We at Spiral Game Studios absolutely love our community, love interacting with them - and also allowing unique and creative ways to involve them in the development process. We are extremely proud to present our new event called "Be The Voice".
This is a brand new event th at runs until Friday, April 1st, 2011 (roughly a month and a half). This competition will allow you to be one of 10 toggable sets for the "Game Announcer" - you know, the bloke that rattles off phrases such as "Headshot!" and "Multi-Kill!".
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
- There will be five (5) winners.
- There will be one (1) grand prize winner.
- All applicants need to record 3 takes of each line - there are 100 lines. It takes roughly 1 hour to record it all.
- Record it all in one file if possible – we can split it up!
- We recommend that you use Dropbox - put it in a folder and share it with announcer@spiralgamestudios.com - Otherwise you can upload it to file hosting services such as FileFront, MediaShare, MegaUpload - or any other one and send the link to the email address below.
- Must be submitted to:
announcer@spiralgamestudios.com - View the required recording list here:
Orion-project.net
PRIZES FOR THE 5 WINNING FINALISTS:
- 01 – Voice set including as a toggable “Game Announcer” - Set will be named after you.
- 02 – Free Copy of 'ORION: Prelude' (platform of choice / upon release).
- 03 – Spiral Game Studios T-Shirt
- 04 – Digital Soundtrack
- 05 – Access to 'ORION: Prelude PC Multiplayer Beta''
- 06 – Included in game credits
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
On top of receiving all of that other greatness (below) - the single Grand Prize winner will also receive a brand new NVIDIA GTX 480 1GB video card.
ALIEN WEAPONS - REVEALED!
To continue our update from last week - we are now revealing some of the awesome alien weapons along with the style of them. These were done by Benjamin Boesel - the same young lad responsible for cranking out and perfecting the human style:
KICKSTARTER - ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS TO GET EXCLUSIVE REWARDS!
We also only have just a few days left on our KickStarter promotion. This is another fantastic way for fans to not only show support - but get access to incredible rewards. Based on the package you select, you can have access to rewards such as:
- Custom Armors
- Custom Weapons
- Special Jetpack Particle Color
- Instant PC Multiplayer Beta access (upon launch)
- Signed Artwork
- Achievement named after you
- Being made into a video game character
We have revealed tons of information, trailers, media and updates over the course of KickStarter. We've shown off quite a bit and love to be extremely up front with both the press and fans - so I've included convenient links to some of the major updates we posted. We encourage you to check them out as they are simply awesome :)
"The Indie Dream" Video Documentary:
Youtube.com
Support ORION: Prelude @ KickStarter:
Kickstarter.com
KickStarter Gameplay Trailer:
Youtube.com
Carrier Reveal Trailer:
Youtube.com
Altair Reveal Trailer:
Youtube.com
ORION: Project (2009 free prototype) made available on Desura Moddb.com
View the Press Release here:
Spiralgamestudios.com
We look forward to all of your applications! Make sure to sign up for the PC Multiplayer Beta if you haven't already:
Orionprelude.com
Awesome!
Time to get my deep badass voice back again!
Do you have to record all of them ? Seems like a waste of time if you don't win, should have the person select 10 or so..
I need a new video card... Too bad I have no way to record my voice... *cries*
Sent to you guys, for anyone else who wants a listen...
Daviddrury.com
You have such a badass voice.
That really loud one, is super annoying. Like, really, annoying.
The other ones are great though, but sometimes it sounds like you're trying to be mysterious.
Was just trying to do a range, just to show I don't need to be locked in. The 'loud one' is actually a gunnery sergeant style of voice, sounds ****** on cheap equipment. Don't have access to a recording studio right now, which is a bummer.
Daviddrury.com
My personal GG .mp3 for all of you! :D
www.daviddrury.com/orion/DavidDrury-VoiceReelMono.mp3
Just the 'announcer' voice for everyone. No other impressions.
Baddass! nice work- are you an announcer in RL?
No Ben - not professionally. I do, however, have experience with seminars and public speaking. I'm a 20 year old public speaker, studying at University of Cincinnati. I was a journalism major, but switched to History / Poli-sci.
Oh sweet! Good luck my friend. I'd say you could make some nice on the side college money by doing audio for indie games :P
nice one
I'm in! Going to record A.S.A.P.
Cool, I'll record something this week.
So... this ends on April 1st? Don't get your hopes up for that card folks... this already sounds like a prank.
There could be something easier ._.
Well, I think that recording 100 lines in 3 different ways is kinda useless, I think that you should make us record 50 lines in only 1 way, and then when the winners are announced you could talk to them and tell them to record the rest until they wait for their prizes.
That's just what I think. Anyway, i'm recording all those with my stupid 14-year-old perv voice and my 10 bucks microphone... Wait and see.
I kinda agree.... that's a lotta voice acting....
But hey, the prizes are big tho...Game credits and a GTX 480! What other game developer proposes such awesomeness?
The problem is: "professional" actor will cost as much as GTX 480(if not more).
They are getting LOTS extra of samples "for free".
Sounds fair. But fair to ones who will lose? No.
It's a time-investment competition. People win - people lose.
It's up to you if an hour of your time is worth all of the above.
I'll try some recording tomorrow. :) This seems interesting. Since I already have done some game announcing for some games that are already on this site.
wait, UDK on X360 and PS3??
Unreal Engine 3.0
nvidia :(
Nvidia are awesome...
This competitins sounds good only problem is that my mic isn't that good :( hope it doesn't matter?
If it makes you feel any better - I used an on-board laptop microphone for recording "The Indie Dream" trailer.
Our audio team is capable of cleaning up quite a bit ;)
thats great thanks :) I will get with it this week :)
Hey guys, just wanted to post a sample of my announcement reel for Orion here so that I can get some constructive criticism back from you all. Link is on MediaShare, so just click the play button on the left to listen. Thanks all.
Zaliasoo.mediashare.com
Also feel free to e-mail me at amreinb@yahoo.com and add me on STEAM.
STEAM = zalias1@hotmail.com
sounds pretty good, although i think you should put some more emphasis on some words like DINO-BEAT-down if u know what i mean :)
How do you pronounce Altair... is it like al-tair or am i not even close?
Yes, we actually don 't have a preference for it - we accept both.
Alt - air
Or Alt - I - Air (assassin's creed style).
Did one more 'final' entry for them,
Daviddrury.com
Enjoy and good luck everyone!
Heehee :)
Awesome prize!!
I got GTX 470, and its just awesome :)
:)
look on the internet + get a good mic!
got 470, its awesome, 480 its a bit better.
"if u never try, u will never win"
This as a replay to:
iwhbyd117 Feb 14 2011, 10:42pm says:
I need a new video card... Too bad I have no way to record my voice... *cries*
Why dosnt replay allways work?
Only 3 hours remain - track, support and spread the link:
Kickstarter.com
Take the opportunity to grab some of those amazing (super limited and exclusive) rewards!
Our we allowed to do any of our own effects to the voice?
for anyone who wants to c what i did
Mediafire.com
its not great but some of it is good :P
who won this????