyfriend, Girlfriend and Daddy Dearest. PhantomArcade first passes along his initial designs to evilsk8r, who then adds his inputs to them, then finally passes them back to PhantomArcade for him to settle on the final design before animating them.

PhantomArcade has also taken on the role of the game's director and writer. Even back during the game's creation for Ludum Dare 47, he initially wrote up the game's story. Since the game's release on Newgrounds, he has shared plenty of outside lore and details for characters and events within the game through live streams, social media posts and comics. An expansive story is currently being written that will tie everything together once the full game is complete.

Trivia

PhantomArcade accidentally leaked that Tankman was the opponent for Week 7 during one of ninjamuffin99's Twitch streams.^[1]
PhantomArcade's current profile picture on Twitter came about due to a fan asking when he was going to change it, to which PhantomArcade replied "maybe just before the update comes out" as a hint of its release.^[2] PhantomArcade would then change his profile picture on the 21^st of April, 2024, 9 days before the release of WeekEnd 1.
PhantomArcade infrequently streams on his Twitch channel; he draws and animates assets for the game, draws comics, and answers questions asked by fans in the chat.
During a live stream on Twitch, PhantomArcade repeatedly suggested that he was not heterosexual. His sexual orientation remains unknown.
PhantomArcade and Kawai Sprite are the oldest out of the main four due to both of them being born in January 1995; they were both 25 when Friday Night Funkin' was first created.
PhantomArcade has stated that if he were to make one Friday Night Funkin' mod canon, it would be the Vs. Ex-Girlfriend mod created by RatNonFat, a mod where Boyfriend has an ex-girlfriend named Ayana Santana.^[3]
- On the 27^th of June, 2024, RatNonFat on Twitter expressed consent to the potential use of the character.^[4]

Gallery

PhantomArcade's Newgrounds icon.
One of the profile pictures previously used by PhantomArcade on his Twitter account. Originates from "why i fraking DESPISE ninjamuffin99" by xXsquidwardXx.
PhantomArcade's current profile picture on Twitter.
Sketch by PhantomArcade of the founders of the The Funkin Crew Inc. PhantomArcade himself is using a drawing tablet and pen.
Art of founders of the The Funkin Crew Inc. from the Friday Night Funkin' art booklet.
Sketch of PhantomArcade dressed up as Demon Slayer's protagonist Tanjiro Kamado from a funkin.me blog post.
A doodle of PhantomArcade as Santa Claus.
Two sketches of PhantomArcade, cartoony and realistic, drawn by PhantomArcade himself.
An overexposed selfie of PhantomArcade smiling brightly.
An underexposed selfie of PhantomArcade making a scary face.
From left to right: PhantomArcade posing with EliteMasterEric, ninjamuffin99 and Tyler Bourke at the Too Many Games convention.
PhantomArcade carrying YahBoiSpeedz, a Friday Night Funkin' mod composer, at Too Many Games 2024.
Ditto, but this time twirling him around.
Enid Mettle and K.O. from OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes in the Friday Night Funkin' art style, drawn by PhantomArcade.
A doodle of Sans, a character from Undertale, holding a microphone, resembling an idle sprite.
A doodle of Sans holding a microphone and saying to Toby Fox: "toby? you like? ya. i know."
A drawing by PhantomArcade of Whitty, an OC by sock.clip, depicting his design from the V.S. Whitty mods.
A doodle by PhantomArcade of Demona, the persona of Katastrophii, from The Panzu Collection of mods.
A doodle of Sky, a character from the mod VS Sky, drawn by PhantomArcade.
A doodle of Void, a character from the mod Friday Night Funkin' Vs. Void, drawn by PhantomArcade.
A doodle of Peacock, a character from the mod 17 Bucks, drawn by PhantomArcade.
A doodle of Peacock drooling over a hamburger, draw by PhantomArcade.
A doodle by PhantomArcade of "Yourself", an alternate universe version of Boyfriend that was originally planned for the Vs. Sonic.Exe mod but eventually appeared in the mod Hit Single.
A doodle of the head of a shrunken "Yourself", drawn by PhantomArcade
PhantomArcade along with many Newgrounds characters and creators in an artwork by PKettles for Pico Day 2021.