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Live Stream - From Twitch to YouTube

Dear Insane Children,Did you miss the live stream over on Twitch today?No worries... we uploaded it over on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCZDV-7AaUwYay!From Shanghai with Tentacles,-American

All hail the Hysteria Rabbit

Dear Insane Children,Font Lord here AGAIN.Just wanted to run this past you.We're thinking we want to change the $75 tier next year.Starting from February (we think) we will be replacing the Chaos Necklace in the $75 tier to a Hysteria Rabbit plushie.What do you think? Good idea? Bad Idea?So to b...

Patreon Online Event - Starting Soon

Dear Insane Children,I'm joining @patreon's "The Lab - Community Connections" to discuss how we make Patreon work for our projects. Joined by@JoshBusuito@AdventureBeardStarting at 3PM PSThttps://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2880414/AF996F80954726B88086328878A1EA63-American

Decision Coin "Final" Design

Dear Insane Children,Alex sent the "final" version of the Decision Coin to me this morning...Looking awesome!We're sending this to the workshop for a sample. Should have something to share with you in a week or two.Once we have the first sample we can do another round of Crowd Design for...

The Fresh Prints of Shanghai

Dear Insane Children,Font Lord here with a teeny tiny bit of info about the current crop of prints and what it means for you :)At the very top of this post, you can see "Londerland" by Omri Koresh.A very popular image that was requested by many of you to be one of our Patreon prints.Your wis...

Coin Design - Beautiful Detail (and Crowd Design)

Dear Insane Children,Alex is an artist of many talents - for example, he's a wizard with AI design layouts, a meticulous project manager, and an expert on the fine details of commercial printing. Each of these things requires attention to detail at a very high level - and the features of his det...

Fun With Scruffy Bumps - Crowd Design

Dear Insane Children,Yan and Jen continue their work on the next Plushie Dreadful toy: Scruffy BumpsAnd the workshop just delivered a prototype based on the last round of feedback:Yan got the idea to include a Mini Bumps with the initial orders of the regular-size toy... so, meet Mini Bumps!Let Yan ...

Chamber of Anger pt. 2

Dear Insane Children,Omri sent over an updated version of Alice's confrontation with Inferno Alice in the Chamber of Anger. And I just had to post it because... well, it's amazing.Of this update Omri says:i thought that the child is a prisoner- literally a victim so why not make it so she&#3...

Fire Alice and the Chamber of Anger + Coin Design

Dear Insane Children,First up: A quick note to confirm that there will be NO live stream today. Sorry about that - but I have been super busy across projects and personal life such that I'm not able to set aside the time. For the record, when we do a live stream it really means a "live strea...

Alice: Asylum - Narrative Outline - Crowd Design

Dear Insane Children,Ok, first off, I just want to say that I am very nervous about doing this... As a rule, I try to avoid sharing my Writing In Progress. Partly because I just don't like sharing unfinished work. But I've pointed out previously, that's hypocritical given that I am const...

Manipulator of Dreams

Dear Insane Children,If you are in a place where it's celebrated and you're not opposed to it for social-political reasons, then allow me to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! At least... it's Thanksgiving morning (but it's not) here in Shanghai. This would normally be a Live Stream day ...

TurkeyBook and AssTrill

Dear Insane Children,Just a quick (and sad) note to say that there will be no Live Stream this week. We're dealing with a Confluence of Stupidity that has me emotionally drained and technologically blocked.For several weeks now, we've been dealing with an issue at Facebook/Instagram where ou...

Crowd Design - Narrative - Oz Adventures

Dear Insane Children,For those of you interested in Narrative Crowd Design, here's a little teaser... which I hope to use to test out how this process works prior to sharing the Alice: Asylum narrative outline. I mentioned in a previous post that I want to share the Asylum outline with some hole...

Collective Insanity

Dear Insane Children,Our team of 7 artists continues to crank through a pile of tasks related to defining all the major scenes, characters, and elements that define the journey Alice takes through Alice: Asylum. If you've watched the live streams, you've seen me scrolling through all the tas...

Crowd Design - Creepy Cat

Dear Insane Children,Yan is working with Jen on a new Plushie Dreadful design - Scruffy Bumps!A prototype based on initial sketches by Jen arrived a few days ago:There are several issues with the first pass which include:1) He's too plump (round and fat). We want Slender Man-style creepy.2) He&#...

Not Dead - Dead Busy

Dear Insane Children,Just a quick note to say that I am not dead. But I am dead busy.If you're waiting on Art Prints (in the mail) then I'm the reason... As I've been playing catch-up on getting everything sent out. Today, I finally cleared out the last of the previous month's art pr...

The Coin 'o 2021

Dear Insane Children,Font Lord here.How are you?I hope you're all doing well :) I have a little bit of info for you and also some questions.We are thinking about making a commemorative coin for the start of the new year.A sort of 'good riddance' to 2020 and 'good luck' to 2021 ki...

Adventures in Biz Dev

Dear Insane Children,Biz Dev is one of the constant processes that happen in the background on an almost daily basis - emails, phone calls, quick messages, strategy chats, spreadsheet building, document editing... that isn't very interesting to record, share, or talk about. But it is critical to...

Jabberwock [REDACTED]

Dear Insane Children,We hosted an excellent Live Stream over on my Twitch Channel yesterday.Not subscribed to my Twitch Channel?! Sign up here:www.twitch.tv/americanmcgeeAnd if you missed the Live Stream when it was live... don't worry! You can watch it over on my YouTube Channel via THIS LINK.L...

Thy Judgement Cometh

Dear Insane Children,Work on writing and illustrating the narrative outline for Alice: Asylum continues - with the team fully engaged on a large number of art tasks we're pulling from the game story. The idea is to present a Design Bible - something like an illustrated novel - that you can read ...

Dear Insane Child, welcome to the Asylum!

(Note: This post is for promotional purposes and we want to give a HUGE thank-you to all current Patrons)This is your one-stopdestination for ALL thingsAlice: Asylum and other projects too such asPirate Jam, Mysterious and Oz: Adventures.We hope you will join us and the rest of The Insane Children i...

We're On The Road To...

Dear Insane Children,As I continue to write through the narrative outline for Alice: Asylum, I've come to a point where the main scenes that define the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Act are written (or outlined and ready to be written)... but where there's room to explore the Series of Adventures that d...

Ye Olde Toy Shoppe

Dear Insane Children,I forgot to post THE LINK to last week's Twitch Livestream (which is recorded and uploaded to YouTube)... so, if you missed the Halloween Special (and me dressed as Joe Exotic), hit that link and go enjoy the madness.Pro Tip: Dressing as Joe Exotic improves Madness Returns p...

Welcome to the BBQ

Dear Insane Children,A Warm and Happy Halloween, Insane Children, from the Liddell family. And a spooky reminder that IT'S YOUR FAULT!It's Halloween morning here in Shanghai and Lucky is dressed as Captain Cute. Lulu's wearing her favorite beggar outfit. And I'm still having flashbac...

The Lucky 5 (Oct)

Dear Insane ChildrenOof !!Font Lord here and I left this one a bit late, it'll almost be time to do November's Lucky 5 soon.It's been a busy ole month due to rabbits and calendars.Still, I'm here now, let's do this :)As you know, this is a monthly thing where Google's RNG fea...

Hard to Grapple Whip It

Dear Insane Children,Welcome to another session of "Let's finalize a weapon design!" brought to you by "American got up at 4:30 AM for a phone call that doesn't actually happen until tomorrow morning." A product of Doh! Co. (TM)In our last episode, we saw how Alice will acqui...

Devil In A Box

Dear Insane Children,It's the week of Halloween! YAYAYAYA!!! The best week of the year!And what better way to kick off this week than with an exploration of themes and styles for the re-imagined Jack Bomb weapon in Alice: Asylum?The team is working through a variety of ideas led by Alex's co...

Calendar Info and October Prints

Dear Insane ChildrenFont Lord here AGAIN.As you can see from the various pics and the video we have on this here post, the calendars are made and shipped to the warehouse.This time, a little unusually, we purchased the packing materials ourselves to send to the warehouse and have also given the peop...

The Quickest of Quick Rabbit Updates

HellooooooFont Lord here with a reminder about how the previous $75 tier print+rabbit promotion works.It actually says this in the FAQ I wrote, but here it is again as I've had a handful of people asking about this.There will be no email of any kind sent to you in regards to the rabbit or print....

Tattoos on a Caterpillar

Dear Insane Children,Whew, somehow the recent days really got away from me... and it seems I've not posted anything since last Thursday-ish when we did our Twitch Livestream. There was a LOT of information covered in that stream so if you missed it, be sure to check out the recording over on You...