Make sense I clear my data every play through for most renpy games I play that have multiple versions come out.
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So, uh, eyebeast is someone I watch for their writing on deviantart, but I can’t find any “MarkJ94” any chance you could shout them out? so we could find them and give them a follow? (Something I like to do for this sort of crosspromotional thing-a-ma-jig.)
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Hey, happy to see you liked the content enough to be interested. I don’t actually have a DA account and haven’t put anything online around this interest before. I did a bunch of writing for other things and interests, but first time being active in this community. Might become more active in the future though.
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Welcome @markJ94 it’s nice to see ya here. I enjoyed Bonnie’s content, her story feels very natural and look forward to see what’s to come. Thanks for taking some time to drop in.
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Thank you, so far everyone has been super kind and I am glad people are enjoying it. It was fun to write and hopefully you will enjoy the other half of her story as well. Was a bit of a lurker on here before enjoying other peoples games, so its nice to help contribute to BladeRunes amazing game.
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Alright I seemly have hit the end of all content in the game at week 69, nice, and finally got Marnie to her max size. The work girls are a lot of grinding in early stages I would say before stage 6. After depending on rng it still feels grindy but not as much. I assume that is because of the extra places they pick up food during diner events. Although I have no idea what Lisa was doing because even without any outside events, she was the first to hit my max by a mile.
Most of my time seem to have Lisa and Amber working in most situations so Marnie was more of a grind it felt than the other two. She was I only at like 5 of 11 by the time both other girls were maxed. I would say as the accidental meals get larger into higher stages all girls stages (even outside of the bunny bites girls) seem to get faster. That might just be my perspective and definitely would need more testing.
I’m not sure if that is because the game is actually combining the fattening formula and the excess food (more than just the random text line) but even then, I would say it probably took 4 or more times of having a work girl come in and eat at the diner like that plus at least one or two weekend work events to go up a stage. That being said the later stages depending on rng might feel right in normal flow of the game. I spent at least a third of the play time probably just skipping all events and text to push the stages with work. And I spent the normal playthrough working almost at all times outside of accepting dates and trying to see other scenes.
Some stuff I noticed.
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Lyn has a typo at stage 11 when coming into the diner saying “pizaa” when asking for a whole pizza.
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After work on the weekend when with Marnie, the line about devouring a whole pizza by Marnie around I think stage 7 or 8 says “amber” instead of Marnie (stage 10 and 11 this doesn’t happen, and I didn’t notice it on other girls so I’m unsure if it might affect Lisa at any stage).
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The line during the same after work event on the weekend by all bunny bites girls, that says “I really can’t keep my hand off them” should be hands.
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The MC answers “yeah ofcourse” after the line “do you want to clean up this place?” during the event for all girls on the weekend as well.
So, for balance for me anything I recommend is through the filter of a person that likes to ideally keep all the girls as even as possible if that is normally achievable. My preference is probably more linear than what I think a lot of people probably like about this game which is being able to basically target girls they are interested in more like a full sandbox. While my preference probably comes from a more overall stage progression of all girls increasing at once (which is not really close to your more open sandbox design and just a personal preference of mine).
The game is really taking shape though this update was great, and the girls are looking good. I like the difference in body shapes and sizes even within body architypes I think that is a huge plus. I like the diner and date events. For the current way the diner visits happen with the different girls I often see the same girls for larger periods of time or back-to-back on different days. I ideally would like to be able to see all girls at least once per stage visit the diner and I will say that I don’t believe happen within the current set up and pool of girls and honestly the diner probably is a huge headache and undertaking for balancing as it is 
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Great job with the update and I can’t wait to see some more stuff off the roadmap get put into game. Seeing Maya and Cayenne content has definitely gotten me curious of what’s to come.
Also, since I saw her introduced the bartender in the strip club looks to be the same one from your deal with the devil comic. And I know some of the girls from comics and stuff you do make an appearance in game. Are they meant to be kind of canonically set all in the same universe? Because obviously Cayenne and Hekt are at least hinting at the tied connections.
Edit: also damn…. Lisa looking good 
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@Krodmandoon The weight gain for the Bunny Bites girls is unbalanced because of multiple reason.
-I intended on creating a secondary way of feeding them food through a repeatable event you can choose to partake in, i didnt have enough time to finish this part.
-Marie is quite a big bigger than Amber and Lisa. Marie is 1.71M, Amber is 1.53M and Lisa is 1.55M so she also has to gain more weight before she reaches a new weight gain stage.
-And she is more interested in seeing their colleagues gain weight, instead of gaining herself.
Like you noticed, Cayenne her comic is canon in the same universe. Dana, from deal with the devil is not, i just wanted to reuse to model.
Next update will expand alot on Bunny Bites again and will improve some of the randomness to make it less common to keep seeing the same girl over and over.
Also, thanks for reporting some more typos
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Speaking of which I don’t remember if it has been brought up before. Any chance we can have a metric and imperial toggle in the preferences?
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Good idea, will see if i can fit it in for 0.05.
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I think it makes sense for the girls to not all level up evenly because if there is a secret cult that wants it to happen then it’s spreading out or whatever from the MC or whatnot.
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@Krodmandoon So i’m kinda done now with bug fixing and the android version is done as well, so i think its time to write back to you about all the great suggestions you had/have.
The balancing for how much time books take to read, time between events, how much is gained from certain actions and other things related to pacing are all just done on a whim right now, so every bit of feedback about this is really valuable(especially with argumentation about why).
First suggestion i want to talk about is having multiple action slots per day, right now its just school and then after school on normal days and the weekend only has 1 action. For the amount of content the game had before this was enough, but we get to a point where there is a lot to do each day like you said, and 1 thing that is happening too much is school. So i want to go with 3 action slots for both normal days and weekend days. school in the morning, then something in the afternoon and something else in the evening/night. This will allow for more variety each day by simply make school 33% of the day instead of 50%. I want to implement this for 0.05, the amount of content available should make this change feel right.
With this change out of the way, i can start making dates happen a little differently, like instead of Bonnie calling every Wednesday, she calls every Wednesday afternoon, leaving you with a choice in the evening/night as well or maybe Bonnie asks you to stay over and you spend the evening/night with her as well. This is just an example, i don’t know how i will implement it yet.
Another example would be that working at Bunny Bites in the afternoon is different than working in the evening, like you said i can then put those after work talks and going to the bar in the evening and not just the weekend.
I know i’m just saying what you said, but its a really good idea.
For all the rest of your suggestion i can only say that i’m working on them, loads of work is happening for Bunny Bites still, Leanne will get more content and expanded dates, and loads of other stuff.
Your suggestion about adding things like toys and stuff will have to wait a bit. Right now im just trying to get the foundation of the game right, getting all planned character in with stages to 11 at least, then im going to create a beta version 0.1
After Beta 0.1 is up and im happy with the foundation that is build, then i will add loads of extra flavor, toys, random stuff, sex scenes and other optional stuff. This together with building out the characters up until its all finished.
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I like this idea. My first thought was what if you took the current text phone dates and made them like intros to sleep over events (or maybe that is what they would eventually lead in to since sex is not added in all of them/available from the start).
Another idea might be the thought of taking the date concept and keeping it to the player to make a text or call to one of the girls to initiate a date with them. As with the text system dates in place and them happening once a week per girl we are up to what four a week and while you can turn them down, there is no reason currently to do that. I also don’t know how I feel about declining the event in general I don’t see myself doing it at all unless a girl is max size, or maybe I want to not trigger a weight stage before seeing a certain event. I wouldn’t see myself turning down a random triggered event like that normally.
This way you can take the text events and make them into other events than the date scenes currently implemented. That way they can be rarer, “special scenes” (seen at least once per stage in my opinion) that might help from the feeling of school, date, something else that will happen 4 times a week. Although with having three other days to do up to 8 other actions maybe it will feel okay, idk.
I definitely like the idea of the girls having an event they start, that feels normal and interesting, so I wouldn’t want to get rid of it. I personally don’t know how I would feel about having something in the game that they player might be expected to want to turn down because of the frequency it happens or because it’s a repeat scene.
I dipped back in to check out 0.04b for a bit to see some of the bug fixes and what not. (I think c is only for android but forgive me if there are any typos that get listed here that are fixed in that version).
Just a few typos that I noticed
- The Bunny Bites event where Marnie calls you to come in with the three girls and you go to Marnie’s home for the first time. During this there are some typos.
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“she has a love interrest in Amber and me.” Interest is spelled wrong.
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“I think I will take this opertunity to tell her”. Opportunity spelled wrong.
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“You look like you are 9months pregnant”. The “nine months” needs a space.
- During Katrine’s Bunny Bites outing with the MC after they successfully life her. The MC will say “Yeah ofc, be right back” to Katrine when she asks for a shake.
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Thanks for finding these typos, i should probably put the dialogue i write into some sort of grammar checking thing first before putting it in the game.
Will get these changed for 0.05.
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Hi, I just played version 0.03 of the game and I really liked the flow and got really involved with Lyn’s story and how relationships are handled with Daisy, Luna and Katrine, but I feel like, especially Daisy and Katrine, who has an apple body, they don’t seem to have the weight they should and I believe this is due to the fact that their arms are very thin, they don’t look like a fat woman’s arms, besides, sometimes, I miss a chubby face as it seems to me to have been worked on with Daisy and Luna, but not on Katrine. But the game is excellent and these are just details that I’m suggesting, because it’s something really hard to do.
(I used google translator, if you have any errors, let them know.)
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@Danestern
Hey glad you liked the game.
Fat arms is a topic i have been working on quite a bit lately, but with current tech, and my current understanding of the software i use, i am unable to create good fat arms on characters(especially existing characters, 1 newer model has a bit fatter arms at higher stages).
Whenever i make the arms fatter, it makes it so that the characters can’t lift their arms up anymore without the model just breaking, thus making the amount of poses and animations really limted(and they are already quite limited by big bellies, boobs and butts). The next version of virt-a-mate has solved this problem, but that is still in alpha for a while.
Then i also want to talk a bit about katrine, her face gets a lot bigger in higher stages past 9.
I already made her model up to stage 25+, but i am a little bit unhappy about her model in comparison to the other models, so i might change up her whole model for 0.05.
Also, some characters i made are made to keep a slim face while gaining. This is something i believe makes the characters a little more unique, and i personally can appreciate a big girl with a thin face. Imagine a girl standing behind a counter and you only see part of their upper body and face thinking she is probably thin, until she comes walking over and you notice she has a massive gut/butt.
So, TLDR:
There won’t be many fat arms in the game, Katrine will get some attention in the future to make her look better, and some characters are made to keep a thin face while gaining.
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I really like the balance of face to body gaining in all the girls right now. I am the type that prefers a face to remain relatively thin while the body grows, but the little bit of roundness some of them are getting in their faces at higher stages is really cute!
I just finished the content of the latest version and it is coming along SO well. I really love Bonnie and her story. You had a poll recently about expressions, especially in relation to her, and I think they’re great! I can’t wait to see what comes next!
I didn’t find any typos or experience any bugs that weren’t reported by others. I did have the bug where I couldnt have sex with Daisy until I toggled the sex scene option, but that worked. Though, it’s a little funny in the beginning of the game when you first start working at Bunny Bites, girls like Katrine will come in to eat and greet you with familiarity even if you haven’t met them yet. She had her name displayed and called me her gym buddy, but I hadn’t even gotten enough charisma to talk to her. Maybe some girls can be excluded from randomly visiting the restaurant until you’ve had some interactions?
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Glad you like the faces and Bonnie story.
In regards to Bunny Bites, i will improve the logic so that girls you haven’t met won’t be coming in or have dialogue indicating that you two don’t know each other.
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Bonnie is best girl fr fr like oh my god she’s so freaking CUTE! I almost like her over Leanne, so really great work with this update to you, Eyebeast, and MarkJ94!
Question though - Does her character model change when you go to buy snacks? I thought she looked the same throughout the stages.
Also going to ditto what a few other people said – Time between Bonnie events seems pretty quick compared to other characters, almost making it feel like I have no choice but to fatten her up first.
(Like what am I gonna do, text her “no?” God dude she’s adorable, like what if I hurt her feelings? smh)
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Bonnie was written by @markJ94.
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