Tickle Magnet #11: Voice Actress update (Patreon)

I wanted to give a quick update on what I've been up to this week in game development.

In addition to the usual coding and developing, which is honestly a little boring to talk about (unless someone has a conditional branches fetish, in which case maybe I'll go into really long detail with screenshots), I thought I'd talk about something a bit more fun.

This week I decided to go onto a professional voice actor's site and publish a job for our game.  I posted looking for voice actresses for our three main characters in the game: Autumn, Kelly, and Fiona.

The process was long, but I am really happy with the results.  I received dozens of auditions, and listened to each other rather painstakingly.  Each audition was scored on four criteria:  pitch, tone, laugh, and moan.

I also wanted to talk about scope of voice acting in the game.  It's expensive.  Like, really expensive.  While I would've loved to voice act every line in the game, the reality is the game is going to be over 200k words when it's said and done.  It likely would've cost close to $70,000 to voice act and narrate the entire game.  And it would've really exploded the file size of the game, making it more difficult to download and run.

Instead, I've opted to have each character have roughly 20-30 lines of script read, at interesting points in the script, have a bunch of short expressions that I can add to their dialogue throughout the game, and then of course the NSFW laughter and sexual sounds (yes, you can have sex with and tickle several characters in game).  Thi compromise will still cost several thousand dollars, but I'm betting it will still deliver a great audio experience for you all when you play the game.

The actresses are recording their lines this week.  Then I move on to the two main male characters in the game: Caleb and Derrick.  And then I will scope and hire for the secondary characters in the game.