Devlog 1

I have decided to call these updates and announcements for devlog just like other developers. It may stick or it may flop - only time can tell.

To the point of this devlog, the game has been updated. It is a small “end of the summer” update. I thing I said one time that “it is summer and I now have time,” turns out that was false when all you do is play games.

In this small but maybe important update of Ytopia there is a few changes.

• Interaction with objects is now much more clear
• The player can become fit again after gaining a few pounds =(
• The world has a new company

In depths

To start with the fun parts the game has been updated indeed.

Interactions Update

I noticed that the interaction with objects in the game was difficult to read sense a lot of the tiles and objects are bright and the text color is white. The fix I implemented was to add a background to the interaction UI.

Player training ?

I know, I know - why a fat ass game with training equipment? Am I the government sent out to teach you how to train? The answer is simple, “No.” I am not here to tell you to train or become fit. Nor am I the government. However I have a plan to add multiplayer and force feeding to the game. And it is quite cool to be feed by a hulk. There is nothing forcing the player to train in the game nor will there ever be. However if one feels like it would be cool to try out the two new looks one could try.

Sadly I am no where close to being an artist and my skills in that field are unseen. So I only made two version - Fit and Hulk. Hulk is only available if you reach 480U in-game. And I will probably make more versions of it as there are five stages of fitness in the game that I can use.

So to sum it all up - you can gain and lose weight now. There are two new player stages available as I am not a good painter. And the stages look really awful.

New company

There is a new company in the world, they like building for bigger people and they have been assigned to build a few places in the world.

Fridge ?

That is right. The builders blessed you with a working fridge. It is now possible to eat food in the fridge. There is no UI nor selection of food. But it is possible, As you can see I tested it a few times =)

Sliding doors ?

The old sliding door was updated and now has an animation.

Closing notice

I hope you will like this update and that you can forgive me for adding whatever training is. I have plans for it in the future. I also hope to add more characters in the game to make it more inclusive. There was also a great request for adding chairs into the game. I am looking into that matter. I think I need to hand draw each sprite and animation and there is not a lot of animations in the game.

The player needs to be animated and I want to add clothes and outfits as well which require a lot of sprite drawings. The problem is that each outfit needs to be drawn to the character - at least to the best of my knowledge. Therefore adding for example chairs require me to draw each character there is, and each stage of that character, and each animation plus all possible combinations in that chair. There is a lot to draw and that is why the character is moving slowly and why I haven’t added other characters yet. BUT I will NEVER use AI so don’t worry my fellow fat loving players, even if each character I make looks like something a baby draws - it will always be hand made.

That was that devlog, not the first and not the last. I have a few things to continue to do in my life so the next update is not planed. That is also the reason why I upload this small update because I don’t know when I have time to upload the next update.