The Neon City - V0.04 Released

Oh hey there.

I finally did it. It only took me 2 years but I actually motivated myself to not disappear this time.

I present to you:

The Neon City.

The Neon City is a 3D weight gain life sim with visual novel elements, all done in Unreal 4. At the moment, it’s super early on in development, but I’ve managed to get more than 2 lines of code written so I’m already winning in my books.

I plan on fleshing out more information as time goes on, but I’ll leave a planned feature list below, as well as the demo of what I have so far.

Planned Features

-Fleshed out weight gain system.
-Inflation system
-Combat system that involves using your weight to your advantage.
-Romanceable characters that can have their weight change throughout their story.
-Life simulator aspect (jobs, player home, etc.)
-Basic needs
-Transformations (horns, tails, cat ears etc.)
-Diverse customization.
-probably like 30 other things I’m forgetting lmao

A Few Screenshots




V0.04 Changelog

Additions
-added newly purchased assets to make city look more like a city
-added sculpted landscape
-added super fake water that does not work at all
-added a teleport system to utilise new buildings properly
-added baseline for new interaction system
-added player apartment to eventually make use of new interaction system
-added system for item icons
-added new shop window system that will help me update the inventory system

Changes
-messed with lighting settings to fit the style better
-optimized performance

Basic Controls

-Left click on characters when close enough to interact with them (only interact works and only steve has dialogue at the moment).
-Space bar advances dialogue.
-Hold right click to move camera

At the moment, a lot of assets are placeholder and are subject to change. I’m going to start working on animations soon, then probably start working more on the conversation system.

Link to Game Page:

If you like what I’m doing, consider supporting my patreon:

Will update the post with new information.

Have fun!

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keep up the great work will be here to support

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Fyi, it’s not accepting downloads. Says the quota of downloads has been exceeded

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oh? i’ll look into that, thanks!

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oooh ok drive gets mad when too many people try to download a file, ill upload it to another drive and add the link now

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Hey links still aren’t working. Not sure what’s happening

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hey the links are down again even the dropbox link

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I’ll upload it to mega in a few minutes and try that. I’m reallsy surprised at how low the threshold is for the max downloads on each link

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For me, it always lets me download these if I log in. So people might be able to do that.

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this project feels very ambitious, i do hope we see a release of it but at the same time i think this project is going to cause quite a bit of burnout so i hope you manage to finish project!

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honestly, when I’m passionate about something, it’s hard for me to burn out. like I wasn’t going to work on it yesterday, then I got bored with whatever I was doing and just hyper fixated on coding for 3 hours lol

Can you put a download link on itch? It’s hard for me to download form google and link. Because I’m at China and I can"t log in those sites without vpn.

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oh yeah definitely, i genuinely forgot itch existed. thank you!

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Thank you, It’s pretty hard for me to find a stable vpn

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it’s uploading now, give it like 5 minutes tops

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it’s uploaded to itch now :+1:

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Really like to concepts and you don’t see a lot of games in unreal so that’s really interesting. Def will be looking out for this one!

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The patreon is officially up!

I’m working on the dialogue and response system, as well as basic animations for walking and idling. Should have an update out by friday

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The Itch link doesn’t lead to the page.

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My bad, i messed the link up when i edited the post earlier today. Its fixed now, thanks for pointing that out!