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Goal Unlocked! Thank You!

You did it! Unlocked our $2500 goal which adds another illustrator to the Alice: Asylum pre-production team. Yay! I've already emailed Sonny with thoughts on where he can get started - Wonderland characters! Expect to see new images of your favorite Wonderland characters like Dormouse and March Hare, Jabberwocky, Mock Turtle, The Carpenter, and more... 

Because art is so critical to this process I've created a new goal at $3500 which would add yet another illustrator to our team.

So far you've helped us unlock faster internet/VPN which improves our weekly live stream quality. And you've added another illustrator. Hitting the next goal and adding one more illustrator will help us visualize our pre-production design and narrative work more quickly. After that? 

I believe physical collector items - art, resin models, plush toys, pins, and the like - will be crucial to our crowdfunding campaign next year. Yes, we all want to contribute to making the next game a reality but it's easier to attract support when there's an immediate physical reward in addition to the long-term promise of a new game. 

That means we should start looking at 3D models of characters, 3D prints and casts of those models, and manufacturing of physical item samples. I expect our goals beyond $3500 to be closely connected with those efforts. 

What items beyond design, art, story, and rewards do you think are critical to telling our story and running a successful crowd funding campaign in 2018? 

Leave your thoughts in the comments below and we'll discuss during next week's live stream!

Goal Unlocked! Thank You!

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Congratulations on $2,500! Looking forward to more art! As for the physical rewards, an artbook(100 pages *wink wink*) and soundtrack are definitely something that many people would want. They are also rewards in just about every video game Kickstarters. Plushies and PVC figurines of characters would be nice to have. As for replicas of weapons, the Vorpal Blade and the parasol are the two logical ones I can think of to have as life-sized replicas. The Vorpal Blade being the most iconic weapon that Alice have, and the parasol can have a practical use like the Vorpal Umbrella you have in the Mysterious store. Any other weapons that is bigger than the Vorpal Blade is impractical as they are too large and expensive to make. Although we could have a plushies version of each weapons. As for the deck of playing cards that some have mentioned, I think that could be a Kickstarter on its own, as there are a lot of playing card Kickstarters. You could make it a custom deck of playing cards with custom art for all cards, not just the court cards. I have backed a couple of playing card Kickstarters, and The White Rabbit deck by Albino Dragon is my favorite one out of all the ones I have backed. Which you can see here. <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1460165270/the-white-rabbit-playing-cards" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1460165270/the-white-rabbit-playing-cards</a> And an example of custom pip cards from The White Rabbit deck. <a href="https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/projects/422594/posts/388764/image-202746-original.jpg?w=560&amp;fit=max&amp;v=1358549512&amp;auto=format&amp;q=92&amp;s=41255739b5724403974e350fea2cee2b" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/projects/422594/posts/388764/image-202746-original.jpg?w=560&amp;fit=max&amp;v=1358549512&amp;auto=format&amp;q=92&amp;s=41255739b5724403974e350fea2cee2b</a> (No, this is not a picture of my junk.) I would like to point out that there are a lot of physical stuff that people want, but too much physical rewards will make higher-tiers way too expensive, you probably already know that as a Kickstarter creator. A lot of these will probably end up being sold on your store for later purchase, provided that you don't make the "exclusive" mistake again. The third artist could probably work on designing enemies that Alice will encounter in the game. We definitely need a lot more boss fights, which Madness Returns lacked. Since this is a prequel, we will need a lot of new enemies as the slimy-blob monsters did not yet exist until Angus Bumby started to influence Wonderland.

Congrats! I'd love to see a diary of a doctor, as David Dixon said, or maybe one of Alice. In addition to big art prints, it would be nice to have some artworks on a smaller support such as a post card, magnets, pins.. As some said, a deck of cards would be great. I don't know if it would be interesting, but maybe some candles or other fire-related items, as it's a theme that is present in this Alice's new story.

So glad we reached our goal. For rewards or items for the shop, definitely Cheshire plushes and weapons replicas. I would kill for a real size hobby horse or a vorpal blade! And her parasol! Maybe some figure action of the characters. And a deck of cards. The Cheshire should be the joker.

Priscila Nosoma

YAYYY WE REACHED OUR GOAL!! I can't wait to see what Sonny can do for this! I would love Alice figures and plushies and the other charactersπŸ’› and more shirt designs would be really great too also bags and other itemsπŸ’œ

i'd like a wider variety of chaos stars from this since it's a pretty big change for the character. metal pins, and shirts and stuff all with slightly different designs, since y'know fire has a tendency to change things and at it's core that's what chaos is really about.

Congratulations! I'm happy to be here watching this thing grow πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

HelplessHeroes

What I really wish Kickstarter campaigns (or merchandise stores in general) would do more often is shirts that don't have the logo (of the game/movie/etc) on it. I really like simple designs and, for example, would love just the silhouette of Alice posing with the Vorpal Blade or swinging that lollipop weapon on a maybe dark purple shirt. So far I really like the idea of the Cheshire Cat plushie and also the Mad Hatter's hat as a high-tier reward. Of course I'd also love to see a good collection of art prints on that canvas paper thingy you used before. Edit: actually the young cheshire cat would be amazing on a shirt as well

Yannic KrΓ€nz

Such exciting news! I wonder if figures, plushies and weapon replicas could be modeled after the newer ideas and designs as well. I wonder if it would be doable if they become more solidified as a for sure thing for the game proposal. I know everyone wants a lot of past game related stuff, but some of the new things we have been seeing would be awesome too. Mugs, pins, pens and simple stuff that can be worn or brought along to workplaces etc. could probably be a good way of spreading the word and sort of getting the image around like the inmate shirts. When people ask me about it I always use it as an opportunity to tell them about the new proposal for Alice 3 :).

Congratulations on reaching the $2500 goal! I'd definitely love to see a cheshire cat plushie. Also, maybe you could draw some inspiration from the OOTW campaign: a colouring book would be cool, or some other kind of book (like the diary David suggested above, or an artbook), or a collector's certificate. Figurines would do well too, I think.

One thing i LOVED about the original game was the manual which had the diary entries of Alice's doctor. Re-releasing that would be awesome. Unless a diary from the perspective of the doctor is being tied into the main story arc which would be flat out amazing as an idea! I would love to see hatters hat, the white rabbits watch or the jabberwocks eye staff as top-end collectibles and for lower end, easily and cheaply mass-producable collectibles the Demon-Dice and Playing cards are a sure-fire winner.

Cheshire cat plushies!!! I'd also love to see the design of some of Alice's weapons (especially the lollipop!!) end up somewhere. Perhaps t-shirts or bracelets/necklaces/rings and such?

Cherrie Wu

How about those fluffy Cheshire Cat plushies, and lots of different Alice shirt designs. Stay on track with those cheap acrylic and expensive metal chaos necklaces.


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