Date-Night Masses

Friday Night Funkin' Date-Night Masses is an upcoming official, non-canon mod made by the Beyond Mid-Fight Masses Team and approved by Mike Geno, the last active developer of Mid-Fight Masses. The mod will be a full-week mod with three songs, new sprites, and voice acting. It will serve as an official send-off to Mid-Fight Masses in the same way The Date Week was the final send-off for the Whitty mod.

The mod takes place in a Mid-Fight Masses alternative universe where Sarvente and Ruv are in a relationship instead of being just friends.

The mod tasks players to help Ruv convince Sarvente to date him by singing.

Plot
The mod starts with Ruv in bed sleeping. He has a nightmare of him and Sarvente breaking the vow, and she excessively blames him for causing it. Ruv wakes up from the terrifying nightmare.

In the morning, Ruv and Sarvente arrived at the kitchen on the coffee table. There, Ruv asks if Sarvente has any plans for the night. The two converse about it during the song.

After the song, Sarvente is convinced and will spend time with Ruv. They will start in the garden. The demo finishes and will continue soon.

Cameos

 * RetroSpecter is seen on a box of cereal.
 * Rebecca from Starving Artist is seen on a snack box.
 * KadeDev’s Poggy Chair.
 * There is at least a 20% chance of that appearing instead of the jar of cookies on the counter in Matins.
 * The main developers of Mid-Fight Masses carved on the left wall of the kitchen:
 * Dokki.doodlez (Creator)
 * Mike Geno (Composer)
 * kuroao_anomal (Charter and Programming)
 * Sticky is available as a skin in the options menu.
 * Kikyo is available as an opponent in freeplay.

Development History
The announcement came after the developers of Mid-Fight Masses set the mod to private on GameBanana. The mod has been in the works and planned before The Date Week. Mid-Fight Masses becoming private had led the team to announce it early. There is currently no release date due to the amount of content and programming the mod will have. Furthermore, the team consists of teenagers, ages 13-16 years old, and young adults who have better things to do.

On August 3, 2021, the third song on hard difficulty is composed along with the first song on August 5, 2021. On August 30, 2021, the team finished drawing the backgrounds.

Due to a massive raid party on Gamebanana, the Beyond Mid-Fight Masses Team has opened a Gamejolt page for the mod on September 3, 2021, to prevent risking it again.

On September 9, 2021, the development team had at least 69% of the mod finished. The progress bar will remain as it is until the mod is complete.

On September 11, 2021, the developers announced the mod integrates with Gamejolt achievements. On September 12, 2021, the development team finished the prologue, voice acting dialogue, and charting the third stage on hard mode. Currently, the development team has updated the mod to Kade Engine 1.7. On September 18, 2021, the team finished Ruv's Sprites, Sarvente's storyboard for stage 1, the Gamejolt achievement integration, and charting is nearly complete. Currently, poses for stage 2 sprites, cutscenes, charting, and the freeplay menu are in development. On September 23, 2021, the leaderboards are fully functional.

On October 28, 2021, Belgianredacted on Twitter confirmed that the mod will have a happy ending.

On November 3, 2021, Belgianredacted on Twitter confirmed that the mod will be compatible with Macbooks and Linux once it releases.

Before the language implementation, the Beyond Mid-Fight Masses Team was unsure of implementing several other languages in the mod, especially Korean and Spanish. The team finished the Korean and Spanish language translations for the script on November 6, 2021. The team is now developing Korean, Spanish, French, and English subtitle translations for the cutscenes. On November 14, 2021, the development team are finished with the cutscenes. On November 18, 2021, the development team has updated the Kade Engine to 1.8.

On November 21, 2021, the development team has announced that they will give Sticky and KikyoBerry an exclusive demo copy of the mod for them to stream.

On November 28, 2021, the first demo was streamed by Sticky of Youtube. One cutscene and one song is finished. Three joke songs are included.
 * It was also confirmed during the stream that it will be on Psyche Engine.

There is no specified release date planned for the mod. However, according to Temp, she states that the mod will probably be released somewhere around early 2022.In a bright bit of news, #datenightmasses will *probably* release beginning of 2022. No promises though, we will release when it's done and no earlier. Besides Temp, the development team estimated that the mod's released date may be released around Valentine's DayI really hope that streamers don't have Valentine's Day plans because it's looking more and more like we're going to have a Valentine's release date for #datenightmasses. or March due to lack of motivation.I have a feeling #datenightmasses will be delayed till around March 2022. The team will be pretty busy/demotivated in December, and we want to remake some stuff to really give the best of the best, but take this with a grain of salt, motivation works in a weird way.

Beyond Mid-Fight Masses Team
The Beyond Mid-Fight Masses Team is an international team that is currently developing the Date-Night Masses mod. According to Temp The Writer, she states that the team is a "chaotic energy in the best way."

BelgianRedacted has also stated that the development team doesn't get paid. However, the adults on the team have spent money for Adobe Licenses for the animators, Discord Nitro, a new pen to replace a broken one for one of their animators, and gifted one of the musicians a $40 FL Studio piano font as a gift for one of their music.

Funny Number Update (August 27, 2021)

 * Main tracks are complete.

Funny Number Update v1.1 (August 28, 2021)

 * Gamebanana Page Work In Progress page tweaking
 * More promotional images have been added.
 * YouTube links have been added
 * "Places I've been" heading has been added. The following are listed for humorous purposes:
 * Your Mom's House
 * I forgor
 * I rember
 * "Software used" heading has been added. The following list shows the software applications used by the team to make the mod.
 * AliExpress
 * YouTube
 * Sky: Children of the Light
 * Cookie Run
 * Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
 * Roblox
 * UTAU
 * Minecraft
 * Friday Night Funkin'
 * MS Paint
 * Google Chrome
 * Discord
 * HaxeFlixel
 * Clip Studio Paint
 * FireAlpaca
 * Premiere Pro
 * Photoshop
 * FL Studio
 * Medibang Pro
 * LMMS

Funny Number Update v1.2 (September 6, 2021)

 * The soundtrack is nearly complete.
 * Prologue cutscenes are finished.
 * Voice lines have been recorded.
 * Hard difficulty mode on Stage 3 have been recharted; charting for Stage 1 will begin tomorrow.
 * Ruv's Stage 1 sprites are nearly complete.
 * Updated the engine to Kade Engine 1.7.
 * More teasers will be coming soon.

Another Update (FN Update v1.2) (January 20, 2022)

 * Stage 1 sprites have been reanimated, Stage 2 and 3 sprites are currently in development, and unlockable songs are available.
 * The mod will now be on Psych Engine 0.5.1.
 * Music has been completed with 9 playable songs.
 * A "Streamer Mode" has been implemented to the mod. When the OBS/Streamlabs is detected by the mod, the pause menu will greet streamers' chat.
 * Credit list has been updated for new developers who have worked on the mod and former developers, a demo build has been released only to StickyBM and KikyoBerry, and the anticipated release date is set for either Feburary or March 2022.

Music
The following songs were confirmed:
 * Affinity
 * Coolmatins
 * Archvente
 * Dominance
 * One credits song.

Trivia

 * There will be cameos in the mod. According to Temp The Writer, she highly encourages players to look carefully over the backgrounds and files of the mod to find easter eggs.
 * The Mid-Fight Masses article on TV Tropes mentions the mod.
 * Sometimes, the Beyond Mid-Fight Masses team reads the Bible on a Friday night while working on the mod.
 * A piece of the mod's charting will make the shape of a heart.
 * After the mod's release, Temp The Writer will post the script on her Archive of Our Own account.
 * Sticky will be the first YouTuber to receive an advanced copy of the mod.
 * @ThisIsNoerlol came up with mod's title.
 * @sonzai_buredo created the Mid-Fight Masses Community Discord server, which is how a majority of the team met.
 * The rat on the counter is a nod to one of the people in the MFM Community Discord, Ir3land. The rat is Rataver, her OC, which is Selever but as a rat.
 * @belgianredacted wants a mod that focuses on facing Team Mid-Fight Masses Beyond, but it will have to wait after Date-Night Masses releases.
 * There are 5 episodes that show the daily life of the development team: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, and Episode 5.
 * On November 10, 2021, the Date-Night Masses Gamejolt page has reached 100 followers.
 * The entirety of the Date-Night Masses development team stated and encouraged people to post their fanart and fanworks on Twitter under the 'datenightmasses' hashtag.
 * In alternative universe #69-420, Sarvente "pegged" Ruv so hard that she crippled his legs, putting him in a wheelchair.
 * According to Temp, and based on Ruv's game over sprite, Ruv isn't entirely human anymore; but according to BWDragon, Ruv is not a demon.
 * In line with Ruv's design, BWDragon stated that his design was based on dokki.doodlez's concept of Sarvente as a skeleton so that he did not feel left out of the MFM universe. The design details on the skeleton such as the twisting rose vines, rose in the eye, and small horns are carried from Sarvente due to lore symbolism. However, the bigger horns and black void areas were avoided because Ruv "isn't a demon.." The colors of the skeleton were based on dokki.doodlez's drawing of Rasazy (the non-canon daughter of the two), where the pink was based on Sarvente and the cyan being carried over to Ruv.
 * Jokingly, BWDragon asked if the blue balls could be added to the Ruv skeleton, but everyone in the team ended up agreeing that Ruv's blue balls "would be too distracting."
 * In addition to the game over, the song (Sub Rosa) contains morse code (-.-- --- ..- .. .-. . / ... --- / ..- -. ..-. .- .. .-. .-.-.-) which, translated, means "YOU'RE SO UNFAIR." This is a reference to the "Broken Vow AU," where if Ruv breaks the vow, Sarvente dies.
 * Temp has noted that her step-dad used to be in the navy, which is why she grew up learning Morse Code.
 * The game over song name, Sub Rosa, is a Latin phrase that translates to "under the rose."
 * FaceImplosion named the menu song, Affinity.
 * The mod's menu theme, Affinity, means a natural liking for and understanding of something or someone. It shares some themes of Cassanova and its working title is Saxanova.
 * The reason why the song is named Dominance is because Kikyoberry was originally supposed to be on the table, but according to Belgianredacted there was an issue with "her dominating so hard it broke the table."SOOOOO. @KikyoBerry and @StickyBM wanted to know the reason why the song was named Dominance. Here it is. originally kikyo was supposed to be on the table. break the bounds but there was a issue with her dominating so hard it broke the table. Lol. #datenightmasses

Links

 * Gamebanana (Work in progress) Gamebanana.png
 * Beyond MFM YouTube channel YouTube.png
 * Gamejolt (Work in progress) Gamejolt.png
 * Mid-Fight Masses Community Discord server Discord.png
 * #datenightmasses on Twitter (For fanart)If you have fanart for Date-Night Masses please use the #datenightmasses hashtag. We're planning something for the mod and we'd love to see your work. 🖤Hello #datenightmasses and #midfightmasses #MFM fans. We would like to tell you that if you make DNM/ruvente fanart to please tag with #datenightmasses too because uuuuh we are planning to do something cool in the mod and we would like to include the community in it. #fnf #fnfmod