With the end of his high school career approaching, Kyou Koyama is a friendless and troubled young man. However, having recently taken an interest in hypnosis, he supposes he can salvage his relationships with his classmates using the power of suggestion. With the help of a modified penlight of his own design, he sets out to change his world, one class rep at a time...

Penlight is a visual novel set in a high-school with a heavy hypnosis/brainwashing kink theme. While still in early development, the current release is fully playable from start to finish. It should be noted that all characters featured in the game are in their senior year of high school and are over 18 years of age.

Download
Free releases available via my Patreon, SubscribeStar and itch.io:
www.patreon.com/angelademille
angela-demille.itch.io/penlight
subscribestar.adult/angela-demille

Details of the current public release, including flowchart game guide to all the available story paths, can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/66409731

The Penlight discord server, if you fancy talking to more fans of the game (and me, maybe): discord.gg/qHSRKCs

Next public release due on June 11th 2022

Currently Features:
Over 300,000 words
More than 120 CGs
Five main routes, playable from start to end, with at least one consequential choice for each
Over thirty possible endings
Hypnosis & Mind Control (Consenting and non-consenting)
Mild D/s
Petplay
Doll play
Hypno bondage
Tickling
Personality alteration
Dehumanization
Male protagonist
Six female characters
2D Animé-style art
Languages: English and Spanish

Support The Project
Penlight is very much a work in progress. Over time I intend to improve the game's writing, art and audio into a more complete game with multiple story branches and additional choices that yield interesting consequences for the player. Check in every second Saturday of each month for a new public release with updated content!

While I'm confident I can make a functioning and enjoyable visual novel on a super limited budget, any funding I do get will be invested into making a higher quality product. If you would like to make a contribution, please visit my Patreon/SubscribeStar and consider pledging. $5 patrons get access to new content up to 4 weeks ahead of the free releases.

Comments and feedback are welcome, too. I appreciate any support!

Tried it out, I think I got all the routes and endings. It's pretty good, with some interesting implications regarding certain characters that I hope gets expanded on. I'm looking forward to more. Thanks!

A Patreon project that is actually complete from start to finish, not a 0.1 that never goes anywhere? Something that only needs beefing up in the middle? Am I dreaming?

Oh yea this is wonderful. Will for sure subscribe to your patreon soon.

This was pretty good!

In the evil path, I liked the robot allegory. I did not, however, like how nearly perfectly symmetric the subsequent choice's results were. The non-main girls are very different from each other, and the ultimate way that scenario plays out should naturally be different as a result.

I look forward to seeing the other options that get added to the various currently-only-one-choice hypno play scenes. In particular, it might be more compelling to, rather than having a choice about respecting boundaries or not, instead let the game interpret what you do during a trance to decide whether you actually did or not.

I was rather expecting Hiroko to do some shenanigans once she obtained the pen light herself. That - or something like it inserted elsewhere in the game (maybe in the current evil path?) - might be a way to branch into another story arc focusing on her.

Minor bug: a few scenes have inconsistent character outfits from one dialogue to the next.

This future game gonna have voice acting? Maybe i can support this.

Thanks for the support and feedback so far!

While my general focus is definitely on adding more stuff, I would like to go back and have another crack at a few scenes when I get the time and motivation. This is my first time writing anything coherent for a public audience, so I'm learning as I go~

This month's public release dropped today, adds some (admittedly generic) background music for the first time and includes a little more content to both main routes. I've also attempted to make Kyou's thoughts and actions more believable and consistent throughout, and added a little extra backstory to hopefully provide some context and explanation for why he ever thought his stupid penlight stunt had a chance of working in the first place.

Next month's update will focus more on outright villainy, adding a whole new route to explore the darker side of owning an OP brainwashing device~

What's New

* There is now background music! All of which is subject to change in later releases
* Added more dialogue throughout the non-consensual route. The final confrontation scene in particular has seen some significant changes
* Added a lot more dialogue during the consensual route café scene, and a teaser for a possible role-reversal scenario on the following day
* New path added to the non-consensual route - Kyou can now choose to pursue Nozomi instead of confronting either Hiroko or Sayori
* Added a second option during the consensual route's first induction scene
* Included a Mac version for the first time! However I have no way of testing it myself, so I can only hope it works for anyone who tries it ^^;
* Slightly enlarged the in-game text
* Changed the title screen, game icons and android splash screen to the placeholder Penlight logo
* Fixed a few visual errors
* More little textual tweaks and fixes here and there


No plans currently. Hadn't even thought about it until now~

Not gonna lie, that's what I'm personally interested in. I don't mind trying out these games from a less "complete monster" perspective, but I generally do it after an evil route, if it's available. I'm eagerly awaiting this update.

New public release day! I'm excited about this month's because it's my most productive yet. There's an entire new route through the story with one consequential choice and is comparable to the existing two routes in length. Not only that, but I even threw in a preview of Nozomi's new-look sprite as well! Just start a new game and select to use the new sprites from the start to see it, although she'll look out of place in some scenes due to not having all her outfits yet.

I'm not sure what people will make of the new villainous route. It's experimental for me in places and the writing is a little raw and first drafty, but I'm hopeful that overall it fits in with the rest of the game and will allow players to enjoy being unambiguously nasty despite never being let off the hook for it.

With this update the word count for Penlight is now around 62,500, up from about 40,000 last month. Despite any reaction this update gets I'm pretty pleased that I was able to put out a coherent bit of story of that size in about 3 weeks (the rest of Penlight's writing took 7 months). I don't know if I'll be able to keep up that level of productivity going forward, but I'll do my best~

What's New

* New major route (Villainous) with two distinct story paths
* New sprite for Nozomi, albeit with limited functionality (selectable on game start)
* Added a few more assets; a couple new backgrounds, character expressions, sounds and a smartphone graphic, mostly to accommodate the villainous route
* Tweaked some of the dialogue in the two original routes, mostly to resolve inconsistencies created by the villainous route additions
* Changed the file format of the music to ogg from mp3, significantly reducing file size
* General spelling and grammar corrections

ill be honest,the only even slightly nice ending currently is the one where he gives up on hypnotizing them,legit every other one has him ending up horrible,the robot one has promise,but at the final scene i cant pick the correct option,are they any others where he gets the three girls(and does not end up a cult leader?)

I liked it a lot, with it's branching pathways and such. I kinda wish the consensual route was little longer in the two's attempts at trying out a relationship involving hypnosis.Like having multiple hypnosis sessions, trying out different things before going the next step (Similar to the sessions where she forgets number/name, etc, More sessions like those.). I feel like the whole "consensual" part is kinda thrown out the window when he views the penlight as a bad thing. I feel like a choice where the two try to work out a balancing relationship with hypnosis would work well.

Also, will there be plans to maybe have the main character's romantic interest lie one of the two friends and having a possible consensual. hypnotic relationship with one of them?

I look forward to seeing more!

Is there any plans for an ending to the robot route where he gets away with it?

Also, I think "robotization" is a bit misleading when they're only being made to think that they're robots.

hi can i play as a girl? kthanx bye. i'm not a dude and i don't like playing men. i wanna be a girl and hypnotize girls! so if you added a girl protagonist path that'd be really cool

Sorry for the late response to this thread; I've been super busy this week :/

Anyway, to answer some questions:

- Yes there will be more paths where all the girls get got
- Don't expect the above to ever end all that great for Kyou (not necessarily as a cult leader tho)
- The robot route was expanded this month for Patreon backers with an alternate ending. It'll be in September's public release
- Yes, I need to change "robotization" on the feature list ._. I'll replace it with dehumanization, as that's pretty apt for what happens to them
- I really want to do more consensual stuff! I'd like to write separate routes for the friends and also expand Nozomi's path a bit more if I can, although I'm a little constrained by the 6 days + epilogue narrative box I've built for myself
- I thought about doing a Nozomi POV route as a new game+ kind of thing, but I can't see that happening now, not to mention she wouldn't have been hypnotizing girls anyway

Hey, everyone! It's time for another public release ^^

So, this month is where the art upgrades teased last time begin in earnest, with more developed spritework and the first CG! There is still an option to revert to the old sprite art, though, if you find the clashing styles too distracting. On the writing front there are two new story additions to the existing routes, one each for the consenting and villainous routes. Not as substantial as last month, but definitely worth checking out for returning readers. And that, aside from a couple of bug fixes, is that for this month! October's update will bring more art additions and, I hope, a more dramatic increase in content on par with last month's villainous update!


What's New
- Nozomi's sprite has been updated with a full range of outfits
- New initial sprite art for Sayori (limited functionality)
- First CG has been inserted into the game, depicting the start of the game's two darker routes
- New path added for Nozomi's consensual route, starting from the third day
- New alternate choice added for the Villainous route along the robot path, leading to a very different conclusion
- Added a secondary character to accommodate the Villainous route additions
- Nozomi's consensual route ending has been slightly expanded
- Removed Kyou's side sprite (Did he ever need one?)
- Two new music tracks added. One for the title screen and a few of Kyou's bedroom scenes, and a creepy one for the new robot path ending, because it wasn't quite creepy enough already...
- Fixed a bug in Nozomi's consensual route where Nozomi's hypnosis trigger was being overwritten
- Fixed another bug in Nozomi's consensual route where Sayori always talks about Nozomi forgetting a number while giving her rundown of events in day 6, even if you changed Nozomi's name instead.
- Nozomi's and Sayori's nametags have had their colours altered slightly, matching their new sprite's hair colours
- Kyou's nametag colour has been changed to green to more clearly set his speaking lines apart from the others
- Word count is now almost 74,000 (up from about 63,000 in the previous release)
- Miscellaneous spelling and grammar corrections and script tweaks