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|name = Inside The Asylum
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|caption = Concept art of the level by [[Jason Wilson]].
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'''Inside The Asylum''' is a level that was cut from ''[[MediEvil (1998)|MediEvil]]''. The level was going to feature [[Morten the Earthworm]] in a side-viewed platform section where he would have undertaken "a perilous mission to steal a door key from the abbey of the mad monks." According to [[Jason Wilson]], the game's lead artist and game designer, "Morten had to navigate a range of obstacles and there were a few funny moments such as inching your way across the bare feet of prisoners (tickling them in the process) who are hanging upside down in racks."{{Siteref|atomic-city|artwork/Medievil_gallery/medievil_morten_concept_design.htm|medievil_morten_concept_design}} The level was completely removed from the game,{{Gameref|ECTSPreAlpha}}{{Note|Inside The Asylum is replaced by Dan's Crypt in the ''MediEvil ECTS Pre-Alpha''. The preceding level, [[MediEvil ECTS Pre-Alpha/The Asylum Grounds|The Asylum Grounds]], had its exit changed from what it was in the ''MediEvil Rolling Demo''; instead of walking up to the Asylum, Dan now instead exits through a different gate leading straight into The Enchanted Earth.|name=removed}} but was later [[Inside The Asylum|reintroduced with a new design]] inspired by the arcade game ''[[wikipedia:Smash TV|Smash TV]]''.{{Siteref|MediEvil-Boards|12662|MediEvil developers - Q&A;|May 7, 2013|quote=That's really part of the grander notion that we originally had for the Asylum - that you'd complete the maze and then go inside, playing a side-viewed platform section as Morten. That platform section never materialized, and we ended up almost having to cut the Asylum interior altogether - until we realized that we could pretty easily create those 'Smash TV' style attack rooms that we finally shipped with. ...Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and it doesn't pan out and other times something really simple to create totally pays off as those{{sic}} I think those rooms did.|author=Chris Sorrell}}

Textures for the level appear in the ''[[MediEvil Rolling Demo]]''. Most of the environmental textures are from [[The Graveyard]] level, suggesting that the level was using it as a placeholder map. There are also textures for Morten, [[Beetles]], a [[Big Rat]], a [[Prisoners' Feet]] and a [[Woodlice]]. Although these models are not in the ''MediEvil Rolling Demo'', they can be found in the ''[[MediEvil ECTS Pre-Alpha]]''.