Facts
Project Title: Nova Robotics Lab
Project Status: Completed
My Responsibilities: Everything
- Level Design & Triggers
- “Voice Acting”
- Choreography & Facial Expressions
Project Description
In order to get accustomed with Valve’s Hammer Editor and Face Poser tools, I built this small story-driven map: The player takes the role of John Smith, a research scientist and lab worker at Nova Robotics, the leading manufactures of “Artificial Human Companions”. And at what seemed to become an usual workday, things soon start to go wrong…
The map features advanced triggers and choreographic scenes with custom made speech dialogs and was developed in May 2007. The most challenging and time-consuming task was the “voice acting”, lip synchronization, as well as animating and scripting the choreographic scenes.
I wanted the NPCs to sound synthetic and distorted, in order to emphasize the fact that they are machines, programmed to be your friends. After some experimenting, I decided to use the text-to-speech functionality of Microsoft Reader and let it read the dialogs.
Level Overview & Walktrough
