Fattening Career - 3D weight gain visual novel (0.10 released for Free!)

@eatfortwo
Around 30% is probably a good estimate.

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Damn you’re ambitious! You’ve really done a lot already and I’m honestly impressed with how far you’re willing to push this project. Good luck!

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This is only 30%? Bruh just how huge are you gonna make these girls by the end. Goddamn, I kneel to your ambition

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I’m a little surprised by that answer too. But the game is still in an alpha state. If you consider that no character has a complete story yet, a handful that have been introduced are still barely developed, and that Bladerune9 hasn’t fully implemented all the features he intends to, I think it makes sense. Hopefully he continues to get the support he needs from patrons and collaborators to see it through.

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I noticed that in 0.07 the .rpy script files are locked in the archive while in 0.06 the .rpy script files are loose in the game directory to be edited. I like to make some edits, especially to the history menu in the gui file. It’s also nice to be able to get spoilers in a VN if I’m ever lost, so I don’t have to go asking for help.

TLDR: Do you not want people to peek anymore for some reason? If so what is that reason? Sorry if this sounds rude, I’m just curious. I’ve noticed a lot of games on weightgaming are loose script files, open to peek at, although some other sources of renpy games do tend to leave them all locked away…

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It looks like Fantasy1290 is new on the list of authors. I haven’t ever seen them post on weightgaming, so I wonder, do they have their own projects? or their own writing on say dA or some other site? AKA where should we go if we want to follow them? I know eyebeast has a deviantart and galactase is on itch.io

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Fantasy has been the writer for Luna and the test subjects, they are not new. Check the first post. It has links, as it has for a while, to places to check out the writers that have places they post.

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@ejkda3 @Gaia @EarthboyJAK

By 30% I do not mean that all characters in the game will get 3x as large as they are now.
This is the percentage of the whole game being finished, there are still many characters with no story or partial story. Some gameplay features are not yet implemented, and there are some things that will have to be redone at some point.

@namad

Your TLDR is about as long as the text you wrote before :stuck_out_tongue:
I think anyone can open a .rpa file pretty easily if they want to check out the .rpy files.
I don’t remember exactly why I put them in the .rpa file, but I know I was looking at some additional compression for images and animations and splitting them up into separate .rpa files because that would improve the update process on steam. You can look at the .rpy files all you want, there is probably some spoilers in there, but that’s on you.

Like Krod said, Fantasy1290 has been writing for the game for a long while now, their link is found in the OP.

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Ah, so, I got confused because I searched the thread for fantasy1290 but actually they appear also as fantasy1291 which didn’t show up under a keyword search for fantasy1290 :slight_smile: But yes I can see how improved reading comprehension on my part would’ve solved that mystery!

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They are 1290 on the discord but 1291 on DA.

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Repeating my Patreon comment here because I like to discuss my opinions on each update lol:

Alrighty! New update, which means its time for my deep-dive thoughts/ramble.

  • Hari is best girl. I adore her so much. Amazing work on her design and character.
  • Quite disappointed to see that Rebecca still only has 2 stages, I don’t get why bother adding her tracking RIGHT as she hits her current max event.
  • Also disappointed to see that the Hospital Experiment girls still… don’t do anything. Why can’t I feed them extra food at Bunny Bites? Why do THEY of all characters not appear at the gym?
  • Admittedly Daisy’s hedonism cult thing isn’t usually my thing, so her lesson plans kinda bore me at times. I DO however appreciate the added option of Hari, not just for being best girl, but because her daily choice is MUCH faster for repeat playthroughs.
  • Still a sadly short amount of content for Lynn/Leanne, also still deeply disappointed to see Lyn ditching the pink and, in the WORDS OF THE NARRATOR “wearing DRAB clothes”. It feels like we’re sucking the sexy out of her, by picking the option where she admits the truth and is herself.
  • Cayenne finally feels like a character. Still not one of my favorites, but she’s actually got some solid content now. Not wholly my thing, but great improvements.
  • The gym is my favorite aspect of the game. Its got plot progression, stat progression/usage, AND randomized events making the characters feel alive. I only wish there were more of those, especially the sexy workout jiggly animations! I also wish there were more events like that at, say, classes, Bunny Bites, or the library. Also, disappointed to see nobody use the pool for their workout of choice yet. Overall though, exceptional feature of this game. The workout animations are chefs kiss lol.
  • I don’t like that it kinda railroads you into a strongfat fetish at times. I really like my fatties out of shape, and so pushing for Bonnie or especially Katrine to put on muscle is offputting.
  • I really wish there was more variety to jiggle animations. The angles feel railroaded to show “this character has ass” or “this character has belly”.
  • I’m really hoping this especially doesn’t get buried, cuz I realize this comment is long and repeats some of my previous concerns and comments but… I think the outfits need some work. Sometimes they don’t quite feel like something a non-super model/fetish character would wear, and MUCH MORE strangely, is the physics of them. Why does Bonnie’s buckle get bigger as she gets fatter? The physical metal piece itself is bigger as her belly grows, not a tightly bound strap or an increased sized strap. The metal buckle is bigger???

Also, so SO sorry for how long this comment is. It’s a big piece of game with a lot going on! Its great and doesn’t feel empty despite its size, but it has things I wish were changed or improved.

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Lyn/Leanne are the true selves there’s no correct canonical choice. Anything said in Lyn’s path or Leanne’s will obviously contradicts the other path as you are helping her find her true self. Both are that. It’s why you see both Lyn and Leanne style events all along her route. She’s not just Lyn outside of streams and she’s not just Leanne during. The content for both “personalities” are mixed throughout the route.

The reason you love the pink hair and the sexier clothes is because that’s part of Leanne and not Lyn.

I can understand wanting to see more content for certain characters it’s a WIP and obviously it will eventually happen. Characters have certain girls tied to each others stories or just how content is voted on/time it takes to develop as to why there’s not more for certain routes or girls yet.

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I get what you mean, the Leanne/Lyn thing is kinda just my interpretation. It’s just always felt like one feels more “real” and personal, but that the game is actively telling me that this version is less attractive by outright insulting her fashion and giving her less interesting clothes lol.

And yes, I understand development takes time lol. I know that as well as anybody, don’t ask how my projects are going lol, but I still like to throw my hat in to ask about direction and comment on parts that feel underwhelming. I especially comment on the girls with limited content, because it just feels so jarring to have pages and pages of, for example, Hospital Experiments or Katrine dates, but Rebecca still barely exists, Maya is a placeholder WIP image at the club (despite being able to be fed, unlike the experiment girls), or, my biggest gripe, the black hole of content that is the experiment girls.

I really don’t get their inclusion, if they’re not going to be feedable at Bunny Bites, meetable individually on dates, or visit places like the gym or something.

Like, why can I give extra food or enhanced food to Maya, and why does she have gym cutscenes, when her primary event line is currently a broken WIP, or why was (despite how much I love her) Hari, a new face, added, whenever there’s still this wall of multiple tracked characters we barely interact with as individuals and physically CANNOT increase the gain of. The hospital girls really just frustrate me, because I like some of them, but they just don’t really… do anything as individual characters, and that seems to be by-design since they can’t be interacted with at Bunny Bites, like the librarian lol, as opposed to real characters like Luna or Daisy.

Sorry that got a bit ranty for a moment, I just wanted to elaborate on my point of unfleshed out characters. I don’t mean “why isn’t there more content” but moreso, “why even add x or y if its non-functional” and “why is this feature not available for this LARGE percent of the cast”?

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It’s just how the game was developed there were most of the girls in game to a period of time and no one had any story just weight stages and Daisy classroom stuff. Then Lyn was the first added story bits followed by Bonnie. And things progressed from there. Maya had a story and it was scrapped and rebooted to better fit the “current” game. It just has not made it in yet. That mixed with time constraints and normal development have left some girls lacking content or storylines compared to others.

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@Muffintopmanor1
Hey, thank you for your feedback.

Most of your points come down to the game still being in development I would say.
There are many ways to develop the game further, I could focus on a specific character in the game and get their content to the same level as let’s say Bonnie, Luna, Trista or Katrine, repeat that until all characters are done and then add new characters and features. Or I can go on feedback that said that the Daisy classroom section was too repetitive and address that part next. While this game is in alpha development I’m focused on implementing a skeleton of what the full game will become. Ideally when I leave Alpha into Beta I would like to only have to add events and weight gain stages to characters already in the game, no new features or characters.

Now Rebecca is an outlier in the game, her content will start very late(after Bonnie stage 11). With the current state of the game I would rather invest time into the early game parts before tackling something that people would have to play the whole game for before reaching. Especially considering that saves aren’t yet compatible between versions. So if I had done a Rebecca update, I would basically have to force all players to play through a unchanged game for a few hours to see new content.

Maya’s story has been a bit of a nightmare because I felt that until now there hasn’t been a story for her that felt good enough to implement. She’ll still be in limbo for at least another update. You could say that it would have been a better idea not to add her to the game yet, but at the time I didn’t know that I wanted to redo her story.

The hospital test subjects are still side characters to Luna’s story. They have been added to the stats page by popular request, but they won’t be the same as the other characters in terms of content. Maybe that could change in the future if enough people ask for that. That said, they did get some additional content, like the second stage 10 event and the milking.

Bonnie’s clothes from stage 1 to 10 were made when I didn’t have as much clothes available to use and didn’t have the same knowledge I have now about how to work with them on bigger models. I’ll probably not redo those renders, because I feel like if I committed to redoing those I’ll also be redoing a lot more older parts that I find lacking and the game would never get finished.

Leanne/Lyn is like Krod says, they are both correct choices. Now you might think Lyn is less sexy without the pink hair and the more revealing clothes, but other people might argue that her being more “normal” is more attractive to them. It is just a personal preference and sometimes those don’t fully align with the characters in the game.

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For the record, I picked Leanne in the previous update because I assumed I’d like her better in her more colorful state. I waited until this update to try her as Lyn. It turned out I like Lyn better. I like that she feels comfortable being her natural self, which is less effort, which is kind of like being lazy, and being lazy and fat makes her hot. I don’t know if anyone else can follow that logic but it works for me lol.

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Counterpoint; Lazy and fat, but in skimpy outfits

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I like Lyn’s outfit though. Everything is too small so you wind up seeing a lot anyway :stuck_out_tongue:

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Since they added Hari, here’s my updated tierlist. A few notable shifts, with Hari taking the best girl crown.

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Speaking of, I’ve reposted it on the link on the FC discord for those that are not patreons and do not have access the latest devlog which also mentions that Hari has been added/updated to the FC tiermaker list, as @Muffintopmanor1 has indicated. So, here it is again for those that want it.

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