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[Knight of Fools]

I'm pretty sure Tommy from the Rugrats is voiced by a girl.

The Bart thing creeps me out, though.

[chaoticag]

Yeah woman dont develope rough voices so its easier to protray youthful characters, while all the baratones are more likely to be men with gravel for a voicebox; GTMH.

Still, nothing in the title seems to imply the four main villains are going to be male, so my advice is go for it. You have nothing to lose, and a potentially enjoyable experience.

[LordBucket]

I don't have the script

There probably isn't one.

The website for the game is basically an empty placeholder. I'm guessing there is no script, and the developer only has a rough idea of how the story will play out.

It might be early to be casting voice actors. Game development can take months or years. If you do casting now, and record audio for scenes as the game is made, 6 months from now when you're only halfway through the game it's very likely that some of your actors will have moved on and be unable or unwilling to finish. Leaving you to either gut the story or replace actors and start over.

I'd advise making the game with text, and add the audio later once the game is nearly finished.

[Supermikhail]

_{I'm sorry.}

[Blade Master Model 42]

_{I'm sorry.}

Wow. Seriously, wow. I'm quite impressed with this.

[MaximumZero]

I've always wanted to try to do something like this. I may post something in the future, when I won't drive everyone crazy with my voice.

[Supermikhail]

Wow. Seriously, wow. I'm quite impressed with this.

Phew - "impressed" is not "insulted".

[klingon13524]

I have access to a professional quality recording suite, but I don't have a very villainy voice.

[Vector]

Depending on when this records (over a summer or winter break?  In a year and a half, when I'll have graduated?) I'd sort of like to do this.  Uh... I have a relatively low female voice (that's my natural speaking tone, though I can go quite high and speak naturally as required) and I can do "River Tam crazy" fairly well.  Took a couple of acting classes and can do reasonable singing/old woman stuff.  You may not be looking for what I have to offer, though, because my tone tends to sort of oscillate between "soothing purr" and "raging hellbitch."

Uh, and I'm really not sure about the quality of my mic.  No vocal files for you right now because I don't have a mic of any quality on me.

I'm going to be gone for B12 for a while, though, so if you need any female VAs/want to contact me you'll have to let me know via email.  I'll PM it to you before I leave.

[chaoticag]

If it's any consolation, soothing purr and raging hellbitch can work really well for a villainess role, especially one that's a little... unhinged

[Qloos]

After fiddling with my mic for several minutes and recording for a few seconds: http://www.mediafire.com/?hkrj1e9n5cd6pp8

[Neonivek]

I'm pretty sure Tommy from the Rugrats is voiced by a girl.

The Bart thing creeps me out, though.

It is sort of at the point where it is more interesting to pick out children roles voiced by children instead of girls.

For example Chowder and Prince Lumen from Spider Riders (such an awesome voice!)

[Pnx]

I think I might try doing the cold calculating villain, if only for the fun of it since my setup is really inappropriate.

Oh, on the subject of voice actors, Natasha Allegri of Adventure Time fame is looking for a female voice actor (or at least, someone who can voice a female):
http://natazilla.tumblr.com/post/18029976716/i-need-to-look-for-a-voice-actor-you-will-be#disqus_thread
Apparently it pays.

[MrWiggles]

I am really interested in trying out for this, but Lord Bucket's post, I gotta plus one. Try to addition at this stage, is much close to masturbation then anything productive. We dont know what your villain is, or your idea of a villain is. We don't know anything about the game. I can give a very crisp clean audio sampling, of myself just rambling, with editing handles, but so what?

Voice Acting is very insular industry, with a small select number of actors doing a majority of the work. So even amateur credit would be great to have behind ya to get other work, possibly more legitimate work.

Spoiler: LordBucket Post (click to show/hide)

Thanks. I did a quick test and the sound quality with my current setup leaves something to be desired, so I'll have to see about fixing that. But it sounds like you're not ready to accept submissions, so I suppose I have time.

As someone who has done casting, I do have some suggestions:

 * You have 5 roles to fill but you'vae only described two. Give character bios for all five. Include not only personality, but also age, gender, etc.
 * You need to give some idea of the scope of the project, and an approximate number of lines for each character. You don't want to cast someone in a role and have it turn out that it requires ten more hours or ten more weeks than they expected, and then have them leave mid-production because of it. When it comes to recording time, are we going to be given lines in isolation that we can read and be done with in an hour? Or is this going to be months of going back and forth, recording scenes one at a time as the script is written over the course of the project? People need to know this.
 * You need to have people reading the same lines to compare them. Minor improvisation off those lines is fine, but asking people to come up with 'villainous one liners" means that your audition process will be evaluating the ability of people to write dialogue...which is probably not what they'll be doing during the production.
 * It's a bit strange that you say you're looking to fill the roles "as soon as' you find appropriate voices...implying a rush, but you haven't given us an audition process or lines to read. You're asking for pre-submissions, but stating that those pre-submissions won't be used to decide anything. If you're going to do this, then do it. Write character bios, formalize lines to read from, and give submission protocols. As it is, the way you're asking for submissions so you can not use them, if you'll forgive me, makes it a bit difficult to take you very seriously.
 * Give a formal protocol for submissions. Specifically, either:

A) Allow people to audition for any specific character(s) of their choosing, with a separate submission for each character they're auditioning for. And have them include with their submission if they're willing to play roles other than those they're auditioning for.

B) Require that applicants audition for all characters.

For example, what happens if someone auditions for villain A, and his voice is appropriate for villain A, but his voice is also appropriate for villain B, and his is the only voice out of your submissions that is appropriate for villain B...and you have someone else who is appropriate for villain A? The obvious thing to do is to cast the applicant for villain A as villain B, even though he didn't audition for him. But, the applicant might only be willing to do villain A. And if you then complete all your casting with him as villain B only to have him decline the role, everybody ends up wasting a lot of time.

Given that this seems to be a very casual, unpaid production and you won't be working with professional voice actors, A is probably preferable. But either way, the whole project will be vastly simpler if you address this kind of thing from day 1.

[Blade Master Model 42]

Well, I just got done with a conversation with the guy in charge of the project, and it would seem he is only interested in local talent, so he can firmly control audio quality with his equipment. I must admit, I'm a bit confused over why he specified good quality recording if he planned to use equipment he had and knew the specifications for.

I really am sorry. I know there are a lot of people here who really got excited at the prospect of working on this project, and for getting your hopes up and wasting your time, I really, really am sorry.

I feel pretty scummy about now.