Dear Insane Children,
Did you miss the live stream over on Twitch today?
No worries... we uploaded it over on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCZDV-7AaUw
Yay!
From Shanghai with Tentacles,
-American
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here AGAIN.
Just wanted to run this past you.
We're thinking we want to change the $75 tier next year.
Starting from February (we think) we will be replacing the Chaos Necklace in the $75 tier to a Hysteria Rabbit plushie.
What do you think? Good idea? Bad Idea?
So to be clear, from February onwards, if you join us for th...
2020-12-09 01:55:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
I'm joining @patreon's "The Lab - Community Connections" to discuss how we make Patreon work for our projects. Joined by
2020-12-08 22:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Alex sent the "final" version of the Decision Coin to me this morning...
Looking awesome!
We're sending this to the workshop for a sample. Should have something to share with you in a week or two.
Once we have the first sample we can do an...
2020-12-08 03:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here with a teeny tiny bit of info about the current crop of prints and what it means for you :)
At the very top of this post, you can see "Londerland" by Omri Koresh.
A very popular image that was requested by many of you to be one of our Patreon pri...
Dear Insane Children,
Alex is an artist of many talents - for example, he's a wizard with AI design layouts, a meticulous project manager, and an expert on the fine details of commercial printing. Each of these things requires attention to detail at a very high level - and the features of his detail-oriented brain really come into focus when he sets his (digital) pen to work on vect...
2020-12-07 00:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Yan and Jen continue their work on the next Plushie Dreadful toy: Scruffy Bumps
And the workshop just delivered a prototype based on the last round of feedback:
Yan got the idea to include a Mini Bumps with the initial orders of the regular-size toy... so, ...
2020-12-06 07:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Omri sent over an updated version of Alice's confrontation with Inferno Alice in the Chamber of Anger. And I just had to post it because... well, it's amazing.
Of this update Omri says:
i thought that the child is a prisoner- literally a victim so why not make it so she's trapping herself in a sense. also i thou... 2020-12-04 01:17:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
First up: A quick note to confirm that there will be NO live stream today. Sorry about that - but I have been super busy across projects and personal life such that I'm not able to set aside the time. For the record, when we do a live stream it really means a "live stream day" for me since it involves Martin coming over at 8AM and not leaving until 8...
2020-12-03 00:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Ok, first off, I just want to say that I am very nervous about doing this... As a rule, I try to avoid sharing my Writing In Progress. Partly because I just don't like sharing unfinished work. But I've pointed out previously, that's hypocritical given that I am constantly sharing the unfinished work of our artists. It's at the core of Crowd Design!
...
2020-11-30 00:52:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
If you are in a place where it's celebrated and you're not opposed to it for social-political reasons, then allow me to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! At least... it's Thanksgiving morning (but it's not) here in Shanghai. This would normally be a Live Stream day but I am, as many of you are aware, taking a Mental Health Day. Yan ran away to Yunnan in Western Ch...
2020-11-26 00:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Just a quick (and sad) note to say that there will be no Live Stream this week. We're dealing with a Confluence of Stupidity that has me emotionally drained and technologically blocked.
For several weeks now, we've been dealing with an issue at Facebook/Instagram where our Ad Account is Suspended without reason. This has happened several times now, ...
2020-11-25 05:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
For those of you interested in Narrative Crowd Design, here's a little teaser... which I hope to use to test out how this process works prior to sharing the Alice: Asylum narrative outline. I mentioned in a previous post that I want to share the Asylum outline with some holes in the middle - so that there's a place where YOU can engage with Cro...
2020-11-23 06:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Our team of 7 artists continues to crank through a pile of tasks related to defining all the major scenes, characters, and elements that define the journey Alice takes through Alice: Asylum. If you've watched the live streams, you've seen me scrolling through all the tasks and discussions contained inside the management software we use (called Monday). As I go ...
2020-11-22 04:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Yan is working with Jen on a new Plushie Dreadful design - Scruffy Bumps!
A prototype based on initial sketches by Jen arrived a few days ago:
There are several issues with the first pass which include:
1) He's too plump (round ...
2020-11-21 01:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Just a quick note to say that I am not dead. But I am dead busy.
If you're waiting on Art Prints (in the mail) then I'm the reason... As I've been playing catch-up on getting everything sent out. Today, I finally cleared out the last of the previous month's art prints that were in the system... except for 10 stragglers that I'm waiting on a restock ...
2020-11-20 11:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children,
Font Lord here.
How are you?
I hope you're all doing well :)
I have a little bit of info for you and also some questions.
We are thinking about making a commemorative coin for the start of the new year.
A sort of 'good riddance' to 2020 and 'good luck' to 2021 kind of thing.
What do you think of that idea?
We have expe...
Dear Insane Children,
Biz Dev is one of the constant processes that happen in the background on an almost daily basis - emails, phone calls, quick messages, strategy chats, spreadsheet building, document editing... that isn't very interesting to record, share, or talk about. But it is critical to our success - because all the amazing art and story in the world will not self-fund its...
2020-11-16 00:01:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We hosted an excellent Live Stream over on my Twitch Channel yesterday.
Not subscribed to my Twitch Channel?! Sign up here:
And if you missed the Live Stream when it was live... don't worry! You can watch it over on my YouT...
2020-11-13 01:09:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Work on writing and illustrating the narrative outline for Alice: Asylum continues - with the team fully engaged on a large number of art tasks we're pulling from the game story. The idea is to present a Design Bible - something like an illustrated novel - that you can read through from start to finish to get a full understanding of the game in...
2020-11-10 22:40:25 +0000 UTC View Post
(Note: This post is for promotional purposes and we want to give a HUGE thank-you to all current Patrons)
This is your one-stop destination for ALL things Alice: Asylum and other projects too such as Pirate Jam, Mysterious and Oz: Adventures.
We hope you will join us and the rest of The Insane Children in The Asylum and get your vo...
2020-11-09 07:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children,
As I continue to write through the narrative outline for Alice: Asylum, I've come to a point where the main scenes that define the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Act are written (or outlined and ready to be written)... but where there's room to explore the Series of Adventures that define Alice's path to victory during the 2nd Act. In other words, she's given her Clear Goal(s) at...
2020-11-06 00:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
I forgot to post THE LINK to last week's Twitch Livestream (which is recorded and uploaded to YouTube)... so, if you missed the Halloween Special (and me dressed as Joe Exotic), hit that link and go enjoy the madness.
Pro Tip: Dressing as Joe Exo...
2020-11-04 00:13:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
A Warm and Happy Halloween, Insane Children, from the Liddell family. And a spooky reminder that IT'S YOUR FAULT!
It's Halloween morning here in Shanghai and Lucky is dressed as Captain Cute. Lulu's wearing her favorite beggar outfit. And I'm still having flashbacks to life as Tiger King. Yee haw.
Thanks to Joey for this fiery illustration of Alice joinin...
2020-10-30 22:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children
Oof !!
Font Lord here and I left this one a bit late, it'll almost be time to do November's Lucky 5 soon.
It's been a busy ole month due to rabbits and calendars.
Still, I'm here now, let's do this :)
As you know, this is a monthly thing where Google's RNG feature picks 5 lucky people to get some goodies. Chosen from our Patro...
2020-10-28 03:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Welcome to another session of "Let's finalize a weapon design!" brought to you by "American got up at 4:30 AM for a phone call that doesn't actually happen until tomorrow morning." A product of Doh! Co. (TM)
In our last episode, we saw how Alice will acquire two weapons from the Boss Encounter with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. And we reviewed Alex's re...
2020-10-27 22:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
It's the week of Halloween! YAYAYAYA!!! The best week of the year!
And what better way to kick off this week than with an exploration of themes and styles for the re-imagined Jack Bomb weapon in Alice: Asylum?
The team is working through a variety of ideas led by Alex's concepts for a redesign. At the top of this page (main image) is the "orig...
2020-10-26 04:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children
Font Lord here AGAIN.
As you can see from the various pics and the video we have on this here post, the calendars are made and shipped to the warehouse.
This time, a little unusually, we purchased the packing materials ourselves to send to the warehouse and have ...
2020-10-24 06:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostHelloooooo
Font Lord here with a reminder about how the previous $75 tier print+rabbit promotion works.
It actually says this in the FAQ I wrote, but here it is again as I've had a handful of people asking about this.
There will be no email of any kind sent to you in regards to the rabbit or print.
There's no need.
We already have your address.
The only email you w...
2020-10-21 01:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Whew, somehow the recent days really got away from me... and it seems I've not posted anything since last Thursday-ish when we did our Twitch Livestream. There was a LOT of information covered in that stream so if you missed it, be sure to check out the recording over on YouTube. You can do that via 2020-10-21 00:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post