So. I’m writing this to share some news with a few good friends, and I need you to bear with me for a while with a bit of background information. Many of you might know that I really like video games, but probably very few of you know just how avid I am with regard to the video games I play. One in particular has been a bit of an obsession for over five years. You may have heard of a game called “Halo.” (This is not the game I’m talking about here, but I figure it’s the one you might have heard about.) Halo was created by a studio that has made games that I love for over 25 years, but “Halo” was probably their most famous. They sold the Halo franchise to Microsoft some years ago so that they could focus on a new science fiction game, called “Destiny.” Destiny is now the number one game on the Steam gaming platform. It’s played on PC, on Xbox, and on PlayStation. Over 15 million people play it, with about 3.5 million online at any given time. So far over 4.5 million hours have been spent playing Destiny, a bunch of them by me.
Like most very popular things, Destiny has an active fan community online. This past year saw the first conventions of fans. There are online comic books, fan fiction sites, and volumes — literally, volumes; three and counting — of lore, history and back story for the Destiny universe. You can play alone, or with other people, or against other people, or with a team, or against other teams. There are a lot of options. There are also lots of options with regard to the kind of character you can play as. D and D players will recognize the categories of Tanks (big strong fighters), Magic Users and Rogues. In Destiny they are called Titans, Warlocks and Hunters. (I am a Hunter.)
One particularly dedicated group of fans and players has worked with Bungie, the studio that made Destiny, to create an animated series based on the Destiny Universe. The animation is tentatively called “Termino.” A call went out early in December for writers, voice actors, character animators, and so forth. Since I play the game every day, I was interested, and submitted an audition to be a voice actor.
I learned yesterday that I was cast in a role. My audition recording arrived later than most because of some technical difficulties I was having, but the producer/director informed me that even though they had cast most of the major parts already, they were so impressed with my audition that they created a role just for me, so that I could be a part of the project. This is unheard of, and I am ridiculously pleased by this.
The project is in pre-production now and recording will begin in January 2020. I’ll keep you posted as much as I can, but I signed a LOT of non-disclosure agreements. This project has a lot of potential, and a big ready-made audience, and I could not be happier!
