New video

[Jabberwocky]

I made a new video, which combines gameplay footage with some story/narration.
This is probably what I'll be using as a release trailer for the game.

[DJ Die]

Certainly looks great, who made voice overs for you? Did you use actors or just some friends?

[Jabberwocky]

Hey DJ Die,

I hired a local sound studio from my home city in Canada to do the voice acting and recording. The woman whose voice you hear in the video is a young professional actress, although I'm not sure if she had done any voice-only work before.

All the conversations in the game are not fully voice acted - I use a lot of text. But the main NPCs you interact with in the space station will have a short "greeting" voice-over, just to add some character. Some of these were done by non-professionals, but we really liked their audition for the characters.

For the non-human factions (Drone Untiy, Wyr), we had a lot of fun with the post processing of the voices. I sat in with the sound engineer as we tested all sorts of different effects for the voice. It was a really fun and interesting experience.

[Kaesho]

I cant wait to finally have this game on my pc to play for days and days. Wtb release date to drool over.

[DJ Die]

Well i dont think having voice over for all conversations in non-linear game is that important anyway....just the main parts should do the trick....Fallout series(before bethesda that is) games didnt have full voice over and i dont think anyone had any problems with that either....

i guess making stuff with artificial voice modulation must have been fun....kinda reminds me of Freespace with Vasudan voices

i for one am not going to ask for release date i dont really think its that important and besides it will done when its done....but imho giving info about progress like this is very good

[Jabberwocky]

I cant wait to finally have this game on my pc to play for days and days. Wtb release date to drool over.

Great to see ya drop by Kaesho.
All space sim centrallers are more than welcome!

i for one am not going to ask for release date

The biggest block now is actually just the distribution deal. I started working on this earlier this week. This is the first time I've had to handle the business side of a game, so I don't really know how long it takes.

Well i dont think having voice over for all conversations in non-linear game is that important anyway

Back in the day, all the cool games were text! I spent years playing text-based online games (MUDs). I tell ya, kids these days with their fancy graphics...

The little bit of voice recording we did was interesting. I felt like a director. Someone would read a line, and I'd be like, "That's close, but you need to sound a little more like a robotic killing machine."

[DJ Die]

well text-only games wouldnt be all that good for me but i dont really need high-tech graphics after all i still play the good old Jagged Alliance 2 and even Imperium Galactica from time to time....
but graphics in your game are more than good enough for what youre doing

[Jabberwocky]

Yeah, I'll take good gameplay over good graphics anytime.
But it's a bonus if you get both.

[DJ Die]

same here....the problem is that were not exactly mainsteam....most people care about graphics way too much
but what i saw so far seems well get pretty good bonus in your game

hows the deal with publisher working out?

[Jabberwocky]

No news yet.
I guess it takes some time to properly play and evaluate the game.