Dev Update! 8/24/2020


Howdy!

Sorry for the lack of update when promised! This is the blog post explaining it all, and what to expect going forward!

First, a retrospective from this summer: This has been an INCREDIBLE launch for this game! The amount of support, comments, feedback, and EVERYTHING I've gotten has really blown me away. I've been watching the hypno community for a while as an outsider, and it feels incredible to have a place in it now because of this game! I love to work on it, I want to keep working on it, and I want to keep making more games like this.

The two-week sprint that I said I would have new scripts at the end of, instead consisted of me writing an entirely new dialogue system for the game. The bad news of that is that I didn't really have anything new to present as a result (unless in-line bold/italics are a feature anyone other than me was excited about :P), so I decided to try to keep working on the scripts to try and upload something. Unfortunately, school just started up for me again, so I've been busier than I anticipated with moving, prepping for classes, etc, which has slowed me down a LOT. As a result of this, I think I need to re-evaluate my upload schedule for this game. I still really want to work on it and have as many updates as possible! It's just unfortunate that I have school, and this isn't a full-time job as much as it is a side-side hobby, so time is the most limiting asset of them all.

My solution: A new upload schedule! From now until further notice, updates will be completed and posted on the first Friday of every month. I'll also have a development update (without new content, kinda like this one) every third Friday, just because proof-of-life from game developers is important.  Sorry that this means new content will be slowing down, but it's still always coming nonetheless!

And that new content are some things to be excited about... With the new dialogue system I created, it's going to be a LOT easier to implement new scripts and new characters! So, soon (not next update!), I'm finally going to start looking for guest writers and characters that are interested in being in the game! There will be more information about this later, I want to make it as smooth of a pipeline as possible.

And I think that's all! Again, thank you all so much for all the love, feedback, compliments, critique, criticism, and more! I've always wanted to mix hypnosis and game design together, and I'm ecstatic that my first official jump into this idea was as big of a success as it is.

Thank you all, look forward to more!
-Vinyl

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Ok so, i tried it out.

For a long time I wanted to feel trance once. I Love hypnosis and just scream for people to hypnotize me because I can’t remember ever having been in trance.

So of course I played this.

I’ve only gotten through the first campaign yet, and…

Something weird happened.

All the time, I thought: „Aw come on, why don’t I feel anything“ and „What the duck do you mean feeling falling deeper? How does one do this?“

Nothing was else.

And then, there was the final spiral.

The spiral of the long 5 minutes.

I have a great inner clock so I thought this was the best test to see if I maybe DID fall into trance without noticing, I’m not an expert on this.

Getting constantly distracted, I only could concentrate on the spiral for like 3 times felt 20 second each.

After I felt 5 minutes passed…

I was unsure if maybe I wasn’t tricked or something.

So I kept going.

With the time I had more and more the feeling to draft away from 5 minutes. I felt my thoughts being faster than normal, thinking I would have double thinking speed to normal. After I thought it was 10 minutes passed, (and having thought stuff that normally took me 20 minutes) I clicked again.

They showed up.

„Fascinating.“

I was like: yeah I took a bit long I know

„3.1 minutes.“

WHAT. I thought stuff normally taking 20 minutes.

Feeling 10 minutes.

BEING 3 MINUTES.

I don’t know if that was intentional.

BUT THIS GAME MAKES ME A FKN GODDESS.

I THINK I WASNT HAVING 140 IQ for this 3 minutes. I THINK IT WAS 180 (intelligence doesn’t go linear so I just go with this approximation of 180, but definitely over my professionally tested 140)

I am flabbergastered.

I want to do it again.

But I don’t know if I’ll just instantly do it again or go on to the next character.

I could find new phenomena.

OR KEEP BEING A GODDESS (for 3 minutes or some)


All in all, I love this game.

Not giving me what I wanted to feel.

BUT WHAT I NEEDED TO FEEL.

Thank you, you should have more likes on this game.