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I agree that thereās a lot of potential here, but thereās also the potential for this game to be subpar. My main concern is difficulty and balance. Every level is designed in such a way that avoiding damage is thoroughly impossible. Despite there only being four levels, it only takes until the second level for things to suddenly become unreasonably difficult. Even if youāre going for a āfun to loseā type of game, itās not very interesting to play a game in which itās impossible to do anything but lose.
The last levels are difficult because there are only 4 levels yet. Building new levels takes me about 5-10 minutes each. I will not build more levels unless I find designs I am allowed to use. The problem is, if I change the design of e.g. the monster shooting rockets, that the rockets appear next to it and levels may have to be rebuilt.
Summarizing it would be a waste of time if I create new levels. I agree, the last levels are quite difficult - impossible to be honest. But after these the game ends - means it is not āfun to loseā because right after these levels you win. The balance will be updated if there are new levels (I made the last level of the last version less difficult after I added the 4th level).
I got your concerns. Hopefully you see my plans clearly now 
Does anyone know somebody who could provide this game with designs?
what do you mean like the character i can break the gif down
If Iām reading the posts right, Sir doesnāt want the in game gif because he doesnāt own it.
He wants permission from an artist to use their work in his game or for someone to make art specifically for his game and the current images are just placeholders.
Thatās correctā¦itās a legal thing 
I understand the need to escalate difficulty, but I think I need to clarify myself. Of the four levels in the game right now, every level except the first one is, in my opinion, unreasonably difficult and unfair. Sure, I could beat two of them, but I only did so in spite of taking numerous hits that I couldnāt do anything about. As a result, I spent the majority of my time with the demo not having fun.
If it makes little difference whether the player beats the demo or not, then why not make three challenging but fair levels and only one exceptionally hard level at the end?
Iāll rework the levels.
PS: All except the level with the many rockets are possible to pass without gaining any weight.
advice: You can hit through trees 
Updates (v0.1.1):
- Brand new Level
- improvements in Level 5 (made it easier, so you can complete it before your belly starts growing)
Level 6 is a hardly possible level. Is some kind of āarcadeā mode. Try removing all burgers and then try to move from left to right and count how often you could Summarizing Level 6 is not part of the gameplay. The whole gameplay will always stay possible, levels will become easier, if there are more levels.
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Holidays started, tons of time for programming
Youād think one would have LESS time during the holidays, because of family.
Anyone having ideas to expand the game?
upgrades? like can be more fat before game over?
or your attacks do more damage or hvae more range
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Thereās a lot of potential for a fatty-themed twin-stick shooter type game, (does it count as a twin-stick shooter if you play it with arrow keys?) so Iāve got an idea or two.
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I agree that upgrades as you progress would be a good idea to keep things interesting as you get further on. An idea I had was a system where you spend your gained weight on upgrades at the end of the level, or maybe after a set number - being fatter by the end gives you more to spend, but also brings you closer to a game over, so itās a risk/reward system.
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Or, maybe, upgrades could just be things you pick up in the levels, and your weight could have an effect in other ways. I love it when WG games change in a noticeable way as you, well, gain weight, so youāve already got that implemented. I just think giving the fatter sizes advantages to go along with the disadvantages could be an interesting way to mix up the gameplay - you may want to stay thin to deal with faster enemies, but if getting fatter raised your attack strength or something, that may be the better option against enemies similarly slow enemies that are more durable.
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I donāt want to be too harsh on the level design because I know itāll be altered once you get original assets, but Iāve tried a number of times and levels 4 and 5 seem impossible to complete without taking damage (even if youāre 100% thin and moving at full speed). I believe skill-based games like this should always be doable without taking any hits, if youāre good enough. Taking a hit from a wall of projectiles that looks and feel unavoidable just isnāt very fun. Either more care needs to be taken with the level design in the future, or you could have an ability to deflect or nullify the missiles. It could be an interesting mechanic, and also make playing at higher levels of fat less of a death sentence because you already have a harder time dodging the projectiles as-is.
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Also, one last thing, but only being able to shoot in 4 directions in a game like this is veryā¦ uncomfortable. If enemies like the cupcakes that chase you down have a full 360 degree range of movement, hitting them as they follow after you would be very awkward if you yourself could only shoot up, down, left, and right. I know youāre working with arrow keys in mind, so 8-directional shooting would suffice, or you could maybe implement aiming via mouse.
Wow, I wrote way more than I was expecting to! Sorry if I came off too harsh, but like I said, thereās lots of potential for a game like this, and I really think you could make something out of it. Also, I donāt want to be too bossy with my ideas ā itās your game after all ā but I hope there was at least one thing you got an idea from.
Good luck with future development!
Spending weight on items will not be implemented, because you could kill all enemies on a map and then feed yourself with e.g. the rockets of the rocket-shooting monster.
I am going to implement new sizes for the character (in total about 30-40, I got a real good designer doing this for me @lindormdark). Upgrading weight makes no sense in real life, just in the game.
I am going to implement Coins/Cookies. The idea of Cookies would be, if you eat them, you gain a little weight, but you earn 1 Cookie, to spend in a store. The store makes it possible to loose gained weight and upgrades.
Because the game is a minigame for now and does not save any progress we will have to think about that (upgrades will be lost after restarting the game). Important to think about is, that weight is never going to reset after a levelā¦
The levels were made to be nearly impossible. When I am ready to create the first full-version of the game, there will not be any levels like these.
I will think about implementing something like that. Maybe as an upgrade?
Thank you for that great review! It contains a lot of useful information and ideas for me!
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Junky Journey v0.2.0
- Added cookies to levels
- cookies give you 100$ and make you gain a little weight
- a small shop to test things opens after each level. During the level the shop cannot be accessed.
(Download Link added to original post)
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how has things been. been a while since we got any news
