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Aye, nice to hear, I’m glad the game’s getting some polish and tweaks unlike so many other jam games.

Can’t wait to see the next update!

Solid game, all things considered, definitely deserved third place at least, but I do have some suggestions I think could improve the game.

1. I’m 99% sure something is wrong with whatever algorithm assigns daily events. I had multiple times where the same event happened twice in a row, and by the time I got the cosplay event at all, Ellie was Invisible, at which point it happened twice.
2. Following from 1, I’m sure you already know that Ellie becomes Invisible at some point past 100. There’s also just general jank with the rpgmaker interface. (Level display, weapon select, etc.). Some art (Ellie playing the console at night, car minigame art) doesn’t reflect her current weight stage. Some more night cutscenes/events could also be cool, it feels like the driving portions are 50% of the game, with the minigames being the other half. I’m imagining these just stem from time constraints with it being made for a jam, so they’re all lumped together.
3. This is a big one. The minigames really just aren’t fun or interesting enough to justify having to sit through them after every drive. Once you’ve played them once you’ve basically done everything. The car minigame also has insanely janky hitboxes for some reason. I think rebalancing the game to decrease money gain from minigames, but leaving them in as an optional thing to make money or get some other optional benefits could help. There’d then need to be some other way of making money, of course. I think having Ellie join you at the arcade and having it build happiness or affection instead could work. Maybe give an item that builds happiness daily like the consoles after beating a boss in the arcade or something? Maybe an alternate outfit for making it really far into the witch game, which could make playing the minigame all the time more important since you actually need to grind it out to “git gud”. Right now having the minigames happen so often and be your primary source of money just feels like a grind.
4. It’s possible for Ellie to outgrow her default clothes, use the diet pill to go down a weight stage, and then she’s just left with no clothes. At this point you just have to fatten her up so she has any clothes to wear at all. This one’s kinda funny.
5. The game feels a little too easy, if you’re willing to sit through the minigames every time you’ll never come close to running out of fuel or food. If Ellie’s weight went down over time and you needed to constantly buy food to keep it up, or if the whole money system was revamped and you had to be more deliberate with how you get and spend your money this could improve the core gameplay I think. One idea I have is having “healthy” foods or something that don’t increase happiness or weight, but decrease hunger by a larger amount. Obviously not as much as some of the premium items but they would be your best choice for hunger per dollar, at the cost of not raising, or barely raising anything else. I don’t know how difficult you really plan to make the game, so these could just be your own design decisions, but I think having to choose more often between managing hunger, keeping weight up (if there’s a decay system), and increasing happiness would make it “more of a game”, where you can actually lose without pretty much actively trying. Happiness also feels way too easy to increase. What I’m saying is that I never had to worry about running out of fuel, happiness, weight, or hunger getting too high in my run.
6. It’s a bit of a strange feeling to pick up a fat girl game and suddenly be greeted by [[NUMBER ONE RATED SALESMAN 1997]] but alright I guess.

I made a lot of points here so I so want to reiterate that I really liked the game and I’m not trying to tear you down or anything. I think it’s a great concept and I love the way Ellie’s written, and the artstyle in general. Obviously, there’s a lack of content because this was a jam game and so that’s not really an issue, but aside from that, these were just things that stuck out to me while playing.

Not to sound impatient, but can you give a rough estimate for when you'll be done? (Like "a week or two") I understand if you can't, sometimes I get buried under other stuff too, but it'd be nice to have some idea of when to expect the results other than "soon". 

Yes, I've run out of power before, however, from what I've heard others describe, this "rare character" appears when Milkamean enters the office. I'm not sure why the power outage character would show up at that time.

Maybe there are multiple ways for her to show up, but it would be nice to have confirmation.

Have any of them posted screenshots/videos of her? Could you share them here? Is this her? 

I don't have discord, but if you'd send me an invite to the server, I guess I could make an account to ask there.

I suppose I'll try spamming the camera on night 3 to see if that would trigger her, my previous strategy had just been repeatedly dying to Milkamean.

Hi, I'm pretty curious about this "secret character" you and Godzillaman have described. I've tried to replicate the conditions you described, yet have been unsuccessful, likely because the earliest patch I have installed is 0.2. 

Could you describe her in more detail, or even try to encounter her again and record her for me?

Is this her?

Hi, I'm pretty curious about this "secret character" you've described. I've tried to replicate the conditions you described, yet have been unsuccessful, likely because the earliest patch I have installed is 0.2. 

Could you describe her in more detail, or even try to encounter her again and record her for me?

Is this her?

Does anyone know anything about the "rare character" mentioned in patch 0.2? (Rareity fix for secret character.)

Godzillaman102 states "Every time Pink Fury gets into the room, I get crushed by a character with big badonkadonks and die after Fury's animation is done. This so far has only happened when she alone gets inside the room. (I am on night 3 btw)" 

phillian said "I've also noticed this. Get filled with burgs, then a blue shirted big tittied lady crushed me"

(All messages taken from the bug report thread)

The only blue shirted girl who might classify as a "rare" character that I've seen is the power outage girl. I've tried and failed to reproduce the scenario which both of them described. Has anyone else seen this character? Could you provide a description of her/how to trigger her appearance? Videos or a screenshot would be great.

Nougat's end screen still isn't triggering for me (I'm on patch 0.5) the black screen just lasts longer and she says one of her random lines again.

Also, I can easily bypass the Suki balloon delay by switching to another camera and back.

We are all sinners at the mercy of Emily's RNG

I know this comment is several months old, but he used a free program called Twine to make this, it's in the game description, under "more information."