Hi all, NatsuuMaki here (Formerly MakiFan53). This is a project I’ve been working on for the past few months - a full Doki Doki Literature Club fan game centered around the girls gaining weight - complete with original visuals, story, etc.
What I’m uploading here is just a short demo of Natsuki’s chapters, of which there will be three. This is a rough build, so everything is pretty subject to change at this time but this should give you a good idea of what’s to come. Dialogue choices do make some small differences in how the game goes, so you may have some different outcomes depending on how you play (just some dialogue + CG changes for now, lol).
I’m still pretty new to scripting so some things are certainly “bandaged” together just for the demo (if anybody wants to go critique my code, that would genuinely be appreciated lol) so while there shouldn’t really be any bugs, there are definitely things that could function better.
The link is temporarily down on account of the volume of people attempting to download the file at once. Personally I’d recommend uploading the demos/project to Itch to avoid that problem, since I don’t believe they have the same issue, and you don’t have to worry about file download restrictions that tend to be common with other file sharing services.
I may be mistaken, but I believe the reason itch was not used is because team salvato don’t allow DDLC fan games to be uploaded and distributed to itch, among other public platforms.
I just finished the demo, and it was really nice! I love how expressive she is, it really adds to the story. All the different body poses and facial expressions were very fun to look at. I also liked how in the couch scene you can move your mouse around a bit, it’s simple but it was fun. Oh, and getting to pick your name was a nice touch, too! There were a few grammar mistakes I noticed (“You” wasn’t capitalized in the sentence “you set out to work cleaning the kitchen”, and “on” could be added before cleaning to make it read a little better. And in the sentence “Well don’t finished it all before we get to decorate with it”, “finish” would work better than “finished”), but other than that it was very clean! I’m excited to see more from you, dude!
Thank you so much for the feedback! I’m glad you liked the sprites, I put a lot of work into them lol, although I actually plan on going back and reworking them for the full release. I wanna make them a bit more expressive (body-wise) and fit more into my current rendering style. Also I’m very glad you appreciated the parallax effect in the couch scene lol, that took me forever to figure out and I think it adds a lot to the sort of interactivity, which is what I really want to shoot for some more in the future. Thanks for catching the grammatical errors lol, I’ll definitely patch those out when I get to working on the project again!
I can’t wait to try it when the traffic dies down a bit lol. I’m still unable to download via the link, looks exciting though! Always been a fan of DDLC
Just recently played through the demo and enjoyed it a lot! Though short, I thought it was a great proof of concept for the writing style and gameplay. The way you write MC and Natsuki carries a good understanding of the characters, especially with the little bits of banter and the hint of deeper insecurities and worries on Natsuki’s end, and the transition into the more fetishistic happenings felt fairly in character and natural even despite the overall short runtime. I know I really enjoyed the original multi-part stories you wrote for each of the girls preceding this game concept, but what’s here really feels like a natural evolution of that with a good deal of promise! There’s a surprising lack of DDLC content like this that actually focuses on stuffing in addition to the weight gain aspect of this type of content, so I appreciate what I’ve seen so far and I’m absolutely looking forward to what you cook up!
I did have a few questions for you about the game out of curiosity though:
Do you plan to have slight variations in scenes based off player choice? I played through a few times to see the different dialogue choices and thought the alterations and the way it changed some bits of future dialogue was really cute! But do you plan to have choices that affect the plot in minor ways, or is it just the little bits of flavor dialogue that’ll change? (Say, for example, maybe if you choose the playful or teasing options during a date with Natsuki, she’d feel less embarrassed and more relaxed by the time she ends up stuffed and might treat the situation a little lighter and play into the slight absurdity of it because she feels more comfortable joking around about the situation. Whereas maybe instead if you pick the more intimate, reassuring options during the date she trusts you enough to be vulnerable and actually admits she wants a belly rub, or something along those lines, just as an example. Though I understand branching options like that can add a lot of scope-creep to a project and get if that’s not in the plans haha :P)
I know as of right now only Natsuki is featured, but when the other girls are added, do you intend for their inclusion to be a progressive story one after another or linier, individual ones? Like are the girls each in their own sort of individual scenarios without much interaction between one another, or are you planning for the story to be a progression where you go from one girl to another throughout the week and they react to how one another are changing? (Personally I think it might be a neat idea to have slight differences in how they act and how they end up depending on what order you do them in: like maybe if you go on a date with Yuri first and then hang out with Natsuki, she notices Yuri’s gain and overcompensates with how much food she thinks she needs to bake for the club and ends up bigger than if you’d picked her first. Or maybe if you do the inverse and hang out with Natsuki first and Yuri second, she notices Natsuki’s gain and believes it to have been intentional, and during her date she’s more implicitly trying to overeat and stuff herself to impress you, or something along those lines. Again, just an example, and I understand if that’s too broad a scope for the project!)
And finally 3. I know as of right now there’s no sounds since it’s just a demo, and I assume you plan to include some background music and sound effects at the very least, but do you think stomach/digestive related sounds will make it in and if there might be burping sound effects, toggleable or otherwise? I’m mostly asking out of personal preference cause I was certainly pleasantly surprised to see the post-stuffing burp from Natsuki in the demo, cause I think stomach noises and especially burps can add a lot of needed flavor to stuffing scenerios, but I also get it’s not for everyone
Sorry for such a wordy comment, hopefully it’s not too off-putting or tedious, but I’ve liked a lot of what I’ve seen so far from this project and am fairly passionate about DDLC. I’ve quite liked all the content you’ve made for it before, so I wanted to give my thoughts and feedback!
