All of these ideas were rejected by EA, who had agreed to release the game in conjunction with Rogue Entertainment. Another simply involved Alice having a bad psychedelic trip, in which the gameplay would flash back and forth between the ambulance and the hospital and Wonderland. So that Alice would, for example, come home and get whacked over the head and go into Wonderland, and then actually kill her parents some point during the course of her journey.”Īnother idea involved her mom as the Queen and the gardener as the Mad Hatter, with Alice going into Wonderland to investigate the death of her father. The ideas were dark from the start: “I searched around and played with development ideas, with child abuse at the start. Creating the story itself was the harder part: McGee had to figure out how and why Alice would end up back in an alternate version of Wonderland. According to McGee, the visuals were largely influenced by films like Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissorhands. Berg, got to work on creating the preliminary sketches of what would become the haunting visuals that his Alice is most known for. The idea for a dark version of Wonderland came to him one day in a “weird epiphany” while he was driving on the freeway and listening to the song “(Can’t You) Trip Like I Do” by electronic music duo The Crystal Method. Other ideas involved walking on walls or ceilings in fantasy world type settings. McGee had an idea for a game focused on fighting genetically advanced bugs from the future, where the player could shrink down and use weapons other than just standard military hardware. “It wasn’t just id doing it it was all these different companies making basically the same game over and over to recreate sort of real-life places recreate reality.” After leaving id in 1997, the brainstorming began. “Those were kind of the same game over and over again,” McGee said in a 2000 interview. NO MORE DOOM AND GLOOMīefore making a name for himself in the video game world, American McGee worked as a designer for id Software, the company behind games like Doomand Quake. The result? An EA cult classic with a fanbase so dedicated that a sequel was released in 2011, 11 years after the first game’s 2000 release, with a third in the works. That being said, it wasn’t entirely out of left field for a then-28-year-old video game designer to place a suicidal and traumatized Alice in an asylum, give her a sword, and have her fight her way through a version of Wonderland that has only become more ghoulish and macabre in the time she has spent away from it. The book’s origin even comes with its own (widely debated) dark connotations: Lewis Carroll is said by some to have been romantically fascinated with young Alice Liddell, as the story he told her on a boating trip one day became the basis for the first Alice book. The 2015 musical Wonder.land presents a modern version of Wonderland, where the magical world is accessed via sinister online game and is played by Alice in order to cope with her loneliness and rejection from the (real) world around her. The 1985 British drama Dreamland centers on a fictionalized version of Alice Liddell (the then-little girl that is said to have inspired Carroll to create the character) who revisits a grotesque version of Wonderland associated with her own childhood trauma. Since its publication in 1865, some have theorized that Lewis Carroll’s infamous children’s book isn’t a book for children at all and have created their own adaptations in response: In 1967, rockers Jefferson Airplane released their hit “White Rabbit,” which (rather explicitly) implies that Alice’s visit to Wonderland is the result of a psychedelic drug trip.
IS CIEL IN WONDERLAND THE MANGA PC
But for folks who had a PC in the 2000s, modern cosplayers, Twitch streamers, or even YouTubers that specialize in gameplay content, there’s only one “dark” Alice that matters: American McGee’s Alice. When you think of a “darker” Alice in Wonderland, the 2010 Tim Burton adaptation might be the first thing that comes to mind.
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