Today, let me introduce you to our friend Price Johnson, aka Stumpt Price of Stumpt Gaming! He’ll be playing Percy, the warm-hearted arcade scorechaser.
Price Johnson is based out of Portland, Oregon and is a full-time content creator for Stumpt Gamers. Being a full-time content creator means video games are central to everything Price does. Additionally, he spent many a childhood party at his local arcade before it was shut down, so he is right at home in Arcade Spirits. His favorite arcade games growing up were the 4-player brawlers like X-Men, Gauntlet and Sunset Riders. While Price has practiced his voice skills over many years as a hobby, Arcade Spirits will be his official voice acting debut.
For a first time actor, Price hammered it out of the park with this one. Percy’s story called for warmth and sadness in equal measure, and needed a skilled talent to bring it to life. Without a doubt, Price did exactly that. Bring a box of tissues, ’cause Percy’s tale is going to be something else entirely…
With all this talk about the voice acting, I hope you release an updated trailer/demo featuring the voice acting.
Speaking as a blind gamer, voice acting doubles as a tremendously useful acessibility feature in media that traditionally communicates through the written word, and I got nothing from the existing trailer, and while the demo was quite playable with Renpy’s self-voicing capabilities once I figured out how to run it, I’d hate to put down the money for the full game once it comes out only to find the self-voicing and voice acting clash horribly(worse case I can imagine: the two constantly try to talk over each other, too much is lost muting one or the other, and there’s no easy way to mute/unmute each as needed).
That’s the plan! We recorded the actors speaking the lines that appear on screen in the trailer, so we can re-create it with narration. (It’s just promotional fluff, anyway. “In the year 20XX…” etc.)
Also I’m hoping to have a build out to the Patrons soon which includes some of the voices, so it can be tested with self-voicing and make sure everything works together correctly.