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The new portrait image system (that'll be in the next major update) is probably the feature I'm most proud of! 

I'm currently working on home customisation, and that's shaping up nicely. Homes for sale or rent are procedurally generated with various numbers of rooms, floors and even buildings. You can then customise these by renaming rooms/buildings and outfitting them as you desire. Many upgrades add new action buttons when you're in that particular room. For example, the 'Watch TV' action that's currently in the game is now connected to a TV home upgrade

Thank you! With Jobs & Home, I'm trying to lean into the procedural generation side of things & add more player customisation. Hopefully I can do it justice!

I'm making great progress on the 'Jobs & Home' update, but still have a fair amount left to do, so no ETA yet. Celebrating the first anniversary is an interesting idea. I may do something for it!

Sure! I'll add that too.

You're right, I did design the blob system to be the final weight stage. The endless blob milestones were my attempt at adding limitless weight stages for those who wanted it to keep going.

But, if there's demand, I could always change how it works! Perhaps I could add new options/weight stages that become available if you advance within Dizzy's.

That's doable, I'll include config options for face fat/double chins, as well as stretch marks & cellulite in the next major update.

I'll also include the option for players to pick their belly type. I'm happy to add some more shapes too! Perhaps apron (which would hang more than smooth) and B-belly (which would be between the smooth & rolls shapes).

They're not in the game yet, but I'll be adding dateable male NPCs in a future update!

That's right, it fixes two reported bugs that could cause the game to crash (handling undefined appetites and patching care assistants at Gentle Meadows for all towns in older saves, rather than just the current town).

Thank you so much for posting the full crash report, that's a massive help! I've just released update 4.35, which should fix this bug.

It's a tricky one with Kindle Unlimited & I completely understand why you wouldn't want my stories connected to your account/appearing in your recommendations, etc! It would probably be a bit of a faff, but it might be possible to create a new Amazon account using a private browsing window and a burner email address. You could then sign up to Kindle Unlimited using a different/virtual credit card.

Thank you, I appreciate you. :)

I plan on adding lots more to the Dizzy's facility in a future update, including new rewards and an advancement track through the organisation!

Good idea, you're right, that would make sense. I'll add a way to do that!

Thank you! I'll be adding lots of new furniture options in the next update, some of which will be similar to your ideas. :)

I can add that, no problem!

Thank you for these suggestions!

I agree that some additional, optional sound effects would be nice to have. I'll see what I can do!

I plan to add some mutual gainer personalities that'll both want to be fed & want to feed you up at the same time. :)

In the upcoming Dizzy's & London update, I'll be adding lots more to the underground facility. So, some of your ideas for improving this might come to fruition!

I can certainly make stretch marks an optional feature when starting a new game. I'll get that sorted in the next update.

You're right, the dating is quite simplistic at the moment & I do want to improve it. I'll be adding new difficulty options and events for the dates, which should help with this.

You may have seen via the poll I ran that future updates will add trans & non-binary options (for both players and NPCs), plus a greatly expanded and more varied sex system! I hope it'll be to your liking when I finish & release it. :)

Thank you so much!

I'm really glad you enjoyed my game. :)

It's true that the dialogue can get repetitive & I made this tricky for myself by including so many personalities in the game! This is something that will continue to improve as I release more updates though. I also plan to make the dates more interesting by adding difficulty options & events.

I don't have any immediate plans for larger sizes, but I'm certainly open to it if there's demand.

Great suggestions, thank you for taking the time to post them!

Given that I've created a player inventory & gifting system, it definitely makes sense to expand on this and add more options. Especially when it comes to clothes, so you can dress up both your character and the girls.

Feeder Feasts for the day trip locations make perfect sense. I'll add those in the next update.

I might allow the player to create new hose feeding variants via the cooking system I want to add, to bridge the gap.

I'd love to make the dates more varied and complex, so your ideas for 6 & 7 could help with this. Lactation isn't really my thing, but I may add it as an optional feature in a later update. :)

Thank you for flagging this, I'll remove the chance of it failing in the next update.

That's right, the face portraits will change as the girls gain weight, continuing all the way to the maximum blob weight stage!

Sure, I could look at that. I guess I am taking away the player's agency by forcing them to get new clothes, when they could just stay at home.

Good ideas, it does feel like a bit of a shame to have spent so much time working on them, only for them not to appear at all unless player weight gain is enabled. I plan to add interactions between girls in the future, so perhaps it could play into that.

Thanks for suggesting this. I don't think anyone has mentioned this idea previously & it isn't something I'd considered!

I created the current system from the perspective of 'you, the player, know what you like and how you would feel about the weight gain of your own character'. But as you don't experience the actual sensations of what it is like to get fatter, telling you how it makes you feel would work really well. I like your idea of the feeders being able to mirror the player with the corruption system, too.

I like that idea too, thank you for suggesting it!

I certainly like the idea of making the girls more independent characters who make their own decisions in the background of the game. The next update will include a little more in this direction, but perhaps they could have their own things going on that they could tell you about, such as a failed diet or having to size up their clothes.

That makes sense. Girls already passively gain if they're addicted to Dizzy's, so if I do add a gluttony stat, perhaps that could just impact date behaviour.

I agree. I'd like to add special dialogue for when your partner is caring for you, for every personality at some point.

Interesting idea. It could work well with the corruption system I plan to add in a future update, which would let you turn normal girls into feedees. Perhaps part of the process would be to max out their gluttony.

Just a bug fix concerning proposing marriage to an immobile girl, which wasn't working correctly.

This is fixed now, thank you for flagging it!

Yes, I think that could be a good idea. The sloppy personality will act lazy & the ambitious, strict, so you'll get those aspects with the same four. :)

Oh! Sorry about this & thank you so much for testing it to check. I'll get that bug fixed tomorrow.

The 100% thing is a little trickier to sort out, as I'll need to add a mechanism for girls to move up multiple weight stages at once. I'll improve this in the next major update.

'Bubbly' is currently the only personality for the carer who looks after you at your home. Care assistants (at the care home) can also be a further three (the ones gutierrezbeto441 mentioned).

Let me know if there are any other personalities you'd like to see for the carer, as I may add more in the future. :)

It should be possible even at your home too! You may not have known her long enough to unlock the proposal.

If you're on Windows, macOS or Linux, then the official itch.io app lets you download it to play offline & will also keep it updated automatically.

I'm really grateful for all the feedback you've provided, right from the initial release. Thanks again for your enthusiastic support of the game!

Oh, and dating male characters is definitely coming (though not for a little while). I'll include non-binary options for the players & NPCs when I add that. :)

Thank you so much for playing my game & leaving me such detailed, thoughtful feedback! :)

Many of your comments are quite timely, as they relate to new features I'm currently working on for the next update (Jobs & Home). The update will greatly expand on jobs & interests held by both the player and the girls. You'll be able to purchase upgrades for your home (including mobility scooters!) that enable new activities, allow girls to remain with you to the final weight stage & let you live with multiple girls at once.

So, your ideas on how these new elements could work are definitely useful to help me get them right.

I agree that the game needs dialogue with the girls, where you, as the player, can compliment/react to their weight gain. This could link in with an oft-requested feature to persuade normal girls to intentionally gain weight for you.

There are two other hose feed mixes already available in the game, but I think your formula ideas would work really well for a new cooking minigame I have planned. I want players to be able to find special ingredients that have interesting effects when used in food for the girls.

I think a 'just friends' option for the love declaration scene is a great idea. I'll include that in the next update, thank you for the suggestion. :)

Thanks too for mentioning those oversights. I'll investigate those and make sure they are improved upon in the next release.

It used to be that if you regained your mobility, the Council-assigned carer would disappear once her contract with you was up, never to be seen again. Now, though, she should be added to your phone list so you can date her as a normal girl. Part of the work to make this possible was to add 'Carer' to the job pool.

I think it'd be interesting if a random girl with this job could potentially become your carer later in the game. Perhaps I'll add that at some point.