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Dear Insane Children,  We hosted a Crowd Design session on Discord the other day where the topic was Narrative Mechanics for Alice: Asylum. This gave me a chance to listen to story ideas from our Insane Children. And I was able to pose some questions about perspective and rules in the Asylum narrative.  You can…

Dear Insane Children,  As you all know, we use a website called Monday to keep track of all our tasks, communications, and creations for Alice: Asylum pre-production. There’s a ton that goes on there as our team explores ideas for art, design, and narrative. Perhaps we should figure out a way to open up a…

Dear Insane Children,  A quick post this morning with the final epic version of Omri’s latest illustration… Alice running through a battle between Card Guards, Chess Pieces, and Chaos Monsters. Set in Queensland, this scene is taken from the Asylum Narrative document we’re working on. And it’ll be featured in the Design Bible. Woo!  There’s…

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 pmLos Angeles   = Thursday, March 18,…

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…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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, reach out and ask what you think…