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leilei
05-23-2008, 12:22 AM
Project information - OpenArena (http://openarena.ws) is a Free Software first person shooter deathmatch and teamplay game based on the Quake3 source. You might say "Hey there's already enough of those why bother" but this one is focused on compatibility with other q3 mods, which is something the other Free FPS games cannot ever offer. The project has been running stable since its start in early 2005 and is nearing the next major version.

Also along with it, is a almost-as-wacky art direction mixing a wide variety of themes ranging from futuristic to medieval to oriental. There's just a lack of skulls and hellishness the original game had. The styling is still westernish, but there is inspiration from anime for some of the designs.

Important - This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 completely. Basically the gist of it is that it can be commercially distributed and freely modified and distributed, but it must retain the same license for any derivative works. The OpenArena project is an open source Free Software project with a pricetag of $0. Everyone is a volunteer contributor and no one is paid!

Audition deadline - None specifically for voices, but the upcoming version will be done by August 1, 2008.

Recording and Contact information - You can PM me here or post them here, I don't like email or PMs much though. It's possible to attach voices on the OA forums as well, and/or use the IRC channel (irc.anynet.org #openarena) but I'll feel guilty of promoting those here since I personally don't like self promotion. :)

-Record in 44100Hz, 16-bit mono WAV (all sounds in OA are this format)
-Files are as follows:

death1.wav - Death yell
death2.wav - Death scream
death3.wav - Death, death
drown.wav - Drowning death underwater. (making death noise in a glass of water works well for this)
fall1.wav - Falling grunt from a distance like 7ft or higher
falling1.wav - Falling scream to a distance to death (usually in a pit of death fog or a black void)
gasp.wav - Gasp for air after swimming in water
jump1.wav - Jumping grunt
pain100_1.wav - Pain noise when at 75-100+ health points
pain75_1.wav- Pain noise when at 50-75 health points
pain50_1.wav- Pain noise when at 25-50 health points
pain25_1.wav- Pain noise when at 1-25 health points
taunt.wav- Taunt noise, provoked by either pressing the taunt key, or a team score (automatic)

-Character sounds are not really lines of dialogue! They are grunts, pains, death noises, falling noises (screams when you fall long distances towards immediate death), and a taunting noise.
- The upcoming missionpack for 0.8.0 also features a system for voice quips and team orders but no lines have been written for these yet. It's also not character specific.

Characters
FEMALE
Audition lines I can't really come up with. Freely adlib your own if you like.

Name: Angelyss (http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Angelyss)
Age: 24
Bio: She comes from a planet with a really hot climate that so hot it causes cotton threads to burn. Because of this, she wears almost nothing but a sling and some stockings. Basically she's sort of a parody of the typical anime sex bomb female complete with large breasts and borderline-to-nudity attire. She likes hunting.
Voice type: Maybe european or asian sounding. The skins for this character varies alot (from caucasian blonde (http://openarena.ws/shots/angelyss2.jpg) to succubus (http://openarena.ws/shots/angelyss-dark.jpg) to black (http://openarena.ws/shots/fun/compromise1.png) to asian (http://openarena.ws/shots/fun/an-rai-new.jpg) (even furry (http://openarena.ws/shots/076/nekoyss.jpg))) so maybe something to fit all 3.

Name: Arachna (http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Arachna)
Age: 28
Bio: She is a dark elf / spider (a drider) and she is really evil. Long hair, dark blue-green skin, long ears, clad in nothing but a necklace, etc. She likes torture and magic.
Voice type: Probably british/french european because she's from a medieval fantasy world and we all know everyone sounds european there. Low pitch , but not monsterous low.

Name: Major (http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Major)
Age: 30
Bio: She is a futuristic military soldier with experience with large destructive weapons and railguns. She likes loyalty and command.
Voice type: Tough because she is not focused fashion first. Think Ripley from the Alien movies. Aggressive.
Audition line 1: Ouch
Audition line 2: Yea!

Name: Kyonshi (http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Kyonshi)
Age: 21
Bio: She is a undead chinese hopping corpse looking for revenge. She is rather well dressed.
Voice type: Friendly, kind, Chinese mandarin. Enjoys joy. Not aggressive. Her taunt phrase is currently "Ni hao ma *giggle!!11*" but maybe something better can take its place.
Audition line 1: Ouch
Audition line 2:


Name: Ayumi (http://openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Ayumi)
Age: 19
Bio: A young japanese schoolgirl part-time undercover assassin. What appears to be a cute bundle of teen spirit may be your worst nightmare. The model for this currently is one of the worst models ever and will be redone soon.
Voice type: Cute asian voice ^_^ but aggressive when 50% health or lower and death.

Name: Sorceress
Age: 23
Bio: She comes from the fantasy middle age setting where she dwells into magic and also some chemistry. She isn't wicked but she is no witch despite the pointed hat.
WIP pic 1 (http://openarena.ws/crap/sorcwip3.jpg)
WIP pic 2 (http://openarena.ws/crap/sorcy1.jpg)
Voice type: Stronger euro accent, perhaps more german-like.


- 0.8.0's missionpack expansion also has 2 new models that try to be generic as possible for skinning creative liberties. No details on them yet but they're a female and a male and have medium, fit proportions. Since its voice system is different, it's not character unique. There is a team voice system that issues these following lines:

Affirmative!
Camp here!
Cover me!
Defend our flag.
Defend the base.
Following the carrier.
Follow me!
Get our flag!
Get some skulls!
Get that flag!
Getting our flag.
Go for the flag.
Go patrol the area.
I don't want to be the leader anymore.
I have the flag.
I'll cover our base.
I'm camping here.
I'm following.
I'm going in.
I'm in position.
I'm on defense.
I'm the leader.
Incoming enemy fire!
I want to roam around.
I want to attack.
I want to defend.
Just roaming around.
Keep up with the carrier.
Negative!
No.
Okay
Our base is under attack!
Roger that
They have our flag!
Where are you?
Who is our leader?
Yes.
You're on offense.

These do not include taunts and insults, which are freely improvised as long as they're not trademarked or unclean.




Remember that i'm going to pressure for an August 1st deadline, which may be OH NO THAT'S KINDA SOON FROM NOW but the actual game will release on August 8 2008 (since it's version 0.8.0 and all these 8s are of course for luck)

There is no 'filled' positions or 'spots', though it doesn't hurt to have more contributions than necessary. If it's after August 1 it'll probably have to be in some future patch or version.

If no one voices, i'll have to resort to using a male-only text to speech system, and I don't want to do that :(

One audition has been recieved so far.

leilei
06-14-2008, 04:55 PM
gah i'm having no luck here. Guess I should look elsewhere (http://librivox.org).

mippa
06-14-2008, 05:52 PM
I would be interested in auditioning, but really, you should put up some audition lines for us to use. While some of us are voice actors along with writers, it's your job as producer to provide us with the material.

Add some audition lines, and see the feedback roll in, I assure you!

Hatomikazuki
06-14-2008, 10:38 PM
I'll try to send an audition in later tonight~

leilei
06-15-2008, 04:31 AM
Add some audition lines, and see the feedback roll in, I assure you!

OK, you wanted lines, you got it!

*augh*
*argh*
*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh*
*ugh*
*owwww*
*ough*
*uaaah*
*uaaahhggg*
*uarrrrh*
*humph*
*gasp*
*gasp**gasp*
*gurglglglglglle*
"haha yeah."
"Woohoo!"
"Alright!"


Oh and here's the standard missionpack teamplay lines, sans taunts (because I can't think of any) - there is a LOT of stuff here, audition with the ones you want to:
Affirmative!
Camp here!
Cover me!
Defend our flag.
Defend the base.
Following the carrier.
Follow me!
Get our flag!
Get some skulls!
Get that flag!
Getting our flag.
Go for the flag.
Go patrol the area.
I don't want to be the leader anymore.
I have the flag.
I'll cover our base.
I'm camping here.
I'm following.
I'm going in.
I'm in position.
I'm on defense.
I'm the leader.
Incoming enemy fire!
I want to roam around.
I want to attack.
I want to defend.
Just roaming around.
Keep up with the carrier.
Negative!
No.
Okay
Our base is under attack!
Roger that
They have our flag!
Where are you?
Who is our leader?
Yes.
You're on offense.


I could probably write some .sh script that adds some radio chatter-style effects to the files in a batch process

Jeans
06-15-2008, 04:48 AM
WOOT

I love parroting the "Godlike!" and "R-r-r-r-r-ampage!" announcer tags in Unreal, this is right up my alley. Expect an audition!

leilei
06-15-2008, 05:30 AM
But we already have an announcer and also he wants to do new Unreal-like takes for the new version with his new equipment. Sorry :(

Jeans
06-15-2008, 04:24 PM
Well not the announcer specifically, I was referring to auditioning for the teamplay pack. :)

Jaela
06-15-2008, 06:34 PM
Wait, do you want us to record ALL of those lines for each character?
I think what mippa was saying is that usually, for auditions, you put up a few audition lines for each character, and people read for those they are interested in.
If you edit your first post to include them, you'll probably get a better response.
Good luck!


-Jaela

leilei
06-16-2008, 04:00 PM
oh I forgot to mention the team chatter voices aren't necessarily for every character listed on the first post. That's way too ambitious. The original game had like

male1
male2
female1
female2

voice sets for the team chatter.

Jeans
06-16-2008, 04:23 PM
Out of curiosity, is there any particular voice you're looking for? Soft or hard, accents?

leilei
07-01-2008, 06:21 AM
Soft probably. Hard would just sound obnoxious

Sorry for the delay, lots of technical issues plus bad weather (hot mostly, overheating computer prevents lots of 3d do-things) as well as being tied with another project (thats so anime etc) that's early in prototypical stages. I'm in a bit of a rush actually, damn real lifes D:

mippa
07-01-2008, 07:09 AM
I think it would be a really great idea to take a peek at this thread (http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/showthread.php?t=21372) and edit your first post to match these requirements. I really want to audition, but it just isn't possible with an audition thread so disjointed like this!

leilei
07-04-2008, 06:58 AM
Thanks, i've edited the first post. I hope the edit's good enough because i've rarely ever done recruit posts like these before. Can't think on hot days ._.

aeri_s
07-04-2008, 01:21 PM
I'm interested in auditioning...once I finish eating breakfast XD

leilei
07-21-2008, 07:11 AM
Updated first post, added sorceress character info. There's 10 days left for the first release candidate and 16 days left for the final release :O