This weekend brought Stephanie from Vox Daily to the Voice Coaches Marketing Expo down in New York and with it came great voice over panels and discussions. Now a days you can’t have a proper discussion about the future of voice over without mentioning the huge potential in the video game industry.

At the Expo Evan Skolnick, VO Producer at Vicarious Visions, put on an interesting panel about the state of voice over in the gaming sector today and Stephanie has a nice write-up about it and some facts and tips about the industry as a whole. Of course, one of the most important tips is still to play the games!

Some of the more interesting aspects of the article is just the shear volume of dialogue that goes into a video game as opposed to a movie. Your standard movie averages out at about 2,000 lines of dialogue as opposed to a video game which average tops out at roughly 8,000 lines! But it doesn’t end there as your blockbuster, voice-heavy games such as Mass Effect and Fallout 3 can have as many as 70,000 lines of dialogue! Try imagining reading 70,000 lines. You may need a glass of water after that session.

The article as a whole is a concise, handy guide to the seemingly wide open world that is video game voice acting and a recommended bookmark for all interested.

Game On : Gaming Voiceovers - via Vox Daily

Stephanie at Vox Daily and Deirdre of the Voice Over Bulletin Board have collaborated on what can be the most important article for those looking to start voice acting in the lucrative video games industry. Play the games! They go into a little more detail about why you should be playing video games, but the main point is if you want to work in that industry you need to understand it. CLICK HERE for the story