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 charged in February.

And here are the following prints.

February Patrons charged in March
Alice Meets Lizzy

March Patrons charged in April
Cannot Help

April Patrons charged in May
Castle In The Sky

May Patrons charged in June
Cheshire Grim

June Patrons charged in July
Currently Unnamed…

Well there you go…
The Patrons have spoken.

Sorry if your favorite didn’t make it in there.
We may pop some of the other ‘close ones’ in as a choice for the second half of 2023?   🙂

Big hugs from a rather chilly 3 degrees Shanghai

– Cheers

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? 

Woo! That’s a LOT of weapons. Boatloads. Awesome stuff, Alex! 

From Shanghai with Weapons, 

-American

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 schedule, budget, team, etc). 

Speaking of the Development Plan… in the next few weeks, I expect we’ll share with you the name of that developer and some details about their team, experience, and vision for making “Alice: Asylum” a reality. They are a major component of the pitch. 

And I am *super excited* to have them on board with us. 

Do or Die 

I’ve said a few times recently that 2023 is the “do or die” year for Asylum. What I mean by that is this: 

With your help, we’ve put together a pitch for Asylum that I believe is the most beautiful Design Bible ever created. And we used that Design Bible to create a Development Plan (schedule/budget) with an established and respected game developer. 

We now have a full pitch – the materials needed to show potential publishers and investors the vision and plan to get a new game made. 

And we’ll take that pitch to anyone who will hear it. Game publishers, VCs, technology companies, etc. And we’ll do our best to get this project funded and into development. 

$42,000,000

That’s the total budget we’ve estimated for the development of “Alice: Asylum.” And development will take ~3 Years with an estimated start date of January 2024 (that’s a year from now). So… if we succeed in securing funding, 2027 is the year in which development would be complete and the new “Alice” game would be launched. (I’ll share more details on this at the same time we reveal the developer we’re working with). 

But that’s a big goal. And who knows? 

Maybe we’ll land that deal this year. I’ll do everything I can to make it happen!

Or maybe it’s too much… too big? 

The next 12 months will tell. 

And this is Day 1. 

From Shanghai with Excitement, 

-American

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 down in the comments and we’ll take a look   

Also also yes I know that I and R are the same but different.  Please note that ‘should’ both of them get into the top 6, we will only be using one of them.

Once again, some absolutely stunning choices here, and thank God for polls as there’s no way I could narrow it down.

The winners will be announced later in the week.

GO GO GO!!

A) CANNOT HELP

B) PEACEFUL

C) THE ICE WAND

D) ESCAPE

E) MONSTER

F) ALICE MEETS LIZZY

G) CHESHIRE GRIM

H) THE DUTCHESS’ CHILDREN

I) XXXXX

J) ALICE IN CHAOS

K) RADCLIFFE’S OTHERLAND

L) XXXXXX

M) EXECUTIONER FIGHT

N) XXXXXXX

O) HATTER DEFEATED

P) LOOK WITHIN YOU

Q) QUEEN REVEAL

R) XXXXXX

S) CASTLE IN THE SKY

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 updates and info related to our early 2023 plans. 

From Shanghai with Cough, Cough,

-American