Instead of casting 50 actors for 50 roles, it has been decided to cast three latter-day Mel Blancs to perform the voices of 50+ characters.
Also, the in-game will be bi-lingual, with options for English and Welsh (a big THANK YOU! goes out to Gwalchgwyn for the Welsh translation!)
Dang ... you weren't supposed to tell people, it was going to be a surprise!
Now we'll just have to go back to the original plan.
We do have a couple of nice entries for the gag-reel ... thanks to Paranoia Dragon for your contributions to that!
And I really loved the one guy who sent in Kermit The Frog reading for Daimos's part.
The number of submissions for audition really surprised me, its good to see that many people passionate about the PCE.
It would be really nice to believe that, but I suspect that most of the people auditioning don't even have the faintest clue what the PC Engine is.
The mentions on Kotaku and NintendoLife definitely helped us bring in general Falcom-fans and game-fans from other platforms.
And the posts on voice-acting boards brought in a few of the best people.
http://voiceacting.boards.net/http://www.voiceacting.space/http://www.castingcall.club/Once people had somehow got the word, then the excellent web pages that SamIAm and Esteban put together really helped to drag them in further and decide to actually audition.
Honestly, I think that the sales-job that was done to attract people is really what pushed things over the edge.
Trying not to be that guy that always asks for updates but is there any news on how the auditions are going?
They're definitely moving forwards ... slowly.
We've been concentrating on the large roles first, and they're either all cast, or down to one or two finalists.
I'm afraid that for anyone who sent in auditions for the main characters, then if you haven't already heard from us ... we were lucky-enough to find someone who fit the role better than you. Proper emails of thanks will go out to everyone later on.
If you did apply ... don't feel bad about not being picked, there were some really, really good auditions from people here.
But we were lucky-enough to have a few professional VO-actors who work on anime and games apply, and a lot of other excellent actors with VO and/or stage and commerical experience. Seriously ... those folks just slaughter the competition when they're in the running for a part, and that's without even considering their professional recording equipment or access to a friend's recording studio.
A couple of the pros also sent in links to their websites and demo-reels, and wow, it's amazing to hear the variety of different voices and styles that the top-talent can convincingly pull off.
The secondary and minor characters are still being cast, and we're only a short way into that list ... there are so many of them!!!
I think that there are only going to be one or two roles that we
may have to eventually consider running a 2nd casting-call for.
