Miscellaneous

This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Alice: Madness Returns/Concept Art.

Weapons#

Clockwork Bomb, Teapot Cannon and Hobby Horse.

Used and unused weapon forms for Hysteria Alice.

Unused DLC weapon ideas and a weapon made by the Carpenter. What could this mean?

Dresses#

Upon coming up with Alice's finalized design, her dress also went through many revisions. Initially, Alice would change dresses every time she switched to one of her four tarot weapons but that aspect was dropped later on with the inclusion of additional weapons. As a result, it was decided that Alice would wear a unique dress for each domain of Wonderland. That way the costume would fit with the level's aesthetics and without interfering with the game's battle system.

A design that made it into our early prototypes had Alice changing dresses every time she switched to one of her four weapons. It looked really great, but became impractical when our weapons system changed. We decided to give Alice a unique costume for each of the Wonderland domains she would visit, a little inspired byThe Cell''. These were later expanded to include downloadable dresses and the Hysteria dress, replacing the Rage Box power-up from the first game.

From the beginning, we knew we wanted to show a meeker, more downtrodden Alice in London, the girl who had been locked up for years in an insane asylum. In contrast to the blue dress and domain dresses, this design evolved very little and without much fuss throughout the duration of the project.

— Ken Wong¹

Movements#

A collection of sketches that were used as a base study for Alice's movements and other actions.

Various movement demonstrations for Alice.

The transition of swimming to walking underwater.

Notes: Alice was going to have a dash ability that could break barriers on land and underwater.

Alice could turn into a half-unicorn. Some kind of power-up maybe?
Certain areas of the Deluded Depths were originally going have differences in terms of gravity. Some areas would be easier for Alice to walk rather than swim. To distinguish these, they would be colored with "heavy" (blue) and "light" (purple) water.²

Storyboards#

Here are two storyboards for the game's 2D cinematics.

The cinematic where Jack Splatter gets arrested.

When Alice meets the Queen of Hearts on the Infernal Train.

Miscellaneous Art#

Drawings#

A collection of sketches as part of the game's design document that was pitched to EA.³

Art

Notes

Different dress designs for Alice.
Sketches of Chesire Cat, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and presumably Gryphon.
Environment sketckes of Alice traversing through London.
Sketches of a criminal gang and a "street rat".
A rough sketch of the scrapped M.C. Escher level.
A long-sleeved creature called "Heckler". Next to it there's text thay says:

Shadowy figures.

When you choose/unlock the correct combination/route they applaud and congratulate.

When you're incorrect they laugh and verbally abuse.

Cinematic Trailers#

Concept artwork done for the cinematic trailers of the game. The first two images served as a pitch for a cinematic trailer that ended up not happening.⁴