Wow, it took me almost two years, but I finally finished the 0.8 update for Furry Emeto Date Night!

The link is the same as it always was:

https://www.queasymousey.com/

Even though FEDN is based on another game, Melissa Explains It All, I spent many years working on it privately without telling anyone before I uploaded it and posted it here. So when I ran out of steam and stalled out while working on the 0.8 update, I was never really worried that I wouldn't finish it; I always figured I'd come back to it like I always did. And so I did!

This update does a lot of things I've been wanting to do. Many of them are informed by comments people left on the game expressing things they wanted to see. I didn't do everything anyone requested, but I did implement quite a few changes based on the feedback! I don't necessarily expect folks to go back and play the game just for this update, since the game is still pretty fundamentally the same experience. But it's a slightly better version of the same experience, at least in my opinion, and that's nice!

The most important change for me personally was greatly expanded character creation options. You can now customize both yourself and your partner with a bunch of independently changeable options that go beyond just picking cis male or cis female. The biggest omissions in the update for me are that there aren't any robotic/protogen style options, and your partner can only have he or she pronouns. The latter is for grammatical reasons: They/them would change the plurality of other words in the sentence (he "runs" while they "run"), and this makes the text much harder to write and would introduce a lot of errors. So I kept it simple and limited to grammatically singular he/she pronouns, but you can assign them freely and independently of whatever body you want to give them.

Going with this was the necessity of overhauling the sex scene when you get back to your partner's apartment. Previously, if you were male, you had to penetrate them; if you were female and they were male, they would penetrate you; and if you were both women you would perform oral sex on them. I've now overhauled this to a menu with up to eight different sex acts, with oral, anal, and vaginal options and either you or your partner playing either role, with the list of options filtered only by what your respective anatomy will allow. You can now be much more "hardcore" and messy about emeto themes in sex, but this is strictly optional: There are still lots of opportunities to stop and let them go to the bathroom if they're feeling sick. If you ARE getting messy though, things can get very messy indeed. You can also now just skip the sex and go to sleep, if having sex isn't your jam. The option to press stop on the scene remains throughout foreplay, though once you pick the "fuck them" option you're committed.

I've also added a new scene, a short epilogue after you fall asleep with them where you wake up in the middle of the night sick and can decide how you react. If you wake them up, the game also does a sort of "alignment check" judgment on your playstyle, and your partner will treat you the same way you treated them throughout the game. Not in a bad way, it's more like... if you're always taking them to the bathroom when they're nauseous, they'll do that too. If you're always trying to keep them from going to the bathroom so they puke everywhere, they'll do the same thing. And if you seem to enjoy having them puke on you, well, they're into that too...

Other features include a new ipecac item, and the game being much more forgiving in terms of attraction penalties for your partner getting embarrassed in public. Now, if they throw up at the table in the diner, or in the popcorn bucket at the theater, or on the dance floor in the nightclub, or all over the passenger seat of your car, their embarrassment/shame won't reduce their attraction toward you. This change is intended to encourage experimentation and just let you play how you want to play!

In general, my philosophy with FEDN is that your partner is not-so-secretly super kinky and willing to match your energy on almost everything, and while there are opportunities for conflict and cases where you hit boundaries, or they push back and argue about stuff, there's generally a way to stand your ground without upsetting them, or it was an issue where you went too far too fast. They actually love the content of the game; they're willing to go pretty far with it. But you've also just met, so you need to show some chemistry before you can get too wild with things.

Thanks for reading and I hope y'all enjoy the game!