Game Dev: 35 - Advances

Gabe kept releasing new Residual Devil Chapters once a week, each week he released a Chapter with a different Boss Battle.

The Players were shocked when they opened the jar that contained Ethan's daughter's head, some were even traumatized, but Gabe didn't intend to make the game any less scary for these weak Players, if they really couldn't bear to see things like that, they had to define themselves. the limits of it to not do something stupid in a mission and eliminate the team.

When Gabe released Chapter 3, which was where the Players had to break into Donna Beneviento's dollhouse, he took a moment to watch the Players' livestreams, as he was quite interested in that part.

In the other world, Gabe remembers seeing some streamers who played the first part of the game very easily, but when they got to this dollhouse a lot of people stopped playing because of fear!

Everything in this house was done in such a way that the psychological terror only increased, as much as the Player was not in danger, his heart was constantly beating at an accelerated pace, since the laughter of a baby while a giant monster with a mouth of almost 1 meter laughing while running after the Player was terrifying.

Just as Gabe imagined, the same thing happened in this world.

"No, no, I don't want to, please…" A streamer was lying under one of the dollhouse sheets while crying in fear of the noise the baby monster was making as it ran around the house looking for him.

If the tears weren't a great indication of the emotion the Player was feeling, the wet floor under the bed made it clear that the Player was completely terrified.

So much so that after another 5 minutes of walking through this house, when he entered a red room full of doll pieces scattered around the city, the Player couldn't take it anymore and gave up, deciding to disconnect from the game and just play it another day.

The same thing happened to hundreds of Players who, at different times, decided to stop playing.

Of course, after these Players saw how much their aim improved after playing that part of the game even while just holding a pistol and pointing it in the direction they were afraid of, the greed for improving skills and the boredom of trying out other games took over. account of these Players and made them try again to overcome their fears in Residual Devil.

For Chapter 4, where the Players had to defeat Salvatore, Game made the battle a bit more difficult and interesting, but it wasn't as memorable a battle for the Players as the first battle against Dimitrescu and the creepy dollhouse.

At that point, Gabe managed to make Chapter 5 the last Chapter in the game.

Initially he intended to make the game more than 10 chapters, but with the amount of Mana he was getting from the game, he thought it would be better and more captivating to release weekly chapters that were 5 to 10 hours long with each Chapter focusing on one Boss .

And that decision proved correct with the amount of Players the game had, as well as how much mana it received in the last two weeks!

[Residual Devil: Village]

[Downloads: 16.199]

[Average Play Time: 7.1 Hours.]

[Accumulated Mana: 115,012]

[Available for withdrawal: $28,897]

[Available Mana: 4,376] (110,636 Mana Spent)

Looking at the total amount of Mana Accumulated that Residual Devil yielded, Gabe had a huge smile on his face.

The amount of Mana he spent was so high for a reason.

For the past two weeks he has not only been accumulating Mana, but every time the Mana available in the game reached 20,000 Units, Gabe would absorb 10,000 Units into his Mana Pool and increase this by 100, which made Gabe now had 900 Mana!

He spent another 50,000 Mana Units this week to increase his Mana Pool to 900 Mana Units, while he spent another 12,000 Mana Units to develop Chapters 3 and 4, which left him with only 14,000 Mana Units available in Residual Devil, and to develop the last Chapter, Chapter 5, Gabe spent a total of 10,000 Mana Units, leaving only 4,000 Mana Units left for him.

But he wasn't disappointed, he was far from being disappointed, in just one game with little more than a month of release he managed to do something that ordinary Developers took months, or even years, to achieve.

Now he needed just over 5,000 Mana Units to reach the 1,000 Mana Units in his Mana Pool, which would make him a true Developer Rank E!

This Chapter 5 needed 10,000 Mana Units because Gabe had a bold idea.

In the original game, both Heisenberg and Ethan died because they were dumb.

Heisenberg was a brute who had gone crazy under Miranda's control, while Ethan was an emotional one who didn't know how to do anything rationally.

Because of that, Ethan had to kill Heisenberg to die for Miranda soon after, or rather, be unconscious for a few hours before reviving and having to kill himself to kill Miranda.

Considering that there could be Players as thrilled as Ethan, Gabe decided to create two endings, one where the Players could follow the story as the original, where it would lead to the same ending as the normal game that Gabe played, and another where the Players could accept help from Heisenberg and join him in killing Miranda.

That way the battle could be easier and everything would make more sense in front of rational Players, as they would be upset by having to repeat the stupidities that Ethan did during the game just for the story to follow as it should, while more emotional Players might fight the idea of ​​Heisenberg wanting to use Rose as a weapon against Miranda.

Residual Devil with over 16,000 downloads had already been downloaded by nearly 100% of Rank F Players plus an increasing amount of Rank E Players who were downloading the game after hearing about it.

The biggest factor that contributed to the spread of the game to Rank E Players other than word of mouth among Players and livestreams was the Residual Devil program that finally aired on SBT.

Because of the intensive publicity the show got, both because of the game and Sandstone Bay Television promoting the show on other shows in the programming schedule, the first episode had a huge amount of viewership, which was good news for everyone. the show's staff, but when the second episode aired they were finally shocked.

The show's first episode did very well, reaching 41% of the televisions currently turned on in the city, but when the second episode came out, the number of viewers went up to 63%!

Both regular people and Players were excited about the show and amazed at how much fun it was to watch this with a Player acting like an actor just like Ethan would, which made it that much more immersive for everyone.

SBT was worried that the program would not attract as much attention because it was a game, but no one would have imagined that with each episode the number of viewers would increase more and more, even with the Gora scenes viewers watched without changing the channel at all. turn.

On the internet the program was the most commented subject.

[Wow, this Residual Devil program is really good!]

[Who had the idea to turn a game into a TV show? Why didn't they do this before?]

[I do not know either! Residual Devil is so much fun! The action scenes are hundreds of times more realistic than the fake blood they use in other shows…]

[You are not Players, right? I can understand why you were confused when thinking about why there aren't other programs like Residual Devil that came from games, the answer is simple: It's not possible!]

[It's not possible?]

[Doesn't the other games let you record and act like a TV show?]

[My son agreed with this comment, he said that the other games cannot even be called games close to Residual Devil.]

[Serious? Are the other games really that bad?]

[Bad? Uncle, my dream is to become a Player so I look for Player related things all the time despite being an ordinary person without awakening Mana even though my parents forbid it, but I have to tell you, close to Residual Devil the others games can't even be called games, that's just a bunch of shiny weapons that people hold to kill monsters endlessly.]

[That's why it's impossible to make other TV shows like Residual Devil, as the other games don't even have a story.]

[Too bad, at least we have Residual Devil to watch, I wanted to be a Player when I was younger, but after I awakened Mana and saw the games were so boring I stopped following it and just started focusing on news about monster attacks on cities, who knew such a great game would come out? Now I even feel motivated to follow Players who are playing Residual Devil again.]

[The Developer of Residual Devil is a genius! Not only did he make a very powerful game, he also made a very entertaining TV show, congratulations!]

Reading those comments, Gabe was quite pleased with the public's reaction.

The program was shown late at night, starting at 10:00 pm and ending at 00:00 am every day, since it was a violent program and SBT passed that time so that the children would not watch it in hiding.

But despite the show running late, after the first episode, even ordinary people who were supposed to wake up early had to stay up a little later and watch this show that everyone was talking about, before long Residual Devil dominated the subject of ordinary people and started to attract attention from people in other cities too!