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Warp Frontier Voice Actor Spolight - Sarah Ruth Thomas as Barbara 'Barb' Jenkins
Sarah Ruth Thomas plays Barbara Jenkins. From Regus, Barb left a religious conservative family to find home on Cetus. Joined the resistance effort, and co-founded the Rust PD.
When casting US-based female roles we're spoilt for choice, not just in breadth but the level of professionalism. I cast for this role via my local network and Sarah was a recommendation. She nailed the role early on, which was a vocal variation on Bo Peep from Toy Story. It was honestly hard to keep casting after that. It was SO easy to work with Sarah on the role of Barb, she gave me more than what I asked for in terms of performance and I hope to continue her role in any sequels I am lucky enough to make.
https://youtu.be/7507i2f9Twk
https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/
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Warp Frontier Voice Actor Spolight - Dom Dinh as Titus Tran
Dom plays plays Titus. A member of the resistance, Vince's best friend and father to Dahlia. Titus has been MIA for 10 years, disappearing at the same time as Juliet Cassini.
When I put the call out for a Vietnamese Australian voiec actor, Dom's name kept being recommended by multiple voice actors. She really nailed Titus' character and was super easy to work with. The only flaw, if you can call it that, was that she can't whistle! This was called for in one of the lines and I provided the whistle in her place.
Titus is planned to appear in future episodes of Warp Frontier, if I should be so lucky to persist with the series, so making the right casting decision for this role was important.
https://youtu.be/wbJh02OAZCU
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Warp Frontier Voice Actor Spolight - Daniel Goulding as Sam Cassini
Daniel, my oldest son, plays Sam. Vince and Trish's older boy, Sam has spent his entire life in orbit. A somewhat reserved boy, he retreats to art to work his emotions out.
While only voicing a minor role, I decieded to bump Daniel's spotlight up to today because today he's performing in his first play since the pandemic started. Last year kids missed out on so many experiences that they'll never get back, from camps, to excursions, to participating in sport, and the arts. At one point I did not think Daniel had enough of an Australian accent to play this part, having lived in the US between the ages of 4-8, and having developed an accent that proved very tough to lose when moving back to Australia. But I gave him a shot and liked his delivery, then I decided that considering his character had grown up in orbit, I'd give him a pass.
https://youtu.be/DJAm4KmMUBE
https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/
Warp Frontier Voice Actor Spolight - Reshma Martin as Areela Gupta
Reshma plays Areela Gupta. From a wealthy family in Zeta Centauri, Areela escaped to live a bohemian lifestyle as a transhuman artist in The Rocks, Cetus' planetery ring.
For Areela I was looking for an actor with an Indian background, but with the kind of international accent that comes from living in multiple places. As with all the actors I cast, I am looking for inflections and tones that come through naturally, to give a consistent performance. Reshma was not the first to audition for Areela, but her read instantly put her in another category as exactly what I was envisioning for this role.
https://youtu.be/r_C7OvgnqEs
https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier
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Warp Frontier Voice Actor Spolight - Aimee Smith as Patricia 'Trish' Cassini
Aimee plays Patricia 'Trish' Cassini. Trish was part of the war resistance, and now lives in the orbital slums of their ruined planet with her and Vince's three kids.
Aimee instantly captured Trish in her first audition, and delivered a powerful performance, which she consistently nailed on the first take.
https://youtu.be/cMDgJKoPNno
https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier
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Warp Frontier Voice Actor Spolight - Andrew Goulding as MAC
MAC is Vince's robot partner, and observer. MAC has an up and down relationship with Vince, due to his unflappable positivity and strict adherance to protocol.
I play MAC as a somewhat androgynous mashup of HAL and C-3PO.
https://youtu.be/zn6Ye896qAc
https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier
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Voice Actor Spolight - Kevin Powe as Vincent Cassini
Kevin reached out to me many years before I started working on Warp Frontier, and I’ve always thought it would be great to have him in a role that called for a strong Australian voice. Luckily, Warp Frontier presented the perfect opportunity to showcase his talents. Kevin has nearly half of the lines in the entire game, so I’ve become very familiar with the sound of his voice lately, and here’s hoping you will enjoy it as much as I have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiZ_B1H75k
Brawsome publisher page now live!
Head on over to https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Brawsome if you'd like to stay abreast of all Brawsome news, such as Jolly Rover and MacGuffin's Curse being on sale for 35% off during the Steam Summer sale. That's not a hypothetical, by the way, they really are on sale right now. And the Warp Frontier demo is available now for a few days longer before it's gone forever!
New Point and Click Adventure - Warp Frontier
This is a more serious setting from the 'relentless comedy' of of Jolly Rover and MacGuffin's Curse, but still with sporadic dry humour, if you're into that kind of thing.
Check out the Steam store page for the new trailer that just dropped!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier
Jolly Updates
Sorry I didn't post this sooner, was waiting for Valve to tell me it was up. I've just updated Jolly Rover with a fix for a bug some people came across where you could lose holey compases in the forest if you talked to Juan at the stump scene. In addition, I've updated the Mac version to the latest version of the PlayGround engine, which should fix all graphical issues on Mac. The full versions of the game have been updated on Steam, but the Mac demo hasn't yet because it still has an issue, the Mac demo from my website incorporates the latest change however.
Thanks,
Andrew