Prerelease:Friday Night Funkin'
This page details prerelease information and/or media for Friday Night Funkin'.
Unlike many other web games, Friday Night Funkin' has made its source code public. This allows internet weirdos, such as us, to dig into the files and see what the developers intended or just jokingly included in there.
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Contents
- 1 Unused Graphics
- 1.1 Ape/Kiddbrute
- 1.2 Luckyboy
- 1.3 Beetle Ninja
- 1.4 Character Sketches
- 1.5 Girlfriend
- 1.6 Week 1 - Daddy Dearest
- 1.7 Week 2 - Spooky Month
- 1.8 Week 3 - Pico
- 1.9 Week 4 - Mommy Must Murder
- 1.10 Week 5 - Red Snow
- 1.11 Week 6 - Hating Simulator
- 1.12 Week 7 - Tankman
- 1.13 art/flashFiles/Start_Screen_Assets.fla
- 2 Animation Debug Menu
- 3 Unused Audio
- 4 Unused Text
Unused Graphics
Ape/Kiddbrute
kiddbrute (referred to here as Ape), a character designed by kiddbrute, was originally intended to make a small appearance as an Easter egg in the game. According to kiddbrute, this graphic was set to rarely appear when the game was booted, which explains the absurd resolution that the image is rendered in. After realizing the rapid popularity the game was garnering, he requested that his character be removed completely.
While it doesn't appear that this Easter egg was ever programmed in, the graphic for it was added to the GitHub repository on November 2, 2020, and later removed on January 13, 2021. The file was assets/images/ape_FNF.png.
Luckyboy
This character, named "Lucky", is a cartoon depiction of Lucky from this short film and was added to the GitHub repository on November 10, 2020; commit 40f0edf18e33e59719d4a4d75ec46c5eea55bea2. While it is uncertain who drew him given that his art style differs drastically from the rest of the game's, it was likely BrandyBuizel, since he was also the one to first push it to the repository. He has attack and tumble animations like Boyfriend, and he also has an associated song.
Luckyboy's spritesheet was removed from the game's assets folder on December 17, 2020; commit cfeaf5cbc64d6bf89cb1313819ca4131cdcb2d66, before the release of Version 0.2.5. According to NinjaMuffin, LuckyBoy wasn't planned to be part of the game, he had no part in the addition of his sprite files, and he was removed from the assets folder for this reason.
Most of the original assets and code can be found here.
The commit also contains two strings of PNG files which can be put together to produce two animations. Note that neither of these animations exist by name in the associated XML file (lucky_tumble is not mapped at all, and lucky_plays_guitar uses less frames than there are present on the sheet), so they could just be mockups.
lucky_plays_guitar
lucky_tumble
Beetle Ninja
Concept art discovered on a blog operated by a collaborator of Evilsk8r in which a character, called "Beetle Ninja" is teased for the game. Beetle Ninja is unique in that he is the only character hinted for the game to not originate from Newgrounds, having first appeared in an RPGMaker game of the same name.
Character Sketches
A series of sketches for various characters, including:
- Artwork and images of Pico, likely used as references.
- Sketches for Pico and his expressions.
- An early concept of Pico's microphone originally being held in his gun.
- Buggy the Bug, a character made by evilsk8r that would later cameo in Week 5's background.
- Tankman.
- kiddbrute.
- Skid & Pump.
Girlfriend
art/flashFiles/GF_assets.fla
A face texture contained in the .fla file GF_Assets containing three Girlfriend sprites that sit atop an unfinished podium (as confirmed by Johnny Utah in this video by DidYouKnowGaming?). This was likely made around the Ludum Dare prototype or a very early build of the game, as in that build the same placeholder podium can be seen. However, similar sprites of Girlfriend crying do show up when you lose a streak and in Week 7 when Tankman insults her.
art/flashFiles/GF_ass_sets.fla
An animation of Girlfriend faceplanting into the ground. Perhaps this would've played after Pico knocked her off of the speakers in Week 7 with Boyfriend not catching her. More evidence towards this is the fact that the soil and particles are orange, like the ground in Week 7.
Week 1 - Daddy Dearest
Daddy Dearest
A unused sprite of Daddy Dearest kicking something, likely Boyfriend. Posted by PhantomArcade on Twitter.
Week 2 - Spooky Month
art/flashFiles/spooky_kids_assets.fla
An unused pose for Skid & Pump. According to PhantomArcade in a tweet, this pose was intended to be a parallel to Boyfriend's V-Sign pose, occurring when a vocal cue is heard in a song (like with Bopeebo). He would go on to say that one of the Week 2 tracks was supposed to have those cues, but he didn't want to pressure Kawaisprite to include it. His tweet also mentions that this feature was intended for all the other opponents, although this is the only remnant of it we see.
A reference image for Skid & Pump, taken directly from Sr Pelo's It's Spooky Month.
An animation sketch for their idle dance. Oddly, Boyfriend's head shows up for two frames.
A sketch for their left pose. Weirdly enough, the internal name in the .fla file for this sketch is "down sketch".
A sketch for their right pose.
A sketch for their up pose.
Two sketches for their down pose. The first one would later be touched up and used, while the second one is an alternate version of the first sketch with Pump's eyes open.
A touched-up version of a sketch seen in the Character Sketches sheet.
Week 3 - Pico
art/flashFiles/Pico_assets.fla
A sketch of Pico's gun facing forward.
Week 4 - Mommy Must Murder
art/flashFiles/Mom_Assets.fla
A sketch of Mommy Mearest's left note animation. The name of this file calls the mom "Cory".
Strangely, this file is named "left_post_sketch" despite it being her right animation frame.
A sketch of one of the Nightmare Cops from Tom Fulp's upcoming game of the same name. This character later reappeared in the background of Week 5.
A concept doodle for a crazed stalker. Possibly could've been used in the background, but a similar concept for crazed stalkers could be found in Week 6.
What looks to be concept art for another crazed stalker.
More crazed stalkers in the Mom's .fla file. PhantomArcade stated in a livestream that, due to these characters being used frequently in mods and having been discussed by YouTuber TetrabitGaming, they will not appear in the full game.
A sketch of Boyfriend and some of his opponents.
A sketch of Boyfriend playing something on his smartphone.
Various sketches of the creators of the game.
art/flashFiles/BoyFriend_HAIR_BLOWING_Assets.fla
The "Hey!" animation from Bopeebo can be found in Boyfriend's Week 4 .fla.
The unused hit animation can be found in Boyfriend's hair blowing .fla.
Week 5 - Red Snow
Concept Art
Concept art dumped on the Friday Night Funkin' wiki reveals that week 5 was initially very different: focusing on an escalator gimmick and various enemies rather than featuring Mommy Mearest and Daddy Dearest, who do not appear at all in concept art for the level.
A character called Rolus from the game Rolus in the Outskirts is featured prominently throughout concept art, revealing he may have originally played a significant role in week 5.
Animations
art/flashFiles/BoyFriend_Assets_CHRISTMAS_VARIANT.fla
The unused hit animation in Christmas form.
The animation that was supposed to play during Week 2, when lightning strikes. Only the right arm is changed to fit with the Christmas theme.
Boyfriend preparing his attack in the Christmas theme. Only the feet are changed in this.
Boyfriend dodging an incoming attack in the Christmas theme. Like the shaking animation, only the right arm is changed.
art/flashFiles/GF_ass_sets_CHRISTMAS_VARIANT.fla
The unused hair blowing animation from week 2 in Christmas form. For some reason, this is the only unused Girlfriend Christmas variant animation to only be in the source files.
art/flashFiles/mom_dad_christmas_assets.fla
The Christmas mom and dad have templates for each singing pose with no mouths open.
Monster
art/flashFiles/Monster_Assets.fla
A sketch of Monster, under the names "Sample 1" and "monster ref". Some weird things can be seen in this image, such as: a humanoid shadow behind Lemon Demon, even earlier sketches (bottom left) and what appears to be a person's neck behind the sketches. Also, a small part of a pumpkin can be seen to the left, seen below. Monster's neck is also black instead of a fleshy pink.
An early (and creepier) design for Monster.
Week 6 - Hating Simulator
FNF_Sprite_assets/BF/BF_peace.psd
Moawling, the creator of the pixel sprites seen in Week 6, released .psd files of said pixel art. In the BF folder there is a file for the peace/hey pose, which never appears in Week 6.
art/flashFiles/BF_death_pixels.fla
In the .fla file for Boyfriend dying in Week 6, there is a doodle titled "pizza doodles".
art/flashFiles/GF_PIXEL_VARIANT.fla
The source file for Girlfriend's appearance in Week 6 has an unused 3rd frame called "GF_idle002". It was likely scrapped so the animation kept up with the beat of the songs.
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art/flashFiles/Pixel_BG_Girls.fla
The .fla file for the girls in the background of Week 6 includes drawings of several popular characters: Hyuji, Katy Kat, Chainsaw Man, the Angry Video Game Nerd, Kuwabara, and Crash Bandicoot.
Week 6 Cutscene
In a stream by PhantomArcade, he started working on a cutscene for Week 6. It starts off with a console with NG on it (standing for Newgrounds), and then it shows a spiral with Boyfriend and Girlfriend getting sucked into it.
For whatever reason, the warping effect from this cutscene exists unused in the FLA for Boyfriend holding Girlfriend in Week 7. The source file for this graphic is "Week 6 intro cutscene.fla"
Early Version of Week 6
This video is a collection of those leaked videos of an early version of Week 6. Most of which are from the devs' live streams and their Instagram stories.
Early Week 6 Dialogue
In one of the devs' Instagram stories and leaked videos, it was shown that Week 6's original dialogue was:
- Senpai : GOOD MORNING, LADIES !
- Boyfriend : *BEEP BOOP BOPEEBOP*
It also shows an early hand icon which went used, yet very small until Week 7 in which it's size increased to be more visible.
Roses
Senpai can be seen in his happy form in Roses. The notes won't play and are broken due to the audio for the song not existing in .ogg form. The girls still have their heart eyes.
Thorns
For some reason, Senpai is still in his normal form in Thorns. The background from Senpai and Roses, girls included, is still used.
Health Icon
In the earliest version of Week 6, Boyfriend uses his normal unpixelated life icon while Senpai just uses Dad's life icon. Interestedly, in the text documents for Week 6's dialogue, Senpai is referred to as "dad", which might be related to this oddity.
Sprite Sheet
In a leaked sprite sheet, Senpai only has his happy sprites from Week 6's first song of the same name. This may explain why he uses these sprites in Roses and Thorns.
Week 7 - Tankman
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4 unused miss animations for Tankman. These will likely become used when Tankman becomes a playable character in the full game. Loading Tankman as Player 1 in the current Newgrounds build of the game will not show these animations, as they are not coded in.
Tankman's ORIGINAL sketch, just colored in and without "RAP MAN" on his chest.
art/flashFiles/tankman_fnf_lip_sync_back_ta_dave.fla
In Tankman's Lip Sync FLA, there exists a bunch of Doodles Phantom Arcade did while animating.
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art/flashFiles/bf_holding_gf_edits.fla
An early version of Girlfriend in the game over screen, which shows her innards.
art/flashFiles/pico_killin_assetss.fla
A guide box for Pico's position.
art/flashFiles/Week_7_cutscene_assets_small_pieces.fla
Two unused frames for when Pico kicks GF off the speakers. These were likely removed for better timing in the cutscene.
Unused Uh Oh! Censor Animation
In Tankman’s lip-sync FLA file, There is a symbol titled “mouth censor”. This will used for when Tankman swears when the naughtyness setting is turned on. The fla this comes from isn't included in the games source code, and is instead from a Week 7 FLA dump that PhantomArcade posted to Newgrounds.
art/flashFiles/Start_Screen_Assets.fla
Another unused logo. Probably used before the one we see nowadays.
Animation Debug Menu
Although only accessible through debug source code builds or mods, this menu is what you would expect, an animation debug menu. This is used most for positioning the character's animations so they can stay in place. It can be accessed by pressing 8 in any song (only in source code), and it will load the character you are facing against in the menu. If it (somehow) can't find your opposing enemy, it will load Boyfriend.
This menu can also be found in the Newgrounds build by pressing 8 on the menu, featuring a mouthless Tankman with an excess arm. Hitting Space on this menu causes Tankman to play an animation, presumably an early version of his animations in the Guns cutscene.
Unused Audio
vidyagames.ogg
Added alongside Luckyboy. It's a low-quality clip of the infamous song "Video Games" by The Blackout Band.
c_z.mp3
Also known in GitHub as "funny music :)", this is an MP3 file that is also an SSTV signal, similar to Portal 2's hidden radio signal. It can be found in the compilable version of Friday Night Funkin'. It is unknown why it was in the GitHub, but it could have been used for an ARG of some sort.
Decoding it will output this blurry image of a notebook with scribbled handwriting:
The text seems to say:
Social media, was about expression? People who would not have access to certain forms of expression or conundrum Network of networks. Internet in this world was also developed by military? I think in other shit, it's also military based maybe this form of internet. Maybe instead of web, it could be called a tree? I think nostalgia happens at a much faster pace because culture is accelerating so fast
Unused Text
Unused Week 1 + Tutorial Dialogue
switch (SONG.song.toLowerCase())
{
case 'tutorial':
dialogue = ["Hey you're pretty cute.", 'Use the arrow keys to keep up \nwith me singing.'];
case 'bopeebo':
dialogue = [
'HEY!',
"You think you can just sing\nwith my daughter like that?",
"If you want to date her...",
"You're going to have to go \nthrough ME first!"
];
case 'fresh':
dialogue = ["Not too shabby boy.", ""];
case 'dadbattle':
dialogue = [
"gah you think you're hot stuff?",
"If you can beat me here...",
"Only then I will even CONSIDER letting you\ndate my daughter!"
];
Found in the game's publicly available source code, in the file PlayState.hx is dialogue for the Tutorial and all tracks for Week 1. It was used in an extremely early version of the game. Footage of said cutscenes can be found here.
It is unlikely that these cutscenes will ever return, as the developers have stated that all weeks will be "fully animated with professional voice acting".
