Just Completed Season 2 and I enjoyed the Twist in plots for sure. I thought your Artwork is just Beautiful and the animation has a lot of attention to detail Triple-A Quality. GREAT Job!
Sometimes I felt a lack of Agency like I got carried along with the story without ways of directing its progress.
Also, is there a way to carry my Stats from Season 1 (I don't know some kind of editor or config file to edit)
Looking forward to Episdoe 10 whenever its ready and Happy Holidays to you!
Thank you for playing and for your feedback!
I agree with the lack of agency, and it has become more apparent to me as Season 2 progresses. As this is my first VN (I've worked only with linear storytelling earlier), I'm kinda learning the ropes on this one. My ambition is to go back and rework bits once the Steam release is done. Introducing more choices and branching is on the top of the list. For Season 3 I'm planning an even more player driven progression, where you have to make more of an effort to bed the ladies. But again, this has to be weighted with writing and visual work. The more advanced programming you have, the more time it takes away from the other stuff.
Episode 10 will also have six different experiences depending upon one choice made in ep9 and one branching in the beginning of 10. But branching is a lot of work, so the scenes will have similar content with some variations, and the second to last scene will be diferent depending upon the choice of path.
Re stats: I've fine tuned the threshold levels of each season so that some choices need certain levels to kick in. If you carry from S1, it will become a bit too hard for my reach. I'm first and foremost a writer, and not much of a programmer, unfortunately.
Again: thank you, and happy holidays to you too!
Completely Understand due to issue of Branching which is a whole other Kettle of Fish and difficult. Don't worry too much about the Agency if it is going to put you into"Feature Creep" which will add to the complexity of your Code and Project in general.
Once you have the Season 1 and Season 2 Build on the same code base maybe you could work out the Carrying over of Stats from each Season or allow the Player in Season 2 to input their Stats.
Keep up the Great Work and your Writing, Pacing and Characterization / Artwork are ALL Excellent!
Yes, that's actually a good idea. Thank you again!
If you have ideas for the plot, please head over to the Discord discussion - invite in the comments of the Plot Fest thread https://lewdrobotics.itch.io/the-builder-season-2-pass/devlog/851505/the-builder...
