The Weight Romance - A WG Visual Novel made with Ren'Py

Click here to see the Opening Movie/Trailer

Downloads (currently there is not an available build)

  • You can download the latest version of the game on the itch page
  • I made the game available for free also on my patreon (no subscription required)

Characters:

Patreon link: eisenwg | Developing “The Weight Romance”, a WG visual novel | Patreon

What will I use the patreon money for?

Simply to commission illustrations (CGs) to real artists or purchase background assets or music. I will hopefully also get a tablet to improve the sprites.

You can subscribe to one of the tiers on my patreon. Just keep in mind:

  • There are currently no real privileges for who choose to support partly because I feel not confident enough and also because I’ll try to keep everything game-related as free and accessible as possible.
  • Don’t expect too much since I am just a fan of these games and not a real developer
  • I could stop the development at any time because of life stuff. That’s a concrete possibility so if that were to happen, I’ll try to refund everyone via patreon.

Synopsys:

Mizuno Seiji is an high school senior, spending his days carefree with his group of charming female friends. But when the mysterious, forgotten childhood friend Yuna arrives on the scene, he’s forced to come to terms with his heart and some things he’d kept dormant within himself for so long.

Game description:

The game will be a slow paced long visual novel focused on slice of life and romance aspects. As the main character gradually discovers and accepts his fat lover/feeder nature, you can influence the story by making choices that will cause the girls to gain weight (or not) and lead to different endings.

Featuring:

  • 7+ romanceable girls with different expressions/outfits
  • stereotypical romance visual novel slice of life elements
  • AI sprites currently but I plan to do further hand-draw editing as soon as I can afford a tablet with a pen
  • Hand-drawn (not by me) food assets and backgrounds
  • Hand-drawn chibi-style sections for funny scenes
  • English language with potential Italian translation later on (my main language)

Weight gain:

  • 4+ weight stages for each girl
  • visible gain on belly, thighs, face, (maybe arms)
  • no back visual and not full legs
  • many weight and food related talks, fat teasing, comments
  • one or two simple minigames in meaningful scenes
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I leave here a screenshot of the game. Keep in mind text is just a placeholder and it is all conceptual work

I share something fun with you. Yesterday I had an exam and met my female colleague after some time we have been working on a project remotely. She mentioned having gained weight and it was true even if not much :smile: The exam went probably bad though :face_exhaling:

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Interesting, to say the least. I’m looking forward to where this goes.

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I LOVE the artstyle and would love to see your work. I hope you will rise up to the challenge. Good luck! :smiley:

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I have been busy since the post so I didn’t really work much on the game but I will do tonight and hopefully in the weekend. Thanks for all the interest!

These are some sprites for Yuuna and Rize (the two main love interests). I am somewhat struggling to keep consistency but got great results so far in my opinion. I already generated four different weight stages for Yuuna (thin-hint of gain-chubby-fat) each with 3-4 different face expressions and clothes (uniform/bikini/other). I leave here a little anticipation :smile:

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I wish their faces were more different from each other. Eyes and mouth in particular. Could also vary jawline, how much they blush because anime, typical makeup.
Still, looking forward to the release! Good luck and don’t give up!

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Yes I know faces are a bit the same except for eyes colour and hair style, but I’ll try to play with body contrast (like the two girls are at different weight stages throughout the story) and as soon as I can afford it I will commission some edits to real artists. I am very conscious about the art style myself :sweat_smile:

I am realizing it’s pointless to go on with AI trying to perfectionate the sprites when a detailed commission to human artist would realize exactly what I want, so I will concentrate on the real game now to make a decent writing too. Assets can be polished/changed later I suppose and I will hear all the feedback after a short demo before going on :smile:

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Update: I’ve almost finished setting up the whole project so that I can focus on the writing, but I am still figuring out how to deal with a lot of things since it’s the first time I work on this kind of game/project. Some screens I took earlier:

For Yuuna I think it looks good for now. I have decent assets until the fat stage.

Rize, the other main girl, is still a placeholder I think. I can’t get to generate good sprites for her plus clothes are a pain :face_exhaling:

She is the teacher at the university. While there will be choices only for Yuuna and Rize, leading to a dedicated ending depending on which girl of the two you “liked the most” during the game (of course there will be other little choices), I figured I would still insert other side characters so you can experience some nice side gains :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Anyway, I hope to release a free demo in 1-2 weeks.

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this looks amazing, can’t wait to try it out

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Thank you, it means a lot :smile:

indeed, this is certainly looking quite promising!, i do hope the girls do get really big in novel but i guess time will tell.

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Yeah, will be a little slow pace but will surely get there

Are the background images also ai or are they stock images?

The backgrounds are ai but I am editing them to add some details

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Update: Thanks god I passed my exam so I can concentrate more on the game :sweat_smile:

I’ve been working on some UI but only got to finish the main menu as you can see. I really like how the logo came up, but I still need to refine all the menu screens.

And the application icon

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As for the actual game, I’ve been thinking on the plot and that is taking more time than planned but I really want to make a well thought and polished story/game and I am a bit of a perfectionist so it will take time to refine everything. My intention is to release the game completely free on itch (link in first post) when it is ready but as I said I plan to release a little demo here before.

I opened a patreon if anyone is willing to support. There is only one tier for 1 $ / month. I figured I would try this just to increase the game quality in all aspects (assets, music, etc.). As I said the game will be free to play and I am not pushing for support in any way since I would probably need to show something more, plus I am having so much fun and satisfaction developing it even though time is what it is and there’s still a lot to do.

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Congratulations on passing! Everything looks very nice so far ^^

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Amazin logo, logos are hard!

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should be in the game an character that start fat, became very fit and go back to fat, just a sugestion but would be amazing

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Nice idea, I will probably do something similar to what you’re thinking for a side characters. I am also always a fan of “body swap” concept where a character starts thin and her friend is fat, then the fit one ends up putting on weight and the fat one loses some. So expect some of these dynamics :wink:

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I am working toward finishing the demo which will cover the prologue of the story. I leave here a little teaser about a side character. Here you see there are three main weight stages but it will vary for main characters and because of story reasons. I will try to add a little more for someone (probably one in between fit and chubby and one after fat).

I won’t spoil too much here about the story but I confirm there will be two main love interests (the two girls in the cover) and some more side girls. The blonde one is a former model which now works as a university teacher, while the other side characters would be university students with at least one more weight gain. There will be main choices affecting your current level of affection with a girl and minor choices that will unlock some weight gain bonus scenes with side characters in it.

The story will span from the start to the end of summer and will be a bit slow paced because I like it that way and overall it will feel more like a kinetic novel where your choices will increase a hidden score of affection toward one of the two main girls. The story will branch only near the end depening on which you “fell in love” with. I estimate it to be about 10 hours for the final game.

If you have any suggestions about the “fetish” aspect of it, feel free to tell me.

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