Thank you to everyone who's auditioned for Close Your Eyes
I've been making small little horror games for a long time now, and have been very fortunate to collaborate and work with all the people I have over time. In the past, I've either done voice acting myself, with people I know, a couple who offered, and some talent off Fiverr. I decided to test the waters with Casting Call Club through 2025 as an experiment, and a few game scripts were going to get finished throughout the year.
The response to Close Your Eyes has been far grander than I would've ever imagined. As we come to a close, over 1200 people auditioned with over 2500 auditions. I've listened to every single one, along with two others who've helped me through this whole process. There were multiple days we'd dedicate 3-10 hours of our time to just listen in to all the auditions, discuss them, what we thought, make calls for who our current top picks are, etc. First let me say I appreciate every person who auditioned, every person who took the time to check out the project, take the time to audition, I actually appreciate it. I've only had a wealth of potential candidates because people decided to audition and put themselves out there, despite the modest amount of money I'm offering, despite some of the weirdness of some of the roles. Close Your Eyes means a lot to me, and it's meant a lot to see people try their hand at these roles and characters, some of which have had dialogue unvoiced for over a decade with me developing them.
Making the calls for the voice actors I've selected was very challenging. There were multiple times with multiple roles where I'd have two, three, or more potential choices for a role, and I and the two friends helping me would spend over an hour listening to the same few auditions again and again, debating which one is who we'd choose and for what reasons, the different pros and cons of each take. There's some people who did fantastic performances that are ending up not being the role that a part of me is sad I won't get to hear their performance on the character because I truly think they could've done great at it as well. But as everyone who's auditioned for things knows, if 100 people audition for a role, even if many of them were great, only one person is going to be selected at the end, and that's just kind of the hard truth of it.
For the people who get the roles, I'm going to try to get in contact with all of you over the next 48 hours to confirm you're good to go for the role. I'll reach out through DM here on Casting Call, & Discord/Email if available, respond to whichever one is more convenient for you. I've been up for a bit listening to auditions, and there is 15 people I need to reach out to and talk with/explain things to, so please do give me a bit of time to respond back to each of you. I'll be sending out the scripts this Saturday/Sunday after everything's been arranged.
For future projects, I will be using Casting Call Club more. This has been a very successful experiment, and in fact for another further out project I'm plotting to post my Casting Call to the site within the next month. And of course as I write this, if you go to my profile, I'm still holding auditions for Sink Your Teeth, another game of mine.
Thank you all who've auditioned, it means a lot to me, and I'm not just saying that. I hope you all are having a wonderful day, thank you for taking your time to read this, and hope to hear back from a number of you on future project casting calls I hold!