What if Pokémon Played Survivor? That is the question that Pocket Survival has set out to answer twice up to this point! A thrilling game where a large cast of Pokémon battle it out, first in a tribe vs tribe format, then in an individual format! Each episode ends with a player being voted out, until only one player remains, the winner! 3 Tribes, 21 Pokemon! This is Pocket Survival 5: Isla de la Lunala!
Pocket Survival is essentially a simulation with a story written around it. Fans and friends submit characters, a cast is selected, and then the pokemon are thrown into a brantsteele simulation. As the writer, I take notes on everything that happens in the simulation, the challenges, the tribal councils, down to the events, and I add plenty of extra fluff and story on top to make it truly unique. We've done four seasons of Pocket Survival up to this point, Lugia's Reef (Season One), Koraidon Badlands (Season Two), Island of the Beasts (Season Three), and Temple of Time & Space (Season Four).
This is the second season we've casted for voice actors! Voice actors would be voicing:
- Confessionals
- Tribal Council Dialogue
- Off-Hand Comments / Whispers
- General Dialogue
For a more in-depth look at what this entails, this video showcases just about everything one would be expected to voice act for!
Project Details:
- This project is intended to have all voice acting completed within a 1-2 month period of characters being cast, and for the project in full to be complete 1-2 months after that.
- If your character does well enough, you may be requested to return to voice your character again. If you don't wish to return, you don't have to. It is not a requirement to be cast.
- First, in the week leading up to the livestream, shorts will be posted each day on youtube, twitter, and bluesky, each short highlighting a character doing the equivalent of a pre-game interview. Then, the entire season will be streamed live on twitch over 2-3 livestreams. The VODs will then be posted up on my VODs channel. Then before the next season (or if another season does not happen, within a few months after the original livestream), an edited down version will be uploaded to my main youtube channel. Credits for every voice actor will be showcased on all fronts.
- Please come in with the knowledge that your character could place anywhere, no matter how hopeful or well built up they are before their vote out. All the writing is happening actively whilst looking through the results of a brantsteele simulation, so some characters may be voted out in unpleasant or sudden ways.
- Scripts will be split into two different types: Pre-Merge and Merge. Both scripts will be given at the same time. The deadline will be 1-2 months after being sent. I intend to be a bit stricter on deadlines this season.
- If your character reaches the final 5, you will get dialogue for the instance that they are the winner. This is mostly to combat bad faith spoilers from ruining the absolute ending, but yes. Every character that reaches the final 5 will have 'any-case dialogue' in their scripts to prevent the winner from being spoiled. This dialogue includes being 5th place, 4th place, 3rd place, 2nd place, 1st place, etc.. In addition, every character that is a juror will have 'any-case dialogue' for asking questions to every player that is still in the game after their vote out.
Guidelines:
- Please add your Discord handle to your audition
- Audio quality, while preferred to be high, is not a must for this project. This is more meant to be a fun thing so if your mic is a bit fuzzy then it's not a big deal.
- Yes, this is a smaller project that not many people really care about, but even so, no spoilers! Especially during the live stream! Considering if your character is not in the final 5, it is generally pretty easy to tell where they placed as the VA, so I would prefer if you do not spoil anything related to the project.
Optional Guidelines:
- You may submit for as many characters as you'd like, and may even be cast for multiple characters, so long as the auditions between them sound different enough. Vocal variation is key for those seeking multiple roles!
- We have a discord server that the project will be run through, also used to make bigger announcements. This server will also offer future VA casting opportunities. This is NOT required to join, as all scripts and dialogue submissions will be sent through private DM.
Minor Note: If many character descriptions seem written by different folks, it's because they are! Pocket Survival is partially cast through viewer submissions! So, for submissions that summarize the character well enough, I've left them preserved as is. Submissions that are way too small or way too long, I've tried my best to re-write to give a better idea of the character.