Koei Tecmo, the studio behind the Atelier series, is doing an open survey about a mechanic for the main character, Karia, from their next game. They’re asking whether players want a feature where her body shape changes based on what she eats, since her whole gimmick is being able to gain information and power from what she eats. Here’s a photo reference from the survey on what it could look like:
The survey ends on August 23rd. I think we all know what we need to do here, boys.
Well, this reference picture just show me exactly that you shouldn’t expect to see any body shape bigger then slightly chubby at all.
True, but if the mechanic is there at all modders will have more of a shared base to start with.
Also do not underestimate the gateway-drug power of a little chub.
Any weight gain is good weight gain in my book, even if it’s just from thin to pudgy! 
Remember after voting that you want the mechanic in the game, on the follow up question to choose that you want “the option to lock your preferred body type”. This makes sure the chubby state is playable, and not just a short term visual effect that only lasts like 1 minute after eating.
This is what makes me the most eager. The fact a mechanic will exist at all will mean WG modders will allow us to turn the heroine enormous if we want.
Also, failmuseum is right. Might be better to put in “lock your preferred body type” to mention you’d like a long-lasting big lady.
Exactly!!! Seems like it’ll be fun, like you eat enough to unlock a new body state and as a reward you’ve now got alternative sizes to pick from
Never heard of the game, most likely never gonna play it. But you can still count on my vote, this is peak.
Finnaly a vote that matters
We did it, a glorious victory for all men who like chub
Woohoo! Regardless of how big she will be able to get in-game, it just makes me very happy to know that we managed to succeed! 
Regardless of what size preference people have, the fact is the infrastructure to change body from eating is now hard coded in. For PC at least, the mods can go all sorts of ways, fat, muscle, whatever. Would need extraction and repacking tools though unless we can use existing tools on the new game
these types of mechanics, especially involving female characters, are completely absent from video games. sometimes it is used for male characters, see gta san andreas or rdr2.
i get why individual developers, then studios and then publishers are kinda afraid to even suggest, let alone implement, these features. so a small thing is more than you can usually hope for.
maybe it will shape a pathway for future titles with more significant changes
its crazy that the poll for adding this feature is the best advertisement this series has ever gotten. they HAVE to implement it to actually get some new players hooked till release
No one afraid of implementing weight gain. They just don’t want to waste their time on implementing it. It could be an optional feature for visual changes if they scared about critique. The amount of players who really interested in something more then “chubby” is just so small that wasting time on it don’t worth the effort for developers, but in case of this “Atelier Kaira” title I think the reason is exactly to check if they can gather more people to be interested in their project. Something simple as showing body transformation to “chubby” is enough to spread news and make more people to know about this project. I, personally, didn’t even know anything about their series of game before this news since I don’t play in jRPG at all.
