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Crowd Design & Live Stream for Week 3 of May 2019
Dear Insane Children,Did you miss this week's Crowd Design Session on Discord? Fear not! You can listen to the full session over on YouTube. Hit THIS LINK to tune in. We covered a lot of interesting topics in this session - ranging from weapons and power-ups to helper characters and abilities.Li...
Cheshire Kitten Plush - Update - v2 + v5
Dear Insane Children,THANK YOU! Such great comments on the last round of design and prototype posts for the Cheshire Kitten Plush. I really appreciate all the effort you've put forth in providing constructive feedback. And I am really pleased with our progress thus far. It's almost as if... ...
Defining Shock
Dear Insane Children,Omri and I are working on the Map of Alice: Asylum starting with the first moments of the game and first stage we'll explore. We start with Shock and then move into Denial. Omri and the art team will spend the next week+ defining visually the areas we see from the start of t...
Cheshire Kitten - Physical Prototype #1
Dear Insane Children,<Insert Insane Happy Screaming><Insert Crazy Giggling>Look at that cute little tail! <Insert Aaaaaaaa!><Insert Mental Excitement>Well.I am only going to say this: Very surprised with the initial quality of this first prototype. I had expected we'd get back something that was...
Shhhh. Keep it Secret.
Dear Insane Children,One of the frustrating things about the process of securing rights, funding, and publishing for a new Alice game is that many of the conversations are held under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement). That means I am legally obligated to keep quiet about the parties to and contents of ...
Patron Reward - Rutledge Asylum - Patient Tag
Dear Insane Children,Let's celebrate our insanity!We've got an Exclusive Special Reward for May. To celebrate 3000+ Inmates in the Asylum we're producing individually numbered Rutledge Asylum Patient Tags and mailing them to Patrons around the world!Are you Certified Insane? Now you'...
The Looking Glass Railway + Asylum Patient Tags
Dear Insane Children,Live Stream Info is down below! Don't miss it!All aboard! We're taking a ride through Wonderland aboard the Looking Glass Railway.Pictured above is Omri's updated render of Joey's original Wonderland Map for Asylum. Along with this image Omri sends a series of qu...
Cheshire Kitten - Design Update (V4)
Dear Insane Children,Our Crowd Design process on the new Cheshire Kitten Plush Toy moves forward! Omri's sent over a Spec Sheet (version 4) with updates based on YOUR comments and feedback. Lots of great ideas contained in this update - many thanks to YOU!This version is now with the factory (sa...
Dark Wonderland
Dear Insane Children,I hope everyone had a wonderful May Day Holiday - or at least a wonderful time in life while everyone in China was enjoying their May Day Holiday. We spent many of our days gardening, researching baby strollers, and catching up on all the latest developments in car seats. Now I ...
Cheshire Kitten Version 3
Dear Insane Children,Here in China we're heading into the annual Labor Day Holiday (AKA May Day AKA International Workers Day), a holiday celebrating the working class and laborers around the world. It's linked to the 8-hour work day, socialist/communist politics, and events like Haymarket A...
Queen of Horrors
Dear Insane Children,Have you ever encountered chaos? I mean Capital "C" Chaos. The kind that obliterates the nature of reality and strips meaning from the bones of your life? An encounter which eventually leads to an understanding of the religious "Hell" as a frame of existence wait...
Crowd Design Episode #8
Dear Insane Children,Just a quick note to remind you that we have another Crowd Design Session on the schedule for tomorrow at the usual time. That's 9AM Hong Kong Time on Tuesday. 6PM PST on Monday 22/4/19.Join us as we continue to discuss Ideas and Suggestions for Alice: Asylum under the topic...
The Easter Bunny (Killer)
Dear Insane Children,Happy Easter to you all! Here in China we don't really celebrate Easter. But I remember China + Jesus being one of those things that got me in trouble as a kid in Sunday School. I distinctly recall asking the teacher, "But what about all those kids in China? Won't th...
Looking Glass Railway
Dear Insane Children,Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes where we discuss art, design, and other elements of Alice: Asylum as ideas emerge from the miasma? Well, it's not very glamorous but it looks something like this:Omri emails me a rough sketch for a Train Station / Library area (abov...
The Ghost House + Cheshire Plush Workshop
Dear Insane Children,LOTS of STUFF in this post! Ghost House Images, Live Stream Info, and Cheshire Cat "Things"... Please SCROLL to the BOTTOM to see it all!When I was a child (and insane) we went every year to the State Fair of Texas. And among all the rides my favorite was the "haunte...
Modular Dresses
Dear Insane Children,As many of you are aware we're still searching for the right design concept(s) to contain all of our dresses and their powers. I would like to lock dresses to domains because this makes the most sense from a narrative structure and delivery perspective. Many of you would lik...
Crowd Design Session #7 (Now With Tentacles!)
Dear Insane Children,Get ready for another Crowd Design Session! We'll do this on our Discord Channel at 6PM PST on Monday, April 15th (that's 9AM on the 16th for those of you here in China with me).During this session we're going to have a look at the crowd Suggestions for Game Play in ...
Sacrifice Your Queen
Dear Insane Children,Many have lost sense of the meaning of sacrifice. It was once a given that we sacrificed constantly and automatically as a function of our family, culture, and religion - and that life was, in essence, an ongoing series sacrifices towards something greater than ourselves.As a ch...
The Blade of Indifference
Dear Insane Children,The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate implies a strong emotional attachment between the subjects and in many cases is a component of love or at least a sort of caring. Hate cannot be related to something or someone for whom you don't care.Indifference is th...
Madcap Hatter
Dear Insane Children,AHOY, ye scurvy scoundrels! We be sailing, coding, swimming, and exploring! Pirate Jam 2019 is in full swing and heading into Day 7 as we make our way around Phang Nga Bay on course for Krabi Boat Lagoon. This year's event has been absolutely fantastic! We've had beautif...
A Norm(al) Hatter
Dear Insane Children,Thanks to YOUR support we were recently able to add a new artist to our team. Norm Felchle was one of the key artists on the original Alice game and his work defined the look of most of the major characters in the Alice franchise.These days he's working on exploring The Hatt...
Off With Her Head - Art Print
Dead Insane Children,One of our inmates wrote and asked, "When are you releasing Off With Her Head as an art print?!" And I realized... Hey! We've not released that image as an art print! A shame too, because it's one of my favorite poster images from Omri.So, thanks to her gentle re...
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...
Dear Insane Children,Heeee's Baaaack! Joey sends along a render of The Jabberwock with changes made to reflect the narrative in Alice: Asylum. The idea is that we show him in a more "natural" state - prior to being mechanized.The 6 Million Dollar Jabberwock!I suggested to Joey that we mi...
Rabbits on the High Seas
Dear Insane Children,LOTS of people sharing comments on my Instagram, on our various Facebook pages, in the Community Section here on Patreon, and in all the most random places one can imagine saying essentially the same thing:"My rabbit tracking hasn't updated since March 5th. What's go...
The Dress Question - Poll
Dear Insane Children,During our recent Crowd Design discussions over on Discord we've stumbled on a sticky question with regards to dresses. So we've decided to put the question to a poll and see which option wins based on votes. Here's the deal...How do we want the collection of and use...
Crowd (Fashion) Design
Dear Insane Children,Greetings from behind The Great Firewall! While the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)and the National People’s Congress (NPC) continue in Beijing we're still suffering Internet Sadness Disorder. All the VPN companies are embattled and expats arou...
Dress Norm, It's Fire Inside
Dear Insane Children,Yesterday morning we had another in our series of Crowd Design meetings via Discord. The overarching topic was Alice's collection of dresses but this quickly morphed into a discussion regarding the methods/designs surrounding the collection, organization, access to, and powe...
Mini Update
Hi everyone.Martin here again with a few bits and pieces to tell you about while American is up to his eyeballs in salty sea-dog pirate shenanigans. 1) DISCORD !!Yes, tomorrow (March 12th) we're back doing the Discord live-chat/design meeting.This will take place at 9am HK time, so please check ...
Still Crazy After All These Fears - Livestream Incoming!
Dear Insane Children,Get ready for a LIVE STREAM over on YouTube! I've set the time for 10AM on Thursday, March 7th (Hong Kong Time). That's 6PM PST on March 6th for those of you in the US (West Coast). You know the drill... hit THIS LINK to set a reminder over on YouTube. Hit the Reminder B...
Paper Dolls and Firewalls
Dear Insane Children,I'm back in Shanghai and working hard to get caught up. It's cold. And raining. And it doesn't help that just as I arrived back in China our primary VPN provider got hit with a massive take down. Things are slowly improving but it's been tough getting work done w...
