Hello again, everybody! Elijah here.
February's been a great month for Supersize My Heart, and I seriously can't put to words how much I've enjoyed watching people play the game on YouTube and Twitch for this, the most romantic month of the year. Huge thanks to the phenomenal steamers, YouTubers and reviewers who've taken the time to check us out! It's also been great for getting feedback - and in response, I'm excited to talk about what's coming next.
Overall, we've had positive reactions to the game - but there's a common theme that keeps emerging: that the game may be too long. Or, even, substantially too long.
Supersize My Heart seems to run most players from prologue to credits about five and a half hours, for a single route (with five standard routes, and a lengthy epilogue). I think we can all agree that's a little silly for what this game is. It doesn't help that until today our forum description incorrectly said a playthrough should take about an hour and a half. TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, we're currently working on a campaign length option that will allow players to choose, at the start of a playthrough, whether they would like to play a Standard (or Sit-Down) playthrough of 5 1/2 hours, or the abbreviated (Quick Service) playthrough of about 2 hours. The abbreviated playthrough will have shorter sequences and be missing some of the 'connecting tissue' scenes found in a regular length playthrough. We'll have more information about this in the coming weeks.
Thankfully, we haven't heard about any bugs (yet; fingers crossed) in Supersize My Heart, but we will be fixing a handful of spelling and grammar mistakes that we've noticed since our last update. Also, we'll be adding 'Sauce' to the Music Library. I'm not sure why it wasn't there before - I dropped the ball, that's on me.
And finally, we're excited to announce what I'm tentatively calling our Sonny-side Up(date). This Summer, we're bringing a new route to the game centered around everyone's infamous and up-till-now very much un-dateable starman, Sonny. As a character added post-launch, completing his route will not be necessary to unlock the Epilogue; but he will be a selectable romance partner when playing through the Epilogue. The Sonny-side Up(date) is free and will be patched into the game like previous updates.
Huge thanks again to everyone who's taken a chance on us and checked out the game! We'll see y'all next month for Steam Visual Novel fest!
All the best!
Elijah