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Cheshire Kitten – Video Explainer
Dear Insane Children, Font Lord and Stick Boy back with another FAQ video – this one covers all the details related to the Cheshire Kitten Plush Collector Set. The $50 Tier for this Set has been Activated. So… if you want the set, select that Tier! Remember if you’re at the $75 Tier, you don’t…
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Only The Dead Are Resurrected
Dear Insane Children, I’m finally back at my keyboard and trying to get caught up on several days of unanswered emails and overflowing to-do lists. Omri “bumped” a particular email thread regarding Tarot Cards and sent me down a rabbit hole of symbology and narrative. I thought you might like to chime in as I…
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FAQ Series – Bosses in Alice: Asylum
Dear Insane Children, It might seem like we’re off taking a break but we’re actually still hard at work! FontLord was over at the Underground Lair today and we made some adjustments to our cameras, mics, and lighting. To test the new setup we also recorded a couple of FAQ videos… the first of which…
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Express Your Chesh
Dear Insane Children, Yan and I set up a mini photo studio in our workspace yesterday. We then put together a dozen+ setups featuring the Cheshire Kitten and Cheshire Cat Bag. With temperatures near 100f (40c) outside in Shanghai, we happily spent the entire day shooting, editing, adjusting, and shooting some more… All in the…
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Bag Tag – Design Feedback… Feedback
Dear Insane Children, Thank you! For all the feedback on the Cheshire Kitten Adoption Certificate. In this post I’ll explain why I’ve rejected all your comments! Yay! Er, yeah, seriously… Here goes! First, Priscilla asked why we didn’t include the “don’t insert the earring into your orifices” warning. If you don’t understand this reference then…
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Cheshire Kitten Adoption Certificate (Tag)
Dear Insane Children, Above I’ve shared a draft of what the Cheshire Kitten Adoption Certificate tag might look like. And I would like your feedback on the design, contents, and placement. Here’s the idea so far… This tag will measure 10x10cm It will be placed inside the Cheshire Cat Nylon Bag below the snap-pocket. It…
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Upon a Sea of Red – Weekly Livestream
Dear Insane Children, We’re set for another YouTube Livestream and hope you’ll join us for the fun! We’ll review the latest art, story, and design for Alice: Asylum and (if we have time) continue our play-through of “Sea of Solitude.” It’s (roughly) the same time as usual… Thursday at 10AM (Hong Kong Time) or 7PM…
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Non-Euclidean Worlds
Dear Insane Children, A recent concept image from Jennifer for a Croquet Coaster found in the Circus Domain got me thinking about Escher-esque design concepts. There are a number of game developers implementing non-euclidean geometry in game engines and this is work I think we can continue when we start dev work on Alice: Asylum. …
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Cheshire Kitten Collector Set – Mid-July Update
Dear Insane Children, Got TONS done during this Stream-Free week. Really appreciate everyone’s understanding and patience while we took a break from YouTube/Discord stuff and focused on business development tasks related to Alice: Asylum, Pirate Jam 2020, and Mysterious. Yay! Still lots going on behind the scenes – new art, design work, and more… All…
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Down The Rabbit Hole (of BD)
Dear Insane Children, Last week I took multiple people + Lulu to the hospital (multiple times) (different hospitals) plus tried to stay on top of the usual business of updates, design work, streaming, etc. All of which meant a pretty insane week with not a lot of time left for all the things on my…