Dear Insane Children,
During our last Crowd Design Session we discussed the possibility of seeing Lizzie represented as the Red Queen. Hit THIS LINK to jump to that part of the discussion – where Insane Child Kyo brought this up as we riffed around the topic of the Voices in Alice’s head… what they represent and how they battle one another.
Omri heard this suggestion and put together a visual representation of the idea (which you can see above).
I like the idea that Lizzie represents an aspect of Alice’s personality standing in opposition to the Queen of Hearts. Where the Red Queen advocates flexibility, creativity, and integration of all the parts – The Queen of Hearts represents conformity, obedience, rules… All of this nicely mirrors Chaos vs. Order.
It’s also nice that a Queen in Chess (kinda) contains all the moves of the other pieces. Moves (experiences, abilities) Lizzie would recognize or know due to her greater range of life experience vs. Alice.
At the end of Asylum we’ll see Young Alice must integrate her shadow (Chaos) self in order to reach her goal. This allows Adult Alice to reintegrate her Child Self and complete her journey. And this leaves Alice in a state of complete integration – all her “enemies” are integrated into her self (in healthy ways) and she can grow from the physical damage and traumatic events of the real world.
So long as you can wrap your head around the psycho-inception it should provide a satisfying ending to this chapter of Alice’s adventures.
What do you think? Leave your comments below! We’ll discuss those during tomorrow’s Livestream! (more on that below)
Cheshire Kitten Design Update
The workshop sends along photos of the most recent update to the Cheshire Kitten Prototype.
From these pictures it appears that we’ve got a couple of asked-for changes:
1) New tattoos on the face (sides)
2) Bolder tattoos on the head
3) Color change on the nose/gums
4) Slightly more shape in the face?
I’ll share some more pictures and thoughts once the prototype arrives at our studio. Until then please share your thoughts on these photos in the comments below.
What do I think? Well… I think we’ve got pretty much everything we asked for. The only thing we never hit 100% was the face shape. Aside from that, he’s pretty damn great. Even with that… there seem to be plenty of people who don’t mind the face shape as-is (I am among them).
Based on these pictures – I’ll reserve final judgement to when I have the sample in hand – I think we’re good to move ahead with mass production.
That being said, we still have time and space to make changes if our Crowd Design team feel changes are really necessary.
We’re still waiting on a Bag Sample. That process is moving slower because we’ve had to adjust the bag design and work through a bunch of fabric samples – none of which has produced content worthy of sharing here. Once we have a Bag Sample in hand (should be soon) I will share images and thoughts.
We did get the embroidered patches made – and we fixed the “earring on the wrong side” issues. Yay!
We ALL still need to think of a Digital Asset to attach to the Cheshire Kitten Plush Collector Set. Something like Early Access to some aspect of the game which you only get with a code (we’ll email you) from this Collector Set. Any Ideas? Leave those in the comments below!
Livestream Tomorrow!
Let’s discuss ALL THIS STUFF and MORE during the YouTube Livestream tomorrow.
Hit THIS LINK to head over and set a reminder.
See you all tomorrow!
Notes from Font Lord
The Certified Insane Tags have arrived with our logistics partner in Shenzhen. Still some data wrangling going on before they are instructed to start shipping those to Insane Children around the world.
About 300 of you still haven’t clicked on the link sent to you via email to complete your survey. If you don’t click your link, you can’t have any pudding. Check those spam folders! Click those links! Complete those surveys!
The first data extraction will happen on Friday 21st and that will result in the first wave of tags being shipped. If you want to be in that wave, click your links!
From Shanghai with Love,
-American