Happy New Year!

Happy new year, one and all. I hope you have come out of 2025 in one piece, and step into 2026 with some measure of hope.

What a year it has been. I am not sad to see the back of it, and most certainly look forward to the year ahead.

What does the coming year hold? If only I knew. That said, the broad strokes are not entirely opaque;

My time as a carer are at a definitive middle. While their condition improves overall, there are the occasional backslides one would expect, and similarly they still require care, attention, and love (as do we all). While this means I will not be able to return to development work in full capacity, it does mean I may be able to return in a small capacity and get the ball rolling once again. Truth be told I am going a little stir crazy and getting back into it may help alleviate that.

This is not to say I will be returning to monthly updates and progress, as I cannot and will not commit to anything consistent, but you might start seeing me post more little updates, experiments, and development work not necessarily directly relating to Hypno.exe as I slowly get back in the proverbial saddle. Hypno.exe, ButtplugUE, that big scope-creep project I have in mind, sundry UE plugins, my home server, making the discord more of a community than just a big room with people awkwardly standing around not talking to one another, there are a million things I want to do and this mortal flesh will only last so long, and the time shall pass regardless.

If there is any one thing I can take away from this year gone by, it is that the human mind is capable of incredible adaptation to new circumstances. As hypnokinksters you may be more aware of this than most, but the mind is incredibly adept at survival, one way or another, and you can be dreading an impending even, but then blink and it is behind you, having already adapted to your new circumstances. You can adapt to bad times and survive, but must also take care to unlearn your survival mode as you return to a life less inhospitable, and for me the bad times will not have a definitive end, merely a slow slide towards normality and as such I will need to be mindful to not stay locked into adapted behaviors which will hinder growth and happiness after the need for them has passed.

With time, luck, and love, I see this year ahead as being one I can look forward to, and I hope you all will as well, in whatever way you can.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for you continued support and good will. It carries me through my days in a much better way than I would be without.

All of the best, and much love,

d/Dev

d/Dev Development Update - September 2025

Hello all, and a very, very belated apologies for the late post.

In addition to being late, this update will be short.

As you may or may not know, certain circumstances in my life have led me to not have the time to work on Hypno.exe whatsoever this year.

These circumstances have now come to their head, so rather than being in limbo and unsure of when I will be able to return to development, I now know, roughly, what kind of timeline I can expect.

So, for the next 6 months at minimum, work on Hypno.exe will continue to be on hiatus. After that time, hopefully, I will be able to return to monthly updates.

This is utterly out of my hands at this time, but I do truly apologies for this extremely drawn out delay. I will continue to lurk in the Hypno.exe Discord, and am similarly lurking assorted social media platforms, so feel free to reach out there if you are so inclined.

See you all in the new year.

d/Dev

d/Dev Development Update - July 2025

Hello everyone, happy August to us all.

Apologies for the late update; I was waylaid by a nasty cold which pretty much floored me for the whole week. That said I am now well enough to write this up after an eventful month.

And what a month it was. To no one's surprise there are no Hypno.exe updates again; the life circumstances I am currently going through continue to persist, and look like they will be around well into the new year. I will continue to pause payments so no one is paying me to do nothing.

So what made it a big month? I am glad you asked. Payment processors (Visa, MasterCard, et al) have once again made a pass at trying (and sadly succeeding) in pressuring merchants such as Steam and itch.io to stop handling any payments to do with content deemed as being morally or ethically compromising, at the discretion of the payment processors themselves. This rather blatant push towards censorship has already had a detrimental effect on any and all developers and consumers of adult content, regardless of the content therein. All content on itch.io that had the NSFW tag was de-indexed (unable to be found without the direct link) and now most (but not all) is returning without the ability to require or accept payments. Free only. This includes Hypno.exe naturally.

As with all censorship this will not stop at adult content and will continue into pretty much whatever these people consider inappropriate, and since they are under the impression they have a moral duty to control what is created and consumed, we likewise have an ethical obligation to not abide their obstruction. Since you are reading this now then you are probably well aware that hypnosis content receives especially close scrutiny as a fetish/kink considered unacceptable, which is wild given how small it is.

The following resources are not my own, I have only attempted to collect them together for ease of use. Take each with a grain of salt and a small hat mad of tinfoil just in case. Always use your own judgment and act according to your own means.

Dieselbrain on Bluesky has a great little graphic for what you can do to pressure payment processors here Similarly Void has a great thread with additional info and even more methods of approaching to issue, including outside of the US, here

This fight will never really stop, but at the very least we can keep beating them down whenever they raise their authoritarian heads.

And once again, if you are making cool Programs with Hypno.exe, I would love to see them (to help development, strictly professional), as would other users! The Hypno.exe Discord has a channel for requesting and sharing Programs (you can export them and upload them through Discord directly) and it would be amazing to see some of the thing people have created, even with the limited toolset at this time.

Until next month, stay well.

d/Dev

d/Dev Development Update - June 2025

Hello again wonderful beings.

I hope this past month has been kind to you, it has been decidedly middle-of-the-road for me.

Life progresses slowly, and the circumstances that make me unable to work on Hypno.exe remain for the time being. Progress has been made, but bureaucracy only moves at a singular pace, so for the time being I am still on hiatus.

That said, this month I did manage to pull together enough time to not only ensure ButtplugUE works with Unreal 5.6, but also made compiled builds for 5.1 through to 5.6, meaning it can now easily be used in Blueprint-Only projects. If you are a lewd game dev and want bluetooth sex toy support in your Unreal Engine game you should give it a look, and reach out if you have questions.

All in all, I am surviving, and your continued support is most welcomed.

If you are making cool Programs with Hypno.exe, I would love to see them (to help development, strictly professional), as would other users! The Hypno.exe Discord has a channel for requesting and sharing Programs (you can export them and upload them through Discord directly) and it would be amazing to see some of the thing people have created, even with the limited toolset at this time.

As always, please consider supporting development on either Patreon or SubscribeStar (or even a one-off on Ko-Fi). Every little bit helps both materially and psychologically. If that is not something you are able or willing to do, kind words through some social media platform are also always welcome and encouraging.

d/Dev Update May 2025

Hello once again everyone, I hope May was kind to you, and may June also hold hope in kind.

So you may be asking "What is up with d/Dev?" and "Will Hypno.exe be coming back?", though I doubt it.

To these I say: I live yet, and yes, eventually.

My situation in the last month is unchanged: circumstances outside of my control have forced me to reduce the amount of time I can dedicate to working on Hypno.exe and other things like ButtplugUE. This means any and all funding methods will remain paused for the time being, and updates will not be forthcoming.

When will I return? Still unknown, but it is looking like it may be several months yet. Without going into details, things are worse than previously thought and are taking longer as a result. Such is life.

Anyway, as always, I deeply appreciate your patience and continued support, whatever form it may take.

And once again, if you are making cool Programs with Hypno.exe, I would love to see them (to help development, strictly professional), as would other users! The Hypno.exe Discord has a channel for requesting and sharing Programs (you can export them and upload them through Discord directly) and it would be amazing to see some of the thing people have created, even with the limited toolset at this time.

Be well, stay safe, <3 d/Dev