{"id":23661,"date":"2018-06-05T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/?p=92728"},"modified":"2018-06-05T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T20:00:38","slug":"putting-the-madness-in-the-infectious-madness-of-doctor-dekker-available-now-on-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/putting-the-madness-in-the-infectious-madness-of-doctor-dekker-available-now-on-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Madness in The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, Available Now on Xbox One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello, Xbox fans! We are D\u2019Avekki Studios, a new game studio run by myself, Lynda Cowles, and my husband Tim Cowles. We\u2019ve been fans of Full Motion Video (FMV) games since the early 1990s, so we\u2019re thrilled our own FMV, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, is out today on Xbox One.<\/p>\n

In TIMODD<\/em>, you play a psychiatrist taking on the patients of the recently murdered Dr Dekker. One of his patients killed him and it\u2019s your job to work out who did it! This is a murder mystery complete with Lovecraftian themes. In fact, our mantra during development was \u201cAlways play with their minds,\u201d so if you end up questioning your sanity, we\u2019ve done a good job!<\/p>\n

\u201cDoctor, you\u2019re late, and after all those promises. Never mind, let\u2019s not keep the patients waiting.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Probably the strangest part of the game is the patients, who all need your help with their supernatural problems. There\u2019s Bryce, a gravedigger who claims to have an extra hour a day to \u201cdo as he pleases,\u201d and Elin, a nurse whose colleagues call her \u201cthe angel of death.\u201d Marianna suffers from blackouts and wakes up naked on the beach, and Nathan\u2019s PTSD causes him to relive entire days. Finally, there\u2019s Claire who, by her own admission, is a \u201cdelusional psychotic with obsessive tendencies.\u201d And that\u2019s just what they\u2019re willing to tell you in the first session!<\/p>\n

The more you get to know them, the darker their stories will get, and the harder it will be to dismiss them as just stories. Choosing the questions provided on the predetermined list will give you a lot to work with, or you can type your own keywords or questions to delve deeper (reminder: the Xbox iOS\/Android app can control the on-screen keyboard).<\/p>\n

\u201cListen to me. You\u2019re not listening. It\u2019s your only bloody job!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The more you uncover about your patients, the more you\u2019ll be putting your own sanity at risk. At the end of the game, you\u2019ll get one of six different insanity endings according to how much weirdness you\u2019ve exposed yourself to. You can play it safe, ask only the scripted questions, and finish with your sanity intact (well, mostly). Or you can surrender to curiosity and madness and use the keyboard to try to find all their responses. Either way, keeping your patients\u2019 best interests at heart will help you as well as them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just a lot of crazy flying around Doctor. Don\u2019t catch any of it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the game progresses you\u2019ll experience more and more strangeness. Deja vu. Apparitions. Teleportation. Even a couple of jump scares! You may start seeing things, or find creepy messages in your notes. Your patients may accuse you of bizarre crimes. It\u2019s all very convincing but remember: if you\u2019re seeing things or hearing things that don\u2019t seem right, you can always watch the replay videos to check what really happened. If it\u2019s not in the replays, well, that\u2019s a sure sign you\u2019re losing your mind (or the devs want you to think you are)!<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t joke about going insane Doctor. That\u2019s one thing I can\u2019t let happen on my watch.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, we don\u2019t really want you to lose your mind playing our game\u2026 we hope you\u2019ll find it a fun and unique experience full of otherworldly creatures, faceless stalkers, and necromancy. If you manage to solve the murder too, that\u2019s just a bonus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, Xbox fans! We are D\u2019Avekki Studios, a new game studio run by myself, Lynda Cowles, and my husband Tim Cowles. We\u2019ve been fans of Full Motion Video (FMV) games since the early 1990s, so we\u2019re thrilled our own FMV, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, is out today on Xbox One. In TIMODD, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}