Major Feature Update 1


Hi everyone!

I've just released the first feature update for Second Helpings. Please let me know if you run into any bugs or have any suggestions.

Here's what's included:

Player Gender Selection

When starting a new town, you can now choose to be either male or female, changing dialogue & sex scenes.

Create-a-Girl

Design and name your own custom girls, then choose to add them to new or existing towns. Access via 'Extras' in the main menu.

Fitness

Every girl now has a base fitness level determined by their personality, job & interests. Fitter girls need to gain more weight to get fat and are slower to lose their energy and mobility when exercising or having sex. They also gain weight differently and have their own set of weight stages (e.g. 'Fit' instead of 'Slender').

Exercise & Weight Loss

A new Leisure Centre location and the Park each now offer two exercise actions. See how your fattened girls increasingly struggle! These actions also help boost a girl's fitness and can be used for weight loss. Without regular exercise, girls slowly revert to their base fitness level. Girls that reach immobility quickly find their base fitness declining to zero.

Two New Weight Stages

The immobility threshold has risen from a base BMI (modified by fitness) of 85 to 120. Added a new 'Barely Mobile' stage before immobility and a final 'Enormous' stage after it.

Weight Gain Shake Hose-Feeding

Added a new level 15 unlock; a weight gain shake hose-feeding minigame to help take girls to ridiculous levels of obesity. Combine it with the 'Feeding Frenzy' temporary buff for huge calorie counts.

Gentle Meadows Care Home for the Extremely Obese

When a girl reaches the final weight stage, you'll unlock the new Care Home location, where she will permanently move to. You can visit her at any time and you'll also gain an affection bonus that scales based on how many girls reside there. 

Care Assistant Fattening

The pretty care assistants at Gentle Meadows can also be fattened all the way to immobility and beyond! There are four care assistant personalities.

More Varied Fat Descriptions

Girl's bellies can now form rolls or a round paunch. Different girls might have different amounts of cellulite or stretchmarks. Fitness levels help determine how soft or firm their body is.

Two New Gain Patterns

Macromastia (breast-focused) and Lipedema (extreme pear) have been added. They are optional (toggled on/off when creating a new town) and are both rarer than the original four patterns.

Local Saves

You can now download or restore a copy of your game state (including all custom girls and saved games) via the Extras main menu option.

Plus:

  • Each location now has it's own Feeder's Fantasy Feast.
  • Stuffing dialogue now changes as girls get fatter.
  • Added more girl names to the selection pool.
  • Neutral conversation topics/date locations now appear yellow once discovered.
  • When first meeting a girl, she will comment if she likes or dislikes the current location. The 'Insightful Observer' upgrade now reveals an interest instead of a place.
  • Expanded the number of interests linked to jobs & upped the like/dislike count to 4 and 3 interests respectively.
  • Immobile girls now lose weight each day if you delete their contact from your phone until they regain mobility, allowing them to reappear in town.

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The update was honestly a lot better than i expected, you're doing a really good job on this, your love for the game shows, i have a suggestion that's probably a little unpopular, but it's just a suggestion, my only disappointment perhaps was the new stage beyond immobility, since in the immobility stage i remember that the girls usually have comments about breathing problems or slight health problems, but in the new immobility stage it's as if they forget about that, but that's just my personal opinion, you're really doing a great job and if you don't agree with my opinion just ignore it, i don't want to discourage you, keep it up and don't forget to take breaks

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Thank you! I'm really glad you like my game.

You're right, I did shy away from health-related stuff in the update, as I know it's not everyone's cup of tea. What are your thoughts on a toggle to enable/disable it when creating a new town? If enabled, there would be more comments throughout, including some at the final stage.

Honestly, I think it's a fantastic idea, I'll be happy to wait as long as it takes for it to be added.

imho:
- Main focus should be on aesthetic content.
- I like all the fitness elements including the struggle.
- Health related stuff should be a toggle or very mild.
- Gross slob stories will make certain players (me) shy away completely.

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Very cool update.

Here is what i found:

Missing feature (?):
When you choose "check her out" at the care center, descriptions are missing the part about: hair color, eye color and other facial features. (Or is that because i used an old save before the update? )

Suggestions:
Seems it is not possible to make immobile homebound characters mobile again without deleting their contact and hope to meet them again - maybe add some opportunities to exercise at home, like a treadmill or hometrainer.

The carehome also should have some, maybe rather expensive way, to get the characters out of the facility again.

*imho* nothing should be permanent in an open world sandbox game.

Overall:
Big Beautiful Update; really like all the workout stuff including all the struggle; will definately dive deeper into it; and also start a new town and check the extras ;)

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Thank you!

Sounds like a bug with the facial description. I'll get that sorted & I'll also add a weight loss method so you can get immobile girls back out into the world again, even from the care home. :)

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Happy that you agree about the "gain & loss" idea.
The whole dilemma between gaining or losing is just too addictive, isn't it? ;)

There is too many games which you have to replay all over if you want to experience some event again, because they are on rails and one way. Great to know that your game is, or will be, different.

 If these things are sorted the game will feel pretty complete "already" imho.
(Well knowing that it will be expanded.)

Second Helpings rly let's you tell your own lively stories! Thank you!



(Ps.: Nice new scenes at the "Park" location. Could imagine some swimming/jogging scenes at the beach too. Can i still wear that tanga?)



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Lovely update. Though, what if you the player could gain?
Either way, this has been a wonderful find!

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Thank you for your kind words!

I've had quite a few requests for player weight gain, so I think I'll make that the focus of the next major update.

Just saw this and now I'm already excited, LOL. I don't want to dictate or pry on this, but do you see this as also working with a body-type preference system with the girls? Like they might have certain "acceptable" BMIs and so on? 

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A body-type preference system could definitely be interesting. Some girls might encourage you to gain weight, whilst others might start shaming you for getting too fat.

I may well add that as the default mode (if player weight gain is enabled), but if I do, I think I'll add some options to help customise it if desired. Perhaps:

  1. Toggle between all girls prefer fat/all prefer thin/random mixture/no preference.
  2. Mode where the girls don't gain weight at all.

So for example you could set these options to have a game where the girls are all slim feeders who encourage the player to gain weight. Or a mutual gaining game. Or a game on hard mode where you really have to maximise your affection gains to keep the girls interested.

What do you think?

OMG, I think you are right on the money with this. I definitely think adding those customization options would make great challenge runs, though I would as a player personally go more for a standard "whatever the RNG gives me" approach to this game. Sorry for the elaborate ideas-guying that follows, I hope my enthusiasm doesn't come off as obnoxious:

What you say about "hard mode" did make me think that player WG does make a good implicit difficulty feature. The game as it stands kind of has a snowball pattern, almost like a 4X strategy game, and I think that could be mitigated if the PC ambiently/unintentionally gains weights from all the different feedist dates they are going on.
This can at least help counter or make it so the late game stuff requires more thought, since the player who just wants to fatten all the girls up to enormous-sized can't just go on dates every day and only visit the gym or jog in the park for the new content when a new weight-stage comes around. Assuming that the player sizes would follow the same arc as the girls' sizes there'd be challenges from:

  1. Interest of the girls. Both in terms of their commentary, whether they'd give the PC time of the day, break-up, or even the mechanics of the sex scenes. One thing that might make it less punishing is if weight/size just impacts the rate at which affection is gained.
  2. Employment/Income - Again, the player may well just follow the same arc as that of the girls, and so they might lose progress on their income and eventually be set to a fixed income.
  3. Mobility/Independence - What if at a certain size the player may not have the energy to go out during the day? It might mean some repeat dates at their place, which has an impact on affection. If the player grows to enormous size, what if the only girls that visit them are the caregivers or (for example) the random apple-shaped beanpole they met and never interacted with since seeking to reconnect?

I just want to thank you again for your work on this game! It's been a real treat to play and the new update has been absolutely awesome!

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Love your suggestions & that you're so enthusiastic about my game!

This feature will very likely work a lot like you've described. There will definitely be player immobility with a carer coming over to look after you (before you're moved to Gentle Meadows). Of course, it will be possible to fatten that carer up!

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Fattastic new additions to the game

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