Vacation

This Pico-8 game is a hypnosis session. It is designed to hypnotize the player. At any time past the initial "adults only" splash, you can hold X or Z to start an awakener.

Please read the content warning screen fully at the start of the game. The game includes hypnotic suggestions on every theme listed. It also includes "safety" suggestions before the really mindbending parts start, encouraging you to ignore suggestions you would not enjoy, and reminding you to use the awakener if you need it.

Vacation is a Pico-8 game for Strawberry Jam 8: a simple, chill, easy arcade game that is just a thin veneer for a hypnosis session that will turn you into an orca pooltoy! All hypnotic suggestions are dismissed in the awakener. It's designed both for people experienced with hypnosis and folks new to it. 

It is currently complete! I finished it up with a luxurious 20 minutes to go before the end of Strawberry Jam 8. In the future I will add devlogs about the hypnotic suggestions I used, the hypnotic techniques I used, and how to mod it.

The game only uses the arrow keys for input (including to skip past the opening splashes, which you can do somewhat before it prompts you, but not instantly). The X and Z keys are used only to launch the awakener.

I  don't plan to add more features to this, but I'm already thinking about alternate scripts I might write with the same engine, or the same text engine and some other simple arcade game that works well in the constraints of a hypnosis session. And you can of course write your own! If the documentation for modding it isn't in yet, uh, good luck, but you can find the script if you browse around in the code (near the bottom); look for "zonk_mode:ni" if you want to add more formatting prefixes or understand what the parser is doing with its config row (it's issuing callbacks).

Additional Credits:

• Font: Monogram, by Vinicius Menezio
• Music: An original composition by Ossie!
• Clouds: Designed and implemented by pyrex&nyeo!