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Chapter 46: Act VI: The Little Prince (8)

Tan Yiming quickly plunged into the intense work.

One of the drawbacks of the games made by Blizzard Entertainment was that they were very, very slow to publish. For each game they developed, the production time was very long; from the project establishment to the demo, to the promotional period, and finally to the game launch. The longest time it took was a full ten years.

The games on the market were mixed, and there were fewer and fewer good-quality products. There were almost no remarkable nor memorable plots and people. As a result, Blizzard who steadily made games by working methodically and carefully, had gained more and more respect in the minds of players, almost becoming the legend of the gaming industry.

... Of course, if they didn't always delay game releases, it would be even better :)

The "q" project was expected to be launched next summer.

Like their other masterpieces, the promotional period would last to one year. The first stage of publicity would start with the character demo. Starting on May 1st, a character demo would be released every half month.

Each demo was about 60 seconds; half were animated CG and half were character skill displays.

According to the internal communication of the project team, the role of the Chinese astronaut Wang Qiang would be the first to be promoted.

In other words...in half a month, Tan Yiming's voice would reach the ears of millions of players around the world via this platform.

This was an unimaginably huge audience.

Tan Yiming had dubbed so many radio dramas, and also gave voices to small characters in many movies. However, those listeners added up to less than ten million in total.

On the day of the recording, a small audience crowed outside the recording studio. The sound engineer, other voice actors who came to watch, the project team's chief strategist, the game screenwriter, the chief audio designer Jonah Brown ... even the head of the animation department, Ms. Ikeda, was there.

Looking around, all shades of skin and all colors of hair were there to share the excitement. Fortunately, Tan Yiming's psychological quality was good and he had no stage fright.

Wang Qiang's personal demo was not long and he only had a few character lines that needed to be recited. It sounded like a small amount of work, but it took more than an hour from the time Tan Yiming entering to leaving the studio.

Each sentence must be recorded more than a dozen times using many different tones and with varying emotions, and then the most suitable composition was selected and put into the video.

It was challenging, but fun at the same time.

After all, it is fun to do the work you love, no matter how hard it is.

When he finished recording the last line, took off his headphones, and walked out of the soundproof door, there was a round of applause.

"Bravo!" Someone shouted.

As the "initiator", he accomplished his job brilliantly and successfully harvested the admiration of other voice actors.

"Tan, I won't be worse than you!" Fernando was the second person to step into the recording studio. He would give his voice to the Spanish mechanic in the game, and Tan Yiming's performance inspired his excitement to win.

However, he had an abnormality when dubbing—only wearing loose boxer briefs - so they saw him take off his shirt, kick off his flip-flops, and even take off his jeans before he walked in the room.