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all right guys I'm here at the Indie Mega Booth with their came and Echo I
I've been hearing about this game ever since we landed and I I've had to check
it out and we've been busy but we're finally here and I got to play it myself
and it's it's one hell of an experience and they don't even have the voice actors in there yet so what what is this
game what can you tell me about this game this is a voice controlled realtime
strategy game uh it's a little
complicated we're in the court alpha
1 rce to Delta 3 on my
mark Miranda Fire on my
mark let's do it hit him Grace
go will ween and Ashley berar in the game and you're controlling a squad uh
through various tactical scenarios with your voice and you say things like all
units to Alpha 1 uh Shields up Focus
Fire On Target 2 tactical decisions like that and it's a really narrative based
experience and it's a lot of fun to control with your voice so it sounds
really really cool when he talks about that but some things that you guys might be worried about is like oh well I don't
really know military commands I'm not going to remember to say uh to bra Bravo
2 or any of that kind of stuff so what you guys have something in place for
that can you explain how that works yeah so we have this system called command aliasing uh I can tell you what the
basic military commands are but it's a little tough to remember all those and
even if you do maybe it's not the way you want to command your guys so we have this system where you can replace any
existing command or character or or
anything in the game with whatever you want if you don't want to call him Corin
you can call him Benedict Cumberbatch if you don't want the command to be fire
you can say mess those guys up and this can be completely customized however you
want and it's one of those things that you kind of just I understand that it
it's a little you might be a little skeptical about voice commands you might think oh that might not be very accurate
or that's not very good um you got to just try it I mean you just had a chance
to give it a shot it's it's very very accurate and I want everyone to give it
a shot that said um we do also support controller keyboard and mouse commands
as well so however you want to play it's cool with us yeah like like for instance
I aliased uh Corin one of the guys in the game to lonus so I could use him as
my Suicide fighter because I don't care about lonus he's not even here right now
so I can say that if he was here right now I would be in so much trouble anyways um like what what are some of
the risks you see in coming this because we come to the Indian Mega booth and we see so much Innovation but you guys guys
like this like I'm excited to pick this game up I'm going to pick this game up but uh um like dropping Budget on will
weaton and stuff like that like it's a huge name are you worried about that at
all I mean look yes that's is that a huge risk yeah yes it is I mean is this
whole game a huge risk yes it is there are not a lot of voice controlled games
out there but to me it's like I I want
to do something different you know I yes it's I had the we did our first game
sequence it made a good bit of money and I could have gone and maybe made a sequel to that or I could have done a
retro 2D platformer I guess not that
there's anything wrong with that if anyone's watching and likes retro but I
wanted to try something really different I wanted to try to create an emotional connection between the player and the
characters in the game and I think actually talking to them and having them
talk back with some great voice actors is a really really cool way to do that
it's just more about what I really love and what I really wanted to see happen
and that's that's a perfect answer and exactly what I wanted to hear because that's what I love seeing in the Indie
Mega booth and honestly within the very short period of time I had to play it
it's it's you get a connection with it immediately like it's I I cared more
about those people because I wasn't just dragg and dropping them mous and throwing them into the battle I actually
had to tell him with his name go there
and if he dies from doing that I'm going feel bad that's your fault and more than
that they talk to you they respond if they don't hear you they say Sir repeat
that they banter amongst themselves and they all have very unique They're Not
Just Like Ur ra military soldiers generic guys they all have unique
personalities motivations desires and speech patterns and of course to that
end we have our crazy awesome cast will weaton Ashley Burch Laura Bailey Yuri
lenthal Karen strasman Rachel Robinson the list goes on uh we're so excited to
record we record in July um super psych to work with those guys that's going to
be awesome I'm super stoked for this game and I will be picking this up myself if you want to see all the rest
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