Crown & Applause: voice cast, second call
Project Overview
Hey folks. Nathan here, producer on Crown & Applause at Threeclipse Inc.
It's a narrative rhythm game. You play a mouse jester. Your boss is a Dragon King, your audience has tomatoes, and the stage belongs to someone bigger than you.
Bardcore soundtrack, hand-drawn animal cast, nine chapters, and several endings depending on who you decide to please. It looks cute. Give it a minute.
Steam page, so you can see what you'd be walking into: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4685060/Crown_Applause/
No AI on your voice. We won't train on it, clone it, or generate lines you didn't record, and that binds anyone we license to. In return, your lines have to be your own voice: no AI generation or AI voice changers. Normal cleanup is fine.
Voice Actor
The old professor of an owl roost, far out past where the maps stop. Every owl there learned under her. She'll feed you soup, and she'll joke about what goes in it.
Reference art: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WO61qCv0ZfXDV3sMvH48z-Bj6CSkuYMr/view
Personality: cunning, wise and a little bizarre. Calm and matter-of-fact about terrible things. Laughs in hoots.
Voice: older, dry, amused.
Size: around 100 lines in her chapter, counting every branch, plus 3 to 4 simple sounds and words for the non-English versions. Long speeches, so she needs someone who can hold attention.
Note: She has a "hoo hoo" that sounds like her and not like a sound effect. Serious beats that stay calm. No wise-old-mentor voice, please.
Audition direction
"Two kingdoms ago...": Pure deadpan, then pleased with the punchline.
"In a bed, in a village..." Delighted with herself. The pun is not an accident.
"Careful. Owls remember a promise like that..." The amusement drops for one sentence. Still calm.
- english
- female senior
- female adult
"Two kingdoms ago to the south, it was a griffin. He ate the parliament." / "All of it. We took that very personally. A parliament is what you call a gathering of owls. Hoo hoo."
"In a bed, in a village, on a cliff, in a forest, in a tree. What a hoot, you've woken up!"
"Careful. Owls remember a promise like that for a very long time. But since you offer, I have a favour to ask, and I would very much like you to say yes."
Voice Actor
Runs a show boat working the coast, with a crew who were bakers and tenant farmers a month ago. He needs an act. The main character has one.
Reference art (rough sketch, final art coming): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZseRX3pH0K2rO-JqDrxe58oTDRFbTK0W/view
Personality: gruff, dry, unimpressed. Runs his ship by a numbered list of rules and quotes them at you. Embarrassed about money. Would like you to know this is a respectable vessel.
Voice: seasoned and salty, twenty years on the water. Mostly low-key and patient, someone who doesn't look up from what he's doing to talk to you. Has a big voice in reserve for the deck.
Size: around 60 lines in his chapter, counting every branch, plus 3 to 4 simple sounds and words for the non-English versions.
General Notes: patience. Keep him down low so that when he finally lets it out, it means something.
Audition direction (one take each)
"There's three of you...": Adding something up, then catching himself. The save is the joke.
"All right. [beat] Say it again..." Quiet. He already knows the answer.
"TWELFTH RULE! ..." Full voice over a storm, and he's enjoying it. Back off the mic.
- english
- male adult
"There's three of you, and one's a rabbit. Devil's own lu--" / "--providence. That's providence, that is."
"All right. [beat] Say it again, and look at me while you do it."
"TWELFTH RULE! Two aboard with a quarrel they can't put down must settle it in front of the ship!"
Voice Actor
Your host for the evening. She has been waiting for you a very long time, and she's so pleased you came.
Reference art: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11mFV_O5lQL731FM7Pq9fw-szgPwWf4Te/view
Second form, for the grunts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EFfSIE39hU9Wbzoo2-R3CD5U6BbnN_00/view
Personality: an enchantress type. Leans in, smiles through every line, only ever really looks at the Jester. Always says "we", never "I". The group speaks as one and she speaks for it.
Voice: warm and close. Never louder than she has to be, until the pressure builds and she cracks.
Size: around 40 lines counting every branch (you'd hear far fewer in one playthrough), plus 3 to 4 simple sounds and words for the non-English versions.
General Notes: a smile we can hear, and a crack that sounds like it surprised her. If she's creepy from the first word, there's nowhere to go.
Audition direction (one take each)
"Lovely. You see how easy it is...": Gentle. This is the scariest she gets.
"We do like matching..." Hostess at her own party. Mean all of it.
"[her voice slips] ...That isn't how it goes." and, as its own take, "Sing. Somebody sing." The smile is gone and she hasn't noticed yet. Quiet first, then an order with nothing behind it.
- female adult
- female young adult
"Lovely. You see how easy it is, when you stop holding on?"
"[A large figure stands in the doorway] We do like matching. We're so pleased you're all here. We've been waiting a very long time. Especially for you. Make yourselves at home, and do play for us tonight!"
"[her voice slips] ...That isn't how it goes." / "Sing. Somebody sing." / Grunts for this transformation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EFfSIE39hU9Wbzoo2-R3CD5U6BbnN_00/view
Voice Actor
Lead, the player's character
A mouse and village juggler whose act gets noticed by the wrong dragon. Every stage is a performance he has to survive. Falling over is his running joke, on purpose and otherwise.
Reference art: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H59cnEfDGLSUOLXdw21IJ1xD1Hb2UZvY/view
Fresh round. We opened this role in September and nothing particularly clicked, so we're going again, with actual dialogue this time instead of short reactions. Honest truth, we don't know exactly what we're looking for. We'll know it when we hear it. Auditioned before? You're welcome to go again with the lines below.
Personality: funny first, hurt second, brave third. Gallows humour as armour. He pushes back when it matters.
Voice: light, quick, elastic, with room to crack into panic and drop into sincerity. Comic timing over vocal size. Think of a stand-up who is also scared for his life. Younger-sounding.
Avoid: a forced laugh, or mugging the jokes.
Size: the biggest part in the game. Around 250 lines written so far counting every branch, with more coming, plus short in-song reactions and a handful of simple sounds and words (up to 10) for the non-English versions.
General Notes: a joke and a hurt landing on the same line. A laugh that's real. If it isn't real on that take, don't force it, I'd rather not have it.
Audition direction (one take each, lines 1 to 3 below)
Line 1: Tired. The socks sentence is the joke, so throw it away.
Line 2: Whispered hysteria, spike on "not dying" (back off the mic so it doesn't clip), then quiet on "I'm a mouse". He has stopped performing.
Line 3: The bucket lands for real. The second line covers it with a joke before anyone can see.
- male young adult
- male teen
"Again? I've barely finished limping through this one." / "My feet are still arguing with my socks."
"The king. Nobody told me he was an actual dragon. A real one. With teeth." / "I was busy not dying! I thought "dragon" was a way you all talk! A figure of speech!" / "I'm a mouse. He didn't even blink. He just stared at me with those cold, sharp eyes."
"So I am not entertainment. I am a public bucket." / "As insults go, that's the kindest one I've ever had."
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