Month: April 2020

  • Up(side) [Is The New] Down

    Dear Insane Children,  These days it feels like we’re living in an upside-down Escher painting. A barrel of oil “costs” -$35USD, toilet paper is the new gold, and a microscopic particle has brought entire nations to a grinding halt. Can we just call for an early New Year and be done with 2020 already?! Here…

  • Writing Notes – Denial to The Queen

    Dear Insane Children,  A sneak peek at what’s going on behind the scenes with tasks related to getting the Design Bible off the ground.  My notes for continued progression through the early narrative of the game. Denial to The Queen (4/21/2020) Still working on the exact sequence of transitions from Alice in her Circus Cage…

  • Backgrounds and Eyebrows

    Dear Insane Children,  Let’s start today’s post with A GIFT. These days, lots of us are using technology like Zoom to connect with work, school, friends and family. And I noticed a number of artists sharing backgrounds for use with video conferencing programs. So I thought, “Hey! We could make and share some too!”  Behold!…

  • The Lucky 5 (April)

    Dear Insane Children Here’s this month’s “Lucky 5” give-away.I bet you thought we’d forgotten? Well, actually, the delay was because we needed to expand the scope slightly and open this up to the ‘fanbase as a whole’ to stay in line with Patreon’s guidelines on giveaways. So, now you can also enter our monthly prize…

  • Back To The Start

    Dear Insane Children,  We’re making good progress on the planning and definitions required for building the Alice: Asylum Design Bible. To help put in order all of the required details, Alex sent me a series of questions related to Alice and her story. Here’s a sample:  AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY (When the player…

  • The Latest Livestream

    Dear Insane Children,  In case you missed our debut on Twitch, I’ve uploaded a recording of the stream to YouTube. You can watch it on YouTube via THIS LINK. A big THANK YOU to all of our Insane Children who did find their way over to Twitch. We had a lot of fun and it…