MacGuffin's Curse
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
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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
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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
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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 over there and follow for all Brawsome news, including discounts, streams and new game announcements! For example, Jolly Rover and MacGuffin's Curse are both 35% right now, and will be for the duration of the Steam Summer Sale, and the Warp Frontier demo is still available, but going away after this weekend!
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
PAX AUS and Trading Cards!
As you've probably noticed by now, MacGuffin's Curse now supports Steam Trading Cards. Hope you like 'em! Pretty happy with how they turned out, in particular the background and the levelling up badges (the foil badge is pretty awesome!).
Our other big thing to happen over the past week was PAX Australia! Although I'm coughing and spluttering from the PAX Pox, it was totally worth it to meet so many lovely people, both those who'd never heard of the game before, as well as existing fans who dropped by to say hello. Thanks so much if you attended, and even if you didn't get to, thanks for playing the game too!
It was pretty damned awesome to have Tycho from Penny Arcade stop by our booth and check out MacGuffin - he really got into it, and absolutely loved the game. Which is one of the best things ever, I think. Having him mention both MacGuffin's Curse and Jolly Rover on the front page of Penny Arcade was, well, pretty freaking awesome, actually.
Also pretty freaking awesome was meeting Ron Gilbert, creator of both Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island. He stopped by the MacGuffin booth twice, so that's gotta be good, right? It was great to meet him, and he seemed to be having a great time at PAX. His keynote talk was excellent too, definitely check it out here.
Oh, and this image is the actual banner from our booth. It's ridiculously huge. I can't fit it on the wall. WHY DID I TAKE THIS HOME
See Us At the PAX Australia Indie Showcase!
We'll be in great company - fantastic games including:
- The mind-bending Antichamber by Alexander Bruce
- Black Annex, an action strategy game developed entirely in QBASIC
- Duet, an iOS arcade shooter from Kumobius, the creators of Bean's Quest
- Fractured Soul, Endgame's dual-world action platformer, and
- Influx, an action puzzler where you control a mysterious sphere
If you like the look of these other games, be sure to help 'em out by upvoting them on their Greenlight pages below:
Black Annex
Bean's Quest
Fractured Soul
Influx
Well, except for Antichamber. You can buy that right now.
Uh, and MacGuffin's Curse, obviously. You can buy that too.
See you in July!