Civic Waistline Expansion Initiative
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Civic Waistline Expansion Initiative is a lighthearted management sim style visual novel where you have the single goal of making a city as fat as you can manage.
Play as the newly elected mayor of a small city with a single goal: enact questionable policies each month with the sole aim of increasing the average weight of your city over the next 4 years. You'll enact a wide range of policies from taxing gyms to banning organic foods, and you'll be able to view the results of your efforts through news articles written by reporters alarmed by the sudden cultural shift towards gluttony.
Helping you run the city is your secretary - Maria. She is a cheery but professional young lady who is not privy to your secret agenda, and will helplessly fall victim to your policies alongside everyone else. Maybe you could invite her out for coffee and get to know her better~~ (Note, not implemented. See below for more info.)
There are multiple endings to view when your term as mayor ends—including the city becoming a totally immobile society, or merely becoming the fattest city on the planet.
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Hello~! My name is Lovelessguy and this is only my second game. I'm open for tips on what I could improve if you know Ren'py or general game design~~
The primary gameplay loop is mostly there, but not entirely complete just yet. I want the polices to have descriptions (I've even programmed that system in already lol) and there to be more news articles, but unfortunately I have uni exams coming up and just want to get 'a' version of the game out before I have to switch focus to them.
Note: the game is not feature complete; Maria the secretary is present, but she will not be gaining weight. The dating mechanics are also not yet implemented. Unfortunately I'm not very good at drawing, so drawing just one stage of her takes me days.. Not to mention I don't really enjoy drawing that much, so its a bit of a drag for me :(. For that reason, I've opted to release this first version without any of her content beyond stage 1. Sorry if that's the part you're interested in...
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Very good game and I like the concept. I can only say that it would be nice if the game remained as relaxed as before, but I would like to see more varied reactions and my personal wish is more reactions at low weights and not only when the 80-90 kilo mark is reached.
love the concept, highly enjoyed the game for what it already is
Wow, I kinda love this game. If the assistant gets her weight stages and we get pics of the citizenry and their gain, it will end up as one of my all time faves!
This is a very Interesting game, so simple, fun and i don't think a lot of other developers have gone this way before when it comes to this niche
I hope you keep adding more to this project of yours also perhaps adding a few other things
* Meetings with important people who cam make special requests to you
* An activist movement that try to undermine your progress every so often
* More than just the secretary you can see fattened up throughout the game (Be it characters that you can date/marry throughout your term)
* CG events and or images of the public gaining weight as your inact policies
* Have certain policies react to other policies you already made
*Perhaps even have the possibility of selecting a sprite representation of your character in game (Perhaps also gaining weight throughout there term?)
Hey cool game. You might be able to get help with some parts of the game if you posted it on website Weight Gaming.
I can offer icons for game actions. I can also draw characters, but for now I support the style as identical as possible to yours, using AI. I can give examples of images.
Hello, I made a small rearrangement in the room so that I could scatter the game options around the room, it is empty for now, but it will be possible to add elements of the environment. I made a design option with a large weight. If you are interested, I can do something like this
We dont need more ai kink games, let people put horny energy in games
The icons are 50% made by me, 50% taken from the Internet and compressed + edits, but it's a common practice not to draw everything from scratch, and edit existing images.
And SD AI, how is it different from using kisekae2 or CUSTOM ORDER MAID 3D2 or HoneySelect 2 or Koikatsu Party, in which the necessary render was made?
I will not take Daz or Vim as an example.
I doubt that users of free versions have contributed a lot of money to the developers of original materials. Many mods are available on them. Let's ban games with renders created on them, because their developers did not do everything from scratch, but used pre-made models and animations.
I know this is a contentious idea, but would you be willing to use AI for the art even temporarily? It allows those of us there for visual weight gain something to chew on while you finish programming the game; then maybe you can hire an artist after.
Dude no, why would we want more ai kink games, with this you can tell how much the artist enjoys it which adds to the game, ai is boring and flaccid
I have to disappoint you. The image of the secretary in the game was created by AI, the developer only re-drew the eyes
Bruh. And what do I do in this situation ?
That's not good! I don't know what's the issue unfortunately, but I'll move my notes to another file since they seem to be somehow causing the issue.
Problem: Keeping happiness at max for 12 months causes a divided-by-zero error. Unfortunately, none of my available policies at the point this occurs are able to lower happiness...
Same. Gamed so well the game broke.
Thanks for pointing out! It's a problem with my graphs, I already fixed it for weight but managed to forget that happiness exists haha. I'll fix it now.
This is an amazing start, I've seen this as a small mechanic in a few VNs, but making the varied choices and effects the main gameplay loop is great. I hope you keep working on this, even without art. Adding more to the list of reactions at the start of each month as the city gains weight would be great.
Thank you!! I do plan on continuing work on this, though progress will be a little slow for the next month. I definitely agree that the morning rundowns need improving, I was skipping through them while playtesting after the first few XD
Can you add Android?
Thank you for showing interest in my game! Unfortunately I'm a little busy with uni exams atm, but when I'm free I'll definitely have a look at what I'd need to do.
this is fresh
I'm glad to hear :)
Btw, do You have discord? I look into the code and I have a few questions.
I do! My username is 'lovelaceguy' and I'd love to hear any ideas for improvement.