On September 10 last year, a Steam user posted a negative comments Every Luminous bodyis an indie action role-playing game that was recently released into Early Access. After playing the game for less than half an hour, players praised the game’s graphics but also criticized it because “the horrible AI sounds ruin it.” So far, nothing particularly interesting, but the developers decided to answer him and explain the truth.
Refractive Entertainment has clarified the misunderstanding: the voice does not belong to artificial intelligence, but to Wife of creative director Keith Kolodhis first dubbing experience. Simply put, his team was too small to pay for professional actors.
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“While my wife may not be the best voice actor (this is her first time), I can assure you He is a real person, not an artificial intelligenceHaha,” Kolod replied. “We don’t use artificial intelligence in the game at all, we are just independent developers doing the best we can with the resources we have.” The developer later publicly questioned on social media why players should take it for granted that any dubbing that lacks AAA production quality must be the result of artificial intelligence.
In an exchange of information with GameSpot newspaper, Kolod stated Don’t be opposed to using artificial intelligence in video game development. However, he chose not to use it because inserting real voices was a way of leaving “a part of me, my family and my friends” in his work.
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However, getting his wife Mikel involved wasn’t easy. “Mikel didn’t take the opportunity,” explains Collod. “She was shy, she thought the outcome would be bad, and she didn’t want to spoil the game.” To reassure her, her husband explained to her that the role No need for high acting skillsas an ethereal goddess who only needs to convey calm to players. “The first few times we recorded she could tell she was very nervous. […]. He was stammering over the words, worried about all his inflections and the pronunciation of certain terms, but with enough recording and just reading a few sentences at a time, I think we got a decent result. She was glad it was over. “
Luminary is a very personal project for Kolod. The idea was to create an action role-playing game that was easy to pick up, The author can play with his wife and son. The game was developed by a team of two people with no funding or publisher support, but still achieved good results: reviews on Steam were “mostly positive” and the game sold approx. First week net income is $70,000. Mikel agreed to speak out purely out of love and support for her husband’s plans. The curiosity surrounding the story brought new visibility to the game, and even before an update containing his voice was released, Mikell had made a specific request to Kolod: “Okay, but I don’t want to know if people hate my voice in the comments or on X. I’ve tried my best.” “Little did he know,” Collod concluded, “that this would become our main news”. So, at this time Also check out Luminary on Steam.