Weekly update - week 6 (Patreon)

Episode 3 of The Builder opens with the morning light shining on Fjordheim, where our hero will be living for a good period of the building process.

In Ep3, we will meet 5 new characters, all of them related to people we've met in the first two episodes. We will be following the MC through his first day of work in Fjorda, and get to view the site of the memorial for the first time.

Gradually, we will also start to realize that all is not well in the village of Fjorda, even though our MC's journey is still in its early stages.

The day (and the episode) will come to an unexpected end, both for us and the MC.

Starting from the next release, the Carla - Paul storyline will be optional from the first encounter in the auditorium. 

I'm adding this choice because not everyone appreciates the fact that Paul is being humiliated on the harem line, and would rather not see him appear in the game at all.

This adjustment requires very little programming, and the effect on overall gameplay will be minimal. 

Personally, I enjoyed exploring the fubar relationship between the MC and Carla (and to have the opportunity to see it from different angles), but it's an aquired taste in an erotic game, so I have no problem providing the option to skip it all together.

As quite a few of you have remarked, The Builder is a game that aims towards high visual fidelity, and has the ambition to match the visual complexity with more nuanced psychological portraits. To some of you that makes it more interesting, to others, that doesn't matter so much.

Whatever your preferences might be, the work with Ep3 is well underway: the first scene is rendered and the script is written half way through. I'm getting help to redo the main menu and visual interface, and hope to include these in the next release too.

So again, thank you for following and supporting The Builder. I will be back with more previews shortly!

Chris