Hello everyone!

I'm happy to announce that the v0.9.0 update is officially complete, and it's now out for all paid members!

This update's scope is huge. Not only it introduces the option to pick a vagina at character creation (along with full dialogue compatibility across all existing events and scenes), it also added two brand-new vagina-exclusive scenes: one where Verity pleasures the MC, and the other where the MC pleasures Verity. On top of that, I completely overhauled the functionality of the Alter Self spell to make it easier, faster, and more intuitive to swap your genitals at will!

I also want to give a huge thank you to the group of volunteer playtesters who helped hunt down bugs and crashes during the development of this update. The sheer amount of issues that they caught - which would have easily slipped by if I had been testing alone - cannot be overstated. So if you're reading this, thank you for helping make Beyond Worlds University a better game!

With all that out of the way, let's get to the changelog!

🌟 Changelog for v0.9.0 "The Anatomy Update"

Welcome to v0.9.0: The Anatomy Update! This major update introduces comprehensive support for a vagina-having Main Character, two massive new interactive sex scenes, an overhaul of the Alter Self spell and character customization, expanded lifestyles, fluid simulation enhancements, and a wide array of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes.

🧬 Vagina-Having Main Character & Anatomy Expansion

You can now choose to have a vagina at character creation, with deep systemic, narrative, and mechanical integration across the entire game:

Dynamic Character Creation & Intro: Character creation now fully supports picking a vagina. The game's opening intimate encounter with Verity dynamically adapts to your anatomy, seamlessly routing into Verity's Handjob scene or the new Receiving scene based on your chosen genitalia.

Comprehensive Gender & Pronoun Integration: Reviewed and revised dialogue, narration, and flirtation choices throughout the game. Verity dynamically tailors her dialogue, terms of endearment, and reactions based on your pronouns and anatomy without relying on hard-coded gender assumptions.

Anatomy-Specific Dialogue Reactions:

Verity’s first-time tasting dialogue now branches dynamically based on whether you have a penis or a vagina.

Verity’s first-time breast exposure scene now reacts directly to the player character's breast size.

Climax handling across shared encounters (such as the Kissing scene) now properly accommodates both penis and vagina climaxes.

Natural Vagina Wetness Mechanics: As a vagina-having character reaches higher levels of arousal (600+ pleasure), their vagina becomes naturally wet. This triggers dedicated wetness visuals on their sprite and grants natural friction bonuses during sexual interactions.

🔥 New Vagina-Exclusive Sex Scenes

1. The "Receiving" Scene (Be Serviced by Verity)

A fully animated, multi-stage interactive sex scene where Verity takes charge of pleasuring a vagina-having player:

Interactive Sub-Actions: Engage in Vaginal Fingering, Anal Fingering, Cunnilingus, and Anilingus with responsive animation pacing and custom UI icons.

"Pinch Own Nipple" Off-Hand Action: Added a dedicated off-hand action allowing the MC to stimulate their own nipples, complete with unique 2D hand art variants tailored across all player breast sizes and body types.

Dedicated "Squirt in Mouth" Climax Sequence: Reaching a climax while targeting Verity’s mouth triggers an exclusive, fully animated sequence (unlocked by Verity's cunnilingus experience), featuring a dedicated animation branch for players with the "Abundance" perk.

Post-Sex Cleanup Sequence: Verity can now lick the MC clean during post-sex dialogue if their vagina is wet or soiled after intimacy.

2. The "Giving" Scene (Service Verity)

A fully animated, player-led interactive sex scene designed for pleasuring Verity without requiring a penis:

Dynamic Position Switching: Seamlessly toggle between "lying back" (missionary perspective) and "all fours" (doggystyle perspective) using the "turn her around" interaction.

Tribbing / Scissoring Mechanics: Engage in passionate clitoral tribbing with full animation sets and dynamic fluid transfer: crotch wetness on either partner dynamically rubs off and lubricates the other.

Dildo Penetration: Verity’s gifted dildo can be utilized for both vaginal and anal penetration. Switching to anal dildo play dynamically guides Verity onto all fours. Holding the dildo realistically occupies the player's primary hand.

Context-Sensitive Reactions & Controls: Features dynamic facial expressions, randomized dialogue, unique climax commentary, and intelligent climax handling (e.g., squirting on Verity’s face automatically turns her head toward you).

Favorite Position Integration: All sub-actions across both Receiving and Giving scenes are tracked individually in Verity’s climax history, allowing her to organically adopt them as her favorite positions with corresponding pleasure multipliers.

🔮 Alter Self & Character Customization Overhaul

Consolidated Customization Screen: Genital selection, breast size, physical frame, and skin color are now united under a single, streamlined interface with a real-time dynamic body sprite preview.

Cast Anywhere: You no longer need to be in your dorm room to cast Alter Self; the spell can now be accessed and cast directly from the Spellbook during free roam.

Appearance Presets: You can now save an appearance preset (frame, breast size, skin color) for each genital type.

Intimacy & Scene Hub Integration:

A "Swap Genitals" quick-action is available directly on the sex scene selection screen if you know the Alter Self spell.

Spontaneous position switching intelligently respects anatomy. Verity will only request anatomically incompatible positions if you know Alter Self, automatically quick-casting the spell and applying your saved preset before the new scene begins.

NPC Recognition System: Love Interests remember your appearance configurations. If you radically change your appearance and greet them, they will react with custom non-recognition dialogue before growing accustomed to your new form, but they will remember your previous forms.

📜 Spells, Traits & Lifestyles

Anal-Only Lifestyle Expansion:

If you've locked yourself out of organically influencing Verity to adopt an anal-only lifestyle, you can persuade her to adopt it via intimacy dialogue (requiring a Seduction check). You can still condition her organically over time by prioritizing anal interactions while avoiding vaginal ones entirely (including foreplay!).

Once she's officially adopted the lifestyle, Verity will strictly refuse any vaginal stimulation (penetration, dildos, fingering, or cunnilingus).

Her lifestyle dedication can be inspected at any time using the Mind Probe spell.

Dream Projection Automation:

Casting Dream Projection from the spellbook opens a new management screen to configure nightly auto-casting options, designate preferred targets/variants, or disable nightly casting altogether. Passing out from exhaustion (0 AP) bypasses auto-casting - you have to manually sleep in order to cast it either manually or automatically.

First-Time Spell Reactions: Added unique reaction dialogue when Verity is first exposed to the "Grow Extra Appendages" and "Bilocation" spells.

"Inept" Trait (Hard Mode): Added an optional "Inept" starting trait at character creation that grants no bonuses and blocks acquiring additional traits. It can be permanently cleansed by paying 5 tokens to Meditate at the Leisure Ward spa.

"Abundance" Perk Toggle: Added a Preferences option allowing players to disable the extreme bukkake-themed visual layers and narration while retaining the perk's full mechanical benefits.

Vigor Perk Clarification: Updated the descriptions of Vigor perks to clearly state their role in lowering the Difficulty Class (DC) of Fitness "power through" checks.

⚙️ Mechanics & Quality of Life

Gameplay Options Menu: Added a dedicated "Gameplay Options" screen inside Preferences with detailed tooltips, consolidating settings like automatic fluid cleanup from plugged holes, footjob shoe stripping, and accessory classifications.

Intimacy Menu Reorganization: Divided the crowded Intimacy dialogue menu into clean, categorized sub-menus: `Accessories`, `Preferences`, and `Sexual Behavior`.

Centralized Intimacy DC Database: Rebuilt all sexual interaction skill checks into a centralized Difficulty Class database, ensuring consistent, balanced scaling across all actions, transitions, and climaxes.

Persistent Wetness & Fluid Layering:

Squirting and vaginal fluids now utilize an independent "wetness" system that visually stacks alongside cum layers rather than replacing them.

Fluid layers correctly persist on characters after sex scenes and onto their free-roam sprites until cleaned.

Underwear, skirts, and dresses now render on top of bodily fluids, preventing cum or wetness from awkwardly displaying over clothing.

Anal Readiness Progression: Anilingus and anal fingering now officially advance a Love Interest's anal readiness value (albeit at a slower rate than penetrative actions/butt plugs).

MC Pleasure Decay: The Main Character's pleasure now naturally decays over time blocks and day rollovers, matching Love Interest mechanics.

Performance & Animation Optimizations:

Players can now switch between "Animation Quality" mode (recommended for desktops) and "Performance" mode (recommended for mobile/lower-end hardware). This toggle can be found in the new Gameplay Options Menu under the Preferences screen.

Fixed animation clock timing to eliminate body part desyncs across multi-layered intimacy animations.

UI & Navigation Polish:

In-game tutorial dialogues can now be instantly skipped using the Enter or Return key.

The Wardrobe screen now uses isolated context execution, allowing it to remain open seamlessly through dialogue interactions (e.g., outfit commentary).

Verity automatically offers her phone number upon reaching 100 affinity.

Added official Discord, Patreon, and SubscribeStar buttons to the Main Menu and a developer support message to the Quit confirmation screen.

Save Compatibility & Backend Fixes:

MC skin color is now stored per individual save file rather than as a global persistent setting, preventing skin color from bleeding across different playthroughs.

Corrected a longstanding codebase-wide spelling error for "anilingus" across variables, flags, and file paths, backed by automatic save-file conversion on load.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fitness Check Spam: Fixed a logic flaw that was causing D20 Fitness skill checks to "power through" to be spammed every "tick" after you ran out of climax charges during sex. Now, if you pass the power through Fitness check a single time, you no longer have to keep succeeding repeatedly.

Action Point Deduction Timing: Fixed an issue where dialogue labels would deduct Action Points (AP) before the interaction began, which could silently cancel actions if interrupted; AP is now safely spent at the conclusion of dialogue.

Dating & Texting Logic: Fixed Love Interests texting the player to hang out or invite them to sex while already actively waiting at a scheduled affinity event location.

Affinity Event Continuity: Fixed a bug where completing a sex scene during an affinity event broke continuity and prematurely kicked the player back to free roam instead of resuming the event.

Audio & Visual Leaks: Fixed room-specific ambient SFX and VFX continuing to play and leaking into new rooms when the player was forcefully teleported during an event.

Unnatural Lust Crash: Fixed a crash that occurred when casting the Unnatural Lust spell during intimate encounters.

Blowjob Scene Fixes: Fixed a crash occurring during the "cum in mouth" climax animation, and restored missing facial expression attributes on Verity's head displayable.

Cafeteria Hangout Crash: Fixed a crash when attempting to have coffee at the cafeteria (either alone or accompanied by Verity).

D20 Roll Screen Hotkey Crash: Fixed the D20 Roll screen crashing upon entry due to an invalid hotkey mapping.

Missionary & Doggystyle Pleasure Tuning: Fixed an issue where cumming on Verity's body during Doggystyle and Missionary scenes awarded her an unintended amount of pleasure.

Doggystyle Clothing Clipping: Fixed Verity's Doggystyle clothing sprites visually clipping through overshirts by implementing dynamic layered masking.

Public & Secluded Sex Logic: Fixed Verity refusing to undress during sex scenes initiated in secluded public spaces, and ensured high-kink positions are properly restricted from open public areas.

Intimacy Dirty Talk AP: Fixed dirty talk action handlers in Missionary and Doggystyle scenes improperly subtracting AP using an unsafe method.

Missionary Leg Tattoos: Fixed Verity's leg tattoos displaying incorrectly in the Missionary scene.

Doggystyle Interaction Conflicts:

Slapping Verity's ass during Doggystyle no longer interrupts the "spread ass" off-hand action.

Fixed a conflict resolution issue when turning Verity's head during Doggystyle scenes.

Fixed a typo preventing the "nibble ear" off-hand action in Doggystyle from correctly awarding stats to Verity.

Dialogue & Narration Interpolation: Fixed instances of narration and dialogue displaying outdated or raw variable names instead of interpolated text.

Gender-Agnostic Dialogue Polish: Replaced hard-coded gendered terms across existing dialogue with dynamic pronoun and identity checks.

General Polish: Fixed numerous typos and grammatical errors across various dialogue, tooltips, and system files.

🔗 Download Links & Closing Thoughts

Please report any bugs you find either here, or on the game's Discord server!

You can download the game using the MEGA links below, or by downloading them directly from the post's attached files.

PC/Linux | Mac | Android

With v0.9.0 complete, the game's foundations are laid, and I can finally start building up. This means that the next big update, v0.10.0, will finally start adding new Love Interests!

The plan for now is to create 2-3 all-new Love Interests from scratch, complete with idle sprites, an introduction sequence, and their basic dialogue and schedule - not unlike the current implementation of Ophelia. These will be added into the game, and from that point, I'll make a poll to see which of these LIs you all want to see expanded upon first.

After that, the chosen character will have their sex scenes, affinity events, dates, and all of their individual content added iteratively in future updates. I've been itching to start adding new characters since the very beginning of development, and I hope you're all as excited as I am to get started.

That's it from me for today. I have some things planned for the near future regarding the current state of Patreon tiers, so keep an eye out for news on that front. Other than that, I hope you all enjoy the new update.

Cheers,

Mr. Crowne.

🔥 v0.9.0a Hotfix

This hotfix addresses several critical crashes, progression soft-locks on legacy save files, dialogue timing bugs, and visual glitches identified following the release of v0.9.0.

🛠️ Crashes & Critical Fixes

Favorite Position Crash: Fixed a crash when asking Verity what her favorite position is early in the game before she has established a preferred position.

Legacy Save Trait Soft-Lock: Resolved a soft-lock occurring when loading older saves where the player character already possessed all available traits, which trapped the player in the character customization trait picker screen with no valid traits left to select.

Skin Color Migration Crash: Fixed a rare crash occurring during save migration sequence caused by corrupted or unrecognized skin color string values, adding robust validation and safe fallback defaults.

💖 Intimacy, Dialogue & Flow Fixes

Anal-Only Lifestyle Position Switching: Fixed an indentation error in the Missionary scene logic where Verity would reject all position switch requests (including switching to anal positions) if she had adopted the Anal-Only lifestyle.

"Grow Extra Appendages" Reaction Timing: Fixed Verity's first-time reaction dialogue for the "Grow Extra Appendages" spell triggering at inappropriate times (e.g., firing upon returning to the intimacy menu from the kissing scene after the extra arms had already been used, or failing to trigger if the encounter began with a spontaneous kiss).

🎨 Visual & UI Fixes

Blowjob Cleanup Missing Face Assets: Fixed a bug where Verity's eyes and eyebrows disappeared from her sprite during the Blowjob cleanup sequence. The idle head sprite was missing specific facial expression attributes, causing her face to render blank when transitioning from rough sex, anal play, or sniffing musk. Added the missing attributes and safe fallback handlers.

Demonic Lineage Perk Screen Feedback: Updated the Demonic Lineage perk screen with informative feedback explaining why the "Extra Trait" perk cannot be purchased once all character traits are already owned.

Trait Purchase Safeguards: Added an internal helper method along with safety checks to prevent redundant or invalid trait acquisition.

Intro Customizer Flag Reset: Properly reset a flag after finishing character customization during the intro sequence, ensuring skin color customization screen doesn't pop up repeatedly when loading existing saves.

Other minor typos corrected.

🔥 v0.9.0b Hotfix

Save Pickling Crash: Fixed a crash during save file creation/loading caused by a local helper function being defined in a way that corrupted Ren'Py's object pickling system. Moved the helper to a global initialization block so saves serialize safely.

Intro D20 Settings Flow: Added context handling to the D20 Settings screen. When accessing D20 customization during the intro sequence, clicking "Done" now properly returns to and advances the character creation flow rather than mistakenly opening the main Preferences menu.

Duplicate Preferences Button: Removed a duplicate "Customize D20 Roll System" button appearing under the Gameplay section in the Preferences screen.

Gift Limit Notification Interpolation: Fixed string interpolation for the dialogue gift button tooltip/notification when attempting to give an LI multiple gifts on the same day, preventing the raw string [char_name] from being shown instead of the character's actual name.