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So, a humble thanks to you guys for not blamming it to hell and for seeing something in our little game! We will be able to work on it full-time again this summer, and thanks to GDC we're working with someone to port the game to the iOS so you can watch out for that too. In other news, funny story but we won the Independent Games Festival (IGF) Student Showcase award, along with seven other really cool student games, including one Flash one called Westerado which you should check out (cause they are cool guys)! It was a great experience to be able to have a booth at GDC and meet tons of people, and for that we owe it to Newgrounds without whom things would very possibly have turned out a lot different. Would be great to hear your feedback on these new additions :) It works much better in the levels with multiple rows - or at least we think so. Also, you can now play through the game with two players! Just press Caps Lock during play to toggle, and use the L key for P2. We are still working on it, and in case you missed it: we've updated the game with a delicious boss level for you guys. Your choice will determine the speed of the icons moving on the screen, as well as their complexity.Rhythm Doctor was a game I uploaded in January 2013 as a demo, to really nice reviews on NG! Thank you so much for the support and suggestions so far. Before each song, you will be presented with difficulty options of easy, normal, and hard. Each level is presented as a “week”, which consists of three songs, meaning three opponents. You play as “Boyfriend”, who must defeat foe after foe in rap battles in order to keep dating “Girlfriend”, with the looming threat of “Daddy Dearest”, who is “Girlfriend’s” father. Two characters appear on opposite sides of the screen, facing each other, and when one begins to rap, icons move from the bottom of the screen to the top, and you have to match those icons with the corresponding buttons as they cross the threshold at the top of the screen. The gameplay of Friday Night Funkin’ will be familiar to you in the (unlikely) event that you have ever played Parappa the Rapper. 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.
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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
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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.
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The early 2000s were awash with rhythm-based video games.