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Cards of Gluttony Dev Log #7 [20/06/2023]
🕑 Added 2023-06-20 15:10:27 +0000 UTCGuess what? It's time for another development log, let's start with the most exciting one!
Ring ring!
There is now a new addition to the main menu bar: your phone! Turns out a lot of the writing has very naturally alluded to a feature like this: the times you need to reach Gordon, Ikem's offer to work out at the gym, as well as Beau's suggestion to go on a date.
As you can see in the gif, each contact has a unique profile picture. I decided to take the time to imbue a bit of personality into each person's photo. Let's take a closer look at the ones I have so far:
- Gordon uses something of a more formal photo, it's an old one too, as you can tell from his hair color.
- Ikem's is more artsy in comparison, with a more dramatic expression and lighting.
- Ricky's is probably the most interesting out of all of these, he uses an older picture as well: one from before the incident™. We'll get around to exploring that at some point.
- And finally we have Beau, who uses a photo of himself at a pride parade! (Happy pride month!) He is so far the only character in the game that explicitly tells you he's gay, so I figured this would be a cute detail.
Clothes!
Now begins the road to populating the game with a bunch of clothing options. Here's the three I currently have in the works (we'll see how many of them I'll manage to finish before the next release)
Admittedly, I have a very narrow sense of fashion, so you can expect most clothes to just be something along these lines. On the bright side, I am open to suggestions, so as always, you can let me know what kind of outfits you'd like to see, here in the comments or through private messages.
And speaking of clothes, some of you might appreciate this work-in-progress of Gordon in a suit:
Sprinkling in some fun facts: those are the very same glasses he's wearing in his old profile picture, and they are in fact prescription glasses. He just prefers contacts nowadays.
Onto the... card of the month?
Am I going to try and make this a thing? Yes, I am. I'll try to showcase a new card in every dev log from now on. For the very first one, take a gander at this:
This card is actually already in v0.2.0, it is just inaccessible: it's part of Beau's 2nd Deck.
And this is the perfect time to reveal to you that your opponents will in fact update their decks over the course of the game. Not only their decks, they might also change their max. Wgt or the reward card you get after beating them!
In this case, Beau's second deck appears after you had won one match against him, so if you managed to beat him, look forward to that on your rematch!
This card was originally in his initial deck, it was meant to help him catch up to you in card draws, since his lower max. Wgt means he can't reach the very useful 3 draws at 40+ Wgt. In the end, I decided it was a bit excessive for his first fight.
In fact, the deck Beau uses in the first fight is such a stripped down version of what I originally wanted it to do that... it doesn't really do anything particularly interesting. It's probably going to be a while before you'll be able to see the original deck in-game though.
... and that's it for now
As always, thank you for reading and for supporting the project!
Comments
Gscathe
Oh my gosh, I am so excited to hear that some opponents’ max weight will increase on rematch! Very hot idea, that your opponents become willing to push themselves further and further into fatness. Can’t wait to see the player character’s belly poking out of these new clothes as he becomes too fat for them. Thanks for the update and keep up the great work!!
Oak Fells
There isn't one so far!
Carter
Always great reading these dev logs. Can't wait for the next update to come along, very excited. For clothing suggestions, maybe a short sleeved shirt to offer along side the long sleeve. Or maybe if someone wants to dress a bit fancier, could have a long sleeve shirt and waistcoat with the option of a tie as an accessory, rather than it being part of an overall outfit, so that people can decide whether they want a tie or not to go with the outfit. And maybe different coloured ties or you can select the colour tie you want like you do hair colour. It's a suggestion but whether it's implemented or not, I know this next update will be good. Going to play the game from the beginning on the next one to see what I may have missed in the previous update. Very exciting stuff.
Joe
Regarding fashion choices, I think a nice mix of heavier and lighter outfits would be nice for variety, with maybe one formal outfit like Gordon has. I'm not sure if something high fashion or more experimental would work. Well, unless there's a future character who's really into that of course. Oh also I was curious if you have an author surrogate character? Like someone you based off yourself.
chris d
OK, wasn't sure what the limits were.
Oak Fells
In the post, I was asking for clothing suggestions specifically, but I am always up for hearing all kinds of suggestions, so thank you!
Oak Fells
:)
Load of Bull
I hope the phone means a dating system in the future 👀
chris d
Nice updates, things like the phone definitely have lots of potential. I don;t know if you were only open to suggestions regarding clothing, but if not....I think it might be interesting to include embarrassment/arousal stats. Nothing super-complicated, maybe be one-off effects for certain characters, such as a one-time bonus/penalty if a character successfully fattens his opponent to a certain point. Your character definitely starts becoming self-conscious of how small his penis looks once he starts getting to a certain weight...perhaps there is a 25% chance of it being so embarrassing that he is forced to put a random card into his graveyard, or suffers a -1 energy penalty for a turn. Characters may also become aroused at the sight of their opponents outgrowing their clothing, and reap certain benefits from the primal urges it awakens.
MakeEmBigger
I also find it cute that we can actually take up Beau's offer of a date. Here's hoping that there's other potential romantic options too.
MakeEmBigger
Excellent update for us! I was sort of hoping that the characters would update their decks as you rematch them. Great to see you're already implementing it!
Danni Kranitz
If you struggle with creating outfits just google some or use TV Shows, other Media and Friends/families clothes as inspiration. It kinda on the nose but it always helpes me
