Dear Insane Children
Font Lord here to let you all know that the Calendar is now for sale.
Yay!
This was all mentioned in the previous FAQ, but here's the info again.
There's 2 ways to get the calendar...
Calendar is for sale 2020-10-14 04:40:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Alright! We are back from the National Holiday here in China! Lots of new art, story, and business development stuff going on. Tons to share with you.
We'll host a Live Stream on Twitch later this week over on my Twitch Channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/americanmcgee
Hit that link and click Subscribe in order to receive a notification when we go live. ...
2020-10-12 05:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children
Font Lord here with a little bit of info about the awesome 2021 calendar you know we're making.
Firstly, the factory has been sent all the files and such and will go ahead and make them and they will apparently be ready for us to ship at the beginning of November.
Which should be fine for if you want to get one (or more) as a Christmas Prezzie :)
The main thing I want to discuss is how to get the calendar.
This time, we have 2 optio...
2020-10-09 08:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We're in the final days of the 2nd Largest National Holiday in China with everyone scheduled to return to work on Saturday, 10th of October. In case you're wondering about the title to this post, it's in reference to THIS scene from Monty Python. Anyway, despite the holiday, I and the team have been busy with a variety of creative, business, and other tasks behind t...
2020-10-07 23:43:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We've started the 2nd Largest Chinese National Holiday here in Shanghai but I wanted to share a quick update.
Attached to this post is a PDF that outlines our (work in progress) thoughts for Oz Adventures. The main image (above) is from Adam and Omri and illustrates a pair of adventurers making their way through Oz... perhaps after a plane crash, shipwreck or ??? - some other method of landing in Oz. What mysteries will they uncover, challenges wi...
2020-10-01 02:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We hosted an excellent Twitter Livestream last week in which we discussed the latest updates on Alice, Oz, Mysterious Studios, Plushie Dreadfuls, and more. If you missed it... fret not! You can still watch the recording over on my YouTube Channel via THIS LINK.
As was mentioned during that stream, myself and Alex are working on a Narrative Outline for Alice: Asylum...
2020-09-28 00:50:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
It's Adventure Time!
We're hosting a Live Stream on Twitch at 7PM PDT (10AM Hong Kong Time) - that's about 1 hour from when I am making this post. We'll cover the latest updates on Alice: Asylum, Oz, Plushie Dreadfuls, Mysterious Studios, and lots more. I'll also continue my adventure through Madness Returns and THERE WILL BE PRIZES! Yay!
Lots of feedback and questions from our Insane Children to address this week as well.
Head over to...
2020-09-24 00:55:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
LOTS going on! Woo.
We'll have a Live Stream over on Twitch tomorrow and go through all the updates and progress. We have art, story, and business development stuff to cover.
Oh... crap. I just realized that I am STILL STUCK in that same damn place in Madness Returns. (adds note to todo list: finish that damn area tonight before the stream).
Join us over on Twitch at the usual time: 10AM Hong Kong/7PM PDT
Dear Insane Children,
Over the weekend we received an update from Roman. Yay!
He's delivered the latest version of the Alice in-game 3D model with all sorts of adjustments and improvements based on feedback from Omri and our Insane Children.
And he's provided a Long Hair Version:
Alongside a Short Hair Version:
2020-09-21 07:53:59 +0000 UTC
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Dear Insane Children,
Lots of work going on over here behind the scenes. We're busy putting together a proposal for Mysterious Studios - a place where we can develop Oz, Alice, and other projects. And since the core concept behind this studio is CROWD DESIGN, I want to be sure to include you in what's going on.
A bit of background first... The way we've made visible our Business Development efforts towards acquiring a license to develop a new Alice game is unusual. And Crowd...
2020-09-18 01:37:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Did you know that writing is magic? Like proper and functional magic? Yeah.
See, it works like this... you spend hours and days trying to Clear The Decks and find the quiet time to sit down and write... and you do that. And then, LIKE MAGIC, shit just keeps popping up that demands your attention, ripping you away from writing. MAGIC!#@@!@#!
So here I am writing notes on Story Stuff(TM) for Alice: Asylum when Yan starts sendi...
2020-09-16 06:34:02 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children
Font Lord here with your favorite time again.
The time when Google's RNG feature picks 5 people from our Patreon (and the YouTube comments from the last video to keep things above board and legal) to win some stuff.
Let's see...
Ok, we'll go Old Skool and this month's prize can be an Omega Necklace :)
Ohhhhhh mighty ...
2020-09-15 10:08:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children
Font Lord here as promised by American in the previous post to just talk about the next super duper rabbit promotion we're doing.
He pretty much said 'all the things' already actually, about those people at $75 getting a rabbit plush, and there's also a FAQ about it too.
<... 2020-09-14 12:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
LOTS of progress on lots of things... I don't even know where to start!
So... high on my list of tasks is to build the Pitch Deck for the Chinese Publisher we recently met with - which we'll use to convince them to give us the money required to start a new studio and start building games... which will eventually lead to the development of Alice: Asylum.
As I mentioned on our last live stream (you can watch it on 2020-09-14 07:11:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We hosted a fun livestream over on Twitch yesterday where we watched me continue to be terrible at my own game, talked about Oz, covered updates to Asylum, looked at some Plushie Dreadfuls, and (last but not least) chatted about the excellent meeting I had this week with a pot...
2020-09-11 03:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
THANK YOU, everyone, for all of yesterday's kind wishes. It worked! The meeting went really well and we were offered an path for pitching a new studio, securing funds, and ultimately improving the overall Alice situation by a huge amount. Thing is, much of what was discussed is within the zone of "strategic manoeuvres" and can't be made public if the "opponent" is going to be taken by surprise. But... I will figure out a way to reveal as much as I am able in ...
2020-09-09 22:26:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
In 30 minutes I'm driving to a meeting. A meeting that's HUGELY important for Asylum.
It's the sort of meeting that could lead to the funding and support we need to get Asylum developed and published. So...
EVERYONE CROSS YOUR EVERYTHING. Pray to your deity, god, gods, spirits, luck, etc. Throw a coin in a wishing well. Don't step on a crack. Sacrifice a goat to the Sky Dude. Sprinkle some Parmesan cheese to the Flying Spagh...
2020-09-09 00:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Our back and forth on the recent discussions around Self Murder led to a thought last night. I quickly sent it off to Alex and we'll continue to develop the idea but I thought I'd share with you quickly because I think you'll appreciate it...
!!!SPOILER WARNINGS!!!
Here's the note I sent Alex:
Alex,
hit me last night...
the opening scene where A... 2020-09-06 00:48:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Alex sent along a proof version of the Insane Children's 2021 Calendar (see attached PDF).
Have a look at this and let us know in the comments below if you find any ERRORS or PROBLEMS that need fixing. We're NOT adding more creative/ideas to the design at this point. In that respect, what you see is what you get. But I wanted to get your eyes on this to help make sure there are no mistakes that need fixing before this is sent off for printing.&nbs...
2020-09-05 22:28:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
SPOILER and TRIGGER Warnings! In this post, we'll discuss a topic that will both Spoil the opening of the game and potentially Trigger some of you... though I suspect if you've made it this far through the Alice games, you're less concerned about the latter.
Here Be Spoilers
A few weeks ago I proposed a major adjustment to the opening setup for Alice: Asylum. I mentioned at the time that thi...
2020-09-04 02:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Over the weekend I received an update from Roman with a screenshot (main image, above) of the improvements made to the Alice 3D Model. This is after your comments and feedback were combined and relayed by Omri along with his own notes and direction. The result is, I think you'll agree, much closer to the original character concept sketches that we began with. And less "bothersome" around some of the issues we saw in the previous iterations.&n...
2020-09-01 00:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We have the First Draft sample layout of the Asylum Art Calendar from Alex. It's looking good!
A couple of questions for YOU to answer in Crowd Design:
1. Do you want us to include highlights on dates related to holidays, etc? This is a bit of a problem question for us since not all of our Insane Children share the same holidays. It's true that the majority (70%) of our Insane Children are in the USA ...
2020-08-29 03:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We hosted a livestream over on my Twitch Channel yesterday... which, after a bit of a bumpy start, turned out to be quite a lot of fun. We covered a ton of topics including updates on Alice: Asylum (Design Bible stuff, Live Action Pitch stuff, and Spoiler/Narrative stuff); talked about design and narrative goals for a new Oz story; looked at some updates on Plushie Dreadfuls; and gave awa...
2020-08-28 01:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Every morning this week, I sit down meaning to write a Patreon post and end up getting sucked into a billion tasks ... the next thing you know, it's dinner time and the day is finished. But I always figure it's a good sign when the days fly by like that - means you're staying busy in a healthy way. And, boy are we staying busy these days!
Ok, where to start?
Double Prints
Font Lord tells me to remind you that thi...
2020-08-26 00:18:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone
Font Lord here with a little FAQ type post for you all based on some questions you had in the previous post about the upcoming super awesome bunny+print promotion month.
So, without further ado, here we go...
1) You need to be at the $75 tier BEFORE October 1st, otherwise you'll miss out on the promotion. So please change your pledge during September to get that...
2020-08-21 14:02:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
As I've outlined previously... we have a dedicated Business Development person on the team now. He's tasked with helping us take the Alice: Asylum pitch to a variety of investors and publishers. He's asked that we also provide one or two more pitches for the discussions as this helps to increase the chances that something gets funded. It gives our team and studio a bit of depth. So we're working on a couple of small pitch documents - starting with a few ideas...
2020-08-20 23:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Another busy week full of progress on many fronts. These non-livestream weeks are nice for me because it's a chance to keep my head down and focus on everything we have going on. It's easier to talk through all this stuff on a livestream though... so I'll post a bit of stuff here ... and then we can go through all the comments when we're live next week.
First... lots of progress on Plushie Dreadfuls. And we should have the
Dear Insane Children,
Last night, Roman sent over an updated Alice model. And this morning, I've uploaded a video of it to YouTube. Yay! Click on THIS LINK to head over and check out the latest turn-around of the 3D model.
...
Dear Insane Children,
During our most recent Live Stream on YouTube (LINK) I talked about the need to create meaningful stakes for Alice in this new adventure. The problem being that Alice can "die" repeatedly in Wonderland and it means nothing for Real-World Alice. Compare that to stories like "The Matrix" where, "if you're killed in The Matrix, you die here." Yeah, the characters are running a...
2020-08-15 01:07:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We had a lively livestream over on Twitch yesterday where we discussed Alice: Asylum, played Alice: Madness Returns, had a look at Plushie Dreadful prototypes, and checked out new character concepts for Dorothy.
And we didn't even get canceled!
If you missed it (boo!) you can see the recorded backup over on YouTube via this link:
2020-08-13 23:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post