Dear Insane Children,
Let's get the Bad News out of the way first:
There will be NO Live Stream this week. Sorry! I have guests coming to my home studio on the same day we normally stream. And several other...
2021-08-24 02:04:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
This is it. At last... the Alice: Asylum Narrative Outline is available for you to download, read, and join in helping Crowd Design. Instructions for how to consume and provide feedback are contained within the do...
2021-08-20 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Remember in Alice: Madness Returns when Alice goes to confront March Hare and Dormouse in Hatter's domain and they pop up driving a giant mech robot? You can watch a clip from the game over on 2021-08-17 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Three images from Joey depicting a section of Alice: Asylum where Alice explores the burning/flooding remains of London. This is Child Alice revisiting the places, characters, and memories that served as the chall...
2021-08-14 23:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
You know how much I love tentacle monsters. And you know that The Chaos in Alice: Asylum will be a blob of tentacles that takes over Wonderland creatures and turns them into well...
Dear Insane Children,
We're making great progress on a number of fronts. Art tasks for all the design stuff we've completed so far are cranking along. Above is an image from Adam depicting Alice retrieving The Brain from Bill The Lizar...
2021-08-09 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We hosted a Live Stream over on my Twitch Channel yesterday. Did you miss it? Oh no!
But fret not... because we made a recording and posted it up on my YouTube Channel.
Dear Insane Children,
We're hosting a Live Stream over on my Twitch Channel at 7PM PST.
https://www.twitch.tv/americanmcgee
Lots to dis...
2021-08-05 00:35:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
I am currently reading through the Narrative Outline for Alice: Asylum - just turned over to me by Alex after his last editing pass. It's a great read so far and I am really happy with how it's turning out. <...
2021-08-03 00:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Remember the Dollmaker's scary puppet hands from Madness Returns?
THEY'RE BACK.
Well, sorta. Check out the spectral hands in this latest illustration from Adam. They are inspired by Bumby's...
2021-07-29 01:52:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here fulfilling the promise we made in the previous art print poll that we would try to give you plenty of notice about the 'next print' each month before it happens.
As you see above, the next pri...
2021-07-27 15:56:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Woo! It's been crazy here in Shanghai. Typhoon In-Fa ripped along the eastern coast of China and made landfall just a few kilometers away from my backyard in Fengxian, Shanghai. Literally just down the coast from ...
2021-07-27 01:40:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
For those of you who missed it, there's a Scruffy Bumps Theme Song posted over on my YouTube Channel. And it's awesome.
... 2021-07-23 00:52:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
The Alice: Asylum art team continues to crank through images for the Design Bible. And today we have art from Adam depicting a game play sequence Alice will encounter under a dreamlike representation of The Home f...
2021-07-20 00:35:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here with the results of the poll to what the next 6 art prints should be.
Around half of you sent in your votes and based on some of the comments on that post, it was very difficult to choose just 6 ...
Dear Insane Children,
I was anxiously awaiting the color render of this Bill The Lizard as Boss Fight image from Norm. And Omri delivered this morning. And I just had to rush over and post it ASAP.
IT IS AWESOME.
<... 2021-07-14 01:42:14 +0000 UTC View PostDear Insane Children,
Font Lord here, asking for your input on what the next 6 art prints should be to finish off 2021.
Below, you will find a whole host of images and I would like you to choose your favorite 6 in the ...
2021-07-13 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We're recently working on a new Plushie Dreadfuls design based on the notion of "OCD" - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and "OCPD" - Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. This effort is being made due to freque...
2021-07-13 01:15:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
We are having a live stream today at 7PM PDT (10AM Hong Kong Time).
Join us on my Twitch Channel:
2021-07-09 00:43:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Everyone, say "Hello!" to "OCD Bunny" - inspired by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. This design continues in the tradition of our Plushie Dreadfuls based on t...
2021-07-07 15:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Font Lord here!
I hope you're all doing well?
With it now being half way through the year, we have been thinking about what could be the next big 'thing' we manufacture for all our lovely Patrons.
Of cour...
2021-07-07 05:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
An interesting series of ideas were floated by Omri over on our Monday production board. I thought I would share those with you here...
Omri says:
OK i know we al... 2021-07-06 01:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Wheels on your train squeaking, creaking, and making noise?
Why not try "Bumby Brand" Wheel Grease?
Guaranteed to work on even the most stubborn... 2021-07-01 03:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
One of the side projects we're working on that I'm really excited about is "Scruffy Bumps" the revenge-murder-cat. He fits into a category I've started calling "Educational Horror" and is designed...
2021-06-27 03:53:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
A quick reminder that there will be a Live Stream in a few hours...
And the best place to join is over on m...
2021-06-23 23:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
All aboard! Or... all under-board? What do you call a train that rides... on you? Justice?
That reminds me of one of those old "In Soviet Russia, trains ride you!" jokes.
Anyway, we'll pond...
2021-06-22 01:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Over the course of pre-production on Alice: Asylum we've frequently made reference to Shadow Alice, the arch-nemesis of Child Alice and the force of darkness threatening to destroy Wonderland. And we've also seen a vari...
2021-06-21 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
What is your favorite piece of dark or moody classical music?
As I am writing the end of the Alice: Asylum narrative, I am listening to a mix of Chopin and Beethoven - Nocturne No. 20 and Moonlight Sonata sp...
2021-06-16 03:37:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
Normally we'd have a Live Stream tomorrow at the usual time - we try to host them every other week. But I'd like to request that we skip this one. Why? Well, Yan is taking Lucky and Grandma on a short trip to near...
2021-06-16 03:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Insane Children,
A new image from Omri showing the Umbraland version of Hatter's Domain!
The Alice: Asylum pre-production team continues to explore ideas related to what we're calling "Umbraland" - the result of Shadow...
2021-06-13 01:33:22 +0000 UTC View Post