Mercury Does Make One Mad

nice costume

Gabriele Gambucci

Maybe make it seem like its moving? Mercury is a very fluid metal once melted

Giving Alice a Comic Sans dress would be perfect, as nothing would be more insane than that.

SUGGESTION: A bright, liquid-metal dress is a unique idea in this setting. Maybe to show its liquid and poisonous state it could writhe a bit as Alice wears it, even in Passive (OFF) Mode. But I would only recommend having it drip onto the environment while in Active (ON) Mode or shortly after switching back to Passive Mode since the drips would poison the surroundings. Also, I wonder how mercury naturally behaves around water, heat, etc. Maybe wearing it would make moving harder in certain environments that might be harmful to the dress. So maybe Alice would need to find additional power-ups to protect her more vulnerable dresses from the environments themselves in order to proceed, or switch to another dress to get past the obstacle. Maybe each dress could move in a certain way unique to its nature, helping her get past certain obstacles. Like maybe the Mercury and Harvest Dresses can create tendrils to walk over low walls or pick up fallen columns, trees, etc. and get them out of Alice's way. But only in Active Mode.

I feel as though the skirt would look better if it was continually dripping as the globular tendrils make me think sea anenime more than liquid metal.

love it

This dress is amazing and I love the concept. So epic! I have a question about the chaos coin (not about getting it, I fully understand that) I was just curious if it would be possible to put more than one name on the coin? Thank you so much, I’m looking forward to what comes next!

Awesome pretty dress💀🔪

I love this, the dresses are just amazing. My cosplay list is growing bigger with every new design!!

I think it looks a bit old for a 13 year old but I would not completely discard the idea itself. Loving the footprints idea. Definitely keep this idea.

I love this! Is it going to have a flowing metal texture or a solid silver one? If it was flowing like the swirling backgrounds of the original Skool level, I’d be in heaven.

Joshua Jacobs

I really like it's flowing style, I really like the idea of collecting for rewards such as the dress, it gives incentive to explore more for collectables.

I personally love the Mercury dress, maybe even more than the Harvest dress (although I'm a Goth fashion supporter) I would definitely try and unlock this dress if it was available in-game.

I'm still not big on her footwear with all of these dresses. I feel like younger Alice should have different boots than young adult would. Just make them shorter maybe, I don't know why it bothers me so much.

This reminds me of Dazzler from X-Men! Which is definitely not a bad thing, but this does kinda strike me as something out of a music video. I love this a lot more than the proposed Circus outfit. It’s beautiful. I don’t know anything about chemistry so I can’t tell you mercury isn’t a viable dress material, but at least it looks great!

rachel

i like the idea, not so much this conceptual vision of it. Mercury likes to cling and pool to itself, so hanging drips and tendrils like shown seem like an odd choice. that is more akin to a syrup or plasma. I think with mercury you could have it on her, reflective and metallic, but dripping off her limbs and the bottom of her dress to the ground and then (sort of magnetically) moving towards her to pool at her feet and flow upwards again. the vision of liquid metal dripping down but flowing up in itself is.. wild and hypnotic. also love the suggestion about leaving footprints or a trail of mercury. This makes me wonder if liquid mercury could be a collectible "temporary" dress. Something you have to collect mercury blops for, and choosing to use it would render her invulnerable (short of falling off a platform) for a short while. It would encourage folk to look for more blobs, to use it wisely, but also wear it short terms since mercury is so damaging to one's body. :) With that is mind... leaving a trail makes sense as it would also look like it is draining off of her slowly and when the invulnerability runs out a quick animation of it oozing off her (and returning her to her normal outfit) would be lovely...

Sterling Treadwell

I love this. I would use this dress all the time.

Brandon-Stephanie Runge

LOVE THIS DRESS

I think it looks younger with a white top maybe ?<a href="https://imgur.com/a/Sq422s4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/a/Sq422s4</a>

Rhiannon Vanderlinden

Maybe the sleeves could provide more coverage?

I LOVE this dress! It would be absolutely gorgeous in-game, I bet! Gives me a few ideas, too: SUGGESTION: Just a cosmetic effect of Alice leaving behind little boot-shaped puddles of mercury that disappear after a bit would be a fun addition. I know I'd enjoy just running around using that dress if that happened. Maybe a small indication or two that she's heavier as well since mercury is surprisingly weighty for its volume. SUGGESTION: That would be a cool dress to have as an unlockable challenge or bonus content. Maybe it could give you some kind of combat bonus or extra ability or something, but, given mercury's toxic properties, also cause hallucinations like random fires or enemy spawns. These wouldn't be 'real' but since it's Wonderland, even a hallucination could be real enough to be deadly. This would be great for replay-ability since it gives the player an incentive to wear the dress beyond the added challenge, but it would be nice if you could also unlock the ability to choose what effects happened, if any. SUGGESTION: Chaos mode could be a fully metallic Alice with dark eyes, splashing mercury around. Maybe have the mercury race across her body in a vague dress shape that occasionally looks like blood is mixed in.

Jay Olsen

Is this a hint that we're gonna see a Comic Sans dress easter egg?

I'm really sorry but I just see modelling balloons hanging down for the skirt. My mind does strange stuff sometimes, I can imagine what it will look like rendered in game though and it will be amazing

I love the dress, and I love the idea of collecting the vials of mercury to create it! SUGGESTION: this might be silly or difficult to implement, but what if every level/world had a colllectibe dress you get if you find all the pieces?

Rhia

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I kinda love the boots.

Mercury and salt; the most alchemical and adorable of the dresses so far. I love the simplicity of it and as for that mercurial cosh/thermometer she is gripping, absolutely!

The hatter of the 18. century used salt's of mercury for the Kastorhatt. "Mad as an hatter" coming from that. Cause the mercury destroid the central nervous system. So the best metal for Alice.

This dress is amazing!! And I love how you unlock it! Collecting Mercury. Nice!

Woahh... I really loved the dress and I like every idea around it :) Just nothing else to say... I'll be at the livestream! Hope your head doesn't explode xD (although that would be quite a live show)

SUGQUESTION: You said Chaos Coins may not have a specific location in game. But what about including in the Chaos Coin survey the choice of the stage of grief in which one would prefer his/her coin to appear? First come first served of course. But this could help people find inspiration for their message...

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Cool idea. I like it.

Love the dress concept and the idea of collecting vials of mercury to make the dress. Definitely following that cosplayer cause that makeup test is insane!

Priscila Nosoma

SUGGESTION: Thought of another one (lol) Maybe you guys could have an area where she is forced to take her medication in the Asylum and because of this her wonderland seems to be this perfect, beautiful place but then the more she tried to fight the effects of the medication it result her wonderland slowly starts going back to it's darker self. Maybe parts the "perfect" wonderland starts to catch on fire until it snaps her back into the reality of what her wonderland really is.

Hannah Young

SUGGESTION: I have two dress suggestions :) For the Mercury Dress maybe the enemies could get temporarily poisoned by the mercury when they hit Alice? My 2nd suggestion is just a cosmetic one for the Circus Dress, I'm not sure how if she's supposed to be giving off a clown look or if this costume is going towards a different type circus performer but if it's a clown maybe she could have her face makeup a little more messy or a drawn on smile to give off that forced happy look. It could be a way to show how maybe the Tweedles force her to take her medication in the Asylum. I hope I made sense :)

Hannah Young

QUESTION: Did the August art print change from the White Rabbit to the Card Guard? SUGGESTION: Keep the dress, but maybe change the boots. They feel very out of place to me for some reason. Very "go-go-esque"

This has to be one of my favourite so far!

I LOVE this dress. And her hair! I love everything about it! Keep up the awesome work! 🙌🏼💙👌🏼

I actually love the dress, at least mostly the look of it. I love the idea of creating such a beautiful dress off of something so very dangerous. Maybe she isn’t aware of it at first? But is told to collect all of this mercury to finish the dress and use it as a weapon, but in the process hurting herself just as much as her enemy. Everything she does always seems to be such a slippery-slope between sucess/victory and self destruction. So this could play a part into that. Sort of like how the death dress is used as a weapon but can consume her if shes not careful. Also the idea that you have to collect mercury to complete the dress (wether it’s a side-project or introduced to the main story) really sets off the restless hoarder in my heart. Love the idea, love the concept and the dress itself! Good on ya!

The dress first made me think of Barbarella and then I wondered if the dress would evaporate when close to heat source. It's waking my pervy side up and I don't like that. The dress is too litteral. But I'd like to see if Bandersnatch's teeth fall off when trying to bite it.

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My first thought when I saw the dress was ABBA. Not sure if that's a bad thing.. I like the idea of a Mercury dress, definitely as an in-game collectible! It doesn't look very deadly though, "dead'ened and darkened" up. It does look kinda cute, and if you're going for "deciptively cute" it needs to be made cuter. The cosplay make up looks sooo amazing! I'm really looking forward to seeing the final result! See ya'll at the live stream!

love the mercury dress, especially the exposed shoulder design, that actually looks like that could be a breakthrough in fashion. The comment that she could collect mercury to make the dress makes me asks questions about the functions of the dresses, some seem to be a power up, some tell how she feels, and some become a mini game. Although all good ideas, it feels like it's time to streamline what a dress is supposed to add, so that this doesnt become too elaborate.

I agree ! Definitely more symmetrical and evened out.

Agreed! Like dripping mercury would look cool! And maybe some more shine

Mercury is used in fluorescent lamps - you can pass electricity through it. This property was discovered in the 19thc century i believe - just saying. I look at this and i think if electricity passing through it and Alice glowing madly. Besides Mercury is used in thermometers and the planet itself shows signs of significant volcanic activity. The boots look kind of drag though, got to be honest - or maybe a bit Barbarella.

The dress is beautiful but it would look better if it has been symmetrical. In many cases assymetrical dresses look ugly to my opinion... I just feel that something is not right.

I really like this dress and the concept of mercury as a poison weapon. Since the dress itself is the same material, perhaps it itself could be a weapon and have chains or spikes or other constructs coming out of it that would also be made of mercury. Quicksilver as a living weapon dress would be interesting to see in game combat

I like this dress, it has an interesting concept. Also I can practically hear Americans exasperated sighs and sass while reading the last part.

I like the palette for the dress, those metallic tones but fluid texture can make a difference in gameflow which is different and curious, is a great concept and now I know everything about the chaos coin even more

Yep. I spill my breakfast all over the kitchen when reaching that paragraph. LOL

QUESTION how do I get into the discord chat if I’m not already?

I love a light dress on Alice and the lower part of it plus the shoes are so amazing! I think the top part needs some work. I think it would look better as a symmentrical one, not a fan of one shoulder thing on this dress. But love the consept! I bet the people complicating the chaos coin is just Martin creating multiple accounts to get on with his masterplan of fonts. He needs to get rid of you. You shouldn’t have disrespected THE FONTS.

I like how Omri did Alice's hair and I also very much like the bodice of the dress, the boots, and the necklace/lanyard with the vial of mercury. But the skirt of the dress looks like weird tentacles (which would be okay maybe) and combined with the scale print tights it is very busy and doesn't seem to have a consistent theme.

Love the mercury dress. Would love to see the mercury animated in the dress and give it illusionary volume.

Ok but honestly I've been wondering that forever seeing ghostly images of her sister surrounded by white flames coaxing her down a dark Asylum hallway while the voices of her mother and father call her to them..chilling

Wild! If you make the textures constantly animated like its dripping it would look sweet as!

Rhiannon Vanderlinden

I like it

That comic sans dress paragraph made me laugh out loud - I’m sure the last twenty posts with you reiterating the same conditions to get the chaos coin may have sunk in by now! Love the mercury dress and like the idea of unlocking it by collectibles.

Lol Well I hate this dress more than the circus one, and I really didn't like that. She looks more like a pop star than mercury lol but I look forward to seeing what Omri comes up with next :D

I'm really digging this concept! I love how her hair reflects the liquid nature of mercury. And using mercury as a poison as a weapon mechanic would be really interesting. In the past, we haven't really had anything that would cause damage over time, so I think this is an interesting concept to include in this game. Which brings me to my first official QUESTION: Would mercury's affects only work on the enemies Alice would be encountering, or would they also work on her? Could be seen as a question for you guys or Omri.

Can you imagine a typography-based level? It'd be like in AMA just before the Tweedles fight, where you can platform on the Roman numerals, except that you keep hearing voices in your head "Sans serif headings, serif bodies", and nobody's sure whether the voices are speaking truth or not.

Rosuav

Please stay patient with us, Alice 3 is needed more than you know.

Sarah Heist

I love this mercury dress!QUESTION any chance we will see a chaos version of this?

I LOVE this! 😍

LockVII

I like this dress better than the clown dress. The card guard poster! I may have to up my pledge.

I like her hair and boots with the tights but not digging the dress :/ I like the idea of it though. QUESTION/SUGGESTION will Alice see her family as ‘ghosts’ throughout the game? I think it would be a cool idea for her to see them whilst walking through the wonderland and asylum and that would go in part with the horror aspect of the game. Start by seeing them as Alice remembers them and then later see them burned, bloody, decaying etc. Would love to see how that artwork would look!

Comic sans dress confirmed! But seriously love the Mercury dress! It's amazing that not many people know that old hats were made with mercury and driving the people who made them insane, hence mad hatters :)

Oh, I love how the mercury dress seems to sort of follow the shape of the old flesh maiden dress from Madness Returns. Very beautiful, love the stockings and white version of Alice's boots. See you and the good lord of the fonts at the stream as usual :).

The Mercury Dress looks amazing! Might be my favourite design yet. :D

I love the idea of a beautiful yet deadly mercury dress. I actually almost died when I was younger from mercury poisoning, this was back in like 1998 before it was a well known fact that mercury is toxic

. got it, Thank you American. By the way that cosplayer is amazing. QUESTION. So the reason that the mercury dress is in the Hatters world is because, hats made using mercury back then and supposedly inhaling fumes from the Mercury drove Hatters mad,right? If that is right I think that's kind of clever.

Lucas Severin

Hahah. Sorry! I fixed it. The Kylie link is in reference to the silver dress ;)

American McGee

Omg that is gorgeous!!! Deadly and gorgeous!!!!

Every time I hit the reminder, it plays Cant Get You Out of My Head

As a concept... LOVE IT!

OH MY GOD ITS BEAUTIFUL!! It reminds me of the siren dress from madness returns. It’s so pretty ong I can’t

Noah the Empathic and Inferential 🪷