Herokero

Update 3/28/23: Plannings, Doings, and Ramblings

Yodels! It's me again!

I've been busy hunting applying bugfixes to a number of things--nothing as gamebreaking as the circumstances of the initial 0.7 build, but stuff that certainly should be addressed, like dialogues/reactions not playing for some characters (Penny...) and the candy calorie multiplier going absolutely wild for a character (also Penny, somehow), or things like interactive objects "turning"/breaking when spoken to, NPCs that be repeatedly eaten, that kinda thing.  ...

FEF, build 0.7.0.1

EDIT: initial release was very VERY buggy, turns out!

I have since made a bugfix build, as there were issues across all three phases.  I recommend starting fresh again, just in case.  My apologies!

It's finally here!  After too much time, it's a new build.

Because of technology reasons, old saves will not work.  Accordingly, skips to Phases 2 and 3 have been provided.

2023-03-13 03:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post

To you, who have supported me through the dark

Hey there everyone!

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*crickets*

...Fuck.

Let me preface this, although it should be obvious with the forthcoming post, that FEF content build 0.7 is out!  Info on that is in the other post.  Please enjoy it.

More importantly, allow me to apologize.  If I could personally kowtow to you, I would, because for several months I have had the gall to leave this account up without explaining the circumstances for going silent.

Long story short, I ...

Update 10/20/22: The Ham! (walkthrough)

Hey! I started a new job this month, and it's been a bit of an adjustment.  But it's a better job than my last one, so... I can't complain, even if the hours are less favourable!

This time, I thought I'd go over part of the Ham, the dungeon/area you're dropped off into at the start of Phase 3!

This will somewhat spoil the experience, but I figure it'd be good to show off the most obvious new 'content.'

So, assuming you left a save in your cell, there is a now a thingy. ...

Update 9/26/22: Building Phase 3

Yo! Build 0.6 (and change) seem to have been a successful launch without too many gamebreaking bugs (although I've been alerted to an exploit with charity that I need to look at), so now I begin my march towards what's next.

So... what's next?

GENERAL THINGS:

New sizes for the main ladies are, of course, a top priority.  I've been sitting on BIG sprites for kui for a while, meaning that rachel, rumia, and skein (who are all essentially templated off of kui) are within s...

Update 9/19/22: At last, 0.6!

Ugh, man... I am so sorry for the silence!

What meant to be a quick one-week thing (traveling cross-country for family reasons) became an utter, exhausting, soul-draining little experience.
It took like a week and half to recover from that, and then other life things happened. That, and my ambitions beyond just bug-fixing what I'd put out turned the intended "put out untested 0.59, fix it to 0.6 a week or so later" into a, well, month-long difference.

But.... *drumrolls*......

update 8/13/22: build 0.57 alpha

Hey! Absolute apologies here.

Since my last update, things got a bit out of hand in my real life circumstances.

A sudden family emergency interrupted my planned schedule, and I was unable to fully implement some aspects... hence the build designation of 0.57, rather than 0.6.

Chiefly, these concern the quest log with respect to Phase 2, and the interparty dialogue, although I did implement the basis of a future support system mechanic.

What is included, is: the readjus...

Update 7/28/22: Some Interruptions, but...

Hey, guess who's recurring anxiety got in the way of posting updates?

It was me! Er, mine.

Sorry, a combination of applying for jobs + COVID scare (that ended up not being covid, but a regular summer flu(?)) took me out for a week or thereabouts, and I felt my posting momentum evaporate. But, as ever, I kept plucking at the game, and...

I feel *very* confident that the next build, ver 0.6, will be available by mid-August! My current timetable has me finishing it in the next ...

Update 7/5/22: Downtown Beach pt.2 -- Enemies!

So much for having daily updates... Still, I'm not too upset with having some stuff every few days.

In addition to the slab of beef from the last update-- maybe I'll split the difference, and call him 'Beach Himbo'?-- here's the other enemies to be found here.

Just a basic hefty lady. Tried to deviate from my standard 3/4 facing pose here with a slightly more dynamic stretch. Lady's got b...

Update 7/2/22: Downtown Beach, pt. 1

Long mentioned a while back, I showed off a beach map. And recently, I showed off a beach enemy, the Lifeguard... So, let's talk about the Downtown Beach, shall we?

Downtown Beach will be accessible by exiting Downtown City from the west-- it's located past Putnam Academy.

Actually, wait. You can't actually go to the beach in Phase One, so let's adjust a little bit.

2022-07-02 21:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 6/29/22: Quest Journal Functionality

This update will cover the general behavior of the quest journal, or rather, how I'll use it.

I'll use a Phase One quest as an example here!

In the main menu, there'll be a new category/page to select, the Quest Journal. Selecting it will bring up this menu screen:

'Available' Quests are quests the player has received, but not completed. Generally speaking, Main Quests will be given...

Update 6/28/22: ~PAIN~

Ugh

UGH!

Before I say anything else, let me apologize: I will not, unfortunately, be making my planned release date for the newest build.  Long story short, because of a combination of family, work, and a hand injury (my dominant one, no less) I essentially lost three weeks of time I had planned to devote to the game. The injury was shortly after my last post, and has since (mostly) recovered, but it made me unable to grip things (e.g. a mouse, a tablet pen, etc.) for much of...

Update 5/20/22: Dungeons, Enemies/NPCs, and [REDACTED]

Hello! Sorry, as ever, it's been a bit. Life really loves finding a way to get in the way, to paraphrase a certain chaos theory... guy from a certain dinosaur park-themed film.

Phase 2 continues to be built upon/fleshed out/tweaked. Currently, there are 6 semi-randomized 'dungeons' one can access to fight the Unfed, as well as GAIN or Cultists, as needed. They've.... been a bit of a headache, so I'm considering simplifying them, or replacing them entirely. An issue in Phase 2 currently ...

Update 4/30/22: Villains, Pt. 1/Asset Discussion

Howdy! Sorry for the quiet, started an exercise routine recently (ironic, I know) and the lifestyle change really threw me for a loop. Kept meaning to post an update, but I'd be busy making art, then I'd basically just crash, haha.

So! First things first... Since my last update, I'd decided to 'finalize' the sprite sizes for Nanette. That is to say that, rather than make her sprites as I needed them--i.e., to match content for upcoming builds-- I'd just go ahead and make them all now. N...

Update4/12/22: Onwards!

Hey there! It's been... Eight(?) days since 0.5 was released, and less since a slightly patched version came out fixing some of the MYRIAD bugs that occurred in my rush and crunch to meet a semi-arbitrary deadline I made for myself! Moral of the story: even in one's own, personal projects, crunch is bad. Don't encourage crunch time!

/lesson over

While it's my understanding that the game still has some more bugs I need to look at--phase transitions might still be squirrely, some ev...

update 4/4/22: ZERO-POINT-FIVE -ONE-TWO is OUT

https://forum.weightgaming.com/t/fatties-eating-fatties-a-vore-focused-wg-rpg-ver-0-5-new-characters-sizes-and-plot/15793

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Alternatively,

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wjo4q60i9zsn9hv/FEF0.52.zip/file

2022-04-04 09:33:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 3/14/22: New Enemies 3 & New Mechanic

Gah, meant to have an update sooner, but work's been hell. Thankfully, I'm off the rest of the month, which I intend to use to maximize working on the upcoming release. Sorry for the silence!

First things first: some more new enemies!

This is (surprise) the Goth, an enemy on the school map. I might also use this grouping for an NPC arc, because the art came out pretty great, in my opinion...

Update 2/27?8?/22: New Enemies 2

The area between the City map and the Suburbs, in the previous versions, were a weird multi-map corridor with a single fork leading to a minor event. I'm scrapping that and replacing it with a new, single-map road, with multiple forks/points of interest. Or at least two. Expa International's local facility will be accessible there, as well as a new local. It's not the least bit original, but hey... Everyone loves the Farm, right?

2022-02-28 06:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 2/26/22, Part 1: New Enemies 1

Hey! Sorry, I ended up missing last week's update, family visited, throwing off my schedule.

First, some of the new enemies! The originals from v0.1 were done in a real basic MS Paint style, partly because of "pixels=indie game" logic and partly because I had no idea what I was doing. Now that I DO know what I'm doing, kinda, I'm replacing the old art with newer, slightly better stuff.

Th...

Update 2/13/22: Revisions!

As a consequence of my more fleshed-out combat ambitions, I've had to think about how I want to implement that information into the game. In the earlier builds, I had a little evented "tutorial book" at the start, that was kinda clunky... But, now that I have a better idea of what I'm aiming for, I'm conveying that information more directly.

Basically, I'm just eventing certain encounters--noth...

Update 2/2/22: FEF February!

Blarghhhhh. Meant to have another post out before the end of the month, but I've been sick with some kinda persistent thing again. Not covid, thankfully, but something nasty enough to need regular medication, but it's been knocking me out during the evenings.

I haven't posted as much as I'd liked, so I intend to correct that: I swear to have some kind of update every week this month, at least.

And, to start the month off, here's Sheila!

2022-02-02 22:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Update: 1/16/22: The Great Skill Overhaul

Hey there! It's a bit late, but... Happy New Year! Here's to progress--in life, in happiness, and in me making this game! Given my plans/designs/expectations, the game won't be finished by the year's end, but maybe I'll have enough put together for an actually beatable experience, w/o all the bells and whistles?

(Although in my opinion the bells and whistles are the best part)

Thank you so much for supporting me for now, and I hope to put out a new build soon to justify said suppo...

Whaddya mean I missed Christmas??!!!?

Well.

Um.

I really meant to have this out before Christmas, but I ended up getting roped into visiting family, which is really good and I'm happy to have done it, but it completely threw a wrench in my timetable.... BUT. BUT I finished it before 2022. It's still December... that counts to me, dammit!

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The link will recount this, but 'Phoebe's Holiday Hoggery' is a vague stuffing/puzzle game starring the wundercouple of Phoebe and Jeff Brown. Play as Jeff, and try to...

Update-gaiden: 12/13/21

Gah, when'd it become December? December 13?!

Because I'm clearly *very good* at being organized, I've tried my damnedest to slap together a little christmas 'game' for, ah, Christmas. Ideally it'll be out the week before, or thereabouts! It's a short little puzzle game, easily beatable in like 15 minutes or something I bet, so naturally it's a been a butt-and-a-half to event, because I guess I'm not that good at puzzle-making? Haha.

It'll be a mostly linear sequence, but how the ...

Update 11/30/21: Sprite Madness

Yooo, holidays! On the one hand, it's great to have some time off... on the other hand, you gotta spend *time* with your *family*, ewwwwwww... haha.

I missed another week--maybe I should aim for three updates a month? I'm considering it, and idk *what* my Christmas schedule is gonna look like. I'll try to be better than November, at any rate...

ANYWAY

I've drafted the 'gist' of the Priya recruitment sequence! Essentially, Priya is a decent, good-intentioned girl going to Put...

Update 11/14/21

Eesh, sorry about missing last week! Real-life stuff got in the way a bunch, and I haven't had the opportunity to work on making more assets. Not anything big like enemy art, anyway. I've also been brainstorming ideas/scenarios for the game I was bugtesting earlier, which has taken a bit of a productivity toll on me.  That said, for this week's update, we've got two things.

First, the sprites! Anyone who's used rpg maker before should know this, but among the default assets they pr...

Update 11/2/21

Man, bugtesting is hard.

Like, *hard*.

I've been busy this past week helping bugtest a friend's game, and it's given me a new perspective/appreciation for the, well, bug tests. And people trying unbalanced combat systems and enemy stats. You think you should be doing fine, and then you get one-shotted, and the feedback in rpgmaker, even with plugins, ain't great.

With that in mind, I'll probably go over my enemy database and fine-tune things a bit.

Meanwhile: the GIF! ...

Follow-up-date 10/26/21

Now that 0.4's out, time to work on 0.5! *Groan*

Well, maybe not 0.5. Maybe 0.45? I dunno. Basically, I'd like the next content patch to come sooner, but beats me what to number it.

Anyway, this is Priya Nashurma, the valedictorian of Putnam Academy, or whatever it's called, haha (in the original interactive, I ended up calling it 'Solo' High, because it's a generic high school setting).  In the original material, she ends up being the central character of a crazy arc spinnin...

Update 10/26/21: Build 0.415 released!

Hey! Odds are you've seen this already, but if you haven't... Version 0.4 of Fatties Eating Fatties is out! Adding some more (sloppy) gameplay to the existing 0.3 build, 0.4 features some basic dungeon-crawling, a bill to be paid or ignored, the player joining a cult or an insurgency cell or blowing them both off, and a total of 7 potential fatties to recruit (and 1 hapless husband).

Thanks to some bugtesting by the good people of WeightGaming, the most potent of bugs should be addresse...

Update 10/18/21

Ver 0.4 is 'completed', and being tested!

This patch will end up being combat heavy, which is unfortunate because I... am not good at balancing that. At all.

HOWEVER

A lot of the systems have been refined and worked out, and I'm reasonably pleased with that, so theoretically I won't have to rebuild the skeleton a third time.

That being said the enemy, skills, and troops databases and I will be having a long, brutal talk at some point. Because mine are a MESS.

Any...