Fattening Career - 3D weight gain visual novel (0.11 released on Patreon!)

[Bladerune9]

Hey Krod, thanks again for the great feedback.
I will once again pick out a few thing to comment about.

-The Gym events with characters that are not Katrine or Trista.
We already spoke about this, but I think everyone else wants to know too what I’m doing here.
I will be increasing the chance on these characters showing up slightly, and then when you encounter one of these characters in the gym it will chain two events after each other. This will hopefully make this part of the game better, especially considering the fact that more characters will be visiting the gym in future updates.

• The Bunny Bites girls having a really slow gain that makes them fall behind the rest.
  I found this to be two separate problems currently, first off they do not have enough content currently to have them gain weight reliably, and secondly they gain slowly before their content shows up.
  So my first solution would be to create some additional smaller events to kick start their early game gains to have them get to their content a bit quicker.
  And the second solution is to temporarily up the values so they gain faster while they are unfinished.

• Dialogue during repeatable content not changing or not changing often enough.
  While I can’t promise to fix these completely in the next few updates, I will try my best to include more variations to characters their repeatable scenes. Some dialogue changes every 3/4 stages is the goal.

• Money being an issue
  I have taken two steps in 0.07 to fix this a little bit. The money from Bonnie and the haggling book.
  While this helps, I will take another step in the next update to remediate this.
  Marie will get a new event that will give you a raise at the end of it and another event that I don’t want to spoil yet.

[Krodmandoon]

Glad to hear about some of the changes potentially coming sometime in the future. They are good additions in my opinion.

Money definitely feels better than it did in 0.06 but with the addition of new places like the gym and events that take up time away from working (and since work has the influence girls stages with rng) there is the need to work for money and the want to not do it to see other content per stage outside of just the BB’s content (at least for me). This felt fine when the majority of the game was work and then go on dates, as you always were working so plenty of money, but as more content or places might get added in to take your time away from work, mixed with the larger pool of girls being available it definitely is felt as money being an issue.

[Bladerune9]

In case anyone wants to make a tierlist of the Fattening career cast.

Create a Fattening Career cast Tier List

Feel free to share your tierlist and talk about how you ranked them.

[GrimRyu]

@Krodmandoon

Katrine’s getting absolutely massive by the end. I love her shape and size, the added events for the beach and the three some were great even if I felt the threesome scene might need just a tiny bit more length. It was nice to see her and Trista come to an understanding and make a reconnection.

wait there is a beach scene?!?! how did I miss that? I maxed out Katrine and Trisha wait and have not seen the beach content

[Muffintopmanor1]

Hey thanks for making this! Time for me to give my thoughts on the cast and why I put them where they are on my ranking!

S Tier:

• These are naturally my favorite gals, in roughly the order of how much I like them.
• Lyn and Leanne, I adore her so much. She is best girl and she is so so cute! I wish I could have some more of her sexy pinkette e-girl elements, without the trade-off of the fan-streamer dialogue, but overall I love both versions of her. She is the hottest girl IMO, but also the one I feel like my character genuinely formed an emotional bond with the most, compared to many other gals who kinda just feel like a side-fling.
• Trista is just so hot, plain and simple. Her ass is fat, her hair is pretty, she’s got tight pants, and a fun kink of fit-to-fat! I have to say, I’m not thrilled about the competitive eating storyline, it’s never been a personal turn-on, and she gets a bit too bottom heavy to look anatomically normal in the one stuffing scene at BB, but I do love her design. I wish there was more time spent on her being completely out of shape, comparing her to her peak, than transitioning so quickly from denial-to-acceptance and competitive eating. Still tho, great design.
• Bonnie is Bonnie, we all love her. Her and Trista are kinda tied in my book. I love Bonnie so so much. Bonnies got a sexy and beautiful design, fun outfits, an interesting story, and is, once again, on the shortlist of characters I feel my player has a romantic attachment to, instead of purely sexual. I’m not honestly a huge fan of sex scenes in games like these, so admittedly there is a bit too much of that in her later arcs, but I’d be lying if I claimed she wasn’t gorgeous. Plus, she’s just fun to talk to.
• Daisy, the mascot herself. She’s really sexy. It’s so hot to see her transition from a curvy office lady porno character, into just this obese belly on legs. I love her shape and her confidence, although I wish more characters were caught offguard or disapproving of her size at higher levels. I’m not too crazy about the cult stuff or the lack of non-repeated options in the classroom at higher levels, but her design is too good not to rank up near the top.
• Marie is the best BB girl, don’t @ me. I am a belly guy first and foremost, and her belly being fat and swollen, compared to her smaller chest, is hot as Hell. I wish there were more ass-shots of her too, she has this great belly-centric build that makes her just feel fatter even at lower levels. The only reason Marie is the bottom of S is her lack of content. It’s tough to get too attached in her limited state, but her sex scenes felt real and genuine and passionate, and I love a feeder-turned-feedee story.

Onto the A-Tier:

• Amber is just really hot tbh. Her scope and content feels limited to a point of detriment, as I really don’t get too much of her personality and motivations yet. However, she’s too hot and fun to talk to not to rank highly. I love her higher levels, with the big belly hanging down in sex scenes. I’d rank her in S if there were just more ways to spend time with her, knowing her.
• Next is Katrine, who I used to find myself not liking. I found her not that attractive, and I felt kinda dirty doing her routes - like I was this fuckboy manipulator taking advantage of a girl who wants a genuine relationship. However, I can happily say I think much of her content now makes me appreciate her more. She is sexy as all Hell and a total fatty. Additionally though, she forms this genuine connection with the player character that I value highly.
• Rebecca is hot. Her base design is just really attractive. Plus, I love the idea of fattening the person who made Bonnie miserable into a huge fatass, addicted to our baked goods. However, she’s brought down to the bottom of A-tier, almost B-tier tbh, because she lacks content, is introduced so late, and doesn’t even get stats tracked until she’s already max size (2/2).

B-Tier:

• I would put her in A-tier, because she’s quite cute, I love redheads (just ask Tiggertoo lol), and I like the connection the player and her form… but I can’t remember her name. The limited amount of time spent with the experiment girls really hurts them, making them appear as a conglomerate blob in my head, where I only really remember the standout characters with extremely defined personalities or designs, for better or worse. I want to like her, and most of the test subjects, but the game’s current design battles against them. I can’t rate any test subject girl above B unless I can track their stats and actively make ANY choices regarding them, as of now, they’re basically background characters :(.
• Britta gets all the same criticisms as my previous pick, is it Natasha? Is that her name? However, Britta gets extra points for an eye-catching design, her hair especially, and a cute name. Her personality has ups and downs. Sometimes she’s adorable and quirky. I feel bad whenever she says kinda weird stuff around that terminally ill lady, the tonal disconnect is uncomfortable. Also, I worry I’m taking advantage of her, fucking her, since she’s kinda weird about sex and I’m not sure if she’s mentally all there.
• Luna is really hot. Really really hot. I really like the personality and connection we’re getting in the hospital content. However, she sometimes takes a backseat in her own scenes, due to the congaline of hospital girls. Also, I love big boobs, but man I wish there was some belly or assfat. My big problem, however, is that she looks like 2-3 different characters. The kamasutra sex scenes and the hospital boss/guest teacher look like 2 wildly different women. I like both, but they don’t feel like the same person in design or very much in dialogue.
• Imma be honest, don’t remember this hospital girl’s name either, but she’s really cute, and I like that she has a crush on Luna. Same critiques as above.
• Lisa is cute and she’s fun. I like that she’s an active feedee, wanting to gain on purpose. I don’t feel much connection to her though. She’s the only BB girl with no “hey lets hangout after shift” content, even tho she has her at-home feeding, and since we know she’s into Marie… I feel unnecessary talking to her lol, like I’m a supporting character to their story. I also think she would benefit greatly from more scenes where Marie acknowledges her gain and talks with her, or her awkwardly flirting with Amber and Marie.

Almost done, sorry for the essay, onto C:

• Cayenne was once a nothing burger of a character. Now, she has some introductory content, before returning to her previous state. However, I just don’t really care about her. I don’t really have or get the fetish for the cult stuff or a destined priestess princess lady, and her signature outfit doesn’t do anything special for me. Just not really my fantasy, and she’s barely got any content as-is.
• Maya is a real let-down. I think the fantasy of a ballooning stripper could be fun! But she doesn’t feel THAT fat, even at higher levels, and, elephant in the room, her scrapped story is VERY apparent. There’s limited dialogue, little connection, and no real ways to bond with her. The WIP strip club scenes are so disappointing, she feels like a waste of space lol. I especially wish Daisy and other characters appeared there.
• I cannot tell you a single detail about this character, I think maybe my player fucked her? She is the biggest victim of the test subject dump-an-essay-on-me-at-once issue.

And finally, D-tier:

• I can’t really remember her name, but I just don’t like her, the only character I genuinely dislike. She’s mean-spirited and judgemental to the player. Idk if she’s an attempt at like a Tsundere type thing, but she doesn’t click with me and I would prefer to not spend time with her.

Sorry to end on a sour note, but overall yeah, that’s my version of your tierlist, and my reasons why! I hope to see other folks do this same list and give their opinions!

[immunogobling]

If you weren’t aware already there is an entire Cayenne comic (with animations) on the deviantart page up to stage 20(?) I think. I am eager for more of her content to be added to the game.

[immunogobling]

Though I do like all the characters, I tried to rank them based on how interested I was in seeing them in game / eager to learn what happens next in their story.
S: Daisy! in love with her (lol).
A: Britta - really interested in how things will progress with her appetites are awakened by the drug, also find her awkwardness endearing
Lyn - so hot, love how busy she was during her absence.
Luna - second favorite for me, I love her breast expansion obsession
B: Katrine - definately growing on me, love the dates at the cafe with her
Leanne - only ranked below Lyn, because I felt more drawn the be yourself path, but wowie when she walks into cafe with the pink hair and flashy clothes
Lisa - always favorite waitress for me, looking forward to her story, the new stuffing scene is really hot

PS - missing the librarian, hope she can be a character in the future?

[Jimjones200]

From what I understood the beach scene has been added in 0.07, so if you’re not a patreon you gotta be a little more patient unfortunately!

[Krodmandoon]

Yes my post was referring to feedback for 0.07, the new update that just came out. The beach scene is from there and stage nine for Trista and Katrine. It’s part of their main route and when they are at stage nine or after walking into the gym will trigger a joint scene with them. It’s not skippable to my knowledge. So I would guess either you haven’t played 0.07 yet, or if you have, you might be using an old save if you actually have missed it.

[Johnthewiseman]

[Kassassin]

I guess less interesting ones for me make it to the bottom
And if you wondering why so many S… well I’m a man of different tastes

[Pingou66]

Very good idea !
For my part :
Tier S :
Rebecca and Trista because I see a lot of potentiel in them.
Rebecca because the plot, although still at the beginning, is very interesting, and could have a lot of outcomes. Love her figure as well
Trista, because loving the idea of her turning from a fitness trainer to a strongfat character with her eating competition spirit.
Tier A :
Bonnie, Katrine, Lyn/Leanne, because they’ve developped quite nicely, and the plot itself is very interesting. Nathalie and Sally fot their figure. But I could have put Roxie in it, because she’s got a lot of potential too.

It was very difficult to put the others into the lower categories, because they’ve all got their own story, which has been developped quite nicely for them.

[EarthboyJAK]

Hey, I’ve continued to really enjoy this update but I hit another error that seems to halt progress with Bonnie. Every time I get to her stage 8 event and return to her apartment, the game is unable to find the images as soon as the feeding is supposed to begin. I tried skipping the event and played another week, but the same thing happened if I did it the next time she called me. I hadn’t downloaded your hotfix so I did that and tried again, but the problem persisted. Idk if you want the whole error code again, it’s pretty long.

Update: nevermind, I went back to a save where Bonnie was still stage 7 and progressed back to the same point, and somehow that resolved the issue. Just something random maybe

[Bladerune9]

@Muffintopmanor1 @immunogobling @Johnthewiseman @Kassassin @Pingou66
Thank you all for rating the characters.
Especially the explanations help me understand what people like and don’t like about characters in the game.

[Bladerune9]

@EarthboyJAK That is interresting, I had someone report me a similar bug in 0.06 but I never was able to replicate it and after restarting the game a couple times it also went away for them. Do you have any addition information on what you think might have caused it?

[onipuck]

I was just wondering if anyone had a guide to starting the story for the girls, just to help with getting stuff figured out.

[Krodmandoon]

Some minor spoilers ahead but I kept things relatively vague, also to note some girls will not be known by name to you in game at first.

• Start up the game and complete the intro until you have control of your character.

• I personally go to the Library and buy all the books and then read them/train charisma in the mirror until I have seven charisma (can be checked in the stats menu in the right hand corner) and buy some sweets from The Sweet Shop to be prepared for the game. (This is not required and passing time doesn’t affect anything or make you miss out)

• Going to the gym you will meet Trista (she will require twelve strength later but you probably will acquire this normally as you play through as long as you are going to the gym; the library book helps with three of them.)

• Training charisma in the mirror (you will need seven charisma total to talk to Katrine, the girl you saw running outside in the intro) and then going for a walk will allow you to approach and meet Katrine. You can also buy a book to help with charisma at the library but will still need to train in the mirror at least four times.

• Going to Bunny Bites will unlock work, and is necessary for Bonnie, but a lot of girls show up here and this will be one of the ways outside of dates or the gym (for Trista and Katrine) that you will progress through the stages of the majority of girls. Plus you need money so expect to come here often. After unlocking work, going in eventually Bonnie will pop up and she will stick around for a while and talk to her to unlock her route.

• Watching a live stream unlocks Lyn/Leanne and she is progressed through the live stream (more ways later but always mainly through the live stream)

• Daisy starts out unlocked along with the BB girls, Marie, Amber, and Lisa. Make progress by going to school feeding Daisy and BB’s through them coming in/things later unlocked at higher stages.(the BB’s girls are super slow to level in comparison to everyone else)

• Luna is met at BB’s and requires Daisy’s route to progress to further Luna’s so just feed Daisy occasionally at school and Luna will do more than come into BB’s eventually.

• Cayenne will show up at BB’s. She has some content right now but only a few events. Maya is unlocked through Amber which you progress Amber, Marie, and Lisa through working and eventually hanging out with them.

• Luna’s route unlocks more girls eventually.

• Daisy’s route will unlock two more girls they don’t have any content outside of the event (though you will see one of them come in to BB’s before and after the event)

• I have left out some girls as they unlock in certain routes but the main thing is Bonnie, Luna, Daisy, Lyn/Leanne, Trista, and Katrine have alot of story content. Amber, Lisa, Marie, Cayenne have some. Maya, and some of the girls that come in through BB’s have next to none or no content outside of seeing them pop up at bunny bites, the gym, or some events.

[onipuck]

Thank ya kindly

I managed to bumble my way into the Trista route

[EarthboyJAK]

I’m sorry, I’m not the most observant game tester. I don’t think I did much differently after backtracking and trying again. But here is the error I was getting:
"I’m sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
Exception: DynamicImage ‘/bonnie/[bonnie.stage]/feeding_start_[stuffed].webp’: could not find image. (‘/bonnie/8/feeding_start_3.webp’)

– Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File “game/freetime.rpyc”, line 28, in script call
File “game/calls.rpyc”, line 222, in script call
File “game/freetime.rpyc”, line 28, in script call
File “game/calls.rpyc”, line 182, in script call
File “game/bonnie_events.rpyc”, line 3408, in script
File “C:\Users\redacted\Downloads\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\renpy\ast.py”, line 1562, in execute
show_imspec(self.imspec, atl=getattr(self, “atl”, None))
File “C:\Users\redacted\Downloads\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\renpy\ast.py”, line 1391, in show_imspec
renpy.config.show(name,
File “C:\Users\redacted\Downloads\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\renpy\exports.py”, line 759, in show
sls.add(layer, img, key, zorder, behind, at_list=at_list, name=name, atl=atl, default_transform=default_transform, transient=transient)
File “C:\Users\redacted\Downloads\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\renpy\display\core.py”, line 1266, in add
thing.set_transform_event(“show”)
File “C:\Users\redacted\Downloads\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\renpy\display\transform.py”, line 695, in set_transform_event
self.child.set_transform_event(event)
File “C:\Users\redacted\Downloads\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\renpy\display\image.py”, line 501, in set_transform_event
return self.target.set_transform_event(event)
File “C:\Users\redacted\Downloads\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\renpy\display\image.py”, line 760, in set_transform_event
self.find_target()
File “C:\Users\redacted\Downloads\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\Fattening_Career-0.07a-pc\renpy\display\image.py”, line 683, in find_target
raise Exception(error)
Exception: DynamicImage ‘/bonnie/[bonnie.stage]/feeding_start_[stuffed].webp’: could not find image. (‘/bonnie/8/feeding_start_3.webp’)

Windows-10-10.0.19045 AMD64
Ren’Py 8.1.1.23060707
Fattening Career 0.07a
Tue Aug 1 14:08:23 2023"

[SexualStalin]

Loving the update, the new content you release always impresses me. Luna and Bonnie will always be my top girls, but Katrine, Trista, and Lyn have been slowly becoming favorites of mine as well. I know there’s only a few tier lists posted but I notice Luna scores a little lower than some of the other girls (which is fine I’m not mad I swear ). I’ve been playing since 0.4, I’ve done my fair share of replays of this game. While it is charming to see the VAST amount improvements you’ve made to the models, weight gain plug-ins, lighting, and sets over the years; there is a massive difference in quality in the beginning of the game versus where we are now. Especially with those early scenes with Luna in the class room, as well as when you go to her home. I’m sure you well aware of this already though, it’s a minor issue and I’d rather you continue forward than get bogged down with redoing every little tiny detail at the beginning of the game. Aside from my complaining, great work as always. This game is by far the most genre defining WG visual novel out there, keep it up.