New FFR Revision (Version .704) Released Today!
There are a long list of bug fixes and feature updates. I am really short on time this morning so I will have to edit this news story later to show you all the updates. One I think the public will love is.. well.. scrollrate changes! Go check out the settings tab!
bb later to detail the list.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Why Stop Now? More Fun on the Way Tonight! FFR Giveaways!
We had a huge day today with the giveaways and 10 new songs. I think we can take this one step further though. I still have an itching to give a few things away today. Maybe even a few more subscriptions.
*EDIT* 11:19pm Central Time -
Alright, lets kick off this late night giveaway with something easy.. Lets give Kailure a shirt. Kailure, PM JasonKey with your size and address. We will make sure one gets shipped out to you early this week.
*EDIT* 11:30pm Central Time -
Does anyone here live in Canada? *edit* ice_dragon9477 said he lives in Canada.. ice_dragon9477 congrats, pm JasonKey with the size you wear and the address.
*EDIT* 11:50pm Central Time-
How about some hardcore vinyl FFR stickers? I am not talking little paper stickers.. these things are like 4 inches tall and custom cut with a vinyl cutter. Want one? go post a comment or photo in your profile. I will go check the latest updated profiles list in about 5 minutes and pick one of the most recent profiles. That person will get a vinyl FFR sticker.
Adamaja456, your profile was active and it was blue. You win the sticker. PM JasonKey with your address and the sticker type you want.
*EDIT* 12:00 Midnight Central Time
Ok.. I am going to buy your lunch for you tomorrow if you win this one. I will paypal you $10 out of my personal account directly to your paypal account. Let me think about the criteria for a minute.
The first person to tell me when Denny’s closes will get the $10. You can respond in this news story or in the forum thread for FFR Summer Kickoff Subscription Giveaway Thread.
newblue22 won this one! newblue22 pm me your paypal account info and I will immediately paypal you the $10 for lunch tomorrow. You can spend it at Denny’s or the BK lounge. Dine anywhere else and you will be disrespecting FFR.
*EDIT* 12:20am Central Time
Omg.. I found another $10 in my paypal account. It’s time to buy another lunch!
If you make music and your name starts with a “D” and ends with a “Y” and you are the first one that responds here or in the forum. I am going to buy your lunch tomorrow.
DrugstoreCowboy wins! Send me your paypal address!
*EDIT* 12:34 pm. alright.. That’s it for our day of giveaways everyone. I am tired and have an FFR release to do in the morning. I hope everyone enjoyed the day. It was a monster. We have a couple more interesting things happening in June and I will keep everyone updated about them. (like a possible meetup in Chicago mid June). G’night everyone!
Cheers,
Synthlight
6 Hours of FFR Subscriptions Giveaways and Song Additions Begins!
As noted in yesterday’s news, FFR will be giving away a free subscription per hour for 6 hours straight today. We will also be adding a total of 10 new songs to FFR throughout the day! All winners and new songs will be posted here in this news story. The criteria to win will be posted hourly for each and every hour.
Remember, 12:00 noon Central Time = 1:00pm Eastern time and 10:00am Pacific Time.
Forum Discussion Click Here and of Support FFR Click Here
12:00 – Top person on latest profiles when I announce the start of the giveaway / contest.
Winner: JayJayBoy (You don’t need to do anything, we will auto-subscribe you shortly)
Song: Fahrenheit is by Envy,who is known for temperature related songs. It is the first file in the game by Valtrix.
1:00 – Winner will be the latest game played on FFR at exactly 1:00pm my time.
Winner: Sabia is our 1pm winner. Congrats!
Song: Sympathizer is a 200bpm song by ASK, stepped by ASK’s #1 supporter, Cyanite. It has 152 4-framers.
2:00 – Here is a trivia question for you. At 2:00pm, be the first to respond to this news story or the official forum thread for this news story with the answer. Question – What was the first song ever in FFR? Remember, at the top of the next hour at 2:00pm Central time exactly you must be the first to answer in order to win.
Winner: While Kailure came in a close second. rebel yell has won the subscription for this hour. Keep trying!
Song: Take Me Back is a Kyle Ward song under his alias KaW. It is Brilliant Dynamite Neon’s 1st song on FFR.
3:00 – Post a picture in the official thread in the forum for this contest that encompasses your excitement to be a subscriber for free. Entries will be reviewed at 3:00pm central and the winning entry will be picked by Ceiling Cat.
Winner: WTFBrandon Congrats on being the winner. How could an outfit like that not win?
Song: Go! is a fun little japanese-esque tune from DM Ashura. Steps are by Tass’s personal favorite re-re-re-re-re-submitter, Kit-.
4:00 – Leave message(s) in WTFBrandon’s Profile.. Most original wins! Spammination
Winner: Froston – “I fear Dolphins” Congrats man. Welcome aboard!
Song: Wrath is our first tune from beatmouse and our 3rd from Psychozerosk8r.
5:00 – Write a small paragraph in the official forum thread or in response to this news story on what ceiling cat means to you. Winner will be decided by a person who I pick at random to judge the stories.
Winner: WhyCry – Congrats.. We all love ceiling cat. He is our inner strength.
Song: Drum Song is cute Indian folk tune off of pdmusic.org. As with all the recent PD works, this one is also by pokelda.
6:00 – 630-270-2714 <-Call this Number at FFR and leave a singing message on the voicemail about anything. Don't forget to mention your FFR username in the message!
Winner: sarahxjane is our winner! Why? Because she genuinely wants that subscription. She deserves it.
Song: Song? More like songs.. And all these are open to the public. These songs reside in Dance2 and one of them is in Rock.
Sunshine Stone is by sleeplessdragn, his 5th song in the game. It is his debut as a stepfile author though. He’s the 3rd person to both make the song and the steps, joining Wlokos and SquareBear
Harry Potter Techno Remix is our 1st cornandbeans song not to feature brackets. It’s stepped by jimerax.
the Brain of the Moon is a long Rock song by dBu, stepped by Rebirth0.
Solitude Sun is a unbeat piece by DJ Sharpnel. Steps are by Silver_Brian.
I want to thank everyone for taking part in the event today. It was 6 hours of complete madness and I am surprised that so many of you stuck in there. We will be announcing at some point this evening an additional 2 participants that will get a free FFR t-shirt of their choice.
A big welcome to the 6 new subscribers today! 
Cheers,
Synthlight
Welcome to Summer! Subscription Giveaway #1 This Saturday!
First off, I want to welcome everyone to summer. How can I tell that it is summer you ask? Not by the hot & humid weather out here in Chicago.. Not the Cicada brood buzzing outside of our windows.. I can tell it is summer because we typically have over 1500 people at any given second on the site at 10:00am in the morning. Even at our lowest traffic point at 4am we still have almost 700 people on playing FFR or chatting. It’s good to see you all enjoying yourself. As everyone finishes up with school, the traffic will intensify even more I am sure.
So I was trying to think of a way to kind of kick off the summer. I came to the conclusion that we would start it off tomorrow afternoon with a new subscription giveaway! Basically, at 12:00 Noon Central Time (1pm Eastern) we are going to be giving away 1 subscription an hour for 6 hours straight! How will we decide the giveways? It’s simple, at the top of each hour we will announce how we will pick the winner.. or.. we will tell you what you need to do in order to try and win the subscription for the next hour. Think of it as a very easy all day “FFR Spontaneous contest”.
What could possibly make this contest any better? Well at the top of each hour, we will be releasing a new song to the subscribers and beta team! So that is 6 songs total that will be released tomorrow. But will we stop there? Nope, You know I am more crazy than that.. At the end of the 6th hour we will release an additional 4 songs to the public! This will bring the new subscriber and public song releases up to a blistering 10 new songs this weekend!
While subscriber songs always flow out to the public eventually in a few weeks, subscribers and beta team members get first play to get on the highscore list and give feedback. Subscribers and beta team members also get access to the subscriber forum to help actively test and form the future of FFR (not to mention beta access to the latest version of FFR). For those who don’t subscribe, you would be surprised at how many threads and posts we have in there now. I could go on and on about the benefits (like discounts in the FFR store and custom titles etc) but I will leave all that for another time. /plug
If you guys are interesting in joining us over on the darkside. Here is the link to the subscriber setup area (you must have an FFR username) Thank you if you are considering helping out FFR. All money goes directly to the development and the costs of running the site.
Oh yeah, there is a new public release of FFR coming out on Sunday! It will be released at exactly 8:00am on Sunday central time. I will list the new features at the time of release.
Big thanks from all of us. Welcome to summer!
Cheers,
Synthlight + The June Bugs
SOTW News Update (First week of June) – Music by Cranky and Banzai
Friday’s song is J219 (Ura-Rokkou Mix), a cool sounding eurobeat/rave song by Cranky. Cyanite stepped this file, and he stepped it with the correct difficulty and everything. It’s a 4/6 in difficulty (Very Difficult) It has some jumpstream, some 24th bursts, 24th gallops and a lot of other stuff. The music won’t keep you bored when playing this, and the simfile shouldn’t either.
Today’s song is another well known song from the game “In The Groove”. It’s Zodiac, one of two songs made by Banzai that appear on the first In The Groove game. It’s another nice simfile created by dore. It’s easy for the most part. Slow 16th gallops and stream. The only hard part of the file is a small 32nd stream in the middle. That’s why we rate it a 3/6 (Tricky)
Enjoy these two songs
Summer FFR Merchandise. Ideas Anyone?
Now that it is officially on it’s way to being scorching hot here in Chicago, I thought it would be useful to see what you guys were looking to have stocked in the FFR Store. Sure we have quite a few t-shirt designs and a vinyl stickers and all that.. but… What kind of products do you want to see besides those? If you guys can think of anything and the demand is there, I will have it made. I don’t care what the idea is. The idea could be custom Rubik’s cubes or underwear or fishing poles. Lets hear some ideas and I will get the ball moving to get them produced.
Don’t be scared to shout out your ideas. Think of this as kind of a large scale brainstorming session.
Cheers,
Synthlight
SOTW – 4th Week of May
Friday’s song is one stepped by Jimerax and is entitled Expedite. The artist is xTrance, I don’t know anything else about that. The simfile is rated Tricky (3/6), so it’s fairly easy to score well on. The first ~220 arrows of the simfile shouldn’t be a problem at all but once you pass 220 combo you’ll run into the real difficulty of the file. It’s got a lot of 16th action near the end but it’s not that fast of a bpm.
Today’s song is another one of my simfiles, but this one is different than all of my others. This one is actually easy!!! MY GOD REBIRTH MADE AN EASY SIMFILE! I realize I’ve made a TON of simfiles rated Very Difficult and higher, and absolutely zero that are easier than Difficult. It’s time to change that, I’ll start making some easy simfiles along with my more difficult ones. I’ll start with Lesson. It’s an easy and gentle piano song made by Kil. A good fraction of the file is just a bunch of 4th jumps that are spread throughout the file, but it has quite a few little 12th note streams to make it more fun. This one is rated Standard (2.5)
Over the last few weeks we’ve mainly been adding harder songs to the game. Giving the experts more fun but leaving the newbies to sit crying and waiting for easier simfiles to play. Well, starting now we’ll be releasing some easier simfiles for a couple weeks to make up for this. So don’t expect a huge challenge out of the SOTWs for the next couple weeks.
Have fun,
FFR Token #19. Who Will Find It First?
Welcome! Welcome Welcome! We thought it was about time we let all of you play with another FFR Token. Again, it’s a rather easy one. The answer will be right in front of your face and like I said, easy. We will work you into a more difficult token in a few days. Seriously, this token is so easy that if I say any more, 100% of the people will get it. Just check it out and like I said, the answer is right in front of your face. +
Click here to look for token 19
Cheers,
Synthlight, JasonKey and the many who work hard to make FFR possible!
FFR Featured on ZDnet’s Social Web Blog
I just wanted to let everyone know that to my surprise, I checked my messages and Steve O’Hear himself had let me know that he had written up an article on FFR that encompasses both the game aspect and the ever expanding social networking side of FFR. Here is the link if you wish to go support the article:
Don’t forget to tell Steve thanks for his support of FFR. I am overwhelming joyful that someone else understands what our community here has experienced for the last 4 years. And that is a sense of (no matter how twisted!) community & entertainment all rolled up into one insane package we call FFR.
Looking on from here with already 1.2 million members, things look great and I look forward to our further development over the next year.
Did I forget to mention that I squashed the secret arrows bug today? Yes I did. It’s all part of our Flash 9 beta version of FFR and will be up soon.
Cheers,
Synthlight
