Dear Insane Children, 

We hosted an excellent Twitter Livestream last week in which we discussed the latest updates on Alice, Oz, Mysterious Studios, Plushie Dreadfuls, and more. If you missed it… fret not! You can still watch the recording over on my YouTube Channel via THIS LINK. 

As was mentioned during that stream, myself and Alex are working on a Narrative Outline for Alice: Asylum. This is a map of the entire story of the game from start to finish. And this work will help us to fill in all the necessary details for the Design Bible. 

!!! SPOILER WARNING !!!

We have an Outline Document in development and will be sharing that as soon as we feel it’s ready for public consumption (and Crowd Design). But first, I can share with you some of the visual guides coming out of that effort. 

The main image above is from Alex and helps visualize the Eight Keys we’ll see Alice collect during her adventures in Asylum. These Keys help form a framework for the confrontations and breakthroughs she has along the way. 

And here’s an updated visualization of the Story Outline (version 3). 

I wouldn’t read these things too closely if you’re concerned about spoilers … because there are a number contained within. 

For those of you interested in our Crowd Design process around Narrative Design, take a look and let us know if you find anything that might need addressing. Keep in mind this is all Work In Progress.

Oz Adventure Art

Work also continues on the Presentation we’re building for a potential publisher/financier. Images, story, and business outlines will go into a Presentation that we hope to have finished (first draft) by the middle of October. 

These illustrations are being done by a new artist we’ve brought on board just for this task, Adam Naro?a?ski from Poland. 

Chinese National Holiday – Mid-Autumn Festival

We’re heading into Mid-Autumn Festival, the 2nd largest holiday/festival (after Chinese New Year) in China (and many parts of Asia). As such, expect things to slow down a bit around here… as I’ll be taking some days off to spend time with family and do some of the things families do in China during this time of year. 

While I might not manage to post as many updates to Patreon, our team will still be hard at work behind the scenes. So expect to see lots of great art, story, and business development updates once things get back to normal. 

Also, if you’ve ordered anything from Mysterious, you might see a couple of extra days of delays with shipping – most every business (including our shipping partners) is shut down for around a week during this time of year. 

From Shanghai With Mooncakes, 

-American