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| This past week, I got a message from a friend of Onions asking me to find some native English speakers to voice characters for a video game. I told her....no problem. And using the wonders of voice memo technology I had a bunch of my students send in voice samples and three students and I were chosen. |
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| So, this is what the inside of a video game app company looks like. So we learned that the company, Topgame, is in the midst of creating eight different games. We arrived and hung out for a while. |
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| And we got to play the game we voiced the characters for. |
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| The game is called "Farm Freedom" and has elements of Candy Crush with five animal characters. |
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| I was up first. My character, the bird, was described as having a "irritated and annoyed sounding voice." I can pull that off in my sleep. |
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| My lines consisted of "Nothing can stand in my way!", "Run! Before I get angry!" and "Burrnnn!" I said each line three or four different times with a different intonation. |
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| Christina N. played the only female voice....the Lady Cat! |
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| The video game developers were particularly excited by the voice of Joey H. so he voiced two characters, the frog and the dog. He had the best lines, such as, " Sayonara, you vile veggies!" and "Just what the doctor ordered!" |
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| In addition to voicing our lines, each of us gave voice samples of the basic lines such as "Welcome back!", "Congratulaions! You Win!" and "Faster, Faster!" |
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| Angus W. voiced the character of the pig! |
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| The easiest money all of us will EVER make! |
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| The company asked me when the students are leaving and I say the end of May. But I told them a new group of students are coming next year and she will be in contact with more voice work for English speaking students. |