American McGee's had enough of your Alice 3 questions
American McGee has, clearly, had enough of all the Alice questions.
He wants land to stop asking him about Alice 3. In a new blog post, McGee said he gets posed about it a lot.
"I get this question constantly," he said. "Several times per day. Across YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and via my InReach satellite messenger. My dog has even learned how to ask this interrogate via Morse code farts."
McGee was the creative director of the EA-published 2000 title American McGee's Alice. It gained a cult status, and was followed up by Alice: Madness Returns in 2011. Fans have wondered near a third Alice game ever since, but it has yet to happen.
It sounds unlikely a new Alice game will happened any time soon, but whatever EA is plotting, McGee has no control - or appearance - over it.
"EA own, control, and decide the fate of the game drives to Alice," McGee continued in his blog post.
"That employing any new game must be green-lit, funded, produced, emanated, and distributed by them.
"No, EA will NOT give me (or anyone else) to crowd fund, raise investment for, or otherwise self-develop, self-fund, or self-publish any interactive version of Alice."
McGee suggested fans tweet EA, rather than badger him near it.
There appears to be a degree of confusion commanded by Alice: Otherlands, a successful Kickstarter McGee ran back in 2013 for a series of fretful films that would lead to a theatrical film. That project used the Alice film drives, McGee clarified, which are not controlled by EA.
And it seems McGee is upset over questions bowling around a demo of Madness Returns and supposed undertaken content. McGee does not own this demo, he said.
"And I am VERY frustrated with the microscopic group of fanatic trolls who continue to bring up this topic and pester me with questions near it," he said.
"Please, stop. At this point, I've begun blocking any beings who persists in questioning me on this topic, so you've been warned."
McGee ends his post by stressing he appreciates the passion from fans of the Alice series, and says he would love to see and work on a new game in the franchise, but the sheer volume of questions he gets on the originates is overwhelming him.
"Apologies if this message comes out sounding frustrated or angry, but the amount of traffic I get on these questions literally impedes my arrange to put effort towards new ideas and new projects," he said.
"I don't want to ignore the questions, but I do wish the volume would lessen. I devour your understanding."
So, what's McGee up to now? Well, he's acting on a tabletop card game inspired by fairy tales named Out of the Woods. It launches on Kickstarter today.
