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Public Release 0.1606.1: New Nozomi Trance Story Path!

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168 days ago by Angela DeMille (@Angela_DeMille)
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Hello, everyone!

For this update I fancied taking a crack at another one of the unethical story paths yet to be written... I'm not sure I even *have* any ethical paths left to write at this point?!

In this one, taking place about midway through Nozomi's Trance storyline, Kyou compells Nozomi to stay with him for pretty much the entire weekend instead of fulfilling her prior obligations. It's about 40-50% complete, including one CG, and there's a rough outline written for the rest of the path. Go see!

And in keeping with the Nozomi focus, I've also added a new CG to her original Trance storyline. This one shows up in the final third if you want to find and check it off your gallery list!

I hope to have this story path finished in time for next month, so in the meantime please enjoy this latest update and I'll see you next time~

What's New

  • WRITING: Partial script written for the new path on Nozomi's Trance storyline, and an outline written for the concluding parts
  • WRITING: Some minor script edits for the Nozomi Trance storyline
  • ART: New CG for the original Nozomi Trance storyline
  • ART: New CG for the new path on Nozomi's Trance storyline
  • ART: Added Nozomi's side sprite for the climactic scene during the unethical path of Sayori's Alter storyline
  • Word count is now around 408,500
  • LOCALIZATION: Various edits and corrections to the existing Spanish script
  • Minor typo and grammar corrections

Files

Penlight Public Release 0.1606.1 (PC & Linux) 380 MB
Nov 11, 2023
Penlight Public Release 0.1606.1 (Mac) 375 MB
Nov 11, 2023
Penlight Public Release 0.1606.1 (Android) 399 MB
Nov 11, 2023
Penlight Flowchart Guide (Spoilers) (0.1606.1) 2 MB
Nov 11, 2023

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OverNineThausen158 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

Well... If you want to write ethical scenarios, you could always use one of the unexplored paths at the beginning (the "going home" choice at the very beginning after Kyou didn't had the courage to engage with Nozomi and the "waiting by the shoe racks" one that has been there since forever). You could easily write a new whole scenario maybe involving Rita or the black haired one (sorry at the moment I don't remember her name) in a more conventional manner (not having to mess with Hiroko and then try to make amends for our actions) since we already know that at least one of them is interested into hypnosis.

I know it can be difficult to write a story, especially when we can't relate to the main character (since I have discovered your game, I have begun writing scripts on AI Dungeon to use the AI to hopefully not get stuck mid way through the story) so I hope this comment will be helpful.

PS: I would like to mention how awesome and refreshing it is to see a hypnosis story actually have real life elements to it (by that I mean when ever you drop facts like "the silent observer" or that "hypnosis can't be used to mind control"). It's sad how disfigured those concepts usually are in most media.

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OverNineThausen158 days ago

Sorry for this long and maybe un-interesting paragraphs, but I hope you will read it

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McBehrer167 days ago

If I could request a feature, it would be a huge quality of life improvement to be able to delete individual save files.

(also if you're going to make the game rated M, why not go all out and include more explicit scenes?)

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