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Yesterday I Wrote An Ending


zippy57

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The ever-so-annoying thing about Agent is that the fun stuff doesn't really start for a while. That's not to say the early-Tier quests won't be fun and/or interesting. It's just that the storyline doesn't kick in until Tier 5 and the majority of the major characters aren't really introduced until Tier 8 with one waiting until Tier 10 to show up. So when I sit down to work on Agent my mind inevitably wanders to the later Tiers.

 

But that's not what I made this post for. I made this post to note that I've decided to temporarily remove the short story-related scene from Tier 1, which will allow me to proceed without voice acting. I won't be able to do that for long, though. In fact, there are multiple hurdles that will need to be overcome. Let's take a look...

 

Tier 3 requires Voice Acting

The huge story mission that shows up in Tier 3 can't be cut out without screwing up a whole bunch of stuff. This is something I need to worry about myself, but the rest...

 

Tier 15 requires a modeler and animator

Will need an armor modeler for this Tier (actually will probably need them earlier, but this is the first appearance that I know of at this time) as well as someone to model and animate the "boss" for this Tier.

 

Tier 20 will require a really good animator or a motion capture system

I'm planning on a pre-rendered cutscene here and vanilla animations aren't gonna cut it.

 

But that's all way in the future. For now, I will start throwing together a very-beta version of the first Tier complete with temporary placeholder dialogue.

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Ambitious much? Honestly, you make me drool in anticipation with all the work you're putting in. How do you intend to get around the voice-acting? What exactly, or should I say, who exactly do you need for it? Is it male or female?

 

Voice acting is always a bit tricky.

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It's incredibly ambitious, which is one of the reasons it's paced like it is. It grows in scale gradually, which is not only good in a story perspective, but also means I should get more people interested enough to help out as more stuff happens.

 

For the moment, I have a method of getting VO but it requires good recording equipment, which I don't have. I'm considering trying to find VAs over the internet, but that's honestly a last resort because of how difficult it is to direct an actor via e-mail. Since we're talking about ambitious things, I intent every NPC added by Agent to be completely voice-acted, including custom sound sets for even minor filler NPCs. This means I need multiple VAs both male and female. I don't intend for them all to be completely unique, however. That would be pushing it.

 

And to mention being ambitious again, there are a few planned features that I will be posting about after I get Tier 1 out for testing.

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