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Dear Insane Children,  Font Lord here, with a quick update showing off the current prototype of the “Decision Coin” that we have been talking about doing as a Patreon goal in the not too distant future. I think we can all agree that’s a fairly mighty coin, and exquisitely detailed (awesome job, Alex) Do you…

Dear Insane Children,  We’re making good progress on the Asylum narrative. And there have been a couple of evocative scenes illustrated by our art team I think speak to the beauty and depth of the world we’re building.  I am loving the images created by Adam for Alice’s exploration of the Memory Mines. Among the…

Dear Insane Children,  Font Lord here to just give you the sad news that there will be no regularly scheduled stream tomorrow. American has just done a little family travelling these last few days and add this to the insane amount of work that’s going on with Mysterious/Alice/Oz/Redacted stuff, we just need a bit more…

Dear Insane Children,  Font Lord here, letting you all know about a live-stream that’s happening at at 7PM PST on Thursday April 2nd for a Crowd Design session where we’ll review and discuss the latest Plushie Dreadful designs and samples. You can watch the stream on both…Twitch.tv/americanmcgee YouTube.com/americanmcgeeofficial Unfortunately, I won’t be there (although I…

Dear Insane Children,  A few posts back, I shared a snippet from Monday (the online collaboration platform our pre-production uses to organize all their work)*** – where you could see my story text being converted into sketches and illustrations. All that content will eventually make its way into the Design Bible…  Anyway, that post featured…

Dear Insane Children,  I thought he was dead! You did too! We all saw Alice push him under that train…  But don’t worry! We will NOT be bringing Bumby back to life in Alice: Asylum. I promise he’s dead and will remain so. Except… The Dollmaker. He’s going to make an appearance. Yikes. This will…

Dear Insane Children,  Font Lord here to tell you 2 things. 1) There’s only 2 days to go before April hits and it’ll be too late to change your tier to $75 if you’re currently thinking about taking part in the super ‘Double Print Month‘.DON’T MISS OUT on these 2 fantastic prints !!(And you’ll also…

Dear Insane Children,  A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our Narrative Crowd Design discussion last week. And to all of you who sent follow-up comments and feedback. Lots of thinking is being inspired by your input. And we’ll have a follow-up on all of that soon.  In the meantime, the art team…

Dear Insane Children,  We hosted a Crowd Design session on Discord the other day where the topic was Narrative Mechanics for Alice: Asylum. This gave me a chance to listen to story ideas from our Insane Children. And I was able to pose some questions about perspective and rules in the Asylum narrative.  You can…

Dear Insane Children,  As you all know, we use a website called Monday to keep track of all our tasks, communications, and creations for Alice: Asylum pre-production. There’s a ton that goes on there as our team explores ideas for art, design, and narrative. Perhaps we should figure out a way to open up a…