Our preference is for a simple voice set, rather than fully voiced dialogue. Possibly with a few additional lines voiced for certain talks. This will probably depend, in part, on who we find that might be interested in doing the voice work. This is a fan-made mod that we will be sharing free of charge with anyone who is interested, so it is unlikely that it will be voiced by a professional actor who would, understandably, seek payment for their services.
There are a couple of gentlemen that I know who have expressed an interest in playing around with it, but I don’t yet know how successful we will be in getting the right voice ourselves. If we haven’t been able to come up with what we want by the time we are ready to release the first beta version for testing, my preference would be to use a temporary voice set until we do.
I will take a look at the site that you recommended. Thank you for the suggestion.
Isandir’s work is wonderful, isn’t it! I would encourage you to visit his site to see more of his beautiful work. He has been taking a break from doing portraits lately, but I’m sure he will return when life allows.
To me voice isn't that important, as long as the dialogue is wonderful I don't really mind if there's no voice to accompany it. I have a very vivid imagination so it's nice to sometimes imagine the voice for the character myself. I'm weird I think.
What a lovely-sounding mod! I'm looking forward to it already.
As for voicing, I have to agree that voice work isn't that important. While it's nice to have for sure, it's certainly not vital. I enjoy mods that have voicing and mods that don't equally based on their content, not whether or not they're voiced.
To me voice isn't that important, as long as the dialogue is wonderful I don't really mind if there's no voice to accompany it. I have a very vivid imagination so it's nice to sometimes imagine the voice for the character myself. I'm weird I think.
What a lovely-sounding mod! I'm looking forward to it already.
As for voicing, I have to agree that voice work isn't that important. While it's nice to have for sure, it's certainly not vital. I enjoy mods that have voicing and mods that don't equally based on their content, not whether or not they're voiced.
The way I view things is that my experience playing Baldur's Gate would be seriously different if there weren't any voice work or at least voice sets for the NPCs. If it were purely text it wouldn't be anywhere near as fun or have the same engrossment factor to it. While the voice acting isn't overly important as much as the content itself (finding a good compatible voice type is important after all and not always easy) at least having a voice set for the joinable NPC would be good since that's not a whole lot of work compared to all/most of the dialogue being voiced in the mod. Plus custom voice sets as a standalone thing aren't all that hard to do either so having that voice there to add to his personality would make it more enjoyable to play and not have a disconnect from the other content/NPCs of the game.
I agree, a voice set helps to complete the impression we get of an NPC’s personality and helps to make them “come alive”. It is only fully voiced dialogue that I have mixed feelings about.
Fully voiced isn't necessary but it would be a bonus. I like to have sound sets with music for the dialog part like the npc project or Gavin. Although I'd be happy to play with him silent. He just seems really interesting and perfect for my mysterious Shadow Dancer.
@WithinAmnesia Thank you for the invitation. It could be fun to collaborate on a project in the future, but our plate is full just now. Besides our Kerick NPC mod, we have been playing with a mini mod that adds drops for some of the critters in BG that have never had any before. Such things as hide and bone and usable meat, along with a little quest that enables the player to have a piece of armor made, if they so choose.
I had hoped to release a beta of the mini mod this month, but the powers that be had other ideas. For instance, the drain field for our septic tank failed and we are having all kinds of fun dealing with that situation just now. I laugh, because the only other option is to cry. Such is life.
I found it interesting to read about your work with BAM files as you seem to enjoy that. We did not. Thankfully, our BAMs for the mini mod are all done now though. I look forward to seeing what you and your team come up with.
@RavenslightOkay that sounds really cool (not the septic field though, mine is overflowing too (heavy rains) XD). I really should wait until tomorrow to say thanks for I am dead tired after ~30 hours of crazy work. My brain is a tad bit 'under powered' right now; although thank you for comment my friend. Your mods seem really REALLY cool. Also do you maybe think that.. Ehh you know.. You could give a sneak peak of those item B.A.M.s :S? If they are cool I could maybe do some crazy stuff to them while the whole 'Dream Team' monkeys around a bit. e.g. The Bottom Item B.A.M. Is From The Shipped Version Of Icewind Dale. The Top Most Is The Non-Upgraded Version And The Middle Is The Upgraded Version (Via An In Game 'Crafting Quest').
@WithinAmnesia Though I appreciate your enthusiasm, I must tell you that we are not interested in taking on a partner for this project, at this time. I have no doubt that you could come up with some lovely BAMs to fit the project, but for now, we want to keep what is a learning experience for us, just our own work.
There is much to consider when modders decide to work together on a project. Not the least of which is having a common vision. There is always a strong possibility that there will be disagreement as to how and what should be included. What we find appealing for our own game will not be the same as everyone else. It is so easy to develop bad feelings between perfectly nice people who just have a different idea as to what might be neat to add to the game, as well as what each finds unappealing.
I have noticed from some of your posts in the past that you have some fairly strong opinions on game balance and how mods should handle this. I on the other hand favor role playing aspects over anything else. These strongly held opinions have the potential to conflict.
I know that if I were to work with someone else on a project I would have to feel fairly confident that we shared a similar vision. At least for the parts of the project that I was involved in.
Of course, the neat thing about a group of people working together is the ability for each to focus on their strong suits while letting others work on the areas that maybe we ourselves feel weak in. But it does require that all parties evolved have a similar vision and maintain a high level of respect for each others work, even when it might not be done exactly how we ourselves might do it. Basically, my best advice to you as you form your new team is to choose carefully those who have similar tastes and visions to your own.
@Ravenslightwell spoken, although I want to say that I am fine if you wish to work just on your own projects and to have our projects unconnected. I should have said this earlier. I do not wish to (for a lack of a better term) 'pressure' my way into a connection of our projects. Rather I am wondering if I can help your work (with your ways of seeing how the game should be fully under your control) while I work on getting my different project underway.
As in, I like what you are doing but I did not wish to join our projects together. I was wondering if I could do some err 'free lance'(?) Item B.A.M.s for your cool project. I can completely understand your reasoning and that is good, although I want to offer my err 'work' as something that can improve your project, not mine.
Basically I want you to know that if I was to give you some Item B.A.M.s, they would be separate from my own project. I am just a bit bored with recruitment and I see really cool 'separate - e.g. not connected to my project' community content in development and I wish to help, with myself offering you Item B.A.M.s.
I am working on my own project, although I don't want you to think that if I was to give you item B.A.M.s that we would have to work together on our projects if you do not wish to. Again my friend you can keep my work separate from my project; I just want to help your project with Item B.A.M.s - not to make you feel as if we have to combine mods.
@Ravenslight How it going ? is the mod making progress? Are you going to add him to SOD as well now that it out ? it will be great tho more work for you I'm afraid.
@kaguana At this point, my best answer to the question about SoD is, I think so. It is hard to say for sure until I have had the chance to play the expansion. We are holding off with changing our current installation of the game until we have finished up a couple of things for the second part of our Critter Parts mod that we released a couple of weeks ago. Not to mention letting the dust settle around changes that SoD and the patch made to the game affecting mods in general.
Once that is done we will be testing the final version of the Critter Parts mod, and of course Kerick, on a new install including the new patch and SoD. Once the final version of Critter Parts is released we will decide how we want to handle Kerick from there.
I suspect that the Kerick mod will be released in three parts for, BG, SoD, and BGII. But at this point it is hard to know how much content for SoD we will want to add until we know how that portion might fit with the BG and BGII parts.
Thank you for your continued interest in our little mod.
Thank you @Ravenslight for answering, I'm really waiting to play this mod of yours, Kerick sound interesting companion to have, I agree with Aedan I'm really glad you are still working on it and not giving up after all this time I'll be glad to help test him ingame when you are ready to share him
We would definitely appreciate your efforts as a tester @kaguana , when we are ready for that step. I will send you a PM to see if you are still interested once we are ready.
@Aedan Does your agree just mean that your looking forward to the mod, or that you would be interested in being a tester as well?
I would like to add my name to a list of people offering to do voice over work for this project.
I'm a thespian with my own recording equipment. Happy to record some samples for you if you give me a few lines and some direction on how you would like Kerick portrayed.
Drop me a PM if you're interested.
Project looks very well polished, regardless. Looking forward to testing the finished project
A couple of people have contacted me, concerned that this mod might be in danger of being cancelled. I just want to let anyone who is interested know that this is defiantly not the case, but I have learned that any predictions of a release date are unwise.
There always seems to be something new that life sends your way to stumble over. There was a period of about six months this past year that I didn’t touch this mod after I lost my father. God, just writing those words down still wipes me out. This weekend will be the first Fathers Day that I can’t call him and tell him how much I love him, what a difference he made in my life. My heart is breaking all over again.
It’s his words, running like a mantra through my head that keep me going just now.
I'm late super late but well never late to say that I'm sorry for your lost, it never easy to lose a dear one, but remember he is always with you even if he isn't in a physical body, he is in your heart where he will always will be, blessed be.
Sorry for my bad English. Not my native language.
I ... well, i ... I was just wondering if this mod still alive and will it ever be released. Like, there is no news etc, so i guess my hopes are worthless, ya? hmm that's sad. And yeah, Im really sorry about ... you know (why do i feel myself so shitty right now ?!)
Though development has been delayed over time, for many reasons, it is most definitely still in the works. I wish I could give you more information as far as a release date, but I can’t at this time. Hmm… I can give a bit of news that we’ve not spoken of before. Kerick now has a voice set, most kindly voiced by @Sirick
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There are a couple of gentlemen that I know who have expressed an interest in playing around with it, but I don’t yet know how successful we will be in getting the right voice ourselves. If we haven’t been able to come up with what we want by the time we are ready to release the first beta version for testing, my preference would be to use a temporary voice set until we do.
I will take a look at the site that you recommended. Thank you for the suggestion.
Isandir’s work is wonderful, isn’t it! I would encourage you to visit his site to see more of his beautiful work. He has been taking a break from doing portraits lately, but I’m sure he will return when life allows.
As for voicing, I have to agree that voice work isn't that important. While it's nice to have for sure, it's certainly not vital. I enjoy mods that have voicing and mods that don't equally based on their content, not whether or not they're voiced.
I am trying to contact people to make New Areas, New Items, New Quests and also I am try to contact people to make New Non-Player Characters.
I created a big nerdy thread all about it
Thank you for the invitation.
I had hoped to release a beta of the mini mod this month, but the powers that be had other ideas. For instance, the drain field for our septic tank failed and we are having all kinds of fun dealing with that situation just now. I laugh, because the only other option is to cry.
I found it interesting to read about your work with BAM files as you seem to enjoy that. We did not.
The Bottom Item B.A.M. Is From The Shipped Version Of Icewind Dale. The Top Most Is The Non-Upgraded Version And The Middle Is The Upgraded Version (Via An In Game 'Crafting Quest').
Though I appreciate your enthusiasm, I must tell you that we are not interested in taking on a partner for this project, at this time. I have no doubt that you could come up with some lovely BAMs to fit the project, but for now, we want to keep what is a learning experience for us, just our own work.
There is much to consider when modders decide to work together on a project. Not the least of which is having a common vision. There is always a strong possibility that there will be disagreement as to how and what should be included. What we find appealing for our own game will not be the same as everyone else. It is so easy to develop bad feelings between perfectly nice people who just have a different idea as to what might be neat to add to the game, as well as what each finds unappealing.
I have noticed from some of your posts in the past that you have some fairly strong opinions on game balance and how mods should handle this. I on the other hand favor role playing aspects over anything else. These strongly held opinions have the potential to conflict.
I know that if I were to work with someone else on a project I would have to feel fairly confident that we shared a similar vision. At least for the parts of the project that I was involved in.
Of course, the neat thing about a group of people working together is the ability for each to focus on their strong suits while letting others work on the areas that maybe we ourselves feel weak in. But it does require that all parties evolved have a similar vision and maintain a high level of respect for each others work, even when it might not be done exactly how we ourselves might do it. Basically, my best advice to you as you form your new team is to choose carefully those who have similar tastes and visions to your own.
Good luck!
As in, I like what you are doing but I did not wish to join our projects together. I was wondering if I could do some err 'free lance'(?) Item B.A.M.s for your cool project. I can completely understand your reasoning and that is good, although I want to offer my err 'work' as something that can improve your project, not mine.
Basically I want you to know that if I was to give you some Item B.A.M.s, they would be separate from my own project. I am just a bit bored with recruitment and I see really cool 'separate - e.g. not connected to my project' community content in development and I wish to help, with myself offering you Item B.A.M.s.
I am working on my own project, although I don't want you to think that if I was to give you item B.A.M.s that we would have to work together on our projects if you do not wish to. Again my friend you can keep my work separate from my project; I just want to help your project with Item B.A.M.s - not to make you feel as if we have to combine mods.
Thank You @Ravenslight
Within Amnesia :-D
At this point, my best answer to the question about SoD is, I think so.
Once that is done we will be testing the final version of the Critter Parts mod, and of course Kerick, on a new install including the new patch and SoD. Once the final version of Critter Parts is released we will decide how we want to handle Kerick from there.
I suspect that the Kerick mod will be released in three parts for, BG, SoD, and BGII. But at this point it is hard to know how much content for SoD we will want to add until we know how that portion might fit with the BG and BGII parts.
Thank you for your continued interest in our little mod.
I am really really really glad you are still working on it. Keep up the good work!
@Aedan
Does your agree just mean that your looking forward to the mod, or that you would be interested in being a tester as well?
I'm a thespian with my own recording equipment. Happy to record some samples for you if you give me a few lines and some direction on how you would like Kerick portrayed.
Drop me a PM if you're interested.
Project looks very well polished, regardless. Looking forward to testing the finished project
Thank you for your kind offer to record lines for our mod. I have sent you a PM.
There always seems to be something new that life sends your way to stumble over. There was a period of about six months this past year that I didn’t touch this mod after I lost my father. God, just writing those words down still wipes me out. This weekend will be the first Fathers Day that I can’t call him and tell him how much I love him, what a difference he made in my life. My heart is breaking all over again.
It’s his words, running like a mantra through my head that keep me going just now.
“Go get ‘em, kid!”
No one here wants to push you. Just remember, your audience is here and waiting your great work, ready to help anything we can.
I ... well, i ... I was just wondering if this mod still alive and will it ever be released. Like, there is no news etc, so i guess my hopes are worthless, ya? hmm that's sad. And yeah, Im really sorry about ... you know (why do i feel myself so shitty right now ?!)
Though development has been delayed over time, for many reasons, it is most definitely still in the works. I wish I could give you more information as far as a release date, but I can’t at this time. Hmm… I can give a bit of news that we’ve not spoken of before. Kerick now has a voice set, most kindly voiced by @Sirick
Thank you for your interest.