With this downloadable wallpaper, the latest info on the progression of Episode 9 of The Builder:

Bo, this new character, made her debut at the end of Ep 8. She seems to be the organizing force behind the latest unfortunate events in the story development. Why and who might be the subject of coming episodes, but the What is obvious: She's blocking further progress and needs to be taken out of play. How? That remains for our hero to solve. Unless things take an even darker turn...

In order to bypass persistent problems with the Sally impregnation run, an upgrade for the Android build  of Eps 6-8 is released today. Hopefully, this will end the troubles.

Episode 9 is progressing. Scene 2 of 10 in total is being rendered. This is a very technical scene with lots of characters, and requires time and computing power. The mid section of the episode has less demanding scenes, but some of them with quite a few characters. The climax is again quite demanding, with new assets, elements that are new to me and a new vehicle that needs to be figured out.

As you are aware of, The Builder has very few story forks This is mainly because the visual work is so demanding, that it feels like wasting power to not include everything in the main story line. This means that, for now, your choices mainly only count towards your stats. It is my ambition to go back and create story loops where you can explore more interactions with the characters, but this will be once the full 30 episodes are released. Unless the general mood of you, dear patrons, is to start a new project instead (or, of course, if AI has gotten so good that everyone is making their own VNs according to their own specific needs and desires, who knows).

The Steam wishlist page is slowly coming into existence. Once it is live, you will help the game bigtime if you put it on your wishlist, as this will give it a boost. I will keep you updated when the page is ready.

The coming week I will be away from my render machine, so it will mainly be focused on story development.

Thank you all for your support and continued interest for The Builder. It would not have existed without you!

Best,

Chris / Lewd Robotics