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Kinda spaced out after the default file and it's a lot of fun. Looking forward to trying the rest

A really interesting game! Love the concept. However, it hinges too much on the hypnosis working by itself. The game state and mechanics aren't doing anything to get me into the right frame of mind, let alone trying to make me feel confused enough to mess up. In fact a player can get very far just randomly clicking as long as they leave the right hand card alone.

Suggestions:

1. Have a randomized upper limit. 25, 43, 36,  etc. If the player must remain below a number, then they must think more carefully about which cards to play. If they go over, then they forfeit their score for the round. Mental taxation is desired!

2. Have an occasional smaller 'target' number that must be landed on directly before ascending past it. Same result if the player blows through it.

3. Simple debuffs that make the values of the cards different. Such as a minus 1 to all card values, or even and odd numbers are swapped, or just saying something like 5 is now 8. The original face would be unaltered, of course! It would be up to the player to remember how their cards have changed.

4. Secret traps! Very very occasionally a debuff effect is applied secretly to a card as it is played. To keep us guessing and make us doubt our calculations...

I could go on forever. I get a game design itch from games like these because they are so close to working.  Getting the challenge level right is very important for games that are trying to induce feelings through its game mechanics, esp if the player is meant to feel overpowered, tricked, or helpless. I doubt I will personally ever be hypnotised by anything, I've been trying for far too long to believe otherwise. But I'm sure that by putting your best foot forward with your game's mechanics will give everyone else the best chance they could have.

boring

Would have been enjoyable if it wasn't 50% disclaimers for the first part of every track. Unsuprisingly, qualifying everything with "if you're in a safe space," is in all senses of the phrase, a turn off.  I mean you've got multiple pages of disclaimers both in the download page, and each track, do you really also need multiple within the tracks themselves?

Someone have a tip to "get hypnotized" I played some os this kind of game but all I feel is a kind of Chill on my back

So fun!  Never tried anything related to hypnotism before, but even just playing the demo was great.  Although it didn't seem to affect my math skills besides just a little bit of slowness, the effects were definitely noticable afterwards.  My fingers and legs were all wobbly for a good bit after, and i had trouble stringing words together.  Overall, I loved it, and will most likely get the full game.

I usually hate stuff with maths but this was actually really fun!!

(also trying to type this comment right after playing is super hard xD)

wow I love it so so much thank you Goddess

its kinda boring ngl

Love the new track!! Only complaint is it's too short, please make optional longer sessions 🥺

Very interesting- while I definitely got tranced, which is fun in itself, the instructions to forget numbers and get worse at maths didn't affect me at all. That's a shame because it would have been really cool to experience, but I enjoyed it all the same.

I will second other peoples' comments about guessing numbers though- a couple of times I forgot what number I'd added up to when I got dropped and woken up during play, at which point I just clicked random cards until I got a winning number. That earned me some REALLY high scores, so maybe having a cap might be a good idea.

This was really fun! would love to see if there was a linux file

Awesome game! I really enjoyed your brain drain one! Just wish it was a bit longer.

my brain feels like silly putty. :)

I... like the concept but I didn't really feel like the suggestion did anything to me, aside from some small mistakes I didn't feel as if I was any worse as arithmetic than before

Interesting, and the gameplay itself is fun, but, and I don't know if it's just my hardware being bad, I found the audio track to be very metallic and sharp and the visual display too grainy/pixelated to pull me in during the intro. The hypnotic effects were completely null for me. That said, even without those, the actual game part was fun.

Worked better than i expected.  Glad the extra count up is there, i usually need it. Very good job, worth the $5

A lot of fun, and more effective than i was expecting. After losing some numbers and getting worse at math, by the end of the final round I had resorted to just adding 2s and 4s. Later, I was describing it to someone who suggested that 7 + 7 + 2 =16 wouldn't have been too difficult.

Oh yeah?  On round one, sure, that's an easy play.  By the end of the last round?  No, that was beyond me!

...and I really wasn't expecting that.

I came back to play again and it was still awesome. Planning on buying the full edition soon :)

Works pretty well.  Great to have both of my top interests put together. Great job!

I really appreciate having linux releases of games, but this one doesn't have one it seems like. Would one be able to play the full game in-browser, or just the demo? I suppose i can run the window's version in wine, but that's not exactly the same as just having a native linux version really.

Edit: Ended up buying it and wasn't able to get it running in Lutris due to some kind of DX11 error, but i did get it working in Playonlinux by setting the main exe as the instillation file, the game opening, quitting it, then creating a shortcut to the exe by browsing to it manually.