Small Update 8/24/21

Making Fatties Eating Fatties is basically, if you'll forgive the analogy, like creating a Gordion Knot. Maybe it's like that for most systems-based games, actually, but boy how is it giving me a headache. One needs to have basically a majority of gameplay systems figured out, the assets made,  the maps laid out, and the interaction logic scripted, and... BOOM! toss 'em together, and you've got a game... But with my dev style, wherein I pick at a subject and work on it a bit, before realizing I need something else, start that, and realize I need ANOTHER thing... well, it's quite inefficient. And exceedingly frustrating for me! But, c'est la vie.

For today's small update, I've two images to show. The first concerns a minor enemy in the game's first phase, albeit one with 'big lore' relevance; the second is just a sprite thing.

Regarding the former: in FEF, there is a group called, creatively, the Cult of the Fat Goddess, who... believe God is a Woman, and a fat one at that. I know, what a surprise. Anyway, they appear as minor NPCs, talking about stuff I'll probably rewrite, so the specifics don't matter that much right now. But they ALSO appear as an uncommon enemy, whose sole purpose is to feed you--which is usually a good thing, being that fullness=exp in the game (more or less), although there's also a fail state if you're too full.

Their current-version enemy sprite ("battler image" in rpgmaker parlance) is rather basic, being the top-left one (the colors are wrong, there, but that's whatever). I've since redrawn it, with their new battler image being the top right one. It's a little better; it ain't winning any awards, but it's technically an improvement. And, naturally, given both the theme of their cult and the game as a whole, the cultists will pork up as the game progresses; the bottom-left one *may* still feed you, but the tubbo on the bottom-right's kinda over the whole "fatten others" shtick, as you can tell.

For the second image, it A) is set in a new map, the Beach, and B) shows off one of Bella's sprites for her 4th size set. As a point of comparison, kui/rumia/rachel currently have 8-9 sizes sprited. Being that Bella was fat to begin with, though, her 4th size aligns with the others' 5th size, but even then... she's kinda big. From the front, anyway.

Of note, both Bella and Nanette, having apple- and pear-shaped figures, have given me a lot of grief as I try to make their sprites be in the general range of the starter trio. A semi-scrapped Nan side-sprite had her butt occupy literally the same amount of area as kui's size equivalent. A shame, as I really liked it. Still might use it, haha.

That's it for today, but I hope to have some more soonish. Also, I *meant* to put up more of the original stories, but collecting and editing them after so long is inexplicably more intimidating than I thought? I *will* post them again, though.

Thanks for reading!