Agreed. At the risk of being “That Guy,” I did figure this was how it was going to end up. I’d certainly hoped I would be wrong, I was excited every time I opened weight gaming and saw “Forks” listed in my unread’s, but this cancellation wasn’t a terrible surprise.
From here, it’s just a matter of what comes next, and what can be built with the materials left to us.
Wow! Brilliant! Hope one day they turn out like that.
I’m not able to help but wish you all the best - will look forward to seeing how you get on.
The way I see it the main plot only takes alex to size 9. Size 10 is the ending arc and size 11 is maybe a credits style epilogue finale.
So yeah many CGs will go never completed. However many games like this don’t even have full screen art CGs. Forks could easily double in length by writing word count and be handled with the sprites currently in existence.
Grace? size7 in the main plot size8 in a final scene. Morgan is a side characters so lack of outfits makes some sense? Rea? Probably size 9 at the end of non-Rea routes and in the Rea only route size 10/11/12 form a final arc?
There’s easily twice as many sprites in the new dump as there were actually used in the last release of the game. I don’t find it hard to believe the demo we’ve gotten so far is half of a plot.
Although yeah. If you wanted a route where hannah isn’t constantly dieting well you can’t write that and still use toro’s art because tron didn’t request that art because that wasn’t an arc on the outline for tron’s vision of the game?
If a top end writer wanted to finish things, that is. But I agree, it’s not really worth it. Any writer elite enough to be on tron’s level already is bogged down with tons of their own projects that they’re inspired to write instead.
So I do not expect anyone to do it. However I do not think lack of art assets is a fair reason. It’s that no one wants to commit to write an entire novel that they don’t get full control over. For free. Unpaid.
{edit: On the subject of coding, ren’py coding is trivial for a standard VN. The only code that was next level was stuff where the phone is in use or multiple characters talk at once or the part where we see twitch chat in rea’s room. That stuff requires some mild knowledge of coding. The rest of it is just like 10 variables 20 if statements and 20,000 words copied and pasted into a .rpy file. That’s why tron suggested anyone trying to pick the project up might want to delete those features, because the phone is cool as heck, but not really required, the phone information dumps could just be text from a narrator in a dis-jarring lazy fashion requiring no advanced comprehension of the code.}
Happy to say it’s officially in production. Thinking about starting from scratch with the code, as a lot of Tron’s ambitions (while spectacular) are simply not those that will allow me to make this project realistically. So, for this first step I’ll be familiarizing myself with the software and editing the script so that it’s more-so in line with my writing style, and setting up the story I see it going through with, that way the whole thing feels more cohesive and put-together. While I will be rewriting the lines, it will be following through mostly the same structure as Tron’s original story & characters, as this is his baby after all. So, please let me know everything you think abt the project and it’s future because the more input and info I have the better this is going to become 
Okay, just finished rewriting the first scene and am gonna be working on a fresh project file to send you guys a taste of what’s to come. Will be posting updates here xD
And again, help is much appreciated - but I will be doing this either way, so don’t worry if people don’t jump at the bit to get started with me. This project will come to fruition, just gonna take some time, as I’m sure everyone expects.
Glad to hear I’m not the only sicko who did this 
I did the same thing by duplicating the images to a seprate in order to see the weight gain in process.
As people seems to start tinkering with their own versions of finishing Forks I’m wondering are they going to post their projects here in this thread or is there going to a new one for these fan projects?
A different thread for sure. It will need to say TeamSpoon fanproject. And also this thread is controlled by Tron. So having better acces to all forms of moderating will be better in a different thread.
Sad to see it go happy it happened.
It’s this game that made me create an account so thanks.
which projects are inspired by this one?
Off the top of my head one that comes to mind is @smugdotexe ’s Feeling the Weight of It All - Weight gain VN. Great game and concept with a talented artist.
i can think of a few though a good chunk of them are not WG related for i’ll make two lists just for this case
WG VN list:
Untitled Renpy Feedee Game - only one demo so far and follows a similar style to Weighted game with one character gaining weight while another is losing weight in the process
Weighted Game - Can be tedious to get further with the story over time but is a fun story to read through.
Worshipers of the gain- love the interactive experience of the game and the story of town & its inhabitants
Growth Academy - Alice’s story is good once you get use to her personality quirks and the other expansion stories are great too though i like Aida’s the most…
Chunky cheerleader - certainly a proof of concept at the moment but a good one at that
Feeling the weight of it all - it comes of silly if not cartoonish but enjoyable
Non WG related VN:
Re;dreamer - M2F VN about a guy who installs a secret app sex game and uses its geneticaly altering character creator to accidently change themselves into a girl… while this sounds like a fap game on a glance their is quite alot of writting content in it and its not everyone cup of tea.
Student Tranfer - student comes accross either a sci fi romote or magic book to turn his normal dull life upside down. story may vary depending on the route you read and i already mentioned the scenario community already
Bloom Wars - expansion game of thrones or thriller if i ever seen it, moving on
Honorable mention:
Resize me - this is basically a gts shrink first person interactive novel i guess but the story and the first person experience really brings this niche to life
The question was which games were inspired by forks. I know of a few that the dev have stated as such but I think I can only confirm one in recent knowledge I know the dev has stated on this site. Now life is all about inspiration and history, myths, legends, stories, games, media we recycle ideas and stories constantly. So there are lots of things that forks can have inspired, characters in games, concepts, settings but I would make claims as such on the devs behalf.
Some of the games you listed might be similar to forks but forks did not inspire them to be created to my knowledge (although I was going to list untitled renpy feedee game as one that I thought the dev had indicated they were but I couldn’t find it.)
For example tiggertoos weighting game was not to my knowledge as I think tiggertoos themselves had not ever had the chance to play forks as they were too busy with their own project from what I remember. Not trying to nitpick just I didn’t want to mislead or misrepresent a devs intentions. Because yes there are a ton of games VN or not similar to forks.
The talks of rewrites and adding new kinks is worrying.
At what point does it stop being Forks and just becomes a new game just wearing the harvested skin from Forks’ grave?
Maybe some things should just stay burried?
Yeah I’d love to follow a new thread, when possible. stop clogging this one. Leave this one as a perfect little museum for the future. I would still recommend new readers to download and play the demo from the OP, it’s a great game, just so long as you’re willing to play it half finished with no ending and no plot resolution.
Forks didn’t just inspire games though, it inspired weightgaming.com account sign ups, IIRC forks is why I discovered this site and all the other games here.
Yes I agree. Forks and the weighting game were the reason I made an account back in December of 2019 and were the projects I checked out and what I was most excited for. That changed with forks for me personally around the time it went on a back burner to Aria but it is no doubt a very influential project that has affected many in the community in different ways.
That was part of the reason I personally felt it should just be allowed to die but I can’t blame others for wanting to continue something they were passionate about.
I also would understand that if I was making a game it would probably be largely for me and no doubt would have my preferences and wants within its design. I don’t know that I would say that is the right call to do with an already established project to be taken over but I get it. Like @BuiltToBlast has stated doing something like that you lose well what makes forks, forks in my opinion.