Is there a reason all new characters have pot bellies? Even for a bara game the characters' builds seem very samey.
It's a mix of factors.
I'll make no attempt to hide it that we
really do like that body type so there
is a bias, and that plays a role. Considering we aren't doing this game for the money, for the most part we allow ourselves to make the kinds of characters we like writing and drawing.
With that confession out of the way, this update has a lot of this bodytype
mainly because... Well, a few months ago we mapped out the roster of characters we want to include in the game, and that selection was very diverse with body types. Then we picked which ones should be included
now based on story reasons and the end result really was biased towards more bara characters.
We pick a character's body type to fit with their story and background, so just making one of them into, let's say, a twunk wasn't really an option we were happy with.
That said we do have characters that deviate from this pattern. One of them is the peacock character who plays a big role in this update and he's basically a twunk (pictured below).
We also have the snake guy, Argos, who's definitely on the twinkier side of things, but we haven't talked much about him because he's already in the game.
The next batch of characters (Build 0.6 and onwards) should be a bit more diverse. We do plan on having a very twink-ish character, for instance. And while a lot of the characters right now are on the chubby side, none of them are outright fat — we'll have someone who fits that bill in the next batch as well.
All of that said, chances are things will always lean at least a little bit towards thicker character designs. That's what we like doing the most, generally.