What considerations should you consider when casting and selecting voice talent for your project?

Evan Goncalo is a part-time writer and full video game virtuoso who lives and works in Massachusetts.  Evan is currently employed at Varolii Corporation as an Application Engineer in addition to lecturing on Game Design at Bristol Community College.

Evan started his career in the game industry as a Quality Assurance tester at Turbine Inc, working on Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar.  From there, he went on to become Turbine’s Marketing Coordinator and worked on their suite of games that include Dungeons and Dragons Online and Asheron’s Call.

Evan left Turbine and joined the team at Blue Fang Games as a Senior Quality Assurance tester and began working on Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals as well as their new project that would later become World of Zoo.

After deciding school was where he wanted to be he left Blue Fang and set out to complete what he had started years earlier.  While Evan was finishing his degree in Game Design he worked as a Graphic Artist Technician at Gatehouse Media for a traditional print media outlet, The Herald News.

All good salesmen understand the power of ABC.

I love award shows, don't you.  The only problem is that we just don't have enough of them.  I think we should have an Award Show, Award Show where we give (what else?) Awards to the best of the Award Shows - and maybe  bumper stickers.

I have been wondering how I should begin with this new thing, to write a regular blog for AWN as one of their new-featured experts.  Being me, I think I’ll start with a gripe. 

 

Following the Shippuden plot from its inception to the reunion of Naruto and Sasuke, this game is an apt blend of RPG and fighting play. Story mode allows you to fight your way through the story arc, yet not get slowed down by excessively long periods of dialogue. And if you master story mode, quest mode, with thirty different levels will further test your jutsu prowess.

 

On the desolated landscape of a lost Earth floats the city of Romdo, a persuasive utopia in which humans and robots coexist under the watchful eye of a fatherly government. Utopian that is, until an awakened consciousness, called the “proxy,” emerges and infects the life-blood of this displaced civilization. 

 

Based on the popular comic strip, Happily Ever After depicts the quotidian misadventures of Yukie and Isao. An odd couple, Yukie is the timid, devoted housewife to the laconic, moody Isao. What’s worse, she has apparently married down; at least that’s what her friends keep whispering. Isao is not simply a temperamental man, but unemployed yakuza!

 

 

Based on the popular anime/manga series of the same name – whose lush artistry equally matches the verdant vitality of nature itself – this live-action version is a much-welcomed adaptation. Writer/director Katsuhiro Otomo captures the very being of Ginko’s tale through scenes inundated with the light and dark of Japan’s countryside. 

 

2009 TV Series (episodes 1-13). Director: Tsutomo Mizushima. 315 minutes. DVD, bilingual, $59.98. Distributor: Funimation.

In middle school Mihashi was the ace pitcher for the baseball team. So, why did the rest of the squad ostracize him and refuse to hone his skills? He supposedly got the job because his grandfather owned the school. Consequently, Mihashi is a paranoid, nervous wreck that thinks he sucks! The only thing left to do is enroll in a new high school, where the players don’t know how bad he really is.