I think I’ve said something similar to this many years ago but recently I’ve been thinking why Weighting Game sticks with me, more then other amazing games on here. What makes this game so special? Why do I care so much about these digital characters, why am I just as excited to see their story unfold as to see them gain? Other weight gain games have stories that are interesting too, but why is it so important with this one?
And I think I’ve figured it out, what makes this game so special to me, and this isn’t me putting other games down because I play them and I love them for their own reasons. But what makes weighting game so special is because the characters gain is intertwined with their personality and their story. Its who they are. These characters would probably gain weight if they lived in a world where society doesn’t frown upon it. Society is basically whats holding them back, we all know women in our lives that LOVE food and LOVE eating but they balance it out by doing the stuff they don’t like to retain a healthy slim figure.
Like Alice for example, she loves food and loves to eat but she’s a classic emotional eater. When she’s happy she eats, because eating is what makes her feel good, but when she’s sad she eats because eating is what makes her feel good. So on her own she found a way to manage those traits and remain skinny. But add a feeder character to that formula and ofcourse she’ll blow up. Because we encourage the side of her that enjoys eating.
Then we have Rebecca, she’s a stress eater, she eats when she’s stressed and she has to manage an entire company, and also try to have some sort of love life and she’s also new in town. She’d probably grow slowly on her own anyway maybe a bit and then she’d get a handle on it or maybe not, but its so natural do add our character to that, encourage those eating habits and she blows up.
Then there’s Hannah, she used to be fat, lost alot of weight and I’ve seen it happen in real life when someone overweight becomes skinny, they become what they adored, the hot confident flirty girl that gets everything. Because they wished they were that when they were fat. So when she suddenly can’t get what she wants its frustrating, she’s willing to do anything for it even stop smoking which famously makes people gain a few pounds, coupling her desire to have people think she’s hot and she blows up.
And well Lacy is also handled super interestingly as she is a feedee, lost weight and is/was basically waiting for someone to come along and share the fetish with. Because her last partner didn’t enjoy it. Which is super interesting to view the other side, what if a woman has the fetish but her partner doesn’t? We as a player don’t know she’s into it because how can you share that? so that twist explained so much about her dialogue and it just works.
So as you make the game you probably did this intentionally, but other games that have great writing and interesting stories, its usually still a fact that the women in the game gain because you make them, they enjoy gaining because its a fantasy written by and made for people with this fetish. They gain because its a weight gain game so ofcourse they do. But with your game there’s a story behind the gain a reason behind the fantasy which despite being a game where “ofcourse all the women around you gain weight” it still feels real, the characters feel real atleast because the reason of their gain is real and so intertwined with who they are as a person.
So once gain thank you for putting so much detail and effort in the writing and characters because there is nothing like it.
I did set out from the start to try and make all my characters different - apart from the common theme of weight gain, of course - and by and large, and more down to luck than judgement, it seems as though I’ve had some success in that. So, yep, definitely intentional.