A whole new w(ebsite)orld!
FRIDAYNIGHTFUNKIN.NEOCITIES.ORG
Heyo! Welcome to the site!!! Your go to stop for any cool stuff thats going on with the game! Coded completely from scratch by yours truly! (Tyler)... 11 year old me using wordpress would be so proud...
Sorry if it feels a little empty. But its hard to compete y'know? We're in a post smosh.com world! I can't keep up man!
What the FUMP is this?
This snazzy little website is kinda like a CENTRAL HUB of fnf free download NEWS. If there's ever something new going on with the game. You'll find me yapping about it here! I felt a lot like I was juggling between posting updates on the game between twitter, gamejolt and the discord. So I thought I could kinda try to CENTRALIZE it a bit. And I thought it could be cool to give out these small little bi-weekly updates on the games progress just like the REAL FNF devs! Keep in mind that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop posting updates on those websites, because that would suck. But it would really just be larger things like trailers or updates.
So (Tyler), how is the game going anyway?
Good! Me and Funne started working on weeknd 5 one-or-two weeks ago and we’re making good progress!!! I’ll leave the music stuff to funne but I can personally say I’m going to be spending ALOT of time drawing pictures for this update O_O. Which, I guess is true with every update but... Theres gonna be alot MORE of them!!! If you catch my drift...
Now I know code talk isn't for everybody so I'll try to keep it brief. Unless you like hearing about that? Then maybe I should go more in depth... eh whatever I'll just describe it normally. So one of the many new things that came along in the weeknd 4 update (that actually worked on release) was support for computers that couldn't run the shaders! For an entire year if you didn't have the right version of directX, you just couldn't run the game! But now thats history! I'm really proud of how it works because I really didn't want it to be some lame toggle in the options menu that you only knew you had to turn on AFTER the game crashes. It's all handled behind the scenes, and it works like a charm! The best way I can describe it is that it's kinda like a "fast graphics" mode, where the game just switches how it draws the sprites if the game detects that the shaders don't work.
There we go, problem solved right? Well... Now we have a new problem. Any player who can't run the shaders. Can't see Dude's glowing eyes since they're handled by a shader. And I don't know if you've played weeknd 4 but, thats a pretty important detail that a portion of the people playing aren't going to have. Now I swear this is relevant to weeknd 5's development because I wanted to try to make a sort of "software renderer" where instead of relying off of directX the game can do the shader math itself...
Didn't work.
But I did code up something very special this week. I can't show it because it is very spoilery, but... It's a first in many ways for free download.
Coloring hell
So I’m sure you're probably aware of the fact that when a character talks in game their text color is specific to them. Dude talks in yellow, Strad talks in purple, Buddy talks in… orange?
What the hell? No he doesn’t!?
Yeah I silently changed his text color in one of the recent patches. I’ll be completely honest I did not plan the whole text color thing ahead when I was assigning colors to each of the characters. So you sometimes get some weird overlaps, like how there are like 20 characters that are all associated with blues or greens. But the thing is, Buddy talks in red. There is a character that also talks in a very similar shade of red. Who I believe takes priority in claiming that color. So I changed buddy's color to orange. Thing is, it looks like crap, to put it bluntly. But thankfully I figured something out. So buddy is going back to his usual red in the next update or patch.
Let me hear from the other guy!
You’re right-You’re right! I could go on forever about stuff about the game but I gotta save some of that sweet stuff for future entries! So I’ll hand off the mic funne!!!
I AM...THE WEBMASTER!!
Okay, hello... I'm the guy that does the music for FNF FREE DOWNLOAD.
A lot of people credit Tyler for it, which I'm fine with because he does like 99% of the work for the game anyway. But if you don't know, now you know!
These last few weeks have been hard, music wise... I can pretty confidently say that the first song for weeknd 5 is like 70% done. And by confidently I mean... like it's done almost completely done but I wanna change some pretty important stuff. So it's gonna be done soon-ish? I can say that much. (I mean, it's not like you're gonna hear it soon anyway.)
FNF FREE DOWNLOAD ventures into the world of... alternative music?!
For a while I have wanted a song in free download that really pushes the boundaries of Friday Night Funkin' music... (I know, how pretentious am I)
Week 5 song 2 is looking like that. It's a really hard one to work on because my computer does not have the capability to load really memory-intensive flp files. So a lot of times while working on the song my CPU looks like this.
If you've never used FL Studio that's really bad!! That's like, all of the memory it's able to use before it crashes. I've found a temporary solution but it's sort of killed my motivation to work on the song...
For now though I can say when I'm done it's definitely gonna be a cool one. I think people are gonna like it. To give an example of what it might sound like, a big point of inspiration for me has been Jane Remover's recent Census Designated and "Ode to the Mets" by The Strokes. (You can also consider these music recommendations)
I'm noticing now it doesn't actually sound much like this...
Okay! Well, I think that's everything I wanted to talk about. Almost...
Over the last few weeks I've been posting little song snippets in the Discord server... not for anything directly free download-related, but just little free download-adjacent songs I felt like making... if you're not in the server, here's the one I posted last Friday. It's my favorite one i've done so far! :D
