@eisenwg I don’t like itch.io for payments, can I pay you via Patreon? I could subscribe your most expensive plan for one month, that should cover the game price, right?
Thank you so much for the long post! I’ll try to answer your points.
- I would like to keep some choices not too obvious about which girl/route they are about to make it a bit more realistic. Regarding Haruka and Shiori there are mostly small conseguences for now. Basically there will be a turning point later on in the game where it will matter which girl (Haruka or Shiori) you put more “points” on. Other girls are handled differently.
- Yes, I will add more views from behind and try to use more the full body sprites!
- As for Rin and Haruka’s mother, they’re just side characters though they could technically gain something in the future
As for the other things, I won’t spoil anything. But I plan to bring Azumi to stage 2 in the next act!
(Thanks for pointing out the thread title, I forgot to change it among other things)
I’m sorry but I’m not selling the game on patreon at the moment. When it’s complete I might consider other options!
@eisenwg If you want, you could upload it on MEGA or something like that and send me a link once I’ve subscribed. If you’re concerned I might share the link, you could set the download limit to one or, if not possible, we could agree on a specific time for me to download, after which you will disable the link.
Sorry if I’m asking too much, I hope I’m not being annoying. I’d really like to see 0.3, but I really do not like itch, for privacy reasons.
Thanks for your answers.
Found a little error so far,
In the stage 3 group burger heaven visit, Haruka and Shiori order the same thing, and Eri orders water. When the order arrives, the sprites for Eri and Shiori’s orders are swapped
I really liked chapter 3!
Can you make the protagonist less of an ass tword haruka? Or add more choices that have him being nicer? I would buy this game again if you went back and add more choices and alternative paths where he is nicer or meaner to either or both of the main two girls.
For now I will only use Itch, if more people ask I could do something for the next updates.
Thank you! As soon as I spot some little bugs like that I will do an update.
Don’t worry, the MC will be much nicer towards Haruka in the next updates, with the right choices. She’s just the stereotype of the annoying childhood friend (maybe I didn’t make it so clear with my not so good writing) but as the story progresses things will get more interesting.
No it is clear, I just don’t like playing jerkish character. I do like everything you have done so far, I just like more choices and options to be the nice guy.
If you don’t mind my asking, is there any sort of per act goal for what is added. For example, 1 weight stage of main duo and 1 stage of 1 side character per act. Or are you more going where the flash of inspiration in writing/designing/coding takes you?
Yes a new stage for Haruka and Shiori per act. As for the other girls, it will depend but they will have more or less the same number of stages. Of course Eri will get bigger anyway because of the pregnancy, but she will also gain weight in her own route
Chiming in to say that I’ve been following this since 1.1 and I’m really liking how it’s taking shape. I’m a sucker for classic trope based VN stuff so this has really hit the spot. Office ladies are also the best.
Every character is likeable in different ways and feel like they add something to narrative, and I really like how the MC is approaching the WG elements rather than just having a standard feeder/FA personality from the get go. It feels much more organic and if you do decide to include more elements drawing from Feederism stuff down the line, it’ll at least feel earned. The way the girls are slowly gaining weight and going through all the classic stages is also great, I really like how you’re approaching those elements.
I’m looking forward to seeing how the narrative progresses especially with the cliffhanger at the end of chapter 3. I’m a fan of how the MC has different relationship with each girl and looking forward to seeing more of each one. The two main girls are both great - I’m still not sure who I like best! The game receiving quick updates is also great - it’s a fantastic little episodic story and I look forward to playing each time it’s updated.
RE Feedback/Suggestions - there’s not too much to say as I like where it’s going and I like how grounded the game feels with the girls slowly bumping up in weight. A few CGs would add to the experience massively, but I appreciate that might be challenging with the resources available. Likewise, the front and back views were great but any other sprite work you can do would really help bring it to life. The main feedback I have is just I want more, especially interactions/events 1 on 1 with the individual girls which is always a good sign.
Might be difficult to say at this stage but do you have a rough plan/idea you can share around future plans? Will the focus remain on the two main girls with the side cast also pumping up a bit, or are you planning on widening the focus? Similarly, have you got a rough idea of how many acts/chapters you want to have and what sort of direction you have in mind? Would be very interested to hear.
I’ll be looking out for the next update!
I assume there will be at least some post-pregnancy content for Eri, since if i remember correctly she was already 5 months pregnant when you meet her, I assume that the rest of the game will take place over a longer duration than 4 months. Would be nice to see what she looks like without the pregnancy when we get there, but all of the post-pregnancy weight.
As for now, the rough idea is (it’s not really spoiler but):
- the main route with Haruka and Shiori with a final turning point (with individual scenes for both depending on choices)
- the common route focused on the office storyline where every girl will gain some weight (still to define) and MC won’t get together with any specific girl
- Azumi route: relationship with a more mature woman, a lot of stuffing
- Eri route: pregnancy theme and model kits
- Maki route: kendo and family drama
- special routes: ???
Of course, all routes will involve weight gain.
For now the plan is to push all the routes forward a little at a time, so as not to break old saves. The next update will most likely contain the end of Act 3 and the start of Maki route and it will come next week (I hope).
The game isn’t really meant to be episodic, but since I’m releasing it this way I strongly recommend saving before each choice if you want to see everything. Hopefully, I won’t break old saves with new flags or something
Anyway, thank you so much for the positive feedback, @pacifistical
Yes there will be post-pregnancy content, though maybe not much of it because the end of the story will approximately coincide with the launch of the smartphone which will be in June (in the game universe). As you saw, I’m doing two weeks timeskips so that could give you an idea!
Holding out hope for the legendary harem ending a la Kanojo mo Kanojo where MC ends up with all the girls. It’s obviously not a realistic scenario but does get the people going.
Also, I take that timeline and pace to mean there will probably be 11 or 12 weight stages per character? That’s probably on the money for a game of this scope.
It is interesting to hear that you have a dedicated end date in the story in mind already. That is obviously an eternity of development time (Assuming current release cadence of 1 stage = 2 weeks per IRL month of development that would mean the game won’t reach that date until next year.).
Is in-game June your hard stop for the game as a whole, or will there be a new storyline that potentially carries on after the smartphone launch. Or maybe a “Fattening Office 2” situation. I definitely wouldn’t mind ponying up a few extra $ to see you continue your work in whatever form. There is an inexplicable quality to your writing, and the quality of your work with the character models that I can’t get enough of.
Some timeskips will be longer, so there should be less than 10 stages but I’m still deciding. There should be some visible difference between them.
Anyway, I hope it will take less than 1 year to complete the game, but for now I try to do one thing at a time
Since someone mentioned CGs and more sprite work, I think this is what I can do. I’ve been experimenting with the side view, these are the results (proof of concepts)
This is Azumi stage 1
And Shiori stage 1
As anticipated, the next update will contain the ending of Act 3, the start of Maki route and the missing back views and some side views. I don’t know yet if I’ll put everything for everyone, the consistency is sometimes not perfect as you can surely tell.
Anyway the dialogues and the story will not change, at most I will add the new views in the middle of some scenes and some MC’s inner comments. So it might take me more updates to add all of the new views.
If you like this stuff, please support me on Patreon. It helps a lot!
After seeing that stage one bikini side view I can’t wait for the stage two and beyond from the side. (Hopefully we can get an eye for Shiori’s side profile, or maybe cover the eye from the side with her hair).
Overall i’m extremely impressed with your character work. Do you have a very specific set of prompts that keeps your characters looking consistent from sprite to sprite? Or is it mostly running a bunch of iterations until you get as close as possible?
The characters look really good from the side.
I’m sure when they gain some weight, they will look even better
The back views in the game were also good.
I think it would be good to add more poses to them in the game, depending on their emotions. Because it looks very unnatural when the character’s face is actively changing emotions, and their body posture is always static.
Also, the sound effect of surprised emotion, in my opinion, is repeated too often and is not always appropriate.
I hadn’t even thought of that sound being a surprised sound. I most took it as a sign that the next lines of text were very important.