VN with comminity-created story (stuffing/bloating focused)

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The Idea

I want to create a VN dating sim, heavily relying on the community feedback. The goal is to have some relatively simple world that you can explore and meet some girls, who will show a disproportionate interest in food.

The discussion will go in order

  1. Choosing the setting.
  2. Outlining the personality of the MC.
  3. Designing the characters.
  4. Creating the stories.

At each step I plan to start by gathering the community feedback and follow it with a pool where people can vote for their favorite suggestions. Then the next part of the discussion will go on in parallel with the development.

I don’t plan on making it a huge multi-year project. I want a tighter development cycle, so that people can enjoy the finished game in three months, top (and a first demo before the end of the new-year break, January 6). Therefore I plan 3-5 main girls only. I’d like the story to be not-so-linear though. Some interactions between the story lines and a couple of choices per path. So if your suggestion merges some paths, it will be a lot more likely to get implemented.

Current status

I’ll be updating the sections below, to match the current state of development.

Setting

That’s the first item on the agenda. You can post your ideas below. I’ll set the deadline, once I get close to implementing the base systems, like moving around and shops. If things go well, I’ll be posting the poll this weekend.

Fell free to suggest anything you think could be interesting. Don’t be too specific or too broad, for example

A fantasy game where you work as an adventurer and curry favor with cute girls by using parts of the monsters to provide delicious meals on the missions.

Let’s the discussion begin!

Characters

TBA

Stories

TBA

Fetishes

I should probably mention that I’m mostly interested in stuffing/bloating myself and that’s where the majority of the development time will be spent. Depending on how much time I’ll have, there might be some smaller WG sequences (especially in text), but we’ll see.
Though if morbid obesity is the one thing you’re interested in, I’m sorry to disappoint.

About me.

Hey, it’s been a while since I’ve last created a topic. I’ve been failing to create a VN for the website for quite a while, and hope to change it this holiday.

The main problem for the failures were my arts skills. But a bit over a year ago I’ve decided to get a grip on myself and I’ve been drawing daily since then. While I’m not ready to drop my “beginner” badge yet, I’m confident enough to start doing some smaller projects.

And I’m a fairly decent programmer, the technical part of the game should go pretty smoothly. Especially since I’ve learned some Ren’Py through all my failed attempts.

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I see promise in the idea but I think you might be overly optimistic in your expected timeline - unless I’ve misunderstood you. 6/1/26 is pretty tight to have a working demo if you’re still at the design stage. Unless you intend it to be very bare bones. But I don’t want to rain on your parade - so if I might make a suggestion on the setting - in keeping with your focus more on stuffing/bloating rather than actual weight gain: A sci-fi adventure where the crew of the ship are infected with a parasite that will kill them (a la Alien) unless satiated - leading them to gorge themselves in an effort to stave off their impending doom whilst searching for a cure.

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Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve written it down for a the pool.

Yeah, I plan to release a rather basic demo version. I imagine, that I’ll get much more engagement, when people can play it and think to themselves: “Hey, I can help steer in the right direction.”

In a way, anything that’s not in the game yet is an opportunity from the community-driven approach.

So even after the demo, I plan to do smaller, incremental releases.