Desktop Hypnotist: Brie, PhD
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
Play with Brie, the cutest mouse scientist this side of your hard drive!
Desktop Hypnotist is a virtual companion game that plays natively on your desktop.
Browse the internet while learning fun science facts, draw while being surprised with hypnotic pop-ups, and hypnotize your best friend Brie into following your every command.
Right click her to open the menu. Try clicking around. Have fun and experiment!
Available only for Windows and Linux. Sorry, Mac users!
Game by:
Director Vinyl (faustech.itch.io/)
Sheeplike (furaffinity.net/user/sheeplike/)
Dinner Deer (bsky.app/profile/dinnerdeer.bsky.social)
Thanks to Ember and Vylraz for some of the ideas!
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Also if the game ever gets more updates, pls add more things to do with her, more interactions. Maybe customization? Dunno if the extra art would be worth the time or effort for an old Jam project though.
(Doubt it's related to this game, but I got a bluescreen while typing this comment, oof. I'm narrowing down what's causing it and it's almost definitely not this.)
Anyway, for some reason she likes to meander to the right side of my screen, which is kinda weird, and her text boxes always pop to the right for me which often makes them clip into the edge of the screen so I can't read them.
Can't tell if it's related or not, but I have my taskbar on my PC on the right side instead of the bottom, and I've seen a couple games struggle with nonstandard taskbar positions.
Also it's kinda weird, but having her text box open while she says something seems to mess with clicking elsewhere, as if the text box has some big invisible back board or something. Dunno.
odd! do you have multiple monitors?
thank you, though, these bugs are noted!
Just one monitor, yeah.
hi hi hi, just made an account to tell you that this is a very adorable desktop pet and ive been having a lot of fun with it!! especially with the popups, teehee :3
im sadly having some issues, mainly that all of the transparency disappears as soon as i right click on brie or a hypno popup appears, making the backgrounds entirely black. its still totally functional, but the bgs block my screen more than intended and can be a little jarring. idk if its my computer or a bug in the program!!! :(
(for reference im running this program on win10)
this is a known issue-we thought it had to do with windows 11, so hearing your OS with the issue helps a lot.
still trying to find a solution. thanks for the report!
this is really nice but can you please add a size configuration slider to the right click menu in the next version?
and she doesn't overlay steam games so i cant play Tf2 with her :(
there's some weird issues with playing an application in fullscreen mode-it has to do with how windows functions, and causes some very odd interactions with mouse position.
fixing this issue is outside the current scope of this project, but might be possible in the future.
you CAN put her on a second monitor while you play tf2 though, and she'll have a nice time hanging out over there c:
(size configuration is a great idea!)
is there a cap to the number of popups? am i fine leaving this open before going to work or will my computer get zonked
No cap, currently! But you can turn off the popups in the right click menu, and leave her on without creating more.
...I'd highly reccomend turning the game and your computer off, if you're going to work, though. Brie could use some sleep!
i always wanted a desktop pet of a furry and this rat is my new friend now!!
does anyone else's Brie have a black box behind her along with the pocket watch?
noted issue! still solving.
i love everything about this concept. adorable little desktop buddy to play with that brings along hypnotic popups to distract and entrance you. full of little references and affirmations and invitations to play games, like putting two of the same popup beside each other to evoke hypnotic eyes. when the click here popup called me a good dog for the first time, it made me feel lightheaded. brie is #1 on all cuteness metrics
the exact kind of play we wanted to encourage with this game-I never even thought about making hypno eyes with two popups like that!
This is super cute! Perfect for what it is, I love my lil mouse girl
the outfit the glasses the hair perfect mouse X3
Omg I love this! My favorite quote was "Did you know 'techno music' is short for 'technology music'?
I saw in the comments you were talking about possible interplay between Brie and the pop-ups. I think a good way to implement that would be having her say something hypno-y when the popups come up!
The mouse girl is pretty cute, but I can't get the helmet to work for some reason.
Maybe a possible bug with the Linux version?
There is a bug in the linux version with the helmet!
Try dragging her onto the helmet rather than vice versa.
We currently have no clue why this happens.
That's weird, because I'm on Linux and the helmet works mostly fine! Occasionally I have to try a few times, but usually it works first try.
I'm on an older version of KDE Plasma, though. Plasma 5.27.10, and using X11 instead of Wayland.
I don't understand what "use lowest floor only" does, as they seem to only walk on the taskbar anyway.
It's for if you have a second monitor positioned vertically above your main. When it's checked, you can throw her upward, watch her arc gracefully through your upper monitor, and then see her land back down on your lower one. A little niche but I think it's pretty fun and adds a bit more compatibility!!
I really like both parts of this-the hypnotizable shimeji and the brainwashy popups-but I can't help but wish that there was a bit more interplay between them. Unless there is, and I'm just not aware? Which is possible.
Either way, if there's interest in continuing then there's a lot of potential to this concept!
thanks so much!! I really wanted to add more interplay too, we just couldn't get to it in the time allotted-we wanted the tools (pendulum/visor) to only be unlocked after clicking relevant pop ups, for example.
hopefully more like that in the future if we return to this!
I was a bit disappointed that nothing special happens if you put the hypno visor on them, and then make her say 'bread pudding'. She even mentions it's a common 'sleeper agent' trigger.
Are there any 'commands' you can give her with that thing that make her do something other than just repeat the words you type? Or is that another sort of thing there wasn't time for?
you're our dream player type. deeply inquisitive and playful
another thing there just wasn't time for, but another thing we really wanted to implement!
please try your "bread pudding" theory in a future build c:
It would be fun to have a similar moding tool to make the popups and the mouse say different things. I know that this game is super new but it is worth planning for!
this is (generally) planned, if we come back to this particular project!
I love it, other ideas are different outfits or just nude mode.
Good fun!
and what a cute lil mousey
The transparency seems to vanish after a little while and she's appearing in a black box, is there anything that can fix this? It's a touch distracting.
Weird! Is she still walking around and doing stuff like normal, just with a black box behind her? Can you give me any steps to recreate this? Also, what OS are you on?
I left photos and information with the Director on Bsky, so I'm assuming you've got that information now, best of luck figuring things out ^^;;
can i strip her anymore or no?
more tool
damn, Faustehc is not dead?
Yo! New FAUSTECH release!