Heroes of the Damned
Project Overview
Introduction
Hello everyone! This casting call is for our main male protagonist, (with more characters to be added at a later date) Eidolon the Ghost Detective for our summer capstone project, Heroes of the Damned. We have a strong preference of talent who is based in Toronto, ON but we're open to working remotely with talent so long as they have a semi-professional setup and can promise good audio quality. Please note that this role, as well as all future roles, are in the English language.
Project Overview
Heroes of the Damned is a 3D top down view, Superhero Action RPG. The player plays as a party of 3 superheroes with varying abilities and skillsets. Each superhero can be built differently to the player’s liking, allowing for different team compositions. The player must build their character, defeat enemies along the way, and stop the villains at the end of each level.
Deadline & Auditions
The deadline for auditions for all characters is May 31st at 12:00am EST. We will notify who has been casted by early June and send out scripts accordingly. For anyone who is located in the GTA, please message me your availability between June-July so we can start booking recording sessions. The first level of the project has a hard deadline of August 15th.
Please note that is an unpaid, student project :)
What We Ask of You
First and foremost, have fun -- we take pride in bringing together talents for a project we are all extremely passionate about in order tp create something truly phenomenal, but none of it means anything if the people involved aren't passionate about their craft!
Please submit clean recordings on prosumer mics (no air conditioners in the background, no fans -- we don't mind performing noise reduction on your files, however too much clean-up reduces the quality of your voice). And speaking of clean-up -- please let us handle the post-production. Don't add effects to your lines -- leave that to our incredible audio team :)
Feel free to cut your lines to your best/favorite takes. Three is the gold standard. We have a few voice actors that would rather give us more takes, and that's okay, too. However please at least remove the takes you don't want to be featured on this project.
Please submit your recordings as .wav files in 48kHz/24bit format to my company email address, which will be provided to you after casting. If a file is too large to submit via email, we prefer to use WeTransfer or OneDrive.
We do occasionally ask for line re-dos, but we do this sparingly and only after great consideration - we realize your time is valuable, and we won't ask for anything we can't work around in edits.
Lastly, since this a semester long project, we 'd like to cast people who will be able to stick with us for the entire duration and who are serious about their craft and working with us.
Lastly, please don't hesitate to message me if you have any questions about the audition process or the project itself. Looking forward to hearing everyone's submissions! :)
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Eidolon the Ghost Detective is one of our main playable protagonists in Heroes of the Damned. He is written to be in his early to mid 40s with blue spectral/ghostly skin and white eyes with dark black circles around them. He is also of average height and medium build with typical detective clothing on. He is very stoic with a noir detective like personality, has a rough, scruffy, mature sounding voice. He is very patient, observant and doesn't act hastily. He also doesn't tend to raise his voice unless he deems necessary. He has special abilities (such as being able to turn intangible), teleportation and always carries detective tools with him.
- english
- video game
- male adult
- videogame
“We will report as we complete the mission. We will set our way to the first outpost” – Eidolon talking over radio at mission start
“You would think that ghost on ghost violence would be frowned upon…*grunts while f ighting*, you know since we’re already dead!” – Fighting other ghosts during arena combat
“Just because I am a ghost doesn’t mean I believe in the impossible. If there is a god then he would have helped us here, Innocents wouldn’t be dying and turning into one of me” – Eidolon speaking to sage while walking around town
Mayor Majors is the main antagonist for Ghost Town, the first level of Heroes of the Damned. He has a spectral/ghostly appearance with the looks of a stereotypical major (monocle, top hat, suit, etc.). His appearance is heavily inspired by King Boo and Kamek from Super Mario, but with the attire of Kingpin (Majors can fly but has a cane anyways). Personality wise, he is very full of himself, thinks he's the smartest in the room when he usually isn't, very egotistical and the type of guy where things randomly tend to work out for him and thinks it's from his own doing. We are looking for a higher pitched, goofy, enthusiastic sounding voice with comedic tones (preferably with an Italian accent as well).
- english
- funny
- italian
- video game
- male adult
“Hellllooo, allow me to introduce myself. I am the One and only, Mayor Majors of this beautiful ghost town, what can I do for you today?”
“WHAT, you wish for me to turn off the transistor?! Do you really believe I would ever allow such a thing?! Prepare yourself, this treachery will never be forgiven by the great Mayor Majors. The first and greatest City Mayer in the WORLD!!!”
“When I was alive, I was the greatest swordsman in the whole world! Now that I am dead my swiftness is far Superior!!”
Honcho is our NPC guide for Heroes of the Damned, whose there to help navigate the player(s) throughout their missions. He is written to be in his late 40s early 50s, with a commanding voice and a professional, tactical tone (with the tendency to use a lot of military-like tones). Some inspirations you can use for his voice would be Keith David, Sargent Johnson from Halo 2 and Phil Coulson from Marvel.
NOTE: This character is part of our desired scope as opposed to our mandatory scope, and may not be included in the game due to time constraints.
- english
- american
- male adult
“PD, Listen up. The mission objective is civilian support first, do not engage in combat with public in the area unless absolutely necessary.”
“PD, Push up on Bravo site. Bravo team and Red team will be waiting for you there”
“I saw, Change of plans. The new object is the capture and detain of Mayer Majors, he might be a fool but he a good man. Once you bring him in for questioning, he should give us information on what happened with the other ghosts. Honcho out”
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