Finally got to play this game! For a first release, the quality is downright impressive! I like the pixel art style, it gives the game its own identity. The three characters are all pretty fun and charming, I like them a lot!
My biggest problem gameplay-wise is how hard it is to fatten Sophia up. Hazel and Rebecca went without a hitch, but Sophia’s poor capacity means I had to carefully plan what to give her, and doing so in the most optimal way I could find only made her gain 0.16kg a day, turning her side of the story into a massive grindfest.
I also didn’t really understand what caused the work minigame to stop? If this could be explained somewhere that’d be cool.
Actually, speaking of work, you said you were open to suggestions so why not make an older office lady that’d show you the rope for your job, giving the player a tutorial and explaining for people like me how the tetris minigame worked. Then maybe in future updates the player could also feed her? Idk, just throwing my ideas around lol.
I really enjoyed the early build so far! The sprite work is gorgeous and I love the weight gain and stuffing stages you’ve done so far.
My feedback:
Maybe make it a bit easier to grind out the gaining? It can be a bit difficult to overcome early capacity restrictions in the NPCs.
I love the mini-game integration.
More MC involvement! I know she’s planned for next patch but the more the MC can get it on the gaining action the more fun it will be.
Seems like there aren’t really any outliers for stuff people want to see, I was just double checking that I wasn’t being a weirdo lol. I also know that a lot of people want to see everything, which makes sense but I mostly did this as a gauge for which parts I should center the growth around for the first few characters. Obviously every part of the girls will grow as they gain weight but proportionally some will be more predisposed to growth for some body parts over others.
The feeding system has been reworked to allow for strategizing and greater depth of gameplay. I’m working on making each girl a kind of puzzle where you need to figure out the optimal way to feed them to make them gain weight.
I’ve completed the design up to stage 3 for one of the new characters to be added in the next update (preview up on patreon)
Stage 4 sprites are completed for all of the girls (also up on patreon)
I am planning on making another character for this update, archetype to be determined. May run a poll here and on patreon to decide who it is.
I’m hard at work reworking the introduction and tutorial for the game, as many of you suggested. I am going to add in a tutorial menu option at home that explains what to do and what every variable does. I will also make the introduction longer, contextualizing why you are here and what your goals are. Currently plans are to make the girls be dorm-mates and make their university turn out to be one where grades are determined by weight gained, ability to eat food, general indulgence, etc.
The good news is with the current pace at which content is progressing I think I might be able to release 0.2 early, but this is still tbd.
I’ve decided to rework the story of the game quite a bit but I think this will end up giving me more freedom to explore more interesting scenarios in the future. Unfortunately this means that some previous content may need to be redone/removed as it no longer fits the world.
I want to make it so that the locations of the girls aren’t as static and they move around the world over time. This may be a big endeavor as it creates a lot of variables but also allows for a lot of cool events.
I also want to implement the university as a location that ties all the girls and the world together. I plan to make it have events such as weigh-ins, eating competitions, gym classes etc. All of this will give me opportunities to have all the girls together, creating lots of fun scenarios.
I have been messing around with animating the sprites. This would be way too time consuming to make as part of this update but might be something to look forward to in the future.
Stage 4 and 5 content is in the works and being implemented into the game
Stage 5 sprites are completed and up on patreon
The stuffing sprites for stage 4 and 5 will be up on patreon soon
I’ve decided to only make one new character with this update as I will end up using the extra time saved to really focus on the player sprites
I plan on making the player able to gain weight in different body parts as determined by what you consume but I will have to see how hard this is to implement.
Definitely excited to see more of this game in the future. Out of all of the games that came out recently this is by far my favorite. I’m excited to see if you have an ETA for the update or if it’s more of a “it’ll release when it’s ready” sort of deal.
Great game! I love your descriptions of the characters, very vivid. And the art is fantastic. The idea to make the main character gain weight in player determined locations sounds awesome! Excited to see more in the future.
So quick update, I might have to postpone the release of 0.2 by about a week. I underestimated how much work would have to go into the player character so I will spend the next week fully implementing that. I’m hoping to release by Friday hopefully.
Quick note, Sophia’s preferences and reactions seem to have been copied from Rebecca. She keeps saying the same things as Rebecca like, “this will help me for my workout,” when giving her protein powder for example. Very confused when I read that given how much Sophia was complaining about having to work out. I redownloaded the game to try to make sure I wasn’t the issue and it is still that way.
Edit for a couple bugs? I found: The protein powder shake is giving 5k calories for 400 cap. The tetris minigame sometimes has a dialogue box covering the bottom, I can kind of fix it if I go home first before going to work but that happening is a little inconsistent.
Side note that might not be a bug but felt like one. The MC gaining felt a little weird order was 7 of the protein then when I got a couple of the bust size increases I moved to burgers but then I just kept getting more bust sizes instead of belly sizes. I did get one belly size eventually but a couple of days passed without increase at all even with like 5 kg a day. Don’t know if this is really an issue as it only really came up because of the op protein powder.
