About the Job
We are willing to pay for the voice acting work. Pay is by the amount of lines that the character has, and payments will be made via PayPal. However, if you have deviantArt account, if you wish to be paid in points instead, I can pay you in points. More details regarding this are to be negotiated between you and me via PM after the application is completed and accepted.
As the writer for this game, I am not very concerned about how much experience a person has already in voice acting, but more of a “is he or she right for the part based on the voice(s) that he or she has?” Anyone may apply for these positions and be treated with equal consideration, whether novice or expert.
How to Apply
If you are interested in working with us, first, I would highly recommend that you play through the demo of our game, which can be downloaded here: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 45&t=21476.
Once you have completed that step, please contact me by either responding to this thread or sending me a PM. In your message, please include whether you want to have a major or minor part. I will then contact you in return to send you sample lines to record and send to me so that I might decide where you will fit in the best. It is possible that I may find more than one area and will give you the option of choosing between characters, in which then it is simply your personal preference as to which one are you more comfortable voicing. A description of each of the characters will be provided to you as well at that time along with pronunciations of some of the more complex words (like Xel or Bryghalian etc.)
About the Game
It is the year 2018, two years after the worldwide school system known as Lotusvale Academy opened its doors for the first time. Mika Cassian, a junior in high school, has entered the global exchange program in hopes of escaping the monotony of her everyday life back home. Shortly after she arrives at her dorm room, she uncovers a strange journal that belonged to the room's former occupant: a girl who had vanished a year before without a trace. Because of Mika's contact with the journal, at any time when Mika is either semiconscious or unconscious, her spirit is drawn into the dream realm, Morpheandir, in order to find out what happened to the girl, sometimes by living through the memories that are etched on the pages, and other times just moving through the dimension on her own accord to discover the secrets of others. However, the more Mika finds out, the more she comes to realize that she too is in danger of disappearing. Luckily, she is not alone, for she soon realizes that some of her acquaintances from school also fully materialize in Morpheandir, though each has their own dark secrets as to why they are there, secrets that if not brought to light and resolved could destroy them all... and if they die in the dream realm, they'll die for real.
If any more information is desired, please visit our thread: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 16&t=20262, or contact me somehow.
About our Group
I am the writer for the game, and I also do most of the coding, with some help from a friend who goes by the name of HexCat, and I made the background art as well. azureXtwilight is our sprite artist/CG artist, HexCat, as mentioned before, helps with coding, is the composer for the music, and is a beta tester, and Llunet1 and Lost-soul-of-hope from deviantArt are the other two betas.
An Important Update, 8/27/2013
Due to an incident that resulted in my laptop getting destroyed, I no longer have the files on this game, however I still intend to see it through to completion and am back to work on it even as I now write this, trying to recover/redo everything that was lost. I am considering making this a chapter based game so having one chapter released at a time, starting with a reworked demo that will be made longer and also be updated with the new backgrounds as I lost the originals and am now choosing to have them drawn in an anime style rather than realism due to the amount of time it would take me to recreate it.
To all those who sent in voice clips to my email address, I still have them in their entirety and you do not need to send in another voice sample for your audition, so no worries there.
As stated in one of the more recent posts, the deadline for this first batch of auditions is now set to September 27th, and in order to audition unless you have already sent me a voice sample with lines that I sent a while back, you need to download the demo I currently have and for each role you wish to audition for right now, you are to choose your own set from lines that the character has in the demo. Please send all clips to my email address: lordofmagicandmystery@gmail.com
Characters that Can Be Auditioned for Right Now:
Mika Cassian - Unlike the stereotypical female protagonist, Mika is very much more into doing things herself rather than letting others do them for her. Though she may seem a bit mean at times, it's more of a she's not afraid to speak her mind about most things and is quite blunt about how she views things. As time passes in the game, it is evident that she is very devoted to her friends and willing to risk her life for them, even if she does sometimes have problems with voicing just how much she cares about other people. The reason why she has issues about revealing her own emotions in regards to people she cares about is due to circumstances in her life, primarily her parents' divorce where she felt that her pleas to them were ignored, and the friends that she was close to for the most part either drifted away over the years, moving on to other groups, or else they moved away, such as Lance did. After all of those broken relationships, she developed into how you see her in the game: being blunt about how she views things, but also quite guarded when it comes to how she feels about other people.
Voice Type: Female, mid range, though I don't mind having slightly higher or slightly lower, may have a slight accent in her voice due to her moving from another country and the language spoken not necessarily being her native language.
Rose Durante – Rose Durante is an upperclassman girl who is rather nice to the younger girls, several of them idolizing her. She treats them all as younger sisters, remembering the rough time she had when she was just starting out at a new school. However, she does have a tendency to toss that notion to the side when there is a good-looking guy around. Though she may seem quite superficial, worried about all the latest trends and the grapevine, the truth is that she is that she does this all in hopes of making her parents proud of her, as they always compare her to her brother, who never has had any problems fitting in or finding his own niche. The sad truth in her family is that her brother is the favorite, and Rose is always second place, not seeming to do anything right in their eyes, hence why she strives to do everything she can to be more like her brother, even if it means abandoning herself little by little in the process, as she believes that her parents' acceptance of her would make her happy.
Voice Type: Female, low to mid range, as she should seem older than most of the other females shown in the game.
Lance Edevane – Lance Edevane, by canon storyline standards, was one of Mika's friends before he moved away due to his father being in the military. Though he seems happy-go-lucky and upbeat, that's only when he notices Mika there as he was still in her class during the time her parents got divorced, so he knows that it was hard on her and she could probably appreciate an old friend trying to make her smile. His true nature, as Mika sometimes sees traces of when asking more in depth questions about him or when she sees him around campus and he doesn't realize she's there, is much quieter and more withdrawn from others than the other guys. It is rumored in the game that he put one of the football to players in a coma that lasted for three weeks, but there seems to be no evidence as to whether those claims are true or not. Either way, it is evident that the amount of gossip about him is why he tends to stay away from others, perhaps as a way to try to shield them from any negative perceptions about their own selves.
Voice Type: Male, mid range, may have a sort of accent in his voice due to him not being from the country that the game takes place in and the language may not be his native one.
Jason Tsukigami – Jason Tsukigami is an upperclassman who is one of the students in charge of Mika's dorm. He always seems to be busy doing something or another... but mainly working on some top secret project it seems. Jason has a tendency to seem aloof towards others for the most part, but a good majority of it is him just not wanting to be bothered by other people's problems, since for whatever reason, they tend to flock to him, and he really doesn't have the time to walk every person through their problems, hoping that instead they might just take the time to think and figure it out for themselves. It is stated that Jason is quite the athlete, and although that is true, it is only because he pushes himself to his limits in order to try to train himself in preparation for potential obstacles in his way to obtaining his true goal in Morpheandir, something that he's devoted his life to and will stop at nothing to achieve.
Voice Type: Male, mid to low range.
Vincent Carter – Vincent is by far the most intellectual of the bunch, as evidenced by the notion that even though he's only a junior, he's already working as an assistant to one of the teachers. However, despite his intelligence, he really has no idea on how to deal with more social matters, hence him just bringing up the first things that come into his mind when he first meets someone until he starts to become more comfortable around that person, which is when he can finally hold a decent conversation that doesn't just trail off onto more random topics, since at that point, his nerves don't get to him as much. Despite this... the topics that he does get on, though random and out of the blue, actually are quite important things to discuss or change game events, hinting that there may be a method to his madness, perhaps a bit of foresight.
Voice Type: Male, mid range, though I don't mind having the voice slightly higher or lower than just mid range.
Well, I believe that covers it all. As I recover more of what was lost, I'll be holding more auditions for other characters. Oh, and if anyone would like a few of the nonnamed character parts, there are three of each gender available during this audition as well, so just state in the message when you send me your audition for one of the other characters that you would not mind being cast as one of them either.
Let me know if I fit any role you're looking for! :p
But i guess you'll be the judge. I'll record a demo after my exams are over, using male lines from your game demo. If there is still a spot open and i sound good enough for you, then all is good 