Build-A-Bully
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
“She deserves a gorgeous body.”
When 18-year-old Charity Caldwell dies in what seems to be a tragic accident, the small town of Rabbithole Hills is shocked.
But not as shocked as Denver is when the dripping pink specter floats down through her ceiling, demanding she build her a perfect new body.
Help perfect victim Denver try to impress her favorite tormentor with the hottest, sexiest, baddest new body she could possibly have. Sure, it won't be as good as her old one, but you'll get it as close to perfect as possible, right? Just for her?
Build-A-Bully is a (loosely erotic) horror visual novel about the worst girls you'll meet in High School, 22k+ words in length, with 24 regular CGs, one CG with six different variations, and 60 sprites total.
CONTENT WARNING
*Rape-adjacent language refers to language that might be considered similar to portrayals of sexual violence, eg, victim-blaming. There are no actual instances of rape within Build-A-Bully.
[The Team]
Professional_D: Project Lead, Concept & Background Art, DEI Hire
Abomination: Sprite Artist, Bozo
Drowningmachine: Reanimation, Writer, Girl <3
Barrett: Programmer, Writer, Game Designer, Scrum Master
Funne: GUI, Writer, Game Designer
Sunkcost: Gore, Writer, Editor
Nep: CG Artist, Dyke (self-identified)
[Credits]
Music & Sounds:
Invitation - Free Music H/MIX GALLERY
Hoshi-saku no Walk - Free Music H/MIX GALLERY
The Hill of the Sundial - Free Music H/MIX GALLERY
All sound effects - Pixabay
Girls' Voices (spliced):
Denver - Eva Tsunaka (Project: Edens Garden)
Charity - Regina George (Mean Girls, 2004)
Maria - Chie Satonaka (Persona 4)
Nikki - Akane Owari (Danganronpa 2)
Gina - Lammy (Um Jammer Lammy)
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Imagine a world where Dr. Frankenstein was a total pushover of a socially awkward young woman, and her grand dream was to defy death and resurrect a brat with a personality so thoroughly vapid and nasty that you'd swear her "accidental" death was 100% a murder (and that you've half a mind to buy the guy who did it a beer)...
Oh, how cruel this VN is~ To string you along with all of these different cute girls, letting you get to know them and showing you all these glimpses of who they are beneath the surface—only to then show you, in cold, unflinching detail, how they look beneath the surface, heh heh heh. Your writing made my heart warm and then made my stomach churn, and the experience is absolutely all the stronger for it~
I also very much respect that you took the time to make so many different CGs for all of the variations, both for the different cuts when getting parts and for the resulting endings! Choosing to gate the good ending behind making Denver eat was diabolical, by the way, heheheheh~
Great work across the board! Denver is far better to Charity than she'll ever deserve, but hey, this is a toxic yuri story, so little details like "deserving" and "fairness" don't matter too much, now do they~?
i feel personally kinda conflicted about this game and how it made me feel. i wanted to enjoy it as a cheesy b-movie horror, but the dating segments were really cute and made me like the girls that were doomed by the narrative, which just made it heartwrenching. i wonder about our certified weird girl denver, was she actually evil and emotionless from the start, or was it all charity's influence/possession? then again, she doesn't seem very remorseful in the end, was it also because of charity? really makes you think. it's definitely a very toxic dynamic though it doesn't really feel very yuri until late in the game.
fun idea for the gameplay, though it took me a little bit to figure out how to get any other ending than neutral (but i am not smart).
really sharp art, liked both the cgs and sprites a lot.
i applaud see the efforts of my fellow shipwreckers, i hope there will be another crossroads interactive release one day! also what did denver mean by looking up how to carry people on her phone in 2006? *thinking emoji*
thank you for playing our game!! denver has a sick ass phone from the future (we forgor)
coming in to um, actually! nep, denver has a blackberry electron (circa 2005 - has mobile web access)
but more importantly - thanks for playing!thank you for answering the important question (definitely more important than how did charity die in the first place - this one remains a fun mystery, or does it...?)
this game was so much fun, I played it through 3x in one day to get all the different endings. i really loved all the characters <3
this game made me think i liked hurting people. got what i believe to be the neutral ending and i'm content with it for now. at some point definitely gonna replay for the "bad" ending just to spite charity though hehe >:3
Thank you so so much for playing! It means the world for people to take time out of their schedule to check out our game. I hope that you enjoy the other endings if you decide to go back for them—they're a lot! Big big thanks from Crossroads Interactive ✨✨