There Came an Echo - Voice activated RTS starring Wil Wheaton
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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all right guys I'm here at the Indie Mega Booth with their came and Echo I
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I've been hearing about this game ever since we landed and I I've had to check
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it out and we've been busy but we're finally here and I got to play it myself
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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
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game what can you tell me about this game this is a voice controlled realtime
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strategy game uh it's a little
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complicated we're in the court alpha
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1 rce to Delta 3 on my
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mark Miranda Fire on my
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mark let's do it hit him Grace
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go will ween and Ashley berar in the game and you're controlling a squad uh
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through various tactical scenarios with your voice and you say things like all
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units to Alpha 1 uh Shields up Focus
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Fire On Target 2 tactical decisions like that and it's a really narrative based
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experience and it's a lot of fun to control with your voice so it sounds
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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
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really know military commands I'm not going to remember to say uh to bra Bravo
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2 or any of that kind of stuff so what you guys have something in place for
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that can you explain how that works yeah so we have this system called command aliasing uh I can tell you what the
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basic military commands are but it's a little tough to remember all those and
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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
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existing command or character or or
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anything in the game with whatever you want if you don't want to call him Corin
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you can call him Benedict Cumberbatch if you don't want the command to be fire
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you can say mess those guys up and this can be completely customized however you
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want and it's one of those things that you kind of just I understand that it
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it's a little you might be a little skeptical about voice commands you might think oh that might not be very accurate
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or that's not very good um you got to just try it I mean you just had a chance
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to give it a shot it's it's very very accurate and I want everyone to give it
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a shot that said um we do also support controller keyboard and mouse commands
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as well so however you want to play it's cool with us yeah like like for instance
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I aliased uh Corin one of the guys in the game to lonus so I could use him as
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my Suicide fighter because I don't care about lonus he's not even here right now
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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
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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
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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
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weaton and stuff like that like it's a huge name are you worried about that at
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all I mean look yes that's is that a huge risk yeah yes it is I mean is this
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whole game a huge risk yes it is there are not a lot of voice controlled games
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out there but to me it's like I I want
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to do something different you know I yes it's I had the we did our first game
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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
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retro 2D platformer I guess not that
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there's anything wrong with that if anyone's watching and likes retro but I
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wanted to try something really different I wanted to try to create an emotional connection between the player and the
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characters in the game and I think actually talking to them and having them
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talk back with some great voice actors is a really really cool way to do that
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it's just more about what I really love and what I really wanted to see happen
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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
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Mega booth and honestly within the very short period of time I had to play it
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it's it's you get a connection with it immediately like it's I I cared more
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about those people because I wasn't just dragg and dropping them mous and throwing them into the battle I actually
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had to tell him with his name go there
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and if he dies from doing that I'm going feel bad that's your fault and more than
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that they talk to you they respond if they don't hear you they say Sir repeat
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that they banter amongst themselves and they all have very unique They're Not
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Just Like Ur ra military soldiers generic guys they all have unique
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personalities motivations desires and speech patterns and of course to that
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end we have our crazy awesome cast will weaton Ashley Burch Laura Bailey Yuri
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lenthal Karen strasman Rachel Robinson the list goes on uh we're so excited to
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record we record in July um super psych to work with those guys that's going to
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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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