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Big news: NEOFEUD VOICE ACTORS WILL BE PAID! Please contact me.

(puts down megaphone)

First up, a play-by-play of the Neofeudal State, ordered by progress.

-Voice Acting 5% - Good news is I've cast at least three of about six major parts so far. Still a whole lot of voices left though, so feel free to contact me to audition for voice acting for Neofeud! I am also going to be officially paying voice actors/actresses for their work here, so get those Snowball mics hot and larynxes properly marinated in lemon tea, and contact me!

-Debugging 50% - I have gone through the entire game and squished every bug that I encountered, but I await bug reports of testers. Of course, saying a codebase is 'bug free' is like saying a washed pair of hands is 'bacteria free' or that a war-torn Middle Eastern country is finally 'violence free'. But eventually you have to pull out and send the thing to the e-store shelf!

-Music 95% - Thanks again to Minxilla. Still in the process of soundtracking and cueing music at the right times, but we're on the right track!

-Sound 70% - I've got my Audacity turned up to 11! Working on it!

-UI - 100% - Yes! No more bland week-old-noodles colored iconbars and crappy Windows 95 cursors!

-Story: 100% - Despite the eternal nagging of my inner-Grammar Nazi, the storyline for the Neofeud game is finished! Yes!

-Backgrounds 100% - All of the world-art is in the game!

-Characters 100% - Fully characterized!

-Programming 100% (rough draft) -

That's right, good readers, patrons, lords and ladies-

We're movin' on up!

Great!  Feel free to message me with some sample voices.

[UPDATE (11/1/17)]

UPDATE (11/1/17) :

Neofeud still needs voice actors to play the following roles:

Nolen Gates-Walton - Male, British.

Grandma - Female, African American

Maharaja Patal - Male, East Indian

Transgenic Immigrant Woman - Female, Eastern European / Russian

Mayor Laura - Female, American

Crabbette - Female, American

Johnny - Male, American, child

Message me if interested!


UPDATE (28/12/16):

Neofeud still could use 1 male and 1 female voice over artist for some of the smaller parts if anyone is interested!
 

UPDATE (15/12/16):

Just an update- I'm still looking for one or two more voice actors if anyone's interested.  Message me, thanks!

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Neofeud is seeking voice actors/actresses!

Male and female parts.

I am also seeking game testers to help with the polishing process of Neofeud.  This will be a PAID position for testers who do quality and timely work.

Message yours truly for more info!

Neofeud

Neofeud Patreon site

-Silverspook

Great looking background there! 

Great talk man, good to know writer's block happens to the best of us.

@Cassie: Speaking of annoying things... Any progress on the testing?

@Gurok: Thanks!  I've played a lot of Fallout (I & II) and the influence might have 'rubbed off' on my exposed surfaces...

@Blondbraid: I've cleared the entire Thanksgiving weekend schedule of irritating relatives, turkey dinners, Netflix binging and wrestled all my CPUs and GPUs free of crypto mining just to focus solely on Neofeud development!  It is coming as fast as Spookishly possible!

@AnasAbdin: Thanks man.  Good thing you have those sweet glasses: prolonged viewing of luminous gold/diamond skycastles may cause retinal damage.

Neofeud has a splash and title screen!  Yay!

[embed=1000,600]http://youtu.be/4OIOgMN17kE[/embed]







Also, I've got brand-spanking new UI icons, menus, iconbars, and more!  I was torn be the royal-vs-rust themed UI, so I decided to do both.  The "High Level" menus -- Main Menu, Technocratic Control Panel screen -- all got a metric drek-ton of gold plating and glowey neon-blue snazzyness everywhere, and the "Commoner, work-a-day" menus, like the in-game iconbar and cursors look like bargain-bin trailer park nick-nacks and patchwork gizmos salvaged from a DeLorean that blew a flux capacitor in 1989.  Inequality is tres ubiquitous in this game, why shouldn't proto-fascist snobbery extend to the UI, right!?!?!?

Sorry I missed the 'Black Friday' door-buster sales and will probably take a rain check on cybermonday too, but I'm crossing fingers for Neofeud out before Christmas. 

Also, still looking for voice actors/actresses!  Hit me up!

Major congrats on getting Greenlit, mate!  You deserve it!

Everything looking top-notch!

I'mma load up my retrowave 'tube mix and watch them animations all day Saturday.  Nice work!

Awesome yellow rain streakies on the window, man

Yeah calculating an exact number down to the cent is not really a huge deal for me.  I find fussing about that stuff can be counterproductive while just trying to build the fanbase / community for an indie project. 

There are some simple calculation widgets though that convert price of BTC or other crypto to USD that can update automatically though.  Then people can watch stock graphs and speculate on the price of Neofeud.  Play the dystopian futures market (hopefully it stays in a bull market!  lol).

Thanks for the input, CaptainD!  That's pretty much exactly the info I was looking for.

I'm thinking about going with option 2, dealing with it manually.

Unless I start selling tens or hundreds of thousands of copies, this shouldn't be too hard.

The way things are, I like having that Patreon-style, personal connection with the fans / supporters.  I'm thinking I might even do some sort of custom-crafted message or award or gif-sticker or something for those who buy the game through crypto.  To make it a little more worthwhile, I'm thinking of even giving a 5% or even 10% discount -- the transaction fees are already cut out with bitcoin.

This sort of paying-it-forward mentality is great and has a way of mulitplying itself.  I figure there are is a large overlap on the Venn diagram of 'people who would like Neofeud' and 'people who use cryptocurrency for personal / ideological / ethical reasons'.  And so giving people that option might be appreciated and have knock-on effects.

Neofeud art prints are now available!

Redecorate your house with some dystopian cyberpunk.    The mugs make great Christmas presents, too!

Looks great man!  I like the glowing yellow rain as it diffracts light from those lamps there.  Gives it that touch of authenticity.

I am planning to do a graphic novelization (possibly a straight novella) of Neofeud once the game is out, or possibly earlier.

There appears to be a good amount of interest from people who don't necessarily play adventure games (or video games generally) who would be interested in the story, and they've already paid like multiple times the price of the game through Patreon so I feel obliged to pay them back/forward.

To any gamedevs who've sold product in the past, do you have any experience in or view on taking cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, et. al.) as a form of payment? 

I'm looking into distribution options for my game (Neofeud) and am looking at the potential for accepting crypto, as it can allow near-zero fee cuts for middlemen.  And I'm a fan of'em myself.

Thanks for any advice in advance guys. 

Great looking rain there.  I feel wet just watching the anim.

That's a good lookin' fish man there.

Thanks Blondbraid!  Yes, I had the Matrix costume design team come in for a 2-day consulting.

At this point I'm in the process of running and re-running through the game, squashing all those blasted hives of bugs, and poking around for voices.

Also, have to extract the entire script out of the game and into a Word Doc.  I have an armature of the script outside of the game but there were changes made during development so I've got to re-update that for the VAs.

Working on some new title screen / splash screen material.