1.3.0, The Other Side
Hello. It’s been kind of a long time again. I’ve been working on another completely new game mode, this time very different in gameplay and less of an idle game. This one is an RPG of sorts, with stats and items and some choices, done in a way I have so far only seen once in other games. If you’ve ever played Fallen London or some such game, you will see a few familar things, except there is no real time action requirements and you can play at your own pace.
Before I get into the things that are in the new mode, there are actually a few improvements suggested and implemented in Personal mode by the very good Drone 001.
Personal mode
- Added “Smart Auto Latex” and “Smart Auto Cover” to enable auto-latex & auto-cover only when extremely aroused
- Added “Fetish: Barcode” to gain a fetish for being branded with a barcode, and “Drone: Barcode” to make it permanent
- Added the “Get a temporary barcode tattoo” action, costing 200 and giving 12 mood, 11-25 arousal, and 50-100 hypno
- Expanded the action log to 30
- Drone color and speed have been consolidated into dropdown lists
- Some actions now have “weight”, meaning that they are likelier to happen as more entries are put into the pool of possible actions before being drawn
The Other Side
This mode is once again focusing on a single person, their life and how it changes. Instead of the automatic action simulation that exists in Personal mode, you now get to choose what to do.
Some exciting new features include:
- Raising through the ranks of an office job to be someone of importance (entirely unrealistic, these things don’t happen in real life)
- Developing a videogame through 8 stages of design and implementation and some stylistic choices
- Making a short film
- Designing ads for your own small ad agency
- Going live on a radio and talking about stuff, or bringing friends over to talk about stuff
- Broadcasting news by deciding what you want on there on a TV station
- At least 3 of the aforementioned friends
- Reading at least 10 books, I have not actually counted how many there are
- Items to use or wear
- Many stats and qualities to increase, plus stat checks that you can actually fail with some consequences
- A Favourite Action system for when there are many buttons and you almost always want the same one in this particular location
- Once again, some mechanics and writing provided by the very good Drone 001, marked appropriately in-game as contributed by them.
… and more.
Now to the less exciting part:
- There are plans for more jobs and more projects at the office, but they take a very long time and a good imagination to implement. Therefore, there is just 1 path at this moment. Feel free to reach out if you have ideas you’d like to see implemented or want to help
- There are only 3 friends and their story lines aren’t that exciting. They are however featured in many of the currently existing mechanics, so they’re not entirely non-existant or isolated
- There are exactly 2 fetish qualities and they’re basically mandatory. More could be done, but see point 1.
- There are very few wearable items and they give very little mechanical benefit. There are/were plans for more, but see point 1. Non-wearable items in your inventory though are much more prominently useful.
- To be completely honest, I actually did not re-test the entire thing at the final point before release because it is very long. If things don’t work, please tell me.
- ████████████ ██████, for now.
This took way too long and I am no longer sure if anyone will like this new direction of the game, because of how vast it has become and how different a lot of the writing is. The scope is too big for one person to handle in a reasonable amount of time, so I have decided in the end to release what I have after implementing the one storyline I had in mind initially and seeing how that goes. Hopefully some will find this new direction interesting and entertaining.
Thank you.
1.3.1
- Fix work giving wrong amount of money sometimes
- Fix broken TV station reporting
- Fix toys not being usable
- Fix broken organization ad
- Fix worn items not counting as owned
- Fix item requirements not updating in certain very specific circumstances
- Fix parliament meeting getting stuck if you fail the first check
- Fix the videogame update process
- Fix hidden qualities showing up in the log
Files
Release The Hypnodrones
An idle game about dronification
| Status | Released |
| Author | tevazi |
| Genre | Interactive Fiction, Role Playing |
| Tags | Adult, drone, Erotic, Furry, hypnosis, Idle, Management, Porn, transformation |
| Languages | English |
More posts
- 1.3.2, Dreams58 days ago
- 1.2.0, getting personalOct 23, 2023
- 1.1.0, the marine updateMar 29, 2023
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I have a question, is there Latex level 5 and if so, how to reach it? Because I'm on level 4 with the progress bar stuck at 199/200 and I don't know what to do.
I do believe the “Finish” block in “Aroused” should tell you how to reach level 5. You need to be wearing a suit and perform that action while your XP is at 199 or close to that, which will take you to level 5.
Just finished this, and i like what you got here. I think i kind of stuck with the video game in it's third patch (focusing on polish). it never went away. I know it's been mentioned here, but yeah. drone 5. Some very rare checks need it for a 100% chance. was that just a typo or something?
There was an issue with updating the videogame, indeed. It should now be fixed.
No, these can just never be 100% successful, but at the moment level 5 cannot be reached.
gotcha. I also finished all three of the games as well.
I think my favrioute would be the personal conversion since it can be played very quickly thanks to the speed up function. That would be nice in the country take over options as well, but that's my opinion. I also like the more intimate progression. If i had to make a suggestion, i might have her actually try to put up some resistance. Like when she notices, she adds a new routine of going to the doctor or somehow lowering your hypnosis.
For the country takeover, i think i prefer the software development company route rather then the shipping company. the shipping one is too slow and doesn't have as many drone types in it. that said, I do love that all the drone types have art associeated with them (and properly sourced! though the police drone original upload no longer exists). If i had to make an improvement, i'd say add some more drone types in the shipping company. offhand, i can think of naga, orca... stuff like that.
for the other side, i might like a similar paper doll or wireframe model to show off the status of the gear. Maybe also adding the option to wear a company designed suit and visor any time you want. at the cost of instantly maxing out the drone meter and preventing you from wearing latex or something?
There were plans for some sort of resistance in the personal path, but so far I have not acted on them. Maybe some day.
Both of these were thought of, but at the time I could not source good art that I would like for them. They would also preferably need some purpose, and I unfortunately already struggled to come with anything for the two existing ones. It’s not off the table completely to have them added, but such were the reasons at the time.
Any kind of graphics is most likely out of the question for that mode, because it would scale the amount of work needed too high. Without a dedicated artist for this, it’s pratically unfeasible, and I am not making money from this to pay a dedicated artist.
There is at the time work on something like this. Hopefully it will be added sooner rather than later.
I hate to sound like a derp, but how dose one get to drone level 5 for your self? if thats in, I mean, if you can be a drone
There is, for the moment, no level 5. Sorry. Hopefully in the future.
no worrys, love your work, a kinky mind like yours is a welcome one any day. Cant wait for more
Thank you. Hopefully there will be more.
would any of the lobbying to change the laws equal more drones being added to amount the player already has
Currently it’s only for story purposes and does very little in terms of gameplay. This will, hopefully, change at some point. Amount of drones being added can be maximized by doing things that give Drones in the News every day and doing the short film action that increases the amount of people applying.
do you need to have the visor and suit on hand for people applying cause that did get a bit repetitive at the end, would be nice to have automatic manufacturing upgrade if there isn't
Indeed you do. This is probably a good idea, but I need to think about framing. For the moment the workaround would be to favourite (black heart when you mouse over the action title) the manufacturing actions so they can be done faster.
Is there going to be physical transformation and not just mental in this new game mode?
It is planned, but currently I suppose there is not any.
There was a very specific bug that happened specifically with items and I do not quite understand why my fix helped, but it did. This should not happen anymore.
yeah, that was a previous game. the new one did not have this problem
I can't seem to get "the other side" to work when I pick it the only intratables I can click are the font and ivitory and there is nothing else to see lat-alone click. is there a problm on your end or is it a me thing?
This might be a thing with your browser. The game tries its best to only load the data when it’s needed, so normally you will see a little bit of a delay when picking any choice on the main screen.
The UI should then appear, but if your browser is blocking loading of resources somehow then it will not load. Because itch.io has resources loaded from a separate domain, it might count as a third-party resource and be blocked by some addons.
This is probably something in your browser like uBlock, uMatrix, or Firefox’s enchanced tracking protection.
I am using the itch.io download not a browser, thou now that you ask I can try it on a browser to see if it works there.
just tryed it on browser and it works, so it is ether a proble with the itch download or a proble with how my pc is trying to read the download
Oh. Yes, if you download this version from itch.io like that, I do not think it will work. The version uploaded on TFGS should work fine when downloaded.
Actually, this might be different after all. The itch app uses an year or so old version of chrome which does not have something the game uses. I will try to work around this.
Can also say when working on game, income drops to 100. When Believability and Narrative where exactly equal with TV, the game softlocks. Could only find one friend before the soft lock. While working at company post game release, i noticed i could use chance points, but nothing happened when I did so. I could not find any way to get any stories for radio except friend. Could not find any way to use any items from the toy shop except for the wearables. For some you can keep increasing friend bond even when the xp bar is gone, got it to level 8 before the softlock.
I beleive I have fixed every issue except the chance points not doing anything at work in post-videogame phase, this does not seem to happen to me. If you could please send your save file or tell me what the browser console says when you press the chance button and nothing happens, that would be a great help (Press F12 on keyboard to open the console).
The friend bond thing is somewhat intentional, because if you do not interact with them for a while it decays. That way it is possible to kind of have a buffer against that. Though the fact it’s not showing is not good. I’ll need to think about this one.
There is a coworker friend who should appear as a chance encounter at work, and a latex enthusiast friend who should appear as a chance encounter at home when you have at least level 4 of the latex fetish and have purchased a suit.
Work random is now working. No clue why now, or why it was broken before, but I'll just not question it.
as for latex friend, It was either me being blind, or wearing the suit does not count as owning it.
And suddenly, 'repIncr is not defined at Proxy.doSleep'
This one should be fixed now.
As for the suit, I think it does indeed not count. This has been addressed as well.
really need to have multiplier for money and exp cause it takes along time
You will have ways to earn more money easier later. The XP gain for things is more or less balanced according to the length of the game. Both succeeding and failing at things gives XP as well.
i got to game release phase and working only brought in 100
Interesting, I will need to look into that. It’s supposed to be 500 by that point.
I believe I have figured out the issue, it will be in the next patch (1.3.1) that I will push out along with the other fixes.
UPD: The patch is now available.