Hi guys!
Following the previous post we made concerning Voice Acting, we are now ready to open auditions to the public concerning support roles and extras for Lucid9!

Here is the link explaining in details how to proceed, which roles are available and what is expected of you : Lucid9 open audition instructions.
Make sure to follow the recording instructions listed and to send your files to Yin Yang Voices.

Most of the important characters have been cast already, but there are still some with non negligible amount of lines that remain :  there are still over 50 extras in Inciting Incident that will require a voice, so don't hesitate to submit! However, remember that you won't get financial compensation for your work, since we are a non-commercial project.

That's all for today! If you know people that might be interested in voicing a character for Lucid9, please share the announcement!

Edit:  we are proud to announce that we found a Voice Actress for Akira, she will be voiced by Mel Gorsha! Congratulations to her, and we are really looking forward with working with her in the very near future! 

Diamonit.

Hello everyone! Today is going to be a lengthy update, since we have a lot of news to share with you all!  

First of all, we recently got greenlit on Steam! We can't thank you enough for your support, Lucid9 made it in not even two weeks of time, that was really incredible! It really motivates us to know that we're working on a game that so many people are expecting and wishing to play. We are doing our best to provide you all an enjoyable and memorable experience with Inciting Incident.

For the second exciting news of the day, we are proud to announce you that Lucid9 will be getting English voice acting in its entirety! We were recently contacted by Earthtrap and his team, Yin Yang Voices, a team of extremely talented Voice Actors who proposed us their service for free on Lucid9, seeing how they saw potential in it. It was for us a golden occasion that we couldn't miss, and we organized closed auditions for the characters with Yin Yang Voices. The result was really outstanding, and we already managed to get a cast for most of the characters :
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Casting and direction : Yin Yang Voices

1. Yama Ishimoto: Kyle Land
2. Rui Hayata: Debbie Gatton
3. Misaki Kazehaya: Kayli Mills
4. Akira Karube : Mel Gorsha
5. Elizabeth Oshiro: Rachael Messer
6. Airi Hiraga: Caitlynn French
7. Yahiko Ikari: John Wesley Go
8. Masato Kurogane: Michael Kovach
9. Jirou Ryouta: Michael Potok
10. Natsuki Tanaka: Katie Dagnen

Concerning other characters that haven't been mentioned here, we are currently having open auditions that will close around the end of February, you can find more information here. We're also looking for many more lesser roles that need to be cast, so don't hesitate to submit!

We are all very excited both at Fallen Snow Studios and Yin Yang Voices at the idea of this partnership, and I hope you will all be as well! However, we know this announcement may bring up a lot of questions, so I would like to give some clarification to potential worries :
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• Will this affect the release of Inciting Incident? 
  No. We plan on releasing the voiced version as a future patch much later. Inciting Incident will still be released as scheduled in the first quarter of 2016.
  
  
• Will there be the option to turn off the voiceover? 
  Yes.
  
  
• Why "English" voiceover?
  Having it voiced in, Japanese would require translation of the script on our part, and would take quite a while to do, not mentioning the difficulty of finding Japanese VA.
  
  
• When will the voiced version be completed?
  It's difficult to say. Our casting director gave us an estimate that voice acting for the patched version of Inciting Incident will take at least a whole year to complete, so most likely no voice patch until early 2017. We'll be giving updates on progress in the mean time.
  
  
• Can I audition for a role?
  We have already chosen specific actors for the major roles in Lucid9. There are a number of supporting, minor or background characters that would need to be filled. We will make a new post concerning open auditions in the near future, so stay tuned if you're interested!​

Now, onto the less exciting news, it is definitely clear that Inciting Incident won't be released during February. The time we had to spend to organize voice acting is one of the cause, but definitely not the main one : we figured that it would be better to take our time to release a polished product rather than something rushed full of bugs and typos. We want the release to be as flawless as possible. Here is an update concerning our progress for the release :

- Writing is 99% complete, Editing is 70% complete. There are only a few scenes remaining to tweak and rewrite, but nearly all of Inciting Incident has been written. Concerning editing, it consists mostly in typos fix, plot holes fix, and script consistency check.

- Music is 100% done. All that remains is to master the tracks so that we can ensure the best quality sound with similar output leveled track, while keeping a decent size by compressing the tracks. The total soundtrack number for Inciting Incident has exceeded thirty, and we all hope you will enjoy it, as some of the tracks are really incredible.

- Art is 90% done. More specifically, Backgrounds are 100% ready, sprites 90% ready and CGs 80% ready. There are only a few sprites and a few CGs (including GoverMecher ones) that need to be worked on. Not counting GoverMecher and variations, there are in total 10 CGs in Inciting Incident (which is only a common route).

- Programming is more complex to evaluate. GUI is 100% done so far, and narrative scripting is currently around 70% completion. But there are several other features we are including (some people might have noticed a phone in our sample thumbnails ;) ), and most of all we still need to bug test the whole build once it's ready. It's going to take us quite some time, but be assured that we are really proud of what Lucid9 has to offer in terms of interface experience.

So, is there any precise release date for Inciting Incident? Still not, but we're believing that the game will be ready for a March release. Once again, no guarantee, but we're pretty confident on this one. 

Thanks for your time reading, and prepare for another surprise for Valentines!

Dia