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 distant future.
I am not 100% sure what will happen when I start deleting tiers that people are still pledged at if you do not move. I don't assume you'l...
2023-04-16 00:56:23 +0000 UTC
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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 about "Patreon Things" so he is a basic run down of some of that and also a little bit of a FAQ, and of course should you still have some unanswered ...
2023-04-12 00:49:46 +0000 UTC
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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 Chapter in Alice's video game adventures.
Shortly after the completion of the Design Bible, I re...
2023-04-07 20:27:59 +0000 UTC
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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 Chil...
2023-02-15 00:03:02 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Alex here 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 permission to share it in the public space.
Stay tuned. And f...
2023-02-02 00:47:31 +0000 UTC
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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 losers.
So, here we go...
As you can see in the header image for this post, we have Queen Reveal.
This will be the next print for January Patrons char...
2023-01-17 06:06:49 +0000 UTC
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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?
2023-01-12 03:49:36 +0000 UTC
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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 that list the "Alice: Asylum" Design Bible and the Development Plan (a PDF put together by a major game developer - which contains a schedu...
2023-01-11 02:42:31 +0000 UTC
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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 vote count, so please behave and only do 6)
Also you can see we do not have names for some of the prints.
Got any good ideas for names? Pop them d...
2023-01-09 02:40:01 +0000 UTC
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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. I was stuck in bed for 5 days. The kids had scary fevers. But we're finally out of the woods.
Once I've had a chance to regroup with the team, we'll post some update...
2023-01-02 01:31:50 +0000 UTC
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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, as well as new Design Bible excerpts as we go.
We will share our plans and strategy for 2023, and a new WIP for the...
2022-12-24 01:09:52 +0000 UTC
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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 constant fear of being thrown in Central Quarantine...
And then, presto-whamo!!! No more Covid controls, restrictions, or concerns!
Literally just ...
2022-12-22 01:14:39 +0000 UTC
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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 store for 2023.
You can find links to my YouTube and Twitch here:
2022-12-08 01:09:40 +0000 UTC
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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 stream with just myself and Martin. But we did an overview of where we've been, where we're at, and where we're going (in 2023). And I think it turned out alright.
We will try another proper s...
2022-11-23 00:24:54 +0000 UTC
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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 us via Zoom so we can talk about the most r...
2022-11-16 00:54:22 +0000 UTC
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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 Update we posted last week.
So... got questions? Feedback? General comments of support and love? Share those below! And we'll address them on that special Li...
2022-11-10 00:55:05 +0000 UTC
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Posting this 3 days early for our Insane Children. The rest of the world can open it on Halloween! Happy Halloween, Insane Children! -American
Hi everyone,
Wishing you all the spookiest Halloween!
Alex here with another big update on all movement on the Alice pre-production project.
Lots to get through in this one, heavy spoilers inbound. Let's go!
First up:
Design Bible - New PDF WIP Update...
2022-10-27 23:53:37 +0000 UTC
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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 though, I'll have to ask American, and yes, they are two separate prints and not 2 pictures on 1 print.
So if the double print month tickles your fancy, make sure to be at the $75 l...
2022-10-21 01:54:26 +0000 UTC
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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 each end of the gameplay spectrum (success and failure) are rewarded for keeping you in the game by rewarding your playstyle. Yo...
2022-10-19 01:27:13 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Alex here again. If you dived through 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 and Alternate Fire Modes
• Weapon Perks - We're calling them "Quirks"
2022-10-10 01:53:14 +0000 UTC
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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/americanmcgee
You can also tune in via YouTube (probably) but note that you can't win prizes there:
youtube.com/americanmcgeeofficial
Prizes? Yes! There's always prizes!
And we'll go through new ...
2022-09-29 00:26:01 +0000 UTC
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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 mass...
2022-09-28 00:51:15 +0000 UTC
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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 share a bunch of New Art!
An excellent new image (above) from Joey... depicting the scene wherein Radcliffe is finally defeated. He gets what he deserves!
<...
2022-09-26 01:52:41 +0000 UTC
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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.
This illustration from Omri - in which Alice and Lizzie are happily reunited - is ...
2022-09-07 22:56:18 +0000 UTC
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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 not that bad. Just typical kid stuff. But it means this week's Live Stream is no more. Why? Well, we moved it away from Lucky's Birthday. But then it landed on Lucky's school start day. And Yan told me I ...
2022-08-29 06:39:00 +0000 UTC
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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 confirmed, render her in the background of these scenes watching the events unfold.
Key areas to highlight from the narrative are:
ï»...
2022-08-26 00:10:39 +0000 UTC
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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!
<...
2022-08-24 00:11:09 +0000 UTC
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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 along sketches for the interior of the Queen's Castle.
2022-08-19 00:07:39 +0000 UTC
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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 taking care of a Lucky (age 3 years) and a Leeloo (age 3 months) requires ALL THE HAND...
2022-08-14 00:08:12 +0000 UTC
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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 peace...
Joey's latest illustration shows a scene from the end of Asylum in which we see Alice - all grown and transformed and reunified - basking in the warmth of a beautiful moment. "Liddell's Home...
2022-07-28 02:04:40 +0000 UTC
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