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Post Patreon FAQ V2
Dear Insane Children,FontLord here again with some more info and some more answers.The $1 Hibernation Tier is now active.If you are interested in still accessing the Discord and/or sending messages to this Patreon page, please move over to this tier.This will be the one and only tier in the not too ...
So what's next? And the Answers to your questions..
Hi Everyone,FontLord here.Just wanted to also give a huge amount of love and hugs to everyone that joined us on this journey. Not the result we wanted but boy did we have fun, made some great friends, saw some amazing art and nailed down one hell of a story :) But some of you have written in asking ...
End of the Adventure
Dear Insane Children,Over the past few years, your support has made possible a constant stream of creative output by a team of artists, writers, designers, modelers, and producers. That output resulted in the "Alice: Asylum" Design Bible - a 414pg PDF containing the complete vision for a 3rd...
Alice: Asylum Design Bible v1.0 PDF • FREE DOWNLOAD • Development Partner Announcement
Legal Notice Electronic Arts require us to display regarding Alice: Asylum and our efforts towards this project: The Design Bible v1.0 PDF Document, the Patreon, and the Alice: Asylum project are not affiliated with or endorsed by Electronic Arts (EA).Hello to our Insane Children, Patreon Supporters...
Design Bible Update v1.0 (We're ALMOST ready!)
Hi everyone,Alexhere with what I believe will be our last big update on the Alice: Asylum Design Bible before we pull the trigger on it for a public release in the coming weeks.This will come alongside what I expect is some big news we can finally share with you.But before we do, we'll need perm...
Art Prints 2023 (First Half)
Dear Insane Children,Font Lord here with the results of the poll for the next set of 6 art prints.Once again, some shocks here as to what did make it and what didn't.Very surprised at how low "Hatter Defeated" scored. I really liked that one 😢But there's got to be winners and lose...
Design Bible Pages - WEAPONS!
Dear Insane Children,Just a quick update (by way of Alex) to show off some of the Design Bible pages he's working on these days. These are all related to WEAPONS! And we all love weapons, right?Woo! That's a LOT of weapons. Boatloads. Awesome stuff, Alex!From Shanghai with Weapons,-American
2023 - "Alice: Asylum" Pitching Begins
Dear Insane Children,This is the start of the Next Phase of our effort to get "Alice: Asylum" funded and into development.This is "The Pitching Phase." And above is the first email of 2023 sent out to the first on a list of potential investors and publishers. We'll send people on...
Art Print Selection, First Half Of 2023
Dear Insane Children,Font Lord here once again with the hardest question you get asked twice a year, "What prints will we have as the next Patreon rewards?"Please cast your eyeballs further down to the NINETEEN choices we have and let us know what are your top 6.(We have no way to limit your...
Happy New Year 2023
Dear Insane Children,Happy New Year to all! I hope everyone had a great start to the year. And I am excited for what's in store for us in the Year of the Rabbit.We had a pretty painful end of year at my house. Everyone got Covid. Myself, Yan, Lucky, Leeloo, Yan's mom, probably Lulu... no fun...
2022 in Review, 2023 In Our Sights - Alice: Asylum Pre-Production
Hi everyone,Alex here wishing you all the best wherever you are in the world.Heads up. This is the longest post we've ever created.With so much to cover across the movement in the Alice project, this will be highly detailed.Lots of written updates concerning recent meetings, lots of new artwork,...
Christmas in China (and everyone's getting Covid)
Dear Insane Children,Apologies for the recent radio silence. Things have been... interesting... here.China finally dropped its Zero Covid policies. And they did it in full Leroy Jenkins style. Kinda crazy... one day, we're all lining up to do testing; using QR codes to enter buildings; living in...
Design Bible Live Stream w/ Alex (2nd attempt)
Dear Insane Children,We're going to TRY AGAIN! A Live Stream! With Alex! On Twitch (and YouTube)!During this stream, we're going to do a deep dive into the Design Bible with Alex there to help guide our way. We'll talk about all the progress made on pre-production. And what we have in st...
Last Week's Livestream
Dear Insane Children,I've linked the video from last week's live stream to the top of this post. If you've not seen it... this is your chance! We got off to a bumpy start - couldn't get sound from Alex's mic to work properly. So we had to drop Alex, restart, and patch together a ...
The Live Stream Train is Coming!
And Dear Insane Children,We're about to run Dr. Bumby over with a Live Stream! Woo woo!IMPORTANT NOTE: This week's stream will take place on THURSDAY for those of you in the USA. This is one day later than the normal stream time on Wednesday. Take note!And we're going to have Alex join u...
No Live Stream This Week (YES, NEXT WEEK)
Dear Insane Children,Just checking in really quick to let you know that there won't be a ... well, I mean you can read the headline. Heh.But we WILL HAVE a Live Stream next week. And I'm hoping we can get Alex on there via Zoom. That way, we can talk in depth about the Massive Design Bible U...
Halloween Design Bible Update - New PDF Download + New Artwork
Posting this 3 days early for our Insane Children. The rest of the world can open it on Halloween! Happy Halloween, Insane Children! -AmericanHi everyone,Wishing you all the spookiest Halloween!Alex here with another big update on all movementon the Alice pre-production project.Lots to get through i...
2022's Double Print Reminder
Dear Insane Children,Font Lord here with your reminder that the next print we're doing (October Patrons charged in November) is a fantastic double-print as we do every year at this time. Yay!The header image of this post shows the prints in all their glory.I don't think they have names yet t...
Inferno & Hysteria Special State Outlines v1
Hi all,Alex here with some updates on special state outlines as we flesh out the Design Bible.Here is our first take on building out the special states for Alice: Asylum.The first is; Inferno (a brand new special state) and the second expands on Hysteria (from Madness Returns).The approach is that e...
Iconography Design - Attacks, Weapon Quirks, and Enemy Behaviours
Hi everyone,Alex here again. If you divedthrough the spreadsheets in the last post, you may have seen some new iconography designs dotted amongst them.The icons are graphic visual elements to enhance the data they represent; namely;• Enemy Attack Behaviors• Weapon Attacks - Alice's Primary a...
Live Stream? YES! Today!
Dear Insane Children,Just a quick reminder there WILL BE a Live Stream this morning. Martin is in the house, the live stream computer is up and running, and all systems are GO!So, please join us over on my Twitch Channel...twitch.tv/americanmcgeeYou can also tune in via YouTube (probably) but note t...
Alice: Asylum Game Design Overview & Data Spreadsheets / Huge Update!
Dear Insane Children,There WILL BE a Live Stream this week at the usual time.Thursday at 10AM for us here in Shanghai. 7PM if you're on the West Coast of the US. And we'll be discussing the content in this post...This is a BIG text-based post.Here's TL:DR version;The first pass on massiv...
Radcliffe Defeated (but all is well with me & team)
Dear Insane Children,Apologies for the radio silence. All is well! And the pre-production team continues to make excellent progress on the Design Bible.I meant to post last week but decided to hold off because THIS WEEK we're trying to do a big Update Post (from Alex) and a Live Stream and to sh...
Confronting Radcliffe & Other Art
Dear Insane Children,Adam shared the final (semi-final?) version of the illustration you all voted on last week. Turned out pretty great, yeah? I saw some notes in the margins on this image that the team are still working on facial expressions... so I don't think they consider this final-final.T...
Live Stream Update (ded again) + Final Showdown``
Dear Insane Children,It's funny we settled on "Insane Children" as a nickname for this Patreon group because it turns out... having children is kinda insane! Though I guess that would be something more like "child insane" - which is what I'm going over here!Actually, it's...
Crowd Design - Radcliffe & Alice Gun Scene
Dear Insane Children,Help us pick the best angle for this scene! You have 4 images to choose from. And here's the description of the scene from Alex:Art Task Briefing and Output: These scenes show the confrontation taking place between Alice and Radcliffe.Once Angela's appearance is co...
Queen's Castle (now with color!) + Live Stream Update
Dear Insane Children,Two things today... First is: *more excellent art* such as the main image above and also this one just below...These images are the final versions of the ones from Adam that I shared last time. Interior renders of the Queen's Castle. But now... with color! Yay!Very lovely st...
Shadows Fall
Dear Insane Children,A quick update with a bunch of beautiful art...The main image (above) is from Norm and shows Alice in a chaotic Boss Battle with the Card Guard Executioner. Expect the final render of this illustration is going to be amazing!Up next... Adam (who is now back from vacation) sent a...
STILL ALIVE!
Dear Insane Children,Apologies for the recent silence. A few of you reached out to check on us. Thanks for your concerns! And, yes, we're fine!Our ayi (lady who helps us with the kids, cleaning, etc) was on vacation last week. That left us short on a critical pair of hands. And it turns out that...
A Moment in the Sun
Dear Insane Children,I've often heard people say, "Just let her have a happy ending!" in relation to Alice's journey through life. It's true, she's had a difficult existence. And she's certainly earned her moment in the sun. So, to those who pleaded that she be given some...
