Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here to give you all a quick heads up that there will be an Asylum narrative discussion Discord chat on Friday 10am Shanghai Time.
This will take place at the following times around the world...
New York = Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 10:00:00 pm
Los Angeles = Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 7:00:00 pm
London = F...
Dear Insane Children,
My headache has gone from deathly to manageable so I'm back with an update. But first, thank you, to everyone who sent well wishes. If you scroll back in the Patreon posts, you can find the image of a CT scan that reveals why I get these headaches. Unfortunately, knowing why I get them does not mean I can avoid them entirely. I just need to be careful with my neck... and sometimes things need moving or picking up... and careful goes out the window. Ouch.
<... 2021-03-17 02:07:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Just a quick note to say that I had intended to write an update this morning... but I've been struck with another Killer Migraine... the sort that makes me feel like I want to vomit on the keyboard. Now that I know the source of these things (pinched nerve in my neck), I am pretty certain this is the result of moving some boxes (too quickly) yesterday. Sigh.
I was going to include this new image from Joey... Alice meeting with The Queen.
... 2021-03-16 02:59:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here with a bit of an update about the next art print.
As you may have seen recently, we asked you to choose your favorite between the 2 images in this post to see which won and that would become the next print (for those charged in April).
But after thinking about it, even though blue sakura won, we decided they're both great and it would be a shame to upset any people who had been looking forwards to the orange floating castle pic so w...
2021-03-15 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Behold The Jabberwock 2.019! Emerged from his Crypt of Improvement ready to take on The Chaos and save Wonderland... Except you know he's not going to save Wonderland, is he? Nah!
But it was nice to think a saviour was waiting behind that door who would make all of Alice's problems go away. Fortunately, she's half-solved all her problems in the process of re-building this scaly not-solution. So she still has half a hope and a pretty good chance of savin...
2021-03-09 05:51:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
It's Monday here in Shanghai... heading into another "Live Stream Week" - there will be a livestream at the usual time this week - with TONS going on.
The Asylum Team continues their work on design, art, and story for Alice: Asylum. I'm working with Alex on the narrative; the Art Team is creating illustrations of the story; Alex is cramming all of that into the Design Bible; and we've got some interesting Biz Dev work happening on the r...
2021-03-08 15:55:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We want to give a huge thanks to all our supporters that are already making 2021 an incredible year for the Plushie Dreadful line on our Mysterious store.
https://bit.ly/plushiedreadfuls
This year we want to add to the Plushie Dreadful roster with the "Emotion Rabbit" plushies, and, re...
2021-03-04 15:09:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
I'm working with Alex to push the Asylum Narrative towards the next stage of completion. This has involved fleshing out backstory and motivation for the cast of characters surrounding Alice (in Wonderland and London - past and present). Radcliffe, The Queen (of Hearts), and Shadow Alice have all had the spotlight shined on them. And we're also working through the areas beyond those explored in the previous Narrative Document that you saw.
Once we ...
2021-03-04 06:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children,
Font Lord here with another poll for you to take part in.
As you might remember from the recent poll where I asked what art prints we should be doing this year, the next one we have lined up (for those charged in April) is the one below, the orangey floating castle.
However, with all the great new art we have rolling in, we do think about swapping out some of t...
2021-03-03 03:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Wanted to say THANK YOU for all the support and kindness in your reactions to the "OZ: Adventures" announcement we shared yesterday. It's great to be partnered with such a respected and successful film production company as Radar Pictures... but even greater to have such a creative and engaged group of Insane Children here on Patreon.
I kinda think we might make history with this if Oz finds a home somewhere like Apple, Netflix, o...
2021-02-26 03:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
In case you missed the Live Stream earlier today, you can watch the recording over on Twitch or YouTube... Twitch Recording is here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/927367450
Here's what we announced regarding "Oz: Adventures" and the reveal of "REDACTED 2"
"Very happy to announce: "OZ: Adventures" has been picked up for development by Radar... 2021-02-25 07:17:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Tomorrow is a HUGE DAY with our first Livestream from the New Studio.
And Alex Crowley will join the stream to talk about writing, planning, and managing on Alice: Asylum - with tons of new art and design to discuss.
Plus, THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:
Who is REDACTED 2?!?!?!? And what do they have planned for OZ: Adventures?
For those not in the loop - Oz: Adventures is the game pitch ...
2021-02-24 08:22:24 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children,
Font Lord here with a quick question for you about next month's print.
The image above was selected in a previous poll as a popular choice.
However we have a modified contender to think about too...
What do you think about this big faced edit?
In your humble ...
2021-02-23 08:09:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Joey's delivered an excellent illustration depicting Alice engaged in a battle-for-life game of Croquet Forever. As described in the scene text for this game, it doesn't really matter if you win or lose, live or die, because this game just goes on forever and ever.
Forever and ever... kinda what it feels like with all the organizing and unpacking we're doing here after the move. But we're down to the last pile of boxes... and I bu...
2021-02-18 01:15:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
I've just finished a review and feedback session on all the art and design content that was delivered during "The Time of The Move" and... Wow!
Of this illustration by Norm, Omri says...
i think we ought to add some weapons and i'm thinking like babies holding weapons, perhaps crawling or on all fours. Like toddlers and perhaps pepper mills or something that fits the concept
To which I replied...
... 2021-02-10 01:24:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here with your first "Lucky 5" of the year.
And again, due to busy stuff and office moves and all that, it's a double month since I didn't do January.
Sorry :P
You know the drill by now, using Google's RNG, 10 people from Patreon and also the last YouTube video's comments are chosen to get some goodie sent to them, no matter where they are in the world.
How great is that?
Let's start off nice and simple in 2021 a...
2021-02-09 12:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Rarrrr! We're back! And with a fantastic new illustration from Joey. If you recall from a previous post, Joey was given some feedback on how to improve the Encounter with The Duchess Scene... and this is what she came up with. Wooo faceless horror!
While the Art Team has been cranking out tons of new illustrations for the Design Bible, me and the family moved to a new house. It only took three trucks over the course of a week... but we're now ...
2021-02-05 02:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Last weekend, I went into the city with Lucky and Yan to meet friends for lunch. Some of the other kids at the get-together were sick with a cold; so Lucky and Yan got sick immediately. My immune system fought valiantly for a few days... and then I got sick. Bummer... since then, I've had body aches, sore throat, and ... some form of brain-damage. Not really brain damage, but it certainly feels like it. I'm often confused about what I was in the middle of doi...
2021-01-21 01:53:53 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children,
Font Lord here again.
How are you?
Just stopping by to remind you of 2 things.
1) February is when the $75 tier changes.
Starting next month, the Chaos Necklace part of the $75 tier is being replaced with the Hysteria Rabbit + Tote Bag Set (Image below). Yay!
Excellent stuff.
We talked about it more in detail 2021-01-21 01:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
It's freezing in Shanghai! We've just gone through a cold wave described as "the coldest days in 20 years" and... my feet are freezing! Houses in Shanghai are not famous for being well insulated. As I sit here at my desk working, the thermometer reading is 10c (50f)... which is just brrrr!
Is it cold where you are? Or are you, like Alex, enjoying a southern hemisphere "summer" in your shorts and t-shirt?
Couple of things to look at tod...
2021-01-12 02:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here again :)
Letting you all now know that the Chaos Necklace reward is gone and has been replaced with the Hysteria Rabbit + Tote Bag.
Wheeee !!
This will affect everyone at the $75 tier and above charged from Feb 1st onwards.
Another amazing thing about this tier update is that if you have already got your Chaos Necklace rewar...
2021-01-08 06:28:02 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children,
Font Lord here with the final result of your choice for the next 6 art prints.
Honestly, surprised that Alice's burning family didn't make the cut, but hey, that's why we're asking you, so we can make the right decision on what to print :)
So, to be clear, those people who were charged in January are already getting "Holding the Moon", but here's what will be happening from February onwards.
And again, just to clarify, we reserve the righ...
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here wishing you all a Happy New Year and that your first 3 days of 2021 are off to a flying start :)
[American also here proofreading Font Lord's post and maybe being mean to him.]
So, down to business.
We would like you to Choose 6 of your favorite pieces of art from the images below.
Then when we see which ones are the most popular, they will become the next 6 prints for Patrons in 2021.
Dear Insane Children,
Happy 2021! Here's hoping your year is already off to a great start. We're heading into the Chinese calendar year of the "Metal Bull" - and I'm going to say we should interpret that as the year that we Rock-And-Roll while nothing can stop us. According to The Internets:
Is 2021 a lucky year? The 4 most fortunate Chinese zodiac signs in 2021: According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2021 is more of a lucky year for men and women born in... 2021-01-04 01:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Happy (almost) New Year! 2020 was a bit crap. But it's almost over and... well, here's hoping (REALLY HOPING) that 2021 brings us a bunch of good stuff.
Speaking of good stuff...
We had a fun live stream over Twitch yesterday. If you missed it, I've just uploaded a copy over on my YouTube Channel. You can check that out HERE.
<... 2020-12-31 03:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children
Font Lord here with the last Lucky 5 of 2020.
Wheeee !!
Actually, this is the Lucky 10 since due to insane busy-ness, last month's lucky 5 didn't get done.
Sorry about that.
So as you know, we use the powah of Google's RNG feature to pick the lucky ones from our list of Patrons + the last YouTube video's comments in order to keep things all above board ;)
This time the prizes will be...
5x mini Throne Room p...
Dear Insane Children,
Merry Christmas! (At least it is Christmas here in Shanghai). Woo!
And I have presents for you!
First up, the revised version of Hysteria Rabbit and Tote Bag:
Changes to the bag and rabbit reflect all the feedback we collected via Crowd Design from you here on Patreon and over on my Instagram. Note that the back of th...
2020-12-25 01:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Merry Christmas! Which, when you think about it, as an incredibly morbid thing to go around saying to one another. Why? Well, according to the Internets:
The word "Mass" is strictly a Catholic word and thus, so is "Christ-Mass." "Mass" in religious usage means a "death sacrifice." In essence, the Mass is the ceremonial slaying of Jesus Christ over and over again. "Christmas" means by definition "death of Christ".
In other words, we'...
2020-12-24 15:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here with... well... whatever this is :D
As you can see, we have received the V1.0 prototype of the Hysteria Rabbit from the factory, and let's just say that it needs a little work.
If we compare it to the original design, we can clearly see that ...
2020-12-22 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
You may have noticed that it's been a bit quiet around the Asylum these days...
That's because I've barely had two minutes to rub together. Yan's mom had to rush back to her hometown in Shengzhou to be with her ailing mother. That's Yan's Grandmother on her mother's side. Lucky's Great-Grandma has been in a nursing home for a while now... and is in declining health.&nb...
2020-12-18 01:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post