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Crowd Design & Live Stream for Week 3 of May 2019

Dear Insane Children, 

Did you miss this week's Crowd Design Session on Discord? Fear not! You can listen to the full session over on YouTube. Hit THIS LINK to tune in. We covered a lot...

Cheshire Kitten Plush - Update - v2 + v5

Dear Insane Children, 

THANK YOU! Such great comments on the last round of design and prototype posts for the Cheshire Kitten Plush. I really appreciate all the effort you've put forth in providing constructive feedback. And I am really pleased with our progress thus f...

Defining Shock

Dear Insane Children, 

Omri and I are working on the Map of Alice: Asylum starting with the first moments of the game and first stage we'll explore. We start with Shock and then move into Denial. Omri and the art team will spend the next week+ defining visually the areas we see from th...

Cheshire Kitten - Physical Prototype #1

Dear Insane Children, 

<Insert Insane Happy Screaming> 

<Insert Crazy Giggling>

2019-05-11 09:29:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Shhhh. Keep it Secret.

Dear Insane Children, 

One of the frustrating things about the process of securing rights, funding, and publishing for a new Alice game is that many of the conversations are held under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement). That means I am legally obligated to keep quiet about the parties to ...

Patron Reward - Rutledge Asylum - Patient Tag

Dear Insane Children, 

Let's celebrate our insanity!

We've got an Exclusive Special Reward for May. To celebrate 3000+ Inmates in the Asylum we're producing individually numbered Rutledge Asylum Patient Tags and mailing them to Patrons around the world! 

The Looking Glass Railway + Asylum Patient Tags

Dear Insane Children, 

Live Stream Info is down below! Don't miss it!

All aboard! We're taking a ride through Wonderland aboard the Looking Glass Railway. 

Pictured above is Omri's updated render of Joey's original Wonderland Map for Asylum. Along with this im...

Cheshire Kitten - Design Update (V4)

Dear Insane Children, 

Our Crowd Design process on the new Cheshire Kitten Plush Toy moves forward! Omri's sent over a Spec Sheet (version 4) with updates based on YOUR comments and feedback. Lots of great ideas contained in this update - many thanks to YOU!

This...

Dark Wonderland

Dear Insane Children, 

I hope everyone had a wonderful May Day Holiday - or at least a wonderful time in life while everyone in China was enjoying their May Day Holiday. We spent many of our days gardening, researching baby strollers, and catching up on all the latest developments in c...

Cheshire Kitten Version 3

Dear Insane Children, 

Here in China we're heading into the annual Labor Day Holiday (AKA May Day AKA International Workers Day), a holiday celebrating the working class and laborers around the world. It's linked to the 8-hour work day, socialist/communist politics, and events like 2019-04-29 02:10:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Queen of Horrors

Dear Insane Children, 

Have you ever encountered chaos? I mean Capital "C"  Chaos. The kind that obliterates the nature of reality and strips meaning from the bones of your life? An encounter which eventually leads to an understanding of the religious "Hell" as a frame of existenc...

Crowd Design Episode #8

Dear Insane Children, 

Just a quick note to remind you that we have another Crowd Design Session on the schedule for tomorrow at the usual time. That's 9AM Hong Kong Time on Tuesday. 6PM PST on Monday 22/4/19.

2019-04-22 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The Easter Bunny (Killer)

Dear Insane Children, 

Happy Easter to you all! Here in China we don't really celebrate Easter. But I remember China + Jesus being one of those things that got me in trouble as a kid in Sunday School. I distinctly recall asking the teacher, "But what about all those kids in China? Won'...

Looking Glass Railway

Dear Insane Children, 

Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes where we discuss art, design, and other elements of Alice: Asylum as ideas emerge from the miasma? Well, it's not very glamorous but it looks something like this: 

Omri emails me a rough sketch for a Train Sta...

The Ghost House + Cheshire Plush Workshop

Dear Insane Children, 

LOTS of STUFF in this post! Ghost House Images, Live Stream Info, and Cheshire Cat "Things"... Please SCROLL to the BOTTOM to see it all! 

When I was a child (and insane) we...

Modular Dresses

Dear Insane Children, 

As many of you are aware we're still searching for the right design concept(s) to contain all of our dresses and their powers. I would like to lock dresses to domains because this makes the most sense from a narrative structure and delivery perspective. Many of y...

Crowd Design Session #7 (Now With Tentacles!)

Dear Insane Children, 

Get ready for another Crowd Design Session! We'll do this on our Discord Channel at 6PM PST on Monday, April 15th (that's 9AM on the 16th for those of you here in China with me). 

2019-04-15 07:06:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Sacrifice Your Queen

Dear Insane Children,

Many have lost sense of the meaning of sacrifice. It was once a given that we sacrificed constantly and automatically as a function of our family, culture, and religion - and that life was, in essence, an ongoing series sacrifices towards something greater than ourselv...

The Blade of Indifference

Dear Insane Children,

The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate implies a strong emotional attachment between the subjects and in many cases is a component of love or at least a sort of caring. Hate cannot be related to something or someone for whom you don't care.

Indif...

Madcap Hatter

Dear Insane Children, 

AHOY, ye scurvy scoundrels! We be sailing, coding, swimming, and exploring! Pirate Jam 2019 is in full swing and heading into Day 7 as we make our way around Phang Nga Bay on course for Krabi Boat Lagoon. This year's event has been absolutely fantastic! We've had...

A Norm(al) Hatter

Dear Insane Children, 

Thanks to YOUR support  we were recently able to add a new  artist to our team. Norm Felchle was one of the key artists on the ori...

Off With Her Head - Art Print

Dead Insane Children, 

One of our inmates wrote and asked, "When are you releasing Off With Her Head as an art print?!" And I realized... Hey! We've not released that image as an art print! A shame too, because it's one of my favorite poster images from Omri. 

So, t...

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...

Dear Insane Children, 

Heeee's Baaaack! Joey sends along a render of The Jabberwock with changes made to reflect the narrative in Alice: Asylum. The idea is that we show him in a more "natural" state - prior to being mechanized. 

 The 6 Million Dollar Jabberwock...