Grr Bunnies, Pale Realms, and Alice Updates
Added 2020-08-19 03:38:32 +0000 UTCDear Insane Children,
Another busy week full of progress on many fronts. These non-livestream weeks are nice for me because it's a chance to keep my head down and focus on everything we have going on. It's easier to talk through all this stuff on a livestream though... so I'll post a bit of stuff here ... and then we can go through all the comments when we're live next week.
First... lots of progress on Plushie Dreadfuls. And we should have the Angry (above) and Love Plush Bunnies ready to ship mid-September. They'll come with tote bags an be available for sale at Mysterious BUT...
Lots of people on Instagram and Twitter asking me if these can be Patreon Rewards. And I talked to Font Lord and we came up with this idea... let me know what you think:
Everyone at $75 in September (charged on/around October 5th) will get 1x Angry Rabbit Set (rabbit + tote bag) AND the Art Print for that month... "The Watcher"
So let me know in the comments below what you think of an Angry Rabbit + Art Print combo.
And keep in mind that if you aren't interested in the combo you can still purchase the Angry Rabbit (and all the other Plushie Dreadfuls) at Mysterious when they are offered for regular sale.
Lots of progress continues to be made on the Chess Realm by Joey, Dario (images above), and the rest of the team. Let them know in the comments below what you think of these illustrations and sketches!
We'll talk more about narrative and mission/adventure for this realm in the next stream.
And your feedback (and feedback from our team internally) has been collected and is being sent to Roman for adjustments on the Alice 3D Model. I'm hoping we'll see some updates to that soon and will share them with you when they arrive.
Same goes for the 3D Environment being put together by Tao. And good timing - as that environment is inspired by "The Watcher" illustration.
And I wanted everyone to know that I am working on a proper response to the story discussion regarding the opening for Asylum... and all the thoughts you've shared. Lots of ideas floating around in my head... so give me a bit more time to put together all your feedback and turn it into the next revision on that topic.
Plus I am working with Alex on the story for "Lost Ozland" or "Ozland Lost" (working titles) or whatever we're going to end up calling this thing. We had a very fruitful conversation this morning - and hit upon a lot of themes that work neatly within the context of "theme park built atop the ruins of Oz where magic and technology meet and cause problems for mankind."
Grrrr. Rabbits.
So much creativity flowing these days! We'll have LOTS to talk about on the next Live Stream. Woo.
I hope that wherever you are, you're staying cool and calm.
As always, much love and appreciation for your support and trust. You're making the magic possible.
From The Shanghai Oven,
-American
Comments
Love the plush bunny!! Love all the art work too!!!
Sarah McKeegan
2020-08-29 14:53:43 +0000 UTCShe looks better and better with each update, can’t wait to see the next version of her 3D model. Love the Chess realm artworks. Plushies are looking great as well, seems like you guys really got the designing and building of plushies down after all the work on the previous ones.
2020-08-20 19:21:10 +0000 UTCThis is awesome. I always associated the wizard of Oz with its yellow road. To me, that was very iconic.
Saleh Abu-Rashid
2020-08-20 13:02:35 +0000 UTCIt would be super cool if you offered the plushie as a reward for the $75 tier, but it was random. Like half of the people would get the love bunny and half would get the angry bunny. Though I understand that that's totally not worth the work and most people probably want the angry bunny. Personally, I want all of them! Loving all the updates, as always! I appreciate you and Martin and Yan and Alex and Jenn and Norm and Marc and Joey and Omri and Roman and anyone else I may have missed!
Wendy Jaa
2020-08-19 23:48:51 +0000 UTCThat is a way cool idea I love the prints but the plushie is a cool bonus definitely would get more people to bump up to 75 dollar mark. But I have to say I'm not really all that into oz just Alice for me
2020-08-19 17:52:07 +0000 UTCNot to into that poster, would be nice if we had the option for the 2 bunny plushies, or 1 bunny plushie 1 poster, I’d be happy to skip the poster that month for 2 plushies but that of course depends how much they are, although could also do the usual £45 for the plushie and do the heart plush for November as holiday gift
2020-08-19 16:12:33 +0000 UTCThe combo at the $75 level sounds good. I agree with Igor's comment above that it would be nice to be able to choose the plushy (angry or love).
2020-08-19 15:11:41 +0000 UTC"Lozt"
2020-08-19 14:40:26 +0000 UTCI know you're going to hate this, but the title that would encompass the idea and get it the most interest the fastest is “American McGee’s Dorothy” and for what it's worth "American McGee's Oz" was never trademarked by Atari.
2020-08-19 14:34:57 +0000 UTCExcited at the chance to see the Jabberwock again.
Death of Ink
2020-08-19 13:35:23 +0000 UTCLove the changes on Alice, the white queen realm (is perfect in this way for me) and the bunnies too! So excited to play it in future 🤩 great work!
2020-08-19 10:34:55 +0000 UTCThe corrections to Alice's face are a huge improvement, I was one of the proposers that suggested the almond shaped eyes and nose pointing a bit more up, and I really think it makes her much more appealing.
Juan Romero
2020-08-19 09:16:20 +0000 UTCThose rabbits would make such cute pins
2020-08-19 07:37:24 +0000 UTCI love this idea! I agree with Igor, it would be cool to choose
Kelly Eads
2020-08-19 06:51:01 +0000 UTCI'm all for the combo, but maybe one suggestion - maybe we could select which bunny do we want - Angry or Love?
2020-08-19 06:24:09 +0000 UTCBefore October 1st. If you change mid-month, you don't get charged the new rate until the next month.
2020-08-19 06:04:09 +0000 UTCBunny looks great, chess realm is beautiful and I can't wait to play in this world, btw how much will the Bunny cost regular in the shop?
St. Thomas
2020-08-19 05:10:40 +0000 UTCIt's 33c here 😩
2020-08-19 04:58:16 +0000 UTCyes to bunny + art print. we need to adjust IN September right? and I like the chess realm sketches
2020-08-19 04:11:46 +0000 UTC100% yes for the bunny + art print combo set. Really loving the Chess Realms look so far I can't wait to see more of it especially love the Sin City style look of black and white apart from red in places adds a little bit of a wierdly pleasant unease to it
2020-08-19 03:52:32 +0000 UTCSo just for clarification you say around oct 5th so if I'm at a $5 pledge now when should I change my pledge to $75 on Oct 1st or like the 6th after I have been charged the $5 and just pay the other $70
devon dasilva
2020-08-19 03:52:29 +0000 UTCSomething I remembered from a Disney video I watched a while ago. When Disneyland first opened the dark rides did not include the main characters of their stories because they wanted the guest to take on the role of the main character.
Markus
2020-08-19 03:49:14 +0000 UTCWohoo excited to receive my angry bunny!
Justin Cole
2020-08-19 03:45:49 +0000 UTC
