Happy Holidays From Asylum! The holidays are upon us, and the team at Asylum begins their short rest! We've been busier than ever, and this coming January is shaping up to be one of our biggest months in a very long time, if not ever. Our expanded team has been working hard on game features beyond the Town Square, and you're finally going to be getting a glimpse of true Identity gameplay very soon in the new year; that's just the start. Keeping it Real Primary systems in Identity such as weapons and vehicles are being developed to operate as realistically as possible. Last week a few of the developers braved the freezing temperatures at a local range to record audio directly from a slew of real firearms in all sorts of conditions. It's very important to us that the weapons in Identity look, sound and react as close to reality as possible. We've even modeled the ballistic physics based on real-world mathematical formulas. Powerful weapons are going to be rare in Identity. Assault weapons, for example, will likely be used in major circumstances. For the most part players will have access to less powerful weaponry; melee, hand guns, hunting rifles, and so on will be the norm. Here it Comes! With the Town Square development moving along, we're not far off from showing the world real Identity gameplay! Like I said up there, January is going to be a big month. For us in the studio, we're excited to get our hands on a few new technology demos that might have a huge impact on Identity! For our fans, January is going to be the month you see the first true world gameplay video. Not only that, but soon after we're looking to release a Town Square trailer! Keep your eyes out on Identity's Twitter and Facebook. The Twitch Clips If you've been following Identity's development closely, you probably already know that developers stream their work live on the Identity Twitch channel every Tuesday and Thursday (except on this coming week due to holidays). We also use that time to answer almost every question that gets asked about Identity's development and gameplay. Now that we've been doing this a while, we've answered a lot of questions. Our awesome community manager, BeachBall, has taken the time to compile a massive list of questions linked to clips where they're answered by a developer. Get comfy and head over to the Twitch Clips Directory forum thread. If you haven't found this already, be prepared to spend a good bit of time listening to all sorts of awesome information. This is the best place to get to know the fine details Identity! -- John VanderZwet

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((I hope you all don't mind that I am practiacally stealing the idea of The Idnentity from @ItsRaiden , but I can't help but find myself late at night writing, so here Is my take in writing a book related to Identity with a criminal side. No hate Raiden, much love brother, read chapt. 1 and loved it. Keep it up)) Chapter 1 - Morning Micky is awoken by the sound of his phones alarm. He sluggishy sits up and puts on his round glasses, walks to his closet and struggles to put on a black pair of jeans. After successfully accomplishing such an easy task, Micky, still half asleep slips into a "Support your local m.o.m chapter MFFM" hoodie. After slipping socks on he ponders over to his window, which is covered by a Gadsden flag draped from the window sill. It's still dim outside and a low fog covers the streets of Mickys working class neighborhood. He turns around and walks to his bedside table. It's littered with dollar bills, full ashtrays and packs of cigarettes. With a push of a button on his Bluetooth speaker The Who begins to play. "Time to start the day" he murmurs to himself. He pulls the cheap wooded door and a surprise is imminent. His house is stil dirty! He pushes himself towards the kitchen, which is only a few steps past two other cheap wooden doors on both sides, bathroom and closet. Once he is exposed to the wonderful smell of a leftover Italian sub from Marcellus sub shop hidden in the almost empty fridge, he is instantly revived from the sleepy daze. Taking a Lucky Strike from a pack on his small kitchen table and resting one on his lip and uses the gas stove to light his "toasted". After waiting for what seems ages his coffee is brewed and he pours it into his Harley Davidson mug. A gift from an old friend. The smell of fresh coffee, oh so sweet and elegant. He walks out onto his back deck overlooking a thick forest. Homes and there yards are on either side. The bitter cold air flys past his slim yet beer bellied body. He pulls his hood over his shaven head and slicks his small 70's style stache. The Who can still be heard in the distant bedroom. To the left his neighbor Mr. Hardy is outside in his backyard, taking his wifes small yapper dog for a walk. Standing there looking as if he's just experienced sub zero temp he turns to notice Micky. "You need a real dog!" Micky says with a heavy smile "You know the wife, gotta have her little precious. You know I had no say in this" He says as he devil eyes the young dog "Oh the shit we do for women" They both snicker blowing cold air "I'm going back into the heat, I suggest you do the same!" Micky exclaims as he steps back into his house. Hardy shivers back into his house, distant arguing can be heard between him and his wife. Micky chugs the rest of his coffee and places his mug in the sink. He moves his way into his tiny bathroom. Taking off his glasses and eventually pulls off his hoodie. Realizing why he ever got dressed in the first place. He stares at himself in the mirror and slowly takes off his white t-shirt. Uncovering his chest tattoo. Across his upper body reads a simple saying "dead men tell no tales"

"Welcome everyone to the 25th Christmas Parade I'm Matt Flower and always next to me is the lovely Kathie Lee Clifford." Kathie: "Thanks Matt I don't know about you but I am excited for this parade to start! We have everyone's favorite characters floating hundreds of feet in the air, the beautiful Cheerleaders from all over the Island, The amazing Voices and actors from Broadway and yes Matt Santa Claus will be saying good by at the end of the parade to head back to the north pole. We start at Rose port and they end up right here in Town Square!" Both of them laugh as the volume of the tv goes down. White Mask is sitting in a chair wearing his Santa gear, you know red coat, red pants and red hat with the furry ball thingy on the end of it? yeah that plus his white mask on of course. He leans forward and pets Max then looks up over the Commissioner of police. "Well won't they get a good surprise when you do not show up." White Mask hops up and kicks the bag of money, credit cards, and jewelry that grabbed from that club/restaurant place he was at. White Mask looks into the mirror and checks himself out." Hey Police commish dude do you think this is to much?" he presses a button on his coat as it lights up in Christmas lights and blinks. "Yeah your right its perfect...okay lets get this started shall we?!" He walks over and turns on a camera. Kathie: "Wow Matt that last performance was amazing." Matt: "Your right Kathie If that doesn't put you into the Christmas spirit then I don't know what will." Again the both laugh together. and then the quickly stop as they react to someone talking to them. "Oh ok folks we are sorry for the delay but we think you may want to see this." The Tv switches a Symbol on the screen.. "HELLO! my fellow Watchers! it is I your Notorious Glorious friendly neighborhood spider m...I mean White Mask!" He steps back from the camera as it appears yet again someone is behind him tied up but thus we can not see him because White Mask is to close to the camera. "I just want to say to all my fans, and watchers out there that once the new year starts I will start something that no-one can stop...I will start something that everyone will want to be a part of...I will start. " The man behind him struggles and makes a noise from behind him. White Mask lower his head and sighs. "Why can't I ever, EVER get out want I want to talk about with out a clown making some kind of smart as remark or noise hmm?" He looks up at the sky "Hmm God? Why?" The place they are at is dark with only one single light on him and the guy behind him along with the camera light and his awesome Christmas lighted coat. White Mask turns around and walks behind the man in the chair. "Ta Da! its Santa kids! thats right good old Santa is with me tied up in this chair. " White Mask puts his hands on the commissioner shoulders who is now dressed up as Santa. "You see Santa has been naughty kids, yeah I know bad Santa. you know what he wants to do? He wants to get his police force to More money and start a new group of police officers who go after the big fish like me!" He shakes his head "Tisk Tisk Commissioner..I mean Santa Someone needs to stop you and that someone is me!" White Mask step next to the Commissioner and pulls his pistol out, pointing it the side of his head. the Live feed goes out as all you hear is the gun shot. *BAM* Matt: "Umm ladies and gentlemen we just want to apologizes what we just happen to show you. But kids that wasn't the real Santa that was the Police Commissioner who is one of Santa's helpers." Kathie: "Yes Yes that is correct and well who is on the float for Santa today then?" They both look at each other as the Santa float makes it way to center stage in town square. Matt: "Well here is the last float.....ummm that has Santa saying umm good by til next year......ummmm" Kathie: "please don't show the dead body..." She says under her breath as the Float stop and the Christmas music hits. Smoke appears around the float surrounding it as something appears to come up from the float. A small red dot appears as it rises through the smoke. it was a plastic Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer appears through the smoke and rises with the other eight reindeer to follow. The smoke clears as there is a man sitting wearing a Santa Uniform. The man stands up and raises his arms and looks to the camera. It was White Mask Dressed up as Santa yeah even the white beard over his white mask. The cops draw their weapons pointing it at White Mask Claus. "FREEZE your under arrest!" an officer says as a chopper flys over head with a rope ladder. With one quick motion the ladder reaches White Mask and grabs the ladder as it swoops him away. "And to All a Goodnight!!!" He laughs as he gets whisked away in the sky. White mask sits in his chair looking at the newspaper and laughs "HA HA HA"

I Johnny Junior Valentini, pledge my loyalty to the Luprano family.

As much as I like the idea, what you are offering isn't worth it to us business people. I am sure we could find someone willing to invest for significantly less than 50% of our company. If we have to compete to win, the prize should be a no strings attached cash prize. Otherwise, I would rather find a private investor who would hand me the same amount you are offering for less than 50%.

Yes, Hotels are un-ownable.

I could be wrong but I don't believe you will actually be able to own hotels and such, but you can rent out your house to people.

He said that two months ago, and I'm sure he'll say that two months from now. I pressed them and asked whats going on behind the scenes because this is shady and i got no response after about two weeks. The dumbest thing anyone here can do is actually trust them, because they've done nothing to earn that trust.

People can say all they want and defend. This is being build on Unreal Engine and it's not hard at all to do a quick vid for a showcase to the community. This is almost two years folks. Dig in on youtube and you will see people build fully decorated maps in hours, Yeah they are not kilometers long but in two years they would have been a some sort of a video out showing progress. Look at kingdom come: Deliverance..month after the kick starter they had videos and dev talk showing progress. Anyone can throw in bunch of jpeg's and call it progress and this is all we seen. This is not 1 person working on this..

Wheres the footage its been 2 years dammm it ..!.!.!.!!!! show us the progress. i feel sorry to the people who pledged. thank god i didn't pledge. they need to see progress thats there rights. there is no proven thing to prove that identity is real. Motown and the others are hiding something and we are sick of it. 2 years and no video is out???????

Obviously white, lives in Montana and listens to Chief keef on a daily basis.