If you have used Newgrounds in the past day or so, you've probably seen the game I worked on, Friday Night Funkin' on the front page. I worked on it with @PhantomArcade, @Kawaisprite, and @evilsk8r . Go follow all those boys, and then play the game:

Took me a few days to write this newspost, been busy fixin a few things for the game. Scoreboards, lil extra polish, quick little ideas, and then balancing that all out with takin decent breaks and whatnot.

If you want some cool lore/backstory of the development, we originally made the game for Ludum Dare 47, and the theme was 'Stuck in a loop'. I think I woke up at noon that day, and just on a bit of a whim decided I wanted to make a small little game, a rhythm game. This jam I didn’t care about the theme, I just needed an excuse to work on something. I knew I wanted music from my man kawaisprite, and I actually asked a few people before I landed with PhantomArcade and evilsk8er. Before this project, I hadn’t even interacted with evilsk8er whatsoever, he was one of @kiddbrute ‘s pals, and I asked Kiddbrute if he wanted to make a game, but he was busy so and he told me evilsk8er would probably be down. I like to work wit new people, and this worked out pretty nicely if I say so.

If you been paying attention to my stuff, you probably have seen that the game been doin a bit of wild numbers on Twitter when I put out. It’s definitely been a lot to process over these last few months, and there definitely been a few lil roadbumps here and there. But I think at this point I can confidently say we have a solid feel of going forward. It’s hard to temper expectations and gauge what everyone thinks. In the end I know that we’re gonna make a dope ass game, and when that happens it’s gonna be good shit. I been trying to say that THIS Newgrounds release is like a bit of a demo, but it’s hard to articulate it without sorta blatantly putting it in the title or description or whatever. As everyone has probably guessed, we have much bigger ambitions for the game, and I think everyone assumed that to be the case anyways. We did accomplish a good amount of things in just a month for a web game, so seeing a LOT of people really be excited for it, it’s funny to think of what it’d be like when we REALLY release the game we see in our heads. 

Right now there’s definitely been a good few issues people have had with the game that I expected to some extent. Polish bits here and there, difficulty spikes, even some of the visual design. Before it came out I showed the game to a few people and they mentioned that the purple arrow sometimes can feel like it blends into the backgrounds. All stuff like that. This release we’re definitely going to improve over the next little while.

Next up on the to-do list is REBINDABLE CONTROLS, DIFFICULTY BALANCING, a better scoreboard system (with scores in-game), stuff like options menu (if you want to disable the camera zoom effect thingie that could feel distracting). So there’s a lot of things that I’m conscious of that people have been wanting or complaining about.

I suppose to cap off this newspost, if you want to support this game, toss it money on ITCHIO https://ninja-muffin24.itch.io/funkin

OR literally just show ur pals friends whatever. It’s less so about all the attention, but the crew workin on it right now aren’t doing it fulltime, and even BEFORE any of it blew up we had plans to continue development, even if it was just a few hours per week on the side. But every little bit helps. We don’t wanna fumble shit, and we wanna make a good ass game for Newgrounds, while possibly making coin off it to pay for our hard work. Most would probably say we’ve already accomplished the cool ass game part, but this is a small taste of what’s likely to come.

This was a quick little newspost with a rough idea and plan. We’re still figuring a lot of things out, as I said before, this game literally did not exist 1 month ago. Everything’s been happening really fast, and we’re just trying to keep up with everything and stay true to the game. At some point we will have a roadmap for ourselves, and maybe we’ll even share it with everyone. Or we will work on this game in silence for the next 3 years. We’ll see lol

Some creds/shoutouts from me since we don’t have credits in-game yet lolol

Love to @SrPelo, we added Skid and Pump as part of the sorta ‘Halloween demo’, he supplied vocals for kawaisprite to chop up into the music, and he also helped out early on when the game was essentially just some WIP video that was floatin around on Twitter. Lov u pelo

Shoutouts @fizzd . He made the game Rhythm Doctor, and he also wrote a guide on how to do rhythm game logic that I’ve been referencing for YEARS at this point. If you dig through FNF's source code, you WILL see elements of this. This game would not exist without him.

Shoutouts the HaxeFlixel homies, @Geokureli, and @01010111 (Will Blanton lol) for helping me sort out a few coding issues and problems. George gets the credit for the upcoming rebindable controls, the backend shit he wrote for the Ritz DX update (hiatus/coming at some point lol) and I just heisted that shit lol.

Shoutouts @Kiddbrute, he tossed me EvilSk8er’s direction, and also kiddbrute tha homie lmaooo

Shoutuots @wandaboy, @thriftman, @luis those guys r rascals lol

EDIT: also shoutouts Jeff @johnnyUtah for helpin out wit new logo forgot him last nite oopsies srry jeff hheeh

Love to anyone who loves the game. It been a crazy ass month.

Go play the game, and as always, the game is 100% open source on my Github:

https://github.com/ninjamuffin99/Funkin/

It’s been exactly 5 years since I joined Newgrounds. I joined way back when I was in high school, and now I’m in my early 20’s fresh age 21 and shit. I’ve written a bit about my early days of Newgrounds, but this post I’ll write some shit that’s been on my mind lately. Having been on Newgrounds for a good solid chunk of time, it’s interesting to see certain people come and go. I’ve also noticed a sorta new age of people poppin in. People who made their accounts only a year or so ago starting to gain organic prominence from the site. New kids on the block and shit. 

One thing I like about Newgrounds is that aspect that still holds up today, that people can still be homegrown here. I think with the current social media culture shit, we’re going to start seeing more and more prominent artists come to Newgrounds with already established fan bases. But as time goes on I think people definitely need to pay attention to new kids poppin up on the scene. Even if they’re annoying, obnoxious, rude, bad at animating, whatever. I specifically remember early in my days on the site, I was making shitty ass animations, and to this day I’m very thankful that people like @Saminat not only gave me the time of day, but was super cool to me and did voice work for a shitty ass animation I worked on way back. Saminat could have easily been rude or mean or whatever to me, and maybe if that happened I coulda been turned off the site entirely and not got to where I am today. 

Another person I’ll rep for the same reason is my man @PhantomArcade. Way back me and him were working on a game, and I really didn’t prove myself game design or programming wise all that much. But me and him still got to working on some projects here and there and he was real cool about doin shit. Same situation as earlier he could have easily just told me to leave him alone or whatever and it coulda been a turnoff for me for NG shit.

There’s easily many many other instances of people bein cool to me to name them all, those 2 been on my mind lately as I been working my way through writing this post. Shoutouts u boys lov u

It's very easy when you already have some friend group or whatever to simply interact with them only, and that's fine to do so, but I think it's almost always worthwhile to keep your eyes open for new kids and shit. Not only younger 14/15 year olds or whatever, but just people new to Newgrounds in general. I think one of the special things about Newgrounds is the community, everyone lookin out for each other and interacting and talking and collaborating and whatever. I feel like I've fallen into it a bit where I slip on some of the new shit because I already have a friend group and people I know and people who know me or whatever.

It’s definitely been a ride so far, especially though this year. I don’t wanna jack myself off but I do hope I’m somewhat a good influence on the community, even if I’m a little rascal here and there. Love NG. It’s very interesting to be at the point where I can look back on a few years of NG, see how the site and culture has changed. I do think it’s on the rise, and it’s been very inspiring to see fresh blood. People still discovering Newgrounds shit, not only through nostalgia. I guess I’m somewhat in that category, but I think it’s still interesting. 

Anyways some cool swag updates of what I been doing, I been hustling on a COOL ass animation. Won’t say too much about it but it will definitely be awesome and one of the best submissions of the month when it comes out yeah probably.

Lately I’ve very much been stressing about a lot of things. It’s very nice and pleasant to be writing things out like this. Everyone knows this year has been a bit of a doozy. I been having horrible sleep schedules and shit, bad work ethic, and just going stir crazy in general. Slowly workin my way through it, comes and goes yall know how it is. I been trying to ease up on balancing a billion different projects. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it all just crashes and nothin goes thru. Showbiz baby. Lately just have been focusing on this one single animation and have been able to make some good progress on it, so it’s been nice to have more or less 1 main project cooking, even if just THAT can become overwhelming at some points. Everyone is probably all burnt out through this year, so I’m probably not alone in feeling all that.

To roll back to the first topic, shoutouts to all the fresh blood on Newgrounds, whether ur some 14 year old kid or some late 20s guy who stumbled across Newgrounds trying to find a community. I’m glad the Newgrounds community ain’t gettin stale, makes me very hopeful for the site. And I’ll say something that I’ve said about last year or so, I’m hopeful that Newgrounds isn’t just ‘some springboard’ into other more lucrative ventures like Youtube or Steam or whatever. I do think that one day Newgrounds can be the beginning, middle, and end. Something that you can ride with for life, because I ain’t ever wanna bounce outta here. I don’t know exactly what that’s gonna look like, so we’re gonna have some more interesting years ahead of us. Lov everyone who uses this site.

if there's any dumbass typos remind me in the morning lolololol

I WAS GON MAKE A GAME BUT GOT DISTRACTED WITH ANOTHER PROJECT SORRY KRINKLES

I know I got a few homies who aint even see Madness Combat, and I know you're reading this right now. Not watching the main MC series on Madness Day is like not watching Home Alone in December, get on that shit gang its a NEWGROUNDS HOLIDAY

SMALL UPDATE ON CURRENT SHENANIGANS, IM WORKING ON A COOL ASS CARTOON YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BE SO AMAZED WHEN I FINISH IT WITH MY BOY WANDABOY. I AM PUTTING PRETTY MUCH ALL OF MY CREATIVE ATTENTION INTO IT RIGHT NOW

go play the game i made last year with @cymbourine

just kidding

check out this toon though

clock day

because im going to sleep, ill be back tomorrow

watch this vid while im sleeping

DUNCAN & JONES

HYPERMIX DELUXE

ON CASSETTE

LIMITED QUANTITY, ONLY 20 AVAILABLE

15$ USD + SHIPPING

AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP

https://ninjamuffin99.bandcamp.com/album/duncan-jones-ost-hypermix-deluxe

I been workin on gettin these cooked up for a while. It's been pretty much exactly 1 year since the release of the first episode of Duncan and Jones, and about 8 months since the release of episode 2. I really like working on these tapes, having a physical media of some sort I think is cool. You buy it through bandcamp, you get all the music digitally off bandcamp as well as getting a tape. Also if I forget any important info remind me to edit this when i wake up in the morning lol

Each cassette is on chrome high bias tape, recorded on both sides.

https://ninjamuffin99.bandcamp.com/album/duncan-jones-ost-hypermix-deluxe

(covid-19 shipping info: I'm based in Canada and I'm doing all the shipping myself through Canada Post. They do have certain restrictions to shipping to certain countries, but it's likely you're good. If you're in a country with restrictions, you can still order but it will be delayed, and I'll make sure to update you.)

APPRECIATE YOU, NAB A PIECE OF COOL NG MERCH BABY

DECRYPTION POST MORTEM PO

About a month ago I made a game for the HaxeFlixel gamejam here on NG. A few days ago I talked wit my boy @HenryEYES about the game.

We talk about the process, what the game is all about, how we came to the conclusions we did, all that shit. I'd recommend playing the game first before listening to the podcast, but follow your heart.

OTHER STUFF

Ritz DX coming June 11th probably

(also reposted because i meant to post this on FP news lmao)

GOOD SHIT IN DA HOUSE

GO WATCH THIS PICO DAY COLLAB

AND ALSO LOVE TO THE PICOLLAGE

AND ALSO ALSO LOVE TO MY MAN SNACKERS FOR DOIN RITZ FANART WE OUT HERE

here come dat boi!

Here's some stuff that I been doin and other various updates and whatnot.

THE EGIRL EXPERIENCE

Me and my bastard grandson @Wandaboy talked to attractive gamer girls. We also recorded it.

You ever wonder what brought them to the eGirl life? You ever wonder what would happen if 2 dumbass Newgrounds users interviewed and talked to attractive gamer girls? Then this podcast is for you. For now it's a little one-off, don't worry about feeling like you need to get committed to something. Although we're not opposed to doing a follow up of some sort.

I like how this turned out and I think it's very interesting podcast so go listen chump.

MUSIC FLEX

This is just the part where I flex the fact that I finally got a frontpage on a music track of mine lmaoooo

Go listen to P-Bot's Song

I been making music for about 4 years at this point. When I joined Newgrounds was when I first dabbled with FL Studio (which I still use). The audio portal was kinda my first experience with Newgrounds. This is actually the first frontpage I've gotten for a music piece I've made, so it's like I've gone full circle in a way.

Also it goes into my goal of getting a frontpage on each portal section. I nabbed the games section with, well most my dumbass shit lol. I nabbed the movie frontpage with Woah Sharks, and now I nabbed an audio frontpage with P-Bot's Song. Now I just need to get good at art to get a frontpage over there. Then I will be incredibly powerful and basically tom will give me the keys to the website.

HAXEFLIXEL TIPS AND TRICKS

In case you missed the big banner on the frontpage, Newgrounds is hosting a HaxeFlixel gamejam. Make a game with the HaxeFlixel game framework, win money. Easy as that. Get coding everyone. HaxeFlixel is pretty much the first and only framework/engine that I have pretty extensive experience with, so I've been writing a few guides and tips for it. Here's an index that I'll be updating https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/news/post/1090480

The next tutorial I'll be posting later today, if I don't get too distracted by CSGO (shoutouts wanda, @HenryEYES, and @AstralSevenNG for being CSGO addicts with me)

JOB TIME

I'm not sure if I've actually mentioned it in an NG newspost before, but I recently got an actual job in February. This is my first REAL job with a regular wage and hours and all that. Because of that, I was also able to finally move out of my moms house lmao. I was gettin sick of her it was time for me to bounce baby. I just work at the grocery store in my small town doing produce and all that. With all this Covid-19 stuff goin on, I did get some of my hours cut, BUT since grocery stores are an 'essential business' when I do go, I actually get a little bonus money. Today was payday and I was surprised to see a good chunk of extra money in my account. I got an extra 100$ or so, and the bonus is literally called a 'HERO' bonus lmaoooo. We out here risking our lives to hook u up with onions and apples and shit.

I also just mentioned I moved out finally. I'm just living in a cozy little basement suite type deal, and I got 2 other roommates. They're girls but I had 2 sisters and my mom growing up so it's not too jarring or anything like that, they homies. Just thought it's a wacky scenario that I'd share lolol.

With this job it's also the first time when I've had regular income of some sorts. When I was living with my foster parent I've had allowances, but that was basically chump change to get lunch and whatnot. I like being able to manage my money, and save up for certain things and whatnot. But I've been buying TOO much doritos. Sometimes I'll eat 2 bags and that shit would be my dinner. Woops. I try not to do that too often though, but damn they tasty...

THIS WAS A SHORTER NEWSPOST but whatever I'm lazy and I'm a CSGO addict I gotta get playing see yall lmaoooo