Sorry for manyposting. I haven’t given feedback on a game for a while. Also you probably know most of these things.
Anyway, the character art is good in many ways, but the clothing is a weak point. Often it floats above the character or the character clips through it. When it is too big for the character on purpose, it falls in the wrong way, like part of the cloth is taped on and only a little bit hangs loose.
Also some outfits are bland, especially aka-chans underwear in the mirror.
Vice-versa, the bodies don’t seem affected by the clothes when they are tight. Tight clothes are for making indents!
Also also, I kept wondering when I could buy the 4 outfits from the clothing store. At least 1 outfit bought as a plot-point is one of those 4, and maybe they all will be available that way. I don’t know what I want here, just the way it is seems odd, like an RPG shop where you can select the items, but pressing A to buy does nothing at all.
After all that, it’s wonderful how many fat stages there are for the characters. Very gradual and smooth! The posing and movement in the sex scenes is sexy! Besides sex scenes, the animations where other games would have more stills is a great bonus! Only please turn down the 2x jiggle physics/moon physics on those. Most 3d games have at least one character whose face and expressions is uncanny, maybe even all of them. Not this one!
A timing suggestion: remove the mirror action, and make it a free / no-time scene that fires each time the character weight changes. Or keep it as is, but put a notification when it changes? I want to catch those little comments, but I don’t want to burn aka’s whole afternoon on the chance I’ll get one!
The best scenes imo is Akane getting teased by Rin and Erika in the gym, and Chica and Akane’s dresses being ripped off. Hits all the right buttons.
A suggestion for a route would be to have Akane be the only one to fall to gluttony. Everyone else might gain a little weight but could keep their willpower relatively intact while Akane goes all in.
I may have found a bug that eventually appears after either of the feeding scenes. After the scene plays, it dumps to the main menu. I’ve attached a save from just prior, if that helps. 9-6-LT1.zip (225.2 KB)
Physics are hard! It’s not something I’m really used to working with either but expect a quality improvement on that in the future.
As for clothes yep. Totally agree. I kept them simple for time purposes but will put a little more care into them in the future as my workflow gets more efficient. I can make them cut in their bodies like you suggested, it just takes a lot of love and care to get it right. It never turns out right when you simulate it so it needs to be done by hand.
I’m impressed with the amount of content you’ve managed to add in such a short period of time, and I’m excited to see where the game goes in the future.
There’s only a few notable bugs or issues that I’ve seen, along with a couple of personal nitpicks, although I haven’t explored some of the different potential routes:
The scene where Erika wakes Akane up for donuts seems to be missing a jump if the player refuses - the refusal scene plays out as it presumably should, then continues as if the player had agreed. Doesn’t seem to be a self-control thing as Erika does leave the room rather than forcing Akane.
Might just be because I didn’t go to the restaurant enough at earlier weight levels, but the first time I met Tsumugi was her milkshake-stuffing scene, and the game acted like she and Akane were already acquainted. I know there’s a disclaimer that her scenes aren’t written yet but I’m not sure if there was an introduction that I managed to skip.
I wasn’t paying too much attention to it early on, so I could be mistaken, but it seems like there was an event with Rin early on that was closer to gluttony or mutual feeding despite Rin being on her weight-loss route. Might not hurt to take a look at the flags for some of her hangouts just in case.
The self-control mechanic is interesting, but in my (purely personal) opinion I think it’d work better if checks against self-control were randomized, with lower self-control leading to higher chances of giving in, rather than automatically failing a check every time it pops up once your willpower gets to a certain level.
There’s also the minor issue of Akane’s weight changing immediately after certain scenes, which can lead to things like seeing scenes for a new major weight-level change before actually seeing the ‘trigger’ scene for that stage. It’s a fairly inconsequential thing, although it was rather amusing that I accidentally played a scene with her new club outfit before being told I had to go and buy the new outfit in the first place. It seems like this’d be easy enough to work around, but I don’t know how much code refactoring you’d have to do or how your scripts are set up.
Also pretty minor, but it’d be interesting if some of the dialogue changed if Akane has decided she needs to lose weight. I tried setting her on a weight-loss path briefly, only to have her go to the clothing store and react to Iroha’s freakout by proudly saying she’s intentionally gaining. In fairness, I’ve only played about a day’s worth of scenes on that route just to test if any reactions like that changed.
I know that that probably seems like a lot of complaining, but in all honesty this is one of my favorite new projects of the last year, and I’m eager to see where it goes from here.
Fantastic update, but for some reason the late night feeding sessions have gotten to a point where the late night feeding sessions bring the game back to the main menu even though I have plenty of unexplored content. It may be a bug, and I’ve put the save here if you want to check it out:
Edit: I seem to have encountered the same bug as someone above, damn
I don’t see it as complaining at all. They’re all valid suggestions.
I particularly like the idea of randomising the self control. Part of the concept of this game is that you as the MC slowly lose control of agency in regards to food.
There is also some dialogue regarding losing weight in some scenes. It’s just very minor and easily overlooked.
I think one with Rin and one of the late night stuffing sessions. It was implemented as a last minute thing though. I’ll need to go back and flesh it out.
got to say the improvement from the first demo to this is amazing. Great work mate there’s a few storylines that are really interesting can’t wait for the next update!!
I just joined your patron and am glad to support your efforts on this project. Below is a bunch of nit-pick things I’ve found so far in the game (mostly just misspellings). These are fast easy fixes.
On the mac version your button for support of your patron does not work.
After introduction to Chika, the line from her is “I know he has some clothes that actually fit somewhere.” The “he should be “she”.
Chika’s line “Erika said she met a sports scienctist earlier today. Was that you?” The word is misspelled and should be “scientist”.
Optional change: Akane’s line. “Well. I came here to study sports science and this share house looked like the nicest one in my price range.” Instead of “share house”, maybe use the word “townhouse”.
As Akane is drinking wine with Chika the line “Erika really has good tast in wine.” Should Erika name actually be Chika? Also the word “tast” should be spelled “taste”.
Chika’s line: “But that’s when she announced her (New erika) plan and started working out. Capitalize Erika.
Chika’s line: “Hit my up anytime Akane… a girl like you… knows how to hold her drinks…” The word “my” should be “me”.
You have a conversation mislabelled as coming from Akane when it should be Erika. The conversation was “Want to join me? I know you were working out hard today too. Besides you’re as skinny as a twig. Maybe if you help me eat some I can finally start to lose some weight.” In this conversation add a comma after the word “some” and “finaly” should be spelled “finally”.
I noticed during the transition of night to morning when Akane is lying in her bed the image of Erika coming into her room with bread pops up for a second and disappears just before the morning menu appears when that doesn’t happen.
Curious question - is Chika a heavy drinker because of Hinata and her workplace?
In the club visit with Chika her line: “Why did you go and talk to them?” The word “did” should be “don’t”.
Suggestion: When Akane checks out her ass the line: “It’s not my imagination. This thing is definitely getting bigger.” Instead of “This thing” how about using “My butt”.
When Anaka uses asset transfer the picture of Erika struggle against her immense size looks a bit funny as if Akane’s butt is 180 degrees in the wrong direction.
After Akane’s dream where Rin’s weight transfers to her, Akane lying on her bed sprawled out she says: “Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to see what it’s like to put of a few points.” Shouldn’t that sentence be: “Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to see what it’s like put on more weight.” or “put on more pounds.”
When Anaka has $5 and you she tries to visit the onsen that costs $5 Akane complains she doesn’t have enough money for that. Your condition in the code needs to >= instead of just > or whatever Renpy uses.
There was a scene at the club with Erika and Chika where Akana was complaining about her gut and there was an image transition (had a hamburger in it) for a second that occurred after Akane says: “Of course I do…” and before Erika says: “Hey Akane.”
After 16) occurs where Erika brings a huge pizza into the room where Erika and Akane sits. Erika says: “Oh this? I wasn’t able to fit into it again until recently. Than’s to you, coach.” The word “Than’s” should be “Thanks”
Near the end when Akane checks herself in the mirror: “How much further can i go? These things are cutting into my hips bad.” Suggest you change “These things” to “My underwear bottoms”.
If you hold off jogging till near the end story you hit the very first scene meeting with Lisa and Says and you magically lose all the weight. You need a condition check there.
Near the end of the story you have “Visit the onset $5” at night and it doesn’t work at that point and just returns you to the same menu. This occurs just before the whip cream scene and park scene with Erika.
Dunno if this has already been suggested, but in a future update can we get a scale for Akane’s weight? Many ways to do that, but probably a small option when checking the mirror would work out. I just know I like watching numbers go up, and I doubt I’m the only one.
And big thanks for that list. You saved me a lot of work finding those things. Mistakes like that become invisible to my eyes after a few reads. I’ll go through the list and correct them.
@Demimonde4_Archives
I honestly considered it for this update but I wanted more time to actually think about what she actually weighs in each scene rather than looks.
It’s been suggested a few times so I’ll give it more consideration.
Amazing game- different graphic style from most other games around here and tons of awesome scenes. The gradual descent into gluttony is one of my favourite scenarios, and this game really delivers.
I would also second an option to check your weight (and maybe other characters as well), but imporant to make it realistic. In one of the first scenes in the game when running into Erika, the MC comments that she looks around 70 kg heavier than her, which seems exaggerated to me.
I also ran into the bug that caused the game to jump back to main screen. For me it happened in the scene with Erika, where you have to choose route between mutual gain or just being fed further. (I actually thought I hit the end of content, so was quite pleased to come in here and realize that I definitely have things to explore still. I did not meet Yui or Nene yet. It happened shortly after going to stage 3 I think).
I’ve put together a quick fix for the return to menu and onsen not triggering after stage 4 bug.
Just copy the contents of this folder into the game folder of Fill Me Up (Fill_Me_Up-0.1.0-pc\Fill_Me_Up-0.1.0-pc\game) and choose to replace at the destination.
Consider creating a copy of those scrips before you replace them just incase it causes some unforseen errors and you can undo the replacement.
It looks like it was caused by an indentation missmatch at the end of the label. I don’t know why I didn’t catch it.
Now you don’t have to dread Erika feeding you ever again.
Also, did you know You can cause Erika to rebound without the help of Yui’s cupcakes. It doesn’t change anything yet but in the future, maybe a situation where both Erika and Yui get fat.
@nuttybong Thanks for your support! Erika is close to 6’4 so I kind of had her height in mind as well when I wrote that line. I’m not a big numbers guy so I’ll have to have a big long thing about those numbers in the future.
Wow- Did not realize she was that tall, in that case the weight difference could make sense (even though it is of course also an approximation/wishful thought(?) from the MC at that point )… I approve of putting some tall girls in your game. Out of curiousity, do you have a height in mind for the MC?
)… I approve of putting some tall girls in your game. Out of curiousity, do you have a height in mind for the MC?