#Alice madness returns mad hatter update#

Then again, he wrote about a young girl who goes to ‘a magical land in her head’, where she drinks special ‘potions’ that affect her size (or perception thereof), eats ‘mushrooms’ and then sings with flowers. And who can forget the hookah smoking caterpillar (who knows what’s in that hookah?), and the intermittent visibility of the Cheshire Cat? Whether Carroll intended it or not, Alice’s story sounds more like a schizophrenic girl on an LSD trip. Psychologically speaking, Alice: Madness Returns is fascinating in its dark interpretation of Carroll’s (seemingly innocent) book.

American McGee’s idea of saving the Hatter is slightly more psychotic than in James Bobin’s portrayal of Alice Through the Looking Glass, mostly because of the deep and disturbing psychology that McGee incorporates into his not-so-child-friendly version of the classic children’s story. After many trials (and ‘Game Over’ screens), Alice finally finds the Mad Hatter, and it is at this point that the player realises that Lewis Carroll’s classic tea party has been somewhat spoiled, given that Hatter has been dismembered, and a torso cannot drink tea. I hope I can make it up to you by doing a good job this time around.While inching through a steampunk-inspired maze, Alice Liddell fights off fork-wielding crockery while the Door Mouse and March Hare try to kill her with teapots projecting scorching liquid at her gothic-styled outfit. I’m so sorry to everyone who showed such amazing support and enthusiasm about the deck, only to have me be lazy and neglect it. TL DR - I’m semi-starting over the deck with a lot more knowledge and preparedness, I will be distributing it once it’s done, and (yeah, I know, this is like the 6th time I’ve said this and all the other times it turned out to be a dirty, dirty lie) I’m actually going to stick with it this time. So I’ll need to go through the Alice folder that’s been sitting on a USB stick for months and make sure I know where and who all the images come from. At this point, it would be terribly wrong of me not to make absolutely sure that I’m not stealing someone’s screenshot that they very well might have spent hours trying to get. I was using, since it was just for fun (and I also had a pretty weak concept of how credit on the internet works, unfortunately… so my apologies to anyone whose screenshots I failed to credit). When I started, I had absolutely no idea anyone would actually be interested in the deck, so I wasn’t being terribly disciplined about whose screenshots etc. b) One way or another, I’m going to distribute this deck. The reasons are that a) I know a lot more about tarot than when I started, and I’d rather re-think the basics of the deck while there are only a few cards done than keep going for the sake of progress and secretly regret it. I may change the suits up, that sort of thing. I’m sort of doing a refresher, though, and redoing some of the cards and possibly the size/format. The cards: yes, I will be continuing this deck.

First the technical blog stuff, then a bit of a personal explanation.

#Alice madness returns mad hatter update#

Here’s a very wordy update for those who are interested. So… I haven’t posted on this blog in basically nine months. What’s going on with this blog / personal update Rose represents her hearts/cups, the vorpal blade is her spade/swords, maybe if you do the teeth for clubs/wands you should do butterflies for diamonds/pentacles. Well why not do the suits based of Alice’s pickups or stuff that you see in the game that revolves around Alice. Are there any of these you don’t like, or any you do? In this case, the aces of each suit would be the weapon posters. Swords = (vorpal) blades, cups = teapot (canon)s, wands = hobby horses, pentacles = pepper (grinder). Pentacles = gears, swords = (Vorpal) blades, cups = teacups, and wands = teeth or bones.Ĥ. Cups = water, wands = fire, pentacles = earth, and swords = air (probably “wind.”)ģ. Each of these already correlates with one of the regular tarot suits, and much of the Alice imagery already contains chess and card suits, so this wouldn’t be much of a stretch.Ģ. I’m trying to decide on the types of suits to use for the deck.