Hi everyone! I’m looking for voice actors for a new story-driven quest mod for “Fallout 4”. I'm holding these casting calls in stages, filling different roles at each stage. For this third call, I am casting for a number of lead, supporting and minor roles.
About Fallout 4 and Mind Games
“Fallout 4” is a role-playing game set in and around Boston, MA (aka the Commonwealth) during the year 2287, where communities are rebuilding 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse. “Mind Games” puts the player character in the role of a detective on the case of a missing person, which leads to a broader story that connects to the plot from the base game.
You can find a clip of the mod above, which will also give you a better understanding of the story, setting and some of the characters that are mentioned in the role descriptions below (but it's about 20 minutes long so don't feel you need to watch all of it!).
The Roles
The characters I am currently casting are as follows. All characters (except for Chip) are residents of a settlement called The Sluice, which has been built into a sewer junction beneath Boston. You must be aged 18 or over to audition.
Lead role (around 400 lines):
- Penelope, female robot and potential companion, ageless adult - robotic assistant - British accent
- The Lieutenant, male robot and potential companion, ageless adult - robotic soldier - British accent
- Chip Mortimer, male, 20s - seemingly a trader, but later revealed to be a mercenary, and one of the story's main antagonists - American accent
Supporting roles (200 - 300 lines):
- William Reeves, male, late 30s - doctor - American accent
- Angie Russell, female, 30s - bartender - American accent
- Fred Newman, male, ghoul, ageless adult - engineer - American accent w/ ghoul rasp*
- MacMurray, male, ghoul, ageless adult - vendor - British accent w/ ghoul rasp*
- Griffiths, male, ghoul, ageless adult - vendor - British accent w/ ghoul rasp*
- Faizal Khanna, male, 30s - engineer - American accent
Minor roles (less than 100 lines):
- Mary Carlyle, female, late 40s / early 50s - doctor - American accent
- Alan Cox, male, 40s / 50s - vendor - American accent
- Sandra Cox, female, 40s - vendor - American accent
- Angela Meyers, female, ghoul, ageless adult - bar patron - American accent w/ ghoul rasp*
- Eliza, female, 10 - child - American accent
* = ghouls in Fallout are highly irradiated humans that have a trademark raspy voice. You can hear a couple of examples here:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRHVMTPNQA0 (male)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWq4b08O8dU (female)
Content Guidance
- Rare sexual references
- Frequent strong language
- Frequent references to violence and substance abuse
Compensation
The mod is a non-commercial fan project without funding, so I cannot offer anything close to industry rates. I value the talent and effort actors bring with them, so I’d like to offer something where I can, and I can budget for a flat $35 for the project for the lead role and $25 for supporting roles. For the minor roles, I'm afraid I can't offer compensation but, as it's a fan project, hopefully you'll be up for doing it for fun!
Payment ideally via paypal after you’ve accepted the role.
Requirements
- A good mic setup so that we can make the voices and the mod as a whole feel like part of the main game.
- No experience is necessary but clean recordings are really important.
The audition
For the audition itself, you don’t need to stick exactly to the lines. Feel free to change the words and improvise if it feels right. You are very welcome to do more than one take, if you wish (either AABBCC or ABCABC - whichever you prefer).
Everyone is welcome to audition for more than one role. Anyone who has already been cast in this mod is welcome to audition too.
Working style
- No live voice-acting sessions, so you’ll be free to do the recordings as you want, but within specified timeframes (which I try to keep as flexible as possible so that we can work around your schedule).
- Please be prepared to do pick-ups / re-recordings if necessary.
- Ad-libbing is encouraged if it feels right for you, with the only caveat being that the lines of the other characters are fixed, so we’ll have to respect that in order for the dialogue to flow.
- You will not be expected to edit, cut or process the recordings that you send me, but they will need to be in a specific format to work in the game (that being 44100hz, 16-bit, mono WAV). **Please note the format requirements only apply to the lines you send me after you have been cast. I've heard CCC handles mp3s better than it does WAVs, so please feel free to upload your auditions as mp3s.**