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dear insane children, 

it's 5:40am in shanghai but i just read an email that i have to share even though i am not supposed to. it's from someone we recently brou...

More Calendar Choices

Dear Insane Children

Font Lord here again, wanting to pick your brains and wrangle some information from out of the deepest, darkest depths of your mind.

When it comes to the calendar ...

A Picture of The Mind (CRITICAL Update)

Dear Insane Children, 

If you've seen the relevant section in "The Art of Alice: Madness Returns" you'll know that the development team really struggled to define the look and feel of Al...

Calendar Countdown!

Dear Insane Children

Font Lord here with a question for you all.
Which are your favorite prin...

The Art of Alice: Madness Returns (中文)

Dear Insane Children, 

A lot of people are unaware of the fact that Alice: Madness Returns was the first-ever AAA Western Console Game to be developed primarily in China by a mainly Chin...

The Lucky 5 (June)

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It's the most magical time of the month again.
When all the good karma you might have built up can hopefully sway the Gods of RNG in your favor as we choose 5 lucky p...

Ring (Masters) and Necklaces.

Dear Insane Children

Font Lord here again, coming to you direct from Font Manor, with a few little bits and bobs of housekeeping 'n stuff you might be interested in knowing.

Firstly, ...

I Am Jack's Inflamed Source of Pain

Dear Insane Children, 

Quick update for those of you who've been following along on my Adventures in Massive Migraines.

A few weeks ago an MRI of my head (skull, b...

Heads Roll on the Cutting Room Floor

THERE IS A NEW STORY DRAFT PDF DOWNLOAD AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST.
DOWNLOAD IT. READ IT.

Hello there Insane Children, 2020-06-09 21:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Humpty Dumpty and The Sky Pirates

Dear Insane Children, 

We had a lot of fun on the livestream over on Twitch yesterday. In case you missed it, t...

Twitching in June

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Font Lord here again with a reminder about the next live-stream over on Twitch.
So that's Thursday the 4th at 10am Shanghai time.

And here's a handy little cha...

Bad Day USA

Dear Insane Children, 

Lots of people asking for my stance (and the stance of Mysterious) on recent events in the US. Understandable request. And apologize if it seems like I've delayed ...

Shipping Information and COVID

Hi All

Font Lord here with just a bit of info about what's going on with shipping these days (both Pateron and Mysterious)

I'm sure I don't need to explain what COVID has done to the w...

G.T.B. (Grand Theft Balloon)

Dear Insane Children, 

American here... feeling a bit recovered after last week's battle with Massive Migraines of Mayhem. I think I've identified the cause - my compute...

American: Migraines Return

Dear Insane Children, 

This has been a bad week for me. I spent two days in bed with terrible migraines. The other days were spent feeling week and confused. And we've spent two mornings...

Write, write, left, right?

(There is a PDF attachment to this post. Please download and read it!)   2020-05-22 23:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Piggy Bombs and Twitch Streams

Dear Insane Children, 

In case you missed yesterday's Live Stream over on Twitch, here's a 2020-05-22 00:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Enter The Moon Through His Mouth

Dear Insane Children, 

I'm surprised that no one (not our Insane Children nor our artists) has pointed out the odd fact that our Moon is a man. But as I was going through the design note...

Humming and Hawing

Dear Insane Children,

What do you do when you've run out of things to do? Hum a tune? Whistle a diddy? Twiddle your thumbs? I don't know about you but I can't remember the last time I even ha...

The Moon

Dear Insane Children, 

Get your spacesuits ready! Today we're working on The Moon. 

You may recall I previously shared a section regarding Alice's imprisonmen...

Escher Alice

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Do you ever feel like everything is upside down and turned around? Like up is down and nothing makes sense anymore? As Cheshire said, 

  2020-05-12 01:40:05 +0000 UTC View Post

The Lucky 5 (May)

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Font Lord here with the moment you've all been waiting for, yes, its this month's Lucky 5 !
Whooo Hooo !!
This month, we'll be giving away the Enamel Pin set to 5 ...

May Day, May Day!

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It kinda snuck up on me and Font Lord so we forgot to mention it but May 1-5 in China was a National Holiday. It's the celebration of Labor Day......

BK Reminder Apology

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Font Lord here with an apology.

It has come to my attention that Backerkit has repeatedly been sending reminder emails out about the Enamel Pins.

I actually...

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 ...

Writing Notes - Denial to The Queen

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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 t...

Backgrounds and Eyebrows

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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...

The Lucky 5 (April)

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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 ...

Back To The Start

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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 r...

The Latest Livestream

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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 2020-04-09 23:24:52 +0000 UTC View Post