FrieNDA

Wed, May 17, 2023 Year 2, Spring 20

Kev interviews Valerie Rose Lohman, the voice of Tara Wylde from Wylde Flowers.

Also, Al and Kev go through the news of the week.

Timings

00:00:00: Theme Tune
00:00:30: Intro
00:02:47: What Have We Been Up To
00:11:23: News
00:27:59: Interview

Links

The Ranch of Rivershine Early Access
Fabledom Roadmap
Paleo Pines Accessibility Considerations
Go-Go Town Power Tools
Farming Simulator Competitive Mode

Valerie’s Linktree
Kev on Twitter

Contact

Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot
Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot
Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/

Transcript

[00:00.000 –> 00:02.000] 🎵Music🎵
[00:30.720 –> 00:34.880] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of The Harvest Season.
[00:35.520 –> 00:36.800] My name is Al.
[00:36.800 –> 00:37.840] My name is Kevin.
[00:37.840 –> 00:42.640] And we are here today to talk about Eurovision, wait no, cottagecore games.
[00:43.840 –> 00:45.440] No, Eurovision’s correct.
[00:45.440 –> 00:46.880] Sorry, I’ve got Eurovision on the mind.
[00:46.880 –> 00:48.480] Get out of the way, cottagecore.
[00:48.480 –> 00:53.040] We are recording this literally an hour before the Eurovision Grand Final,
[00:53.040 –> 00:54.640] so it’s all on my brain.
[00:55.600 –> 00:56.640] That is what it is.
[00:56.640 –> 00:58.720] Oh, I didn’t know.
[00:58.720 –> 01:01.520] I thought this was the start of the season or whatever.
[01:01.520 –> 01:02.640] No, this is it.
[01:02.640 –> 01:03.600] This is the final one.
[01:03.600 –> 01:04.100] This is it.
[01:04.720 –> 01:07.520] We’re done after today for this year.
[01:07.520 –> 01:09.600] Okay, who is in the final?
[01:09.600 –> 01:10.640] I don’t know how these things work.
[01:12.480 –> 01:14.640] There are 26 countries in the final.
[01:14.640 –> 01:16.160] Do you really want me to read them all out to you?
[01:16.800 –> 01:17.840] Oh my goodness.[01:20.640 –> 01:22.480] I don’t get how Eurovision works,
[01:23.360 –> 01:26.080] but if the listener’s interested,
[01:26.080 –> 01:30.880] maybe they could find out in some place on some medium.
[01:30.880 –> 01:35.200] Yeah, we do have a greenhouse episode that was just released today,
[01:35.200 –> 01:38.160] as we’re recording, a few days ago when you hear this,
[01:39.840 –> 01:43.280] where me and Cody go over our favorites at that point.
[01:44.560 –> 01:47.600] And we’re going to do another episode where we update our favorites
[01:47.600 –> 01:50.880] because the live stuff always changes who my favorites are.
[01:51.040 –> 01:52.960] My favorites are never my favorites by the end
[01:52.960 –> 01:56.400] because some of the stage performances are great or rubbish
[01:56.400 –> 01:57.280] and that changes things.
[01:58.640 –> 02:01.200] And go over our feelings about who won
[02:01.200 –> 02:02.720] and what we’re annoyed about
[02:02.720 –> 02:04.320] and why we’re annoyed about Sweden winning.
[02:06.880 –> 02:12.080] Anyway, so this episode we have a very exciting interview.
[02:12.080 –> 02:14.800] Yeah, how long has it been since we had an interview?
[02:14.800 –> 02:17.920] I know, it must be a year since the last interview.
[02:17.920 –> 02:20.240] So this is an interview with Valerie Rose Loman,
[02:20.240 –> 02:24.720] who is the voice actor for the main character in Wild Flowers.
[02:25.520 –> 02:30.080] And, you know, just going to keep throwing these Wild Flowers episodes at you.
[02:30.080 –> 02:34.240] Before long, Kevin’s going to make us a Wild Flowers podcast.
[02:34.240 –> 02:36.000] I will not be stopped.
[02:37.520 –> 02:38.320] Oh dear.
[02:38.320 –> 02:42.240] So we have that, which Kevin has done with Valerie.
[02:43.120 –> 02:44.640] So we’ll get to that when we get to it.
[02:45.520 –> 02:47.360] Before that, obviously we’ll have some news.
[02:47.440 –> 02:50.000] But first of all, Kevin, what have you been up to?
[02:51.280 –> 02:52.640] Let’s see, Marvel Snap.
[02:52.640 –> 02:54.240] It’s in a good place right now.
[02:54.240 –> 02:55.760] New season recently started.
[02:55.760 –> 02:57.920] Fun cars, no dominant effects.
[03:00.000 –> 03:02.880] Let’s see, I have been playing Roots of Pacha.
[03:04.400 –> 03:07.120] That is one.
[03:07.120 –> 03:09.440] Boy, that is a Stardew Valley clone.
[03:09.440 –> 03:11.600] And two, boy, that is a good game.
[03:12.640 –> 03:13.440] Interesting.
[03:13.840 –> 03:17.360] It definitely feels like the season of Stardew Valley clones.
[03:17.360 –> 03:20.960] And I’m very excited to hear how good it is compared to that.
[03:20.960 –> 03:23.920] Because obviously, there’ll be lots of comparisons to Stardew Valley.
[03:23.920 –> 03:27.360] But the real question is, how does it do the other things?
[03:27.360 –> 03:34.080] Yeah, yeah, I will go in depth on some other time about this.
[03:34.080 –> 03:39.360] But one thing I will note, I need to see how,
[03:39.360 –> 03:42.960] because I know Stardew has updated significantly since it last played.
[03:43.040 –> 03:48.400] And I wonder how much of, I think, the improvements from Roots of Pacha
[03:48.400 –> 03:50.880] are just the updates from Stardew that I missed.
[03:52.800 –> 03:55.760] Overall, I mean, I’ve been playing it for like, how long has it been out?
[03:55.760 –> 03:57.040] Like two weeks almost.
[03:57.040 –> 03:59.200] And so I’m still playing it and enjoying it.
[03:59.840 –> 04:02.160] And I’m not playing it for rushing for coverage.
[04:02.160 –> 04:03.760] I’m playing because I actually enjoy it.
[04:03.760 –> 04:06.080] So, you know, that’s a thumbs up.
[04:06.080 –> 04:06.640] Cool.
[04:06.640 –> 04:07.360] Awesome, awesome.
[04:07.920 –> 04:08.400] Yeah.
[04:08.400 –> 04:11.920] Other than that, hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard of this game.
[04:11.920 –> 04:13.840] I play this game called Wildflowers.
[04:14.640 –> 04:15.520] Wildflowers!
[04:16.240 –> 04:20.240] We got update two days after Pacha release.
[04:20.240 –> 04:22.960] Oh, it was a lot on me at once.
[04:22.960 –> 04:25.120] So have you been playing both of those regularly?
[04:25.120 –> 04:25.440] Yes.
[04:26.320 –> 04:27.440] How do you find the time?
[04:27.440 –> 04:27.920] My word.
[04:28.640 –> 04:33.840] I schedule today’s Roots of Pacha day, the other day’s Wildflowers day, etc.
[04:33.840 –> 04:35.280] You gotta tag team.
[04:35.280 –> 04:36.960] I definitely, I cannot do that.
[04:36.960 –> 04:38.640] I can’t do that with games.
[04:38.640 –> 04:40.560] I mean, like I’m all in on a game or not.
[04:41.040 –> 04:41.760] That’s how I work.
[04:42.480 –> 04:43.120] Yeah.
[04:43.120 –> 04:48.320] I mean, it’s easier because these don’t have end goals exactly.
[04:48.320 –> 04:53.520] Like, you know, Wildflowers, I’m in quote unquote postgame where it’s just new content that I can do.
[04:53.520 –> 04:56.080] But I mean, that’s part of what helps.
[04:56.640 –> 05:01.840] But yeah, the update to Wildflowers has been substantial.
[05:01.840 –> 05:03.520] A whole bunch of new stuff.
[05:03.520 –> 05:07.920] A whole bunch of, there was a lot of farming focused updates.
[05:08.000 –> 05:12.480] You can expand a lot of your facilities, greenhouse, etc.
[05:12.480 –> 05:13.120] New animals.
[05:13.120 –> 05:14.800] Some end game content as well, isn’t it?
[05:15.360 –> 05:15.600] Yeah.
[05:16.960 –> 05:19.440] So yeah, it’s good.
[05:19.440 –> 05:21.600] I mean, that’s pretty much what’s been eating up my life.
[05:21.600 –> 05:24.480] What has been eating up your life aside from Eurovision, Al?
[05:24.480 –> 05:27.600] Well, I finally started playing Hollow Knight, right?
[05:27.600 –> 05:31.280] So I got really into Metroid Dread last year and really enjoyed it.
[05:31.280 –> 05:32.320] It was really good.
[05:32.320 –> 05:35.920] And I was like, maybe I should try some more kind of similar sort of games.
[05:36.000 –> 05:37.600] And everyone’s like, oh, you should play Hollow Knight.
[05:37.600 –> 05:38.100] It’s great.
[05:39.200 –> 05:41.360] So I was like, oh, yeah, maybe I’ll do it at some point.
[05:41.360 –> 05:46.160] And then they went and put it on sale for like, it was like six quid or something like that on the Switch.
[05:46.160 –> 05:48.160] And I was like, oh, well, I guess I’m buying it now then.
[05:49.200 –> 05:49.840] So I bought it.
[05:50.880 –> 05:54.400] And then I had to play Coral Island and stuff like that.
[05:54.400 –> 05:56.800] But then last week I started playing Hollow Knight.
[05:57.360 –> 05:58.720] So I haven’t finished it.
[05:58.720 –> 06:01.360] I tried to finish it before Zelda came out, but I didn’t manage.
[06:01.360 –> 06:03.600] I’ve got maybe two thirds of the way through the game.
[06:04.480 –> 06:06.720] So at some point I’ll come back to it and finish it off.
[06:06.720 –> 06:07.520] I am enjoying it.
[06:07.520 –> 06:08.020] It’s good.
[06:09.040 –> 06:12.400] I have my issues with it, but it’s generally pretty good.
[06:13.280 –> 06:19.200] I still, and this is going to sound stupid for playing Metroidvanias and saying I enjoy them.
[06:19.200 –> 06:23.760] I still don’t like the exploration, the backtracking exploration of it.
[06:23.760 –> 06:26.960] So like, I’m fine when you’re going through and you’re like, oh, yeah, okay, well, you know,
[06:26.960 –> 06:31.040] let’s go look at all the areas and like, okay, I’ll need to come back here and blah, blah, blah, blah.
[06:31.040 –> 06:35.440] My problem is when you have to like, okay, now I need to go back to that thing I couldn’t do before.
[06:35.440 –> 06:39.600] I really don’t like that because it’s just so much of just doing the same thing again
[06:39.600 –> 06:42.400] to get back to another bit that I can then do.
[06:42.400 –> 06:48.000] And I feel like these games need many more fast travel areas.
[06:48.000 –> 06:52.320] Like Hollow Knight has a bunch of them, but it’s like one per area.
[06:52.320 –> 06:56.320] And it can take like five minutes to get from one end of the area to another.
[06:56.320 –> 06:59.840] And it’s like, I’m now trying to get to this area because I can now,
[06:59.840 –> 07:02.160] I’ve now unlocked this ability to do this thing.
[07:02.160 –> 07:04.880] But then I have to like spend five minutes going across.
[07:04.880 –> 07:06.960] And if you die, oh well, you have to do it all again.
[07:07.520 –> 07:09.920] Like it’s just that, but I just don’t find fun.
[07:09.920 –> 07:12.160] So that kind of makes the end game a bit annoying.
[07:13.360 –> 07:15.040] But overall, I’m enjoying it.
[07:15.040 –> 07:15.840] It’s good fun.
[07:15.840 –> 07:16.800] The combat’s fine.
[07:16.800 –> 07:17.440] It does the job.
[07:18.240 –> 07:20.320] It is a fun world that they’ve created.
[07:20.320 –> 07:22.960] There’s lots of different things, lots of different enemies.
[07:22.960 –> 07:26.800] And the boss battles are challenging, but not impossible.
[07:26.800 –> 07:28.400] So yeah, no, I’m enjoying it.
[07:28.400 –> 07:29.520] It’s good fun.
[07:29.520 –> 07:30.020] Okay.
[07:31.200 –> 07:31.440] Yeah.
[07:32.000 –> 07:33.360] I mean, I think I agree with you.
[07:33.920 –> 07:36.080] I think they could use more fast travel points.
[07:37.520 –> 07:40.320] But on the other hand, like especially towards the later game,
[07:40.320 –> 07:43.360] when you have everything unlocked and you can just breeze through everything,
[07:43.360 –> 07:44.560] that kind of feels cool too.
[07:44.560 –> 07:46.320] But I see your point.
[07:47.440 –> 07:48.880] Yeah, I mean, you can do both.
[07:48.880 –> 07:50.560] You don’t have to use fast travel options.
[07:51.520 –> 07:54.080] Like one of my favorite things about Breath of the Wild
[07:54.080 –> 07:56.480] is just how many fast travel areas there are.
[07:56.480 –> 07:58.080] You go to Shrine, that’s it.
[07:58.080 –> 07:59.280] It’s another fast travel area.
[08:00.160 –> 08:04.240] So you can just like tear through, go to everything you can see,
[08:04.240 –> 08:06.560] and then you can really quickly travel around the map.
[08:07.360 –> 08:08.320] Yeah, sure.
[08:08.320 –> 08:10.480] But speaking of which…
[08:11.040 –> 08:15.920] Speaking of which, we’re recording the day after Tears of the Kingdom came out,
[08:15.920 –> 08:18.000] and boy, have I played that game so far.
[08:18.880 –> 08:22.720] So I have done the tutorial area,
[08:22.720 –> 08:25.840] and I’ve done a wee bit more of the main story since then,
[08:25.840 –> 08:29.120] and maybe another five Shrines or so since the tutorial area.
[08:29.120 –> 08:30.240] So it’s going well.
[08:30.240 –> 08:30.880] I’m enjoying it.
[08:30.880 –> 08:32.080] It’s fun.
[08:32.080 –> 08:36.080] It still has, obviously, I fell straight back into the controls from Breath of the Wild.
[08:36.080 –> 08:39.920] It feels the same control-wise, just with you obviously have extra abilities.
[08:39.920 –> 08:41.120] So that’s something you have to learn.
[08:41.120 –> 08:44.800] But like the combat, it feels almost exactly the same,
[08:44.800 –> 08:46.160] and that’s good, right?
[08:47.120 –> 08:48.800] I don’t think they needed to change it.
[08:49.600 –> 08:52.400] I think that obviously they’ve got the new weapons and fusing and stuff like that,
[08:52.400 –> 08:52.960] which is good.
[08:52.960 –> 08:56.720] But like the actual combat, exactly the same, exactly how I want it.
[08:56.720 –> 09:01.360] Like I went straight in immediately as good as I was before.
[09:01.360 –> 09:03.200] Maybe take me like five minutes to get there.
[09:03.200 –> 09:04.320] But that was it.
[09:04.320 –> 09:05.920] And I know what I’m doing.
[09:05.920 –> 09:06.480] I love this.
[09:06.480 –> 09:07.120] This is great.
[09:07.920 –> 09:09.120] I really like what they’ve done.
[09:09.120 –> 09:10.400] I won’t say too much, obviously,
[09:10.400 –> 09:12.480] because I don’t want to spoil it for people who want to play the game,
[09:12.480 –> 09:14.320] but can’t afford it at launch or whatever.
[09:14.320 –> 09:16.480] But like I love what they’ve done about the world.
[09:16.480 –> 09:20.160] Like it’s not Breath of the Wild just again, right?
[09:20.160 –> 09:25.040] They’ve done loads of things to make it feel like time has passed in many different ways,
[09:25.040 –> 09:26.480] and I’m really liking that.
[09:26.480 –> 09:30.960] And obviously the sky islands and the caves is a really fun addition,
[09:30.960 –> 09:33.040] having the kind of three different levels.
[09:33.040 –> 09:34.880] So yeah, no, I’m really enjoying it.
[09:34.880 –> 09:37.040] I’m looking forward to spending a lot of time in this game.
[09:38.000 –> 09:42.320] I’m hoping that I can kind of get to the point where I’m playing it in chunks,
[09:42.320 –> 09:45.760] rather than because like, as I’ve said before, my the way that I play is like,
[09:45.760 –> 09:50.320] I’m going to play this game and nothing else for like two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, whatever.
[09:51.280 –> 09:53.040] I don’t want to do that for Tears of the Kingdom.
[09:53.040 –> 09:53.920] I want to enjoy it.
[09:53.920 –> 09:55.200] I want to take it slowly.
[09:55.200 –> 09:56.240] I want to explore.
[09:56.240 –> 09:58.080] I want to do lots of things.
[09:58.080 –> 10:00.480] But I also want to play other games at the same time, right?
[10:00.480 –> 10:02.640] Because like there’s loads of games coming out.
[10:02.640 –> 10:05.600] I’ve got podcast episodes to do and I want to play these games.
[10:05.600 –> 10:09.040] So hopefully, hopefully I can get into that sort of like,
[10:09.040 –> 10:12.080] you know, spend a few days playing and then spend a few days playing something else.
[10:12.080 –> 10:14.640] I don’t think I can do what you’re doing with the one day on, one day off.
[10:14.640 –> 10:16.960] That is just not, I can’t do that.
[10:20.560 –> 10:23.200] So it sounds like it’s a sequel to Breath of the Wild.
[10:23.200 –> 10:25.360] That’s kind of the general consensus I’ve heard.
[10:25.360 –> 10:26.960] It absolutely is.
[10:26.960 –> 10:29.120] If you like Breath of the Wild, you will like this game.
[10:29.120 –> 10:32.480] If you don’t like the Breath of the Wild and the things that Breath of the Wild does
[10:32.480 –> 10:35.120] differently to other Zeldas, you’re not going to like this game.
[10:35.760 –> 10:37.360] Because it very definitely is.
[10:37.360 –> 10:38.960] It’s built on that and it changes things.
[10:38.960 –> 10:40.880] And I think it does things in a better way.
[10:41.760 –> 10:42.880] There’s a lot of changes.
[10:43.440 –> 10:45.360] So it doesn’t feel like the exact same game.
[10:45.360 –> 10:47.120] It doesn’t feel like DLC.
[10:47.120 –> 10:48.320] It feels like a sequel.
[10:48.960 –> 10:51.360] But yeah, if you didn’t like Breath of the Wild, you’re not going to like this game.
[10:51.360 –> 10:52.960] Don’t bother picking it up.
[10:52.960 –> 10:53.460] Sure.
[10:54.160 –> 10:54.660] Yeah.
[10:55.200 –> 10:57.360] If you liked Breath of the Wild, but you had some issues with it,
[10:57.360 –> 10:59.520] you’ll probably still have some issues with it, but you’ll still love the game.
[10:59.520 –> 11:00.080] It’s great.
[11:02.080 –> 11:05.280] And I guess just follow up on last episode.
[11:05.280 –> 11:08.880] I said I was playing Fall Guys and I was trying to get to level 100 on the season pass.
[11:08.880 –> 11:09.360] I did it.
[11:09.360 –> 11:10.240] I got SpongeBob.
[11:10.240 –> 11:11.040] We’re sorted.
[11:11.040 –> 11:11.840] All good.
[11:11.840 –> 11:13.360] And Craig doesn’t care.
[11:13.360 –> 11:14.640] He still wants to be the duck.
[11:16.960 –> 11:17.460] Classic.
[11:21.760 –> 11:22.240] All right.
[11:22.240 –> 11:22.960] Good stuff.
[11:22.960 –> 11:23.680] Good stuff.
[11:23.680 –> 11:24.240] Yeah.
[11:24.240 –> 11:25.680] That’s what we’ve been up to.
[11:25.680 –> 11:28.320] So should we talk about some news?
[11:28.320 –> 11:28.820] No.
[11:29.840 –> 11:30.340] Okay.
[11:30.560 –> 11:31.760] Well, that’s our episode.
[11:34.160 –> 11:38.480] First off, we have the Ranch of Riverside.
[11:38.480 –> 11:42.880] This is the horse riding slash rearing slash.
[11:43.520 –> 11:45.760] I think you breed them breeding game as well by
[11:48.320 –> 11:52.160] who made Capybara Spa and Lemon Cake.
[11:52.160 –> 11:53.600] And what else?
[11:53.600 –> 11:55.440] There was a couple of games that she made as well.
[11:56.240 –> 11:56.800] Lemon.
[11:56.800 –> 11:58.160] Wait, did you say Lemon Cake?
[11:58.160 –> 12:00.240] I said Lemon Cake and Capybara Spa.
[12:00.240 –> 12:01.120] Yeah, there’s another one.
[12:01.120 –> 12:01.760] I can’t remember.
[12:02.640 –> 12:03.440] I can’t remember the name.
[12:03.440 –> 12:06.160] Anyway, from Elise who made those games.
[12:06.160 –> 12:07.920] It is now in early access.
[12:07.920 –> 12:11.600] So if you want that horse riding slash rearing slash breeding
[12:11.600 –> 12:14.640] game, it’s available now on Steam.
[12:14.640 –> 12:15.140] Yeah.
[12:16.080 –> 12:19.040] Wait, it’s early access, to be clear.
[12:20.640 –> 12:22.720] Yes, it is early access.
[12:22.720 –> 12:23.120] Yeah.
[12:23.120 –> 12:28.880] Looking at the tweet, this is, I would say, her most ambitious
[12:28.880 –> 12:30.400] game. We’re talking full 3D.
[12:32.080 –> 12:33.600] It looks very detailed.
[12:33.600 –> 12:34.320] Very well done.
[12:34.320 –> 12:35.280] Yeah, looks good.
[12:35.280 –> 12:36.880] It looks like a horse game.
[12:38.880 –> 12:40.320] Yeah, so good on Eloise.
[12:41.440 –> 12:42.800] Yeah, I’ll be interested.
[12:42.800 –> 12:44.560] It’s going to be $30 when it releases.
[12:44.560 –> 12:47.280] Saw her tweet that, which is, you know, that’s a full on game.
[12:47.280 –> 12:49.520] That is not little micro Lemon Cake game.
[12:49.520 –> 12:50.020] That is.
[12:50.880 –> 12:53.600] Well, you already can tell it’s bigger because it’s taken
[12:53.600 –> 12:55.440] much longer than her previous games.
[12:56.880 –> 12:59.600] Like, I think Capybara Spa took like eight months, which
[12:59.600 –> 13:02.000] is an incredibly quick time to play.
[13:02.000 –> 13:05.040] I was about to say, even if it’s taking longer than the
[13:05.040 –> 13:07.760] other ones, she is a machine.
[13:09.200 –> 13:12.240] Like Stephen King levels of just cranking them out.
[13:12.240 –> 13:12.640] Jeez.
[13:12.640 –> 13:13.360] I know.
[13:13.360 –> 13:13.860] Absolutely.
[13:14.560 –> 13:15.360] Well, good for her.
[13:15.360 –> 13:16.160] I can’t wait to see.
[13:17.120 –> 13:19.680] It looks like a lot of excitement for it from the people
[13:19.680 –> 13:21.040] who played her game.
[13:21.040 –> 13:22.800] So I’m very much looking forward to it.
[13:22.800 –> 13:25.040] Bunny Park and Alchemy Storia are the other two games.
[13:25.040 –> 13:26.000] That’s the one I was thinking of.
[13:26.000 –> 13:26.500] But yeah.
[13:27.920 –> 13:28.420] Awesome.
[13:29.600 –> 13:30.640] What else have we got?
[13:30.640 –> 13:31.280] Fabledom.
[13:31.280 –> 13:36.400] So they went into early access last month, I think.
[13:37.360 –> 13:40.320] They have outlined their roadmap for the early access.
[13:40.960 –> 13:43.840] So it looks like they have a number of updates detailed
[13:43.840 –> 13:44.960] and what they’re going to add in.
[13:44.960 –> 13:47.040] Obviously, they don’t have timings because that is silly.
[13:47.040 –> 13:49.600] Don’t add timings for a huge long roadmap like that.
[13:52.480 –> 13:54.320] But it looks like there’s also another update coming,
[13:54.320 –> 13:57.200] which is unannounced at this point.
[13:57.200 –> 13:58.880] It just says to be revealed at the bottom.
[13:58.960 –> 14:02.000] So if you’re interested in Fabledom or you’re playing it
[14:02.000 –> 14:04.160] or whatever, the roadmap is out now.
[14:04.160 –> 14:05.040] I’m interested.
[14:05.040 –> 14:05.920] I haven’t played it.
[14:07.120 –> 14:08.880] I will probably wait.
[14:08.880 –> 14:11.920] I just saw the quest system isn’t out yet, even.
[14:11.920 –> 14:14.800] So yeah, I’ll probably wait for that to cook in the oven
[14:14.800 –> 14:15.300] a little more.
[14:16.560 –> 14:18.080] Of course you’re interested.
[14:18.080 –> 14:18.960] It’s a city builder.
[14:18.960 –> 14:23.200] What city builder are you interested in?
[14:23.200 –> 14:24.320] Guilty as charged.
[14:26.720 –> 14:27.440] All right.
[14:27.680 –> 14:28.880] Next, big thing.
[14:28.880 –> 14:30.240] Paleo Pines.
[14:30.240 –> 14:32.160] So this is the dinosaur farming game
[14:32.160 –> 14:34.320] where you’re farming with your dinosaurs.
[14:34.320 –> 14:36.000] I didn’t see what I was looking at next.
[14:36.000 –> 14:37.360] But yeah, I was about to say.
[14:37.360 –> 14:40.160] Speaking of games I’m interested in.
[14:40.160 –> 14:45.440] They have detailed their accessibility options
[14:45.440 –> 14:48.160] and considerations because they’re not all options,
[14:48.160 –> 14:50.160] which is where I find this interesting.
[14:50.160 –> 14:52.560] So we obviously, on this podcast,
[14:52.560 –> 14:55.360] we appreciate when there are accessibility options.
[14:55.360 –> 14:56.800] And we call that out when there are
[14:56.880 –> 14:57.680] and when there aren’t.
[14:57.680 –> 15:00.000] So it’s always good to call it out when there are
[15:00.000 –> 15:01.920] and celebrate when people are doing good things.
[15:02.480 –> 15:04.400] So they have a bunch of things.
[15:04.400 –> 15:07.840] So first of all, they’ve kind of thought about dyslexia
[15:07.840 –> 15:09.520] from the get go because they do have
[15:09.520 –> 15:11.120] a dyslexic person on a team.
[15:11.120 –> 15:13.600] I always say it’s important to have lots of different people
[15:13.600 –> 15:15.600] on the teams because then you actually think about things
[15:16.960 –> 15:18.400] that you otherwise wouldn’t think about.
[15:19.600 –> 15:20.320] Oh boy.
[15:21.200 –> 15:23.360] I’m just not getting to other news,
[15:23.360 –> 15:25.040] but like some of those big companies
[15:25.040 –> 15:26.720] could learn a lesson from that,
[15:27.280 –> 15:28.960] Pop, Activision, Blizzard, Koff.
[15:31.520 –> 15:32.880] And they’re big enough to have enough
[15:33.520 –> 15:38.400] to probably have most people with most differences
[15:38.400 –> 15:41.600] in the company and they can’t deal with things properly.
[15:41.600 –> 15:44.720] I bet they have a significant…
[15:44.720 –> 15:45.760] Well, maybe not.
[15:45.760 –> 15:46.240] I don’t know.
[15:47.040 –> 15:48.240] If they do, they don’t.
[15:48.240 –> 15:50.800] The people who should care don’t care.
[15:52.000 –> 15:53.840] But that’s neither here nor there.
[15:53.920 –> 15:56.720] Paleopines does care and we applaud them for that.
[15:56.720 –> 15:57.280] Yes.
[15:57.280 –> 15:58.320] Do we have an update?
[15:58.320 –> 15:58.880] I don’t remember.
[15:58.880 –> 15:59.680] Is this game out?
[15:59.680 –> 16:00.480] I want this game.
[16:01.200 –> 16:01.760] Coming soon.
[16:02.800 –> 16:03.600] Coming soon, yeah.
[16:04.560 –> 16:07.600] So the second thing which I think is really interesting
[16:07.600 –> 16:09.600] is they don’t have a colorblindness option,
[16:09.600 –> 16:11.760] but they have chosen their colors
[16:11.760 –> 16:14.320] with colorblindness in consideration.
[16:14.320 –> 16:17.200] So the idea is that they don’t need a colorblindness option
[16:17.200 –> 16:19.280] because everybody should be able to notice the differences
[16:19.280 –> 16:21.040] because there are colors that can do that,
[16:21.040 –> 16:22.000] that fit all the…
[16:22.000 –> 16:22.800] Because there’s lots of different…
[16:22.800 –> 16:26.160] There’s like five or six different colorblindness standards.
[16:27.200 –> 16:30.320] And obviously, each of them is a bit of a spectrum,
[16:30.320 –> 16:32.640] but individually, I think they’re quite different
[16:32.640 –> 16:35.760] because it’s about different things that are wrong with your eye.
[16:35.760 –> 16:38.080] Like you might not have the right number of cones
[16:38.080 –> 16:41.040] or I’m not a doctor, but it’s stuff like that.
[16:42.480 –> 16:46.000] And so, yeah, they have chosen colors with that in mind,
[16:46.640 –> 16:48.800] which I think is definitely the better way to do it,
[16:48.800 –> 16:49.520] if you can do it.
[16:50.240 –> 16:51.920] A colorblindness option is fine.
[16:51.920 –> 16:52.560] It does the job.
[16:53.360 –> 16:56.000] It’s good not to have to make people turn on options,
[16:56.000 –> 16:57.280] if you can, I think.
[16:58.080 –> 16:59.680] That’s food for thought.
[17:01.440 –> 17:03.280] Probably a discussion too long for here.
[17:04.240 –> 17:07.280] It is interesting because you don’t see this that often,
[17:07.280 –> 17:10.880] where people or a game studio designs it from the get-go.
[17:10.880 –> 17:13.520] So that is interesting to compare and see.
[17:14.720 –> 17:17.360] But yeah, but the fact that they’re thinking about it,
[17:17.360 –> 17:18.320] like major props for that.
[17:18.320 –> 17:19.200] So good for them.
[17:19.200 –> 17:20.080] Yep, yep.
[17:20.080 –> 17:24.480] And this stuff is in it from before Early Access,
[17:25.280 –> 17:26.960] which I don’t know, are they doing Early Access?
[17:26.960 –> 17:27.520] It doesn’t say.
[17:27.520 –> 17:29.680] But the point is they haven’t released a version and gone,
[17:29.680 –> 17:31.040] ah, but this one isn’t accessible,
[17:31.600 –> 17:34.400] which always feels a little bit meh when people are like,
[17:34.400 –> 17:36.160] yeah, here’s a game that you can’t play yet.
[17:38.960 –> 17:39.600] You know what?
[17:40.240 –> 17:42.640] I mean, that happens a lot too, though,
[17:42.640 –> 17:47.120] for other big companies and not even accessibility reasons.
[17:47.680 –> 17:48.880] Looking at you, Redfall.
[17:50.240 –> 17:52.240] No, you’re absolutely right.
[17:52.240 –> 17:55.440] And it’s why I get a bit grumpy when Early Access versions
[17:55.440 –> 17:57.520] don’t have controller support and stuff like that,
[17:57.520 –> 18:01.360] because you’re reducing things massively.
[18:02.160 –> 18:05.600] There’s lots of people that need controllers for accessibility,
[18:05.600 –> 18:08.160] not just for, I want to play on my Steam Deck, right?
[18:08.160 –> 18:09.520] Because you can deal around those things.
[18:09.520 –> 18:12.080] But people have physical disabilities.
[18:12.080 –> 18:13.760] That means they can’t use a mouse and a keyboard
[18:13.760 –> 18:14.640] and stuff like that.
[18:14.640 –> 18:17.680] So not having that at the beginning always annoys me.
[18:17.680 –> 18:21.120] As a side note, you mentioned this for Early Access.
[18:24.080 –> 18:26.880] I remember Bed and Breakfast didn’t release
[18:26.880 –> 18:28.800] the full version with controller support.
[18:29.520 –> 18:30.000] Oh, yeah.
[18:31.840 –> 18:33.440] You can tell that game was developed
[18:33.440 –> 18:34.960] before the Steam Deck came out.
[18:34.960 –> 18:37.840] That’s not happening with any games ever again.
[18:37.840 –> 18:39.600] Yeah, because guess what?
[18:39.600 –> 18:43.200] Roots of Pacha came out, and it is a joy
[18:43.200 –> 18:44.960] to have controller support from the start.
[18:45.760 –> 18:48.400] Let me tell you, that helped my review a lot.
[18:48.400 –> 18:49.520] Anyways, but yeah.
[18:50.240 –> 18:51.920] Good job, paleo pines.
[18:52.800 –> 18:54.400] Speaking of things that aren’t options,
[18:54.400 –> 18:56.400] that are just there from the beginning,
[18:57.360 –> 18:59.840] when there are audio elements that are critical,
[19:00.800 –> 19:04.000] they’ve included visual cues to help people who can’t hear,
[19:04.000 –> 19:06.560] or with just lower hearing abilities.
[19:06.560 –> 19:07.040] That’s good.
[19:07.040 –> 19:07.840] Which is good.
[19:07.840 –> 19:10.240] You should never have something that only relies on one sense
[19:10.240 –> 19:11.840] to be able to do these things.
[19:12.800 –> 19:16.720] Except for games, it’s difficult to not have visual things.
[19:20.560 –> 19:22.640] I’m a web developer, so I’m always thinking
[19:22.640 –> 19:23.440] in these sorts of things.
[19:23.440 –> 19:25.040] And with web development, it’s really easy
[19:25.040 –> 19:27.360] to make it work for people who can’t see.
[19:27.360 –> 19:29.920] But of course, games is probably a bit more difficult.
[19:29.920 –> 19:32.880] Yeah, that’s a lot.
[19:32.880 –> 19:35.280] Speaking of which, did you know you can see the transcripts
[19:35.280 –> 19:37.920] for this audio podcast on the website?
[19:38.560 –> 19:40.240] Yeah, apparently I forgot to say that in the beginning.
[19:40.240 –> 19:40.960] It’s my word.
[19:40.960 –> 19:42.720] I’m really not in the habit of saying it yet.
[19:48.400 –> 19:52.720] Yeah, we need podcast apps to support the transcript option,
[19:52.720 –> 19:54.480] so it can just happen by default.
[19:56.560 –> 20:00.000] Because it’s in one of the newer RSS standards,
[20:00.000 –> 20:01.920] but most apps don’t support it yet,
[20:01.920 –> 20:03.680] so I haven’t put in the work.
[20:04.960 –> 20:06.800] And here’s one that I’ve never thought about,
[20:06.800 –> 20:08.240] which is very interesting.
[20:08.240 –> 20:11.520] The character speed can be slowed down
[20:11.520 –> 20:14.640] to increase accuracy for people with fine motor impairments.
[20:14.640 –> 20:17.360] That’s, first of all, yeah, like that’s, wow.
[20:17.360 –> 20:20.560] This is detailed accessibility design.
[20:20.560 –> 20:21.680] Yeah, right, right.
[20:21.680 –> 20:22.400] Holy moly.
[20:24.240 –> 20:26.560] And yeah, I’ve never thought about that either.
[20:27.520 –> 20:29.600] Wow, that’s a lot.
[20:30.400 –> 20:32.000] Yeah, I think it’s great.
[20:32.720 –> 20:34.000] I don’t know what else to say there.
[20:34.000 –> 20:35.840] Wow, that’s impressive.
[20:36.880 –> 20:37.440] Absolutely.
[20:37.440 –> 20:40.400] But the fact that they care this much about this,
[20:40.400 –> 20:42.960] like, I think that gives me high hopes,
[20:42.960 –> 20:48.000] because I think that correlates in general
[20:48.000 –> 20:49.760] for the quality of a game,
[20:49.760 –> 20:52.800] because they care about really fine details.
[20:53.520 –> 20:54.080] Absolutely.
[20:56.080 –> 21:01.520] I think this is really good for paleo pines in general,
[21:01.520 –> 21:03.120] like, looking forward to it.
[21:03.120 –> 21:05.200] So yeah, I mean, they can take the time,
[21:05.200 –> 21:07.120] but boy, I can’t wait to play this game.
[21:07.200 –> 21:08.720] I want my dinosaur farm.
[21:08.720 –> 21:09.600] Absolutely.
[21:09.600 –> 21:12.000] I want to farm with my dinosaurs.
[21:13.520 –> 21:15.760] Next, we have a completely different thing.
[21:15.760 –> 21:19.360] So Go! Go! Town, which we talked about a couple of weeks ago.
[21:19.360 –> 21:20.640] Was it last week or a couple of weeks ago?
[21:20.640 –> 21:21.440] Anyway, doesn’t matter.
[21:23.120 –> 21:27.600] This is by the developers of Yonder,
[21:28.160 –> 21:30.000] the Cloud Cratcher Chronicles,
[21:30.000 –> 21:32.240] and Grow, Song of the Ever Tree.
[21:32.240 –> 21:33.600] My word, they’re bad at names.
[21:34.720 –> 21:36.560] This one is a better name, Go! Go! Town.
[21:37.360 –> 21:40.400] Yeah, I’m sure they’ll add on a subtitle at some point
[21:40.400 –> 21:41.200] and make it a worse name,
[21:41.200 –> 21:42.800] but this is a good name so far.
[21:42.800 –> 21:43.600] Go! Go! Town.
[21:43.600 –> 21:45.200] We’re not Animal Crossing.
[21:46.720 –> 21:48.240] That’s a subtitle.
[21:48.240 –> 21:50.640] Well, look, look, look, look, look.
[21:51.200 –> 21:54.560] They have added something that I have never considered
[21:55.360 –> 21:56.480] for a farming game,
[21:56.480 –> 21:59.360] but now I do not know why nobody has done this.
[21:59.360 –> 22:01.600] They have added power tools,
[22:01.600 –> 22:03.120] and let me tell you,
[22:03.760 –> 22:06.480] this has made my excitement for this game go from,
[22:07.040 –> 22:08.880] maybe like a three or a four,
[22:08.880 –> 22:09.520] to a ten.
[22:10.400 –> 22:11.360] In fact, maybe eleven.
[22:12.000 –> 22:14.240] I am so excited for this game.
[22:14.240 –> 22:16.720] Not only does it look so much fun just in general,
[22:17.840 –> 22:19.840] I think this is the first video I’ve seen of it.
[22:19.840 –> 22:22.480] I love the graphics and the animations in general
[22:22.480 –> 22:23.200] are so much fun,
[22:23.200 –> 22:24.560] but these power tools,
[22:24.560 –> 22:27.520] they just take the fun to a whole different level.
[22:27.520 –> 22:28.720] I love it, it’s great.
[22:29.920 –> 22:33.840] That is a fun distinction.
[22:34.720 –> 22:36.640] Uh, one thing I will say from the video,
[22:36.640 –> 22:38.000] that is some bigger music.
[22:38.720 –> 22:40.320] Um, they have a leaf blower!
[22:40.320 –> 22:41.760] That’s an interesting one.
[22:41.760 –> 22:42.880] Yeah, yeah!
[22:42.880 –> 22:46.080] You don’t need to sickle the grass away,
[22:46.080 –> 22:46.960] just blow it.
[22:46.960 –> 22:48.480] Oh my gosh, you can blow the cow!
[22:48.480 –> 22:50.000] I’m looking at the trailer and just,
[22:50.000 –> 22:51.600] boof, blows the cow away.
[22:51.600 –> 22:52.720] Um, this is,
[22:53.360 –> 22:55.280] it does, it’s a good look for it, I will say.
[22:55.280 –> 22:56.640] Like you said, um,
[22:56.640 –> 22:58.880] yeah, you don’t see this in Cottagecore games,
[22:58.880 –> 23:00.000] power tools and whatnot.
[23:00.000 –> 23:01.120] Yeah, well this is the thing,
[23:01.120 –> 23:03.200] I haven’t checked every single game,
[23:03.280 –> 23:05.280] but I’m sure I’ve never seen this,
[23:05.280 –> 23:08.080] and listeners, if you know of a farming game
[23:08.080 –> 23:09.440] that has power tools,
[23:09.440 –> 23:10.640] please tell me, because I’ve never,
[23:11.360 –> 23:13.200] I’ve never even considered it before.
[23:13.200 –> 23:15.280] How have I never thought about this?
[23:15.840 –> 23:17.920] One, yeah, I don’t know,
[23:17.920 –> 23:20.720] it’s really interesting to think about.
[23:21.760 –> 23:25.120] One, uh, one thing I also note about this,
[23:25.120 –> 23:26.960] that it really helps the game,
[23:26.960 –> 23:30.000] like, the game feels a lot more dynamic,
[23:30.000 –> 23:32.160] like, everything’s kind of bouncy,
[23:32.240 –> 23:33.200] for lack of a better word,
[23:33.200 –> 23:34.960] you know, like, you start up a chainsaw
[23:34.960 –> 23:36.720] and it rumbles because the motor’s going.
[23:36.720 –> 23:37.280] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[23:37.280 –> 23:39.680] There’s the walk kind of bounce.
[23:39.680 –> 23:41.520] Yeah, the way you’re walking is so much fun.
[23:42.080 –> 23:45.600] Yeah, um, so it’s better than just the usual
[23:45.600 –> 23:47.200] chop chop chop of an axe, right?
[23:47.200 –> 23:47.600] Definitely.
[23:47.600 –> 23:49.600] So that is a good look at us.
[23:49.600 –> 23:52.080] Um, yeah, that’s a good,
[23:52.080 –> 23:53.360] that’s really cool.
[23:53.360 –> 23:55.040] This game, I don’t,
[23:55.040 –> 23:57.680] I’m a little eh on the art style,
[23:57.680 –> 23:59.280] but the animation,
[23:59.280 –> 24:00.240] Oh really? Interesting.
[24:00.240 –> 24:02.160] The, well, okay, there’s not,
[24:02.160 –> 24:04.160] it’s not bad, but it really feels
[24:04.160 –> 24:05.680] like an Animal Crossing to me.
[24:06.560 –> 24:08.080] Um, I don’t know, it feels,
[24:08.080 –> 24:09.360] it feels much more cartoony
[24:09.360 –> 24:10.560] than Animal Crossing to me.
[24:10.560 –> 24:12.400] Somewhere between Animal Crossing
[24:12.400 –> 24:14.000] and Link’s Awakening, um.
[24:14.640 –> 24:16.000] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[24:16.000 –> 24:17.280] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[24:17.280 –> 24:20.400] It’s just that it’s just a version design,
[24:20.400 –> 24:22.640] I think is, I can’t stop looking at,
[24:22.640 –> 24:24.480] um, but, uh, but no, you’re right.
[24:25.520 –> 24:27.280] Is it their overly simplified faces?
[24:27.280 –> 24:28.160] Is that the issue?
[24:28.160 –> 24:28.880] I think so.
[24:28.880 –> 24:30.080] Something about the proportions
[24:30.080 –> 24:31.200] just really is really similar,
[24:31.200 –> 24:33.920] but, um, but I mean, overall though,
[24:33.920 –> 24:36.800] um, it’s, even with that,
[24:37.600 –> 24:38.800] it’s really selling itself
[24:38.800 –> 24:40.160] with all this stuff we’re talking about,
[24:40.160 –> 24:42.480] because you’re carrying like this huge basket
[24:42.480 –> 24:44.000] and this huge chainsaw,
[24:44.000 –> 24:44.880] you’re running around
[24:44.880 –> 24:47.280] and there’s all these machines and baskets
[24:47.280 –> 24:48.720] and oh, there’s a lot going on,
[24:48.720 –> 24:50.080] um, but in a good way.
[24:50.640 –> 24:51.680] Um, it looks,
[24:51.680 –> 24:53.200] Yes, it doesn’t feel overwhelming.
[24:53.200 –> 24:54.960] It just, it feels like they’re going fast
[24:54.960 –> 24:56.000] because they want to,
[24:56.000 –> 24:57.360] not because they have to.
[24:57.360 –> 24:58.480] Yeah, exactly.
[24:59.120 –> 25:00.560] Which feels like a really nice balance
[25:00.560 –> 25:00.960] because you know,
[25:00.960 –> 25:02.560] I don’t like games where you have to go fast.
[25:02.560 –> 25:03.680] Like they stress me out,
[25:03.680 –> 25:05.680] but if I can go fast, I’m going fast.
[25:06.240 –> 25:06.880] Yep, yep, yep.
[25:07.520 –> 25:09.760] Um, so yeah, no, this is again,
[25:09.760 –> 25:11.920] what a good look for, uh, just like paleo pines.
[25:11.920 –> 25:14.560] This is a pretty good look for, uh, go, go town.
[25:14.560 –> 25:16.800] So we’ll be keeping an eye on it.
[25:16.800 –> 25:18.480] It does excite me more like,
[25:18.480 –> 25:20.320] like you, maybe not an 11 quite like you,
[25:20.320 –> 25:23.120] but, uh, I’m definitely a lot more interested.
[25:23.120 –> 25:24.960] I’m seriously considering it as opposed to,
[25:24.960 –> 25:26.320] I forgot what this game was
[25:26.320 –> 25:27.600] before we talked about it.
[25:27.600 –> 25:29.360] Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.
[25:29.360 –> 25:32.080] I, I would be very surprised if anybody
[25:32.080 –> 25:33.360] like looks at this trailer
[25:33.360 –> 25:35.280] and isn’t more excited about the game
[25:35.280 –> 25:36.400] than before they watched it.
[25:37.520 –> 25:38.160] Yeah.
[25:38.160 –> 25:39.360] You know, even, even if that’s not
[25:39.360 –> 25:40.880] a huge amount more, right?
[25:40.880 –> 25:42.480] It’s, it’s, I think everybody’s
[25:42.480 –> 25:43.840] going to be increased slightly.
[25:43.840 –> 25:45.760] I think it’s just so much fun.
[25:45.760 –> 25:49.520] Yep. Um, and also just a note,
[25:49.520 –> 25:52.960] uh, there is a, to use their quote,
[25:53.520 –> 25:56.000] super early pre-alpha digital demo.
[25:56.400 –> 25:58.400] Unfortunately for listeners,
[25:58.400 –> 25:59.760] it ends on May 14th,
[25:59.760 –> 26:01.440] which is only a day after this recording,
[26:01.440 –> 26:03.840] but before this podcast releases.
[26:03.840 –> 26:05.600] So travel back in time
[26:05.600 –> 26:07.200] and get the demo if you can.
[26:09.280 –> 26:11.920] But it’s, it’s still really early.
[26:11.920 –> 26:14.720] Um, so there’ll be plenty of more times
[26:14.720 –> 26:16.160] to opportunities to play it later
[26:16.160 –> 26:18.320] and with bugs ironed out and whatnot.
[26:18.320 –> 26:21.200] So good for you Prideful Sloth game.
[26:21.200 –> 26:21.840] Exciting.
[26:22.480 –> 26:25.280] Um, and our final piece of news
[26:25.280 –> 26:26.960] is Farming Simulator
[26:26.960 –> 26:27.840] because we can’t get enough
[26:27.840 –> 26:29.760] of Farming Simulator on this podcast.
[26:29.760 –> 26:32.640] I was thinking the one that might have
[26:32.640 –> 26:34.240] power tools that we didn’t know about
[26:34.240 –> 26:35.120] is Farming Simulator.
[26:35.120 –> 26:35.840] That’s true.
[26:35.840 –> 26:37.200] That is a very good point.
[26:37.200 –> 26:39.200] That is a very good point.
[26:39.200 –> 26:40.480] Yep. We’ll have to ask Johnny.
[26:44.480 –> 26:47.120] So they’ve released in beta
[26:47.120 –> 26:48.560] a new competitive mode
[26:49.360 –> 26:51.120] for their esports competitions.
[26:51.680 –> 26:52.320] Oh, yeah.
[26:52.320 –> 26:54.720] With bail stacking.
[26:55.360 –> 26:56.720] Oh, yeah.
[26:59.520 –> 27:00.720] And like, I mean, like,
[27:00.720 –> 27:02.560] I’m not a huge fan of Farming Simulator,
[27:02.560 –> 27:03.920] but I love that they’re leaning
[27:03.920 –> 27:05.360] into what they’re good at.
[27:05.360 –> 27:07.520] And like the esports stuff is,
[27:07.520 –> 27:09.280] it looks, it looks fun, right?
[27:09.280 –> 27:09.920] It’s the one thing
[27:09.920 –> 27:11.600] I could probably get into not playing,
[27:11.600 –> 27:13.120] but watching the,
[27:13.120 –> 27:14.560] the Farming Simulator esports.
[27:14.560 –> 27:15.520] Like it sounds like
[27:15.520 –> 27:17.040] it would be fun to watch.
[27:17.600 –> 27:20.400] It’s yeah, like it’s such a weird
[27:20.400 –> 27:24.240] niche thing, but I love it
[27:24.240 –> 27:25.280] that they’re leaning into it.
[27:25.280 –> 27:25.840] Like you said.
[27:26.720 –> 27:27.840] Are you familiar with Evo?
[27:27.840 –> 27:28.800] Do you know what Evo is?
[27:29.840 –> 27:31.200] Not off the top of my head.
[27:31.200 –> 27:31.600] Okay.
[27:31.600 –> 27:34.560] It’s the premier fighting game event.
[27:35.360 –> 27:36.880] Like, okay.
[27:36.880 –> 27:37.440] Annual.
[27:37.440 –> 27:38.240] I’m aware of it.
[27:38.240 –> 27:39.600] I’m aware of it as a concept.
[27:39.600 –> 27:41.040] I don’t think I’ve ever watched it.
[27:41.040 –> 27:42.400] It’s not a specific game.
[27:42.400 –> 27:44.160] It’s like, okay, here’s all the big games.
[27:44.160 –> 27:45.440] We’re doing the big tournament
[27:45.440 –> 27:46.160] for all of them, right?
[27:47.440 –> 27:49.280] I want to see that for farming games
[27:49.280 –> 27:50.000] at some point.
[27:50.640 –> 27:52.080] Let’s get to that point.
[27:52.080 –> 27:53.360] Farming Simulator is leading the way,
[27:53.360 –> 27:54.960] but we can work with this.
[27:54.960 –> 27:55.840] We can get there.
[27:57.040 –> 27:57.540] Yeah.
[27:58.160 –> 27:58.880] Awesome.
[27:58.880 –> 27:59.360] All right.
[27:59.360 –> 27:59.920] All right.
[27:59.920 –> 28:01.120] So that’s all the news.
[28:01.760 –> 28:03.760] So next we’re going to have
[28:03.760 –> 28:05.600] Kevin’s interview with Valerie.
[28:07.200 –> 28:09.680] And yeah, I don’t know.
[28:09.680 –> 28:10.480] Probably not much to say
[28:10.480 –> 28:11.440] about that beforehand.
[28:11.440 –> 28:13.040] Hope you enjoy the interview.
[28:13.040 –> 28:13.760] Yeah, it’s great.
[28:20.000 –> 28:27.840] Hello, farmers, witches,
[28:27.840 –> 28:29.200] and all you wonderful listeners.
[28:29.200 –> 28:30.880] I’m Kevin, and I’ve got a very
[28:30.880 –> 28:32.640] special treat for us all.
[28:32.640 –> 28:34.480] I am here with someone
[28:34.480 –> 28:36.000] truly born to be wild.
[28:36.640 –> 28:38.880] One, Ms. Valerie Rose Lohman,
[28:38.880 –> 28:41.440] the voice of Tara Wild herself.
[28:41.440 –> 28:42.160] Hello.
[28:42.160 –> 28:42.560] Hello.
[28:42.560 –> 28:43.840] I’m so happy to be here.
[28:44.480 –> 28:47.360] It’s we thank you for being on Valerie.
[28:48.160 –> 28:51.440] I’ve talked about wildflowers
[28:51.440 –> 28:52.800] at length on this show.
[28:52.800 –> 28:54.320] Multiple episodes solely
[28:54.320 –> 28:55.280] dedicated to it.
[28:56.160 –> 28:57.680] So to have the star herself
[28:57.680 –> 28:59.360] here is beyond thrilling.
[28:59.360 –> 29:00.400] That makes me so happy.
[29:00.400 –> 29:01.920] I am so glad to like,
[29:02.720 –> 29:04.080] this is my first podcast
[29:04.080 –> 29:05.440] talking about wildflowers.
[29:05.440 –> 29:07.120] So I’m thrilled to be here.
[29:07.120 –> 29:07.620] Yeah.
[29:08.320 –> 29:09.600] Oh, that’s exciting.
[29:09.600 –> 29:10.100] Oh, man.
[29:11.440 –> 29:12.320] Al isn’t with us,
[29:12.320 –> 29:13.840] but he will be here.
[29:13.840 –> 29:14.720] Listen, I’m sure he’ll be
[29:14.720 –> 29:15.600] pumped to hear that.
[29:15.600 –> 29:16.100] Cool.
[29:17.440 –> 29:18.880] OK, so I guess
[29:18.880 –> 29:19.600] why don’t you go ahead
[29:19.600 –> 29:20.480] and tell us about yourself,
[29:20.480 –> 29:21.200] you know, your career,
[29:21.200 –> 29:22.320] et cetera, whatever.
[29:22.320 –> 29:23.280] How did you like to
[29:23.280 –> 29:24.000] introduce yourself
[29:24.000 –> 29:25.280] to our listeners and such?
[29:25.280 –> 29:26.880] Yeah, so my name is
[29:26.880 –> 29:28.080] Valerie Rose Lohman.
[29:28.080 –> 29:31.040] I am an actor and voiceover artist.
[29:31.040 –> 29:32.400] I am born and raised
[29:32.400 –> 29:33.520] in Southern California.
[29:33.520 –> 29:34.720] I live in L.A. now,
[29:34.720 –> 29:36.080] but I grew up out in the
[29:36.720 –> 29:38.640] Inland Empire in Orange County.
[29:40.160 –> 29:41.040] I started working
[29:41.040 –> 29:42.000] when I was 14,
[29:42.000 –> 29:42.640] doing a lot of like
[29:42.640 –> 29:43.840] regional theater and stuff,
[29:43.840 –> 29:45.040] and I fell into voiceover
[29:45.040 –> 29:46.000] a couple of years ago.
[29:46.880 –> 29:48.480] I love it.
[29:48.480 –> 29:49.920] It’s one of my favorite things
[29:49.920 –> 29:51.600] in the whole wide world to do.
[29:53.600 –> 29:56.080] Yeah, I just adore acting.
[29:56.080 –> 29:56.960] I have a puppy.
[29:56.960 –> 29:57.920] Her name is Wendy.
[29:57.920 –> 29:59.280] She just turned four.
[29:59.280 –> 30:00.320] She’s a multi family.
[30:00.880 –> 30:02.240] Yeah, and I think that’s
[30:02.240 –> 30:03.920] kind of like covers the basics.
[30:03.920 –> 30:05.920] Yeah, very cool.
[30:05.920 –> 30:06.720] Very cool.
[30:06.720 –> 30:08.160] So from Southern Cali, huh?
[30:08.160 –> 30:09.520] I was I’m actually from
[30:09.520 –> 30:10.480] there originally myself.
[30:10.480 –> 30:11.760] I’m from Santa Maria.
[30:11.760 –> 30:12.260] Oh, cool.
[30:13.440 –> 30:15.520] But yeah, very, very cool.
[30:16.080 –> 30:19.120] I follow a handful of voice
[30:19.120 –> 30:20.000] actors and such.
[30:20.000 –> 30:21.200] I’m a big fan of
[30:21.840 –> 30:23.440] the voice acting industry,
[30:23.440 –> 30:24.160] that world.
[30:24.160 –> 30:25.200] A lot of you people are
[30:25.200 –> 30:26.160] absolutely, absolutely
[30:26.160 –> 30:26.960] wonderful people.
[30:29.680 –> 30:32.640] And yeah, so Wildflowers, right?
[30:32.640 –> 30:33.760] So on this show,
[30:33.760 –> 30:36.480] we cover all sorts of farming
[30:36.480 –> 30:37.680] and cottagecore games,
[30:37.680 –> 30:39.280] as the genre is called, right?
[30:39.280 –> 30:40.720] But Wildflowers is,
[30:40.720 –> 30:42.720] I think, the first one
[30:42.720 –> 30:44.640] to be fully voice acted like this.
[30:44.640 –> 30:45.440] So, you know.
[30:45.440 –> 30:45.940] Yeah.
[30:46.800 –> 30:48.080] You and the rest of the cast
[30:48.080 –> 30:50.560] did an absolutely impeccable job.
[30:50.560 –> 30:53.200] I think that it’s definitely
[30:53.200 –> 30:54.240] one of the strongest selling
[30:54.240 –> 30:54.800] points of the game,
[30:54.800 –> 30:56.000] really makes it comes to life.
[30:56.560 –> 30:57.760] So thank you very much
[30:57.760 –> 30:59.280] for all your hard work on the game.
[30:59.280 –> 30:59.840] Thank you.
[30:59.840 –> 31:00.560] Excellent, excellent job.
[31:00.560 –> 31:04.000] I have never been in a cast
[31:04.000 –> 31:05.440] for a VO job with
[31:05.440 –> 31:06.800] like this large a cast.
[31:06.800 –> 31:08.720] I think we have near 30 actors
[31:08.720 –> 31:09.600] or something like that.
[31:10.240 –> 31:10.800] Wow.
[31:10.800 –> 31:13.120] Yeah, big, big, big game.
[31:13.120 –> 31:14.160] It’s very cool
[31:14.240 –> 31:16.480] because you don’t get
[31:16.480 –> 31:17.360] that kind of cast
[31:18.800 –> 31:19.760] for farming games
[31:19.760 –> 31:21.600] or especially for games
[31:21.600 –> 31:23.200] that start out only on mobile
[31:23.200 –> 31:24.000] and stuff like that.
[31:24.640 –> 31:26.720] So it’s been such a treat.
[31:26.720 –> 31:27.120] Yeah.
[31:27.120 –> 31:28.320] Why don’t you tell us about that?
[31:28.800 –> 31:30.560] How did you end up as Tara?
[31:30.560 –> 31:31.680] Like what was the history?
[31:31.680 –> 31:33.680] How did you get contacted
[31:33.680 –> 31:35.760] or did you take your audition?
[31:35.760 –> 31:38.400] Yeah, so I auditioned
[31:38.400 –> 31:40.800] in November of 2020
[31:41.440 –> 31:43.120] and I remember
[31:43.120 –> 31:44.320] reading the breakdown
[31:44.320 –> 31:45.360] and it was about like,
[31:45.360 –> 31:46.560] you know, this girl
[31:46.560 –> 31:47.840] has recently gone through a breakup.
[31:47.840 –> 31:50.240] She’s moved home to her grandma.
[31:50.240 –> 31:51.520] I had recently gone through
[31:51.520 –> 31:53.680] like a really big breakup
[31:53.680 –> 31:54.880] and had moved myself.
[31:54.880 –> 31:56.400] So I was like, oh my gosh,
[31:56.400 –> 31:58.080] I totally relate to this girl.
[31:59.760 –> 32:01.440] I just thought the writing
[32:01.440 –> 32:03.520] was so fun.
[32:04.880 –> 32:06.560] I had this great audition scene
[32:06.560 –> 32:07.840] that I don’t think made it in
[32:09.360 –> 32:10.960] where like Tara first starts
[32:10.960 –> 32:13.120] to discover her grandma’s
[32:13.120 –> 32:14.240] like witchy items
[32:14.240 –> 32:15.360] and she’s realizing,
[32:15.360 –> 32:16.800] oh, my grandma’s not quite
[32:16.800 –> 32:18.080] like a regular grandma.
[32:19.040 –> 32:20.720] And I just, you know,
[32:20.720 –> 32:21.840] there’s this thing that has happened
[32:21.840 –> 32:23.120] to me a couple of times in my life
[32:23.120 –> 32:25.600] where when I’m auditioning,
[32:25.600 –> 32:27.600] I’ll get chills and like
[32:27.600 –> 32:28.720] if I get those chills,
[32:28.720 –> 32:30.640] usually it means I’ve booked it
[32:30.640 –> 32:32.240] or like I’m going to get it
[32:32.240 –> 32:33.920] and that happened with this.
[32:33.920 –> 32:35.680] But then I didn’t hear for months.
[32:36.240 –> 32:38.160] I auditioned in November 2020
[32:38.640 –> 32:41.040] just like remotely.
[32:41.040 –> 32:42.640] I got the audition for my agent
[32:42.640 –> 32:47.440] and I got a call back late February 2021
[32:48.080 –> 32:49.680] and then I had a Zoom call
[32:49.680 –> 32:51.200] with Chrissy Abejos,
[32:51.200 –> 32:54.160] who is our amazing director.
[32:55.040 –> 32:57.440] And I found out two hours later
[32:57.440 –> 32:58.720] that I had gotten it,
[32:58.720 –> 32:59.760] which was, yeah.
[32:59.760 –> 33:01.600] Oh man, that’s exciting, right?
[33:02.880 –> 33:05.120] And yeah, and so 2020,
[33:05.120 –> 33:07.680] so we were already in pandemic at the time.
[33:07.680 –> 33:10.400] So yeah, that’s very cool.
[33:12.080 –> 33:14.960] I guess, sorry, one second.
[33:14.960 –> 33:17.280] So actually on that note of the pandemic,
[33:17.280 –> 33:19.040] I know so many voice actors
[33:19.040 –> 33:20.080] and such went remote.
[33:20.080 –> 33:21.840] Did you ever get a chance to interact
[33:21.840 –> 33:23.440] with any other of the cast members
[33:23.440 –> 33:24.800] or did everyone kind of do
[33:24.800 –> 33:26.000] their own thing separately?
[33:26.000 –> 33:27.520] We all worked remotely.
[33:28.240 –> 33:30.160] Sissy Jones, who plays grandma Hazel,
[33:30.160 –> 33:33.200] did pop into one or two of my sessions,
[33:33.200 –> 33:34.080] which was very cool
[33:34.080 –> 33:36.640] because I got to like
[33:36.640 –> 33:37.440] meet her virtually
[33:37.440 –> 33:39.040] before I ended up meeting her in person.
[33:39.760 –> 33:43.600] But we never like worked together
[33:43.600 –> 33:44.560] in person with the cast.
[33:45.120 –> 33:47.520] I worked with the engineering team
[33:47.520 –> 33:48.560] at Rocket Sound,
[33:48.560 –> 33:50.560] who’s just the loveliest people
[33:51.920 –> 33:52.800] head by Z,
[33:52.800 –> 33:54.720] who is like one of my favorite
[33:54.720 –> 33:55.680] engineers to work with.
[33:57.920 –> 34:00.080] Yeah, we did not meet in person
[34:00.080 –> 34:01.600] until we did a cast meet up
[34:01.600 –> 34:03.760] after the game had come out for everyone.
[34:03.760 –> 34:04.800] Okay, okay.
[34:04.800 –> 34:05.440] Yeah.
[34:05.440 –> 34:08.320] That’s absolutely fascinating, right?
[34:08.320 –> 34:09.200] Because I mean,
[34:09.200 –> 34:12.240] I know some recordings already
[34:12.240 –> 34:13.600] kind of were like that
[34:13.600 –> 34:15.200] with today’s technology beforehand,
[34:15.200 –> 34:17.520] but that’s so crazy to think
[34:17.520 –> 34:19.040] everyone just making this happen
[34:19.040 –> 34:21.360] from their own homes or remotely or whatever.
[34:21.360 –> 34:21.760] Yeah.
[34:21.760 –> 34:23.120] Because yeah,
[34:23.120 –> 34:25.440] shout out to Drydock Studios
[34:25.440 –> 34:26.640] and the engineering team
[34:26.640 –> 34:27.440] and the voice director
[34:27.440 –> 34:29.760] because it came out phenomenal.
[34:29.760 –> 34:32.240] I think all the voice direction
[34:32.240 –> 34:33.360] and performances were just
[34:33.360 –> 34:34.640] absolutely stellar, right?
[34:34.640 –> 34:36.560] And I’m not saying that just because of,
[34:37.440 –> 34:38.240] again, you know,
[34:38.800 –> 34:41.200] it’s not common in this genre or whatever,
[34:41.200 –> 34:44.000] but like I like to,
[34:44.800 –> 34:45.120] you know,
[34:45.120 –> 34:48.480] analyze or appreciate the voice acting
[34:48.480 –> 34:49.920] in a lot of different games and whatnot.
[34:50.720 –> 34:51.680] And I think you guys did
[34:51.680 –> 34:52.560] absolutely stellar job.
[34:52.560 –> 34:54.160] I love all the little emotions
[34:54.160 –> 34:56.160] and little nuances
[34:56.160 –> 34:58.080] that go into the performances.
[34:58.080 –> 34:59.040] It’s great.
[34:59.040 –> 35:00.800] And would you believe it was Kritzia
[35:00.800 –> 35:01.440] who again,
[35:01.440 –> 35:02.560] our fearless director,
[35:02.560 –> 35:05.040] it was her first directing job.
[35:05.600 –> 35:06.080] Wow.
[35:06.080 –> 35:08.000] And you would never have guessed that
[35:08.000 –> 35:10.960] based on like how we as the actors
[35:10.960 –> 35:11.920] got to interact with her
[35:11.920 –> 35:13.200] because I have a ton of friends in the cast
[35:13.200 –> 35:15.280] and they’ve all told me the same thing.
[35:15.280 –> 35:16.880] She just handles herself
[35:16.880 –> 35:18.560] as such an experienced
[35:20.640 –> 35:22.560] and like confident director
[35:23.360 –> 35:25.200] that we never,
[35:25.200 –> 35:26.080] at least I can,
[35:26.080 –> 35:27.760] I guess I can only speak for myself.
[35:27.760 –> 35:30.880] I always felt completely at ease
[35:30.880 –> 35:33.440] and safe and just trusting her direction
[35:33.440 –> 35:34.240] and her vision
[35:34.240 –> 35:36.160] and like what she wanted to get from me.
[35:37.840 –> 35:38.720] And when I found out
[35:38.720 –> 35:40.160] it was her first directing job,
[35:40.160 –> 35:42.720] obviously she’s an incredibly accomplished
[35:42.720 –> 35:44.480] voice actress and on-camera actress,
[35:45.920 –> 35:48.720] but I was just blown away
[35:48.720 –> 35:50.480] that it was her first directing job.
[35:50.480 –> 35:50.880] Yeah.
[35:50.880 –> 35:51.680] I, wow.
[35:51.680 –> 35:53.680] I never would have guessed that myself.
[35:53.680 –> 35:54.320] Wow.
[35:54.320 –> 35:54.640] Yeah.
[35:54.640 –> 35:55.840] That’s amazing.
[35:55.840 –> 35:56.800] Major props to her.
[35:56.800 –> 35:58.480] I cannot wait to see what she does next.
[35:58.480 –> 36:00.080] I think she’s going to be a really big deal
[36:00.080 –> 36:01.360] in the directing world.
[36:01.360 –> 36:01.920] Oh man.
[36:01.920 –> 36:03.120] I’m excited too.
[36:03.120 –> 36:04.480] That’s fantastic.
[36:06.640 –> 36:08.480] Now I know voice actors
[36:08.480 –> 36:11.440] and such are generally really busy people,
[36:12.160 –> 36:13.840] but have you ever gotten a moment
[36:13.840 –> 36:15.360] to actually sit down and play the game?
[36:15.920 –> 36:18.320] I own the game.
[36:18.320 –> 36:18.960] I haven’t.
[36:18.960 –> 36:20.800] I have not sat down and played it yet.
[36:21.840 –> 36:23.920] Part of it is like the game
[36:23.920 –> 36:25.440] is very emotional for me
[36:25.440 –> 36:29.680] because I, my own grandma’s name
[36:29.680 –> 36:31.440] is grandma Hazel and she passed away
[36:31.440 –> 36:33.200] during the recording process.
[36:33.840 –> 36:34.640] Wait, really?
[36:34.640 –> 36:35.360] Yeah.
[36:35.360 –> 36:36.480] No, no way.
[36:36.480 –> 36:38.400] That’s, that’s crazy.
[36:38.400 –> 36:40.320] It was such a weird, I had a,
[36:41.200 –> 36:43.200] me and a lot of the cast had like
[36:43.200 –> 36:45.600] weird coincidences with our characters
[36:45.600 –> 36:47.520] that it was very much like a meant to be thing
[36:48.080 –> 36:49.120] and I want to play it
[36:49.120 –> 36:50.320] and I’m so excited to play it
[36:50.320 –> 36:52.000] and I’ve watched a ton of the cut scenes,
[36:52.640 –> 36:54.080] but I also am like,
[36:54.080 –> 36:56.160] my heart is not quite ready,
[36:57.680 –> 36:59.360] but I’m excited to start playing it.
[36:59.840 –> 37:01.360] At some point, probably soon,
[37:01.360 –> 37:02.560] probably this summer.
[37:02.560 –> 37:03.840] I don’t blame you like,
[37:03.840 –> 37:06.240] because yeah, I think,
[37:07.120 –> 37:09.600] especially the Tara and Hazel relationship,
[37:09.600 –> 37:11.120] I think it’s some of the strongest
[37:11.120 –> 37:12.640] emotional notes in the game, right?
[37:12.640 –> 37:12.640] Yeah.
[37:12.640 –> 37:16.080] Um, I’m not going too specific
[37:16.080 –> 37:17.120] for people who don’t play the game,
[37:17.120 –> 37:17.920] but right, but there’s,
[37:18.880 –> 37:21.440] we’ve seen towards the end of the game,
[37:21.440 –> 37:23.360] um, that gives some closure
[37:23.360 –> 37:24.400] for Tara and Hazel.
[37:24.400 –> 37:27.040] I hope you know what I’m talking about.
[37:27.040 –> 37:30.880] That one, that one just hit me right in the gut.
[37:30.880 –> 37:32.160] Yeah, that one broke my heart.
[37:34.240 –> 37:35.840] That’s incredible though.
[37:35.840 –> 37:36.340] Yeah.
[37:37.920 –> 37:38.420] Wow.
[37:39.600 –> 37:40.240] And on that note,
[37:40.240 –> 37:41.200] I guess let’s talk about
[37:41.200 –> 37:42.720] Tara herself for a moment.
[37:42.720 –> 37:43.600] Do you have,
[37:43.600 –> 37:44.880] what are some of your favorite things
[37:44.880 –> 37:47.600] about Tara working with the character and such?
[37:47.600 –> 37:51.280] I love how multi-dimensional she is
[37:51.280 –> 37:53.280] and how passionate she is
[37:53.920 –> 37:58.080] and fun and awkward and adorable.
[37:58.080 –> 38:01.760] And I just think that she is so well fleshed out
[38:01.760 –> 38:04.240] and she, especially for games,
[38:04.240 –> 38:05.360] I think is important that we have
[38:05.360 –> 38:08.400] a really well-rounded player character
[38:08.400 –> 38:10.240] because we’re going to spend,
[38:10.240 –> 38:11.360] I think there’s 80 hours
[38:11.360 –> 38:12.800] of finished dialogue in this game.
[38:15.280 –> 38:15.840] Minimum.
[38:15.840 –> 38:16.480] Yeah.
[38:16.480 –> 38:16.980] Yeah.
[38:17.280 –> 38:19.040] So for me,
[38:19.040 –> 38:22.800] it was knowing that she was very complex.
[38:23.440 –> 38:25.760] And she was able to have these intricate
[38:25.760 –> 38:27.600] and interesting and nuanced relationships
[38:27.600 –> 38:29.040] with each of these characters.
[38:29.600 –> 38:31.600] And it just, it was a joy to play.
[38:31.600 –> 38:34.400] Also, Tara is very much like me.
[38:34.400 –> 38:37.200] The team and I have talked at length about this.
[38:37.200 –> 38:39.600] Like so much of like the weird,
[38:39.600 –> 38:41.600] awkward Tara stuff is just stuff
[38:41.600 –> 38:43.520] that I do in my own personal life.
[38:43.520 –> 38:45.520] So I’ve never gotten to play a character
[38:45.520 –> 38:48.240] as much like me as, as Tara.
[38:48.240 –> 38:50.960] Well, that’s, that’s wonderful to hear.
[38:50.960 –> 38:53.360] I absolutely adore Tara as a character.
[38:53.360 –> 38:54.400] Like I fully agree.
[38:54.400 –> 38:56.800] She’s wonderfully designed,
[38:56.800 –> 38:58.720] lots of nuances and complexities
[38:58.720 –> 39:00.880] to her personality and as a character, right?
[39:02.880 –> 39:05.280] And I say this as someone who like
[39:05.280 –> 39:07.360] think characters are among my favorite things
[39:07.360 –> 39:08.800] in video games in general, right?
[39:08.800 –> 39:10.160] Like if there’s a strong character,
[39:10.160 –> 39:11.760] I’ll go through a bad game even.
[39:11.760 –> 39:12.260] Yeah.
[39:13.600 –> 39:17.360] And lost my train of thought here.
[39:18.000 –> 39:18.500] Oh yes.
[39:18.500 –> 39:19.000] Yes.
[39:19.540 –> 39:21.860] One of the, and especially again,
[39:21.860 –> 39:23.700] in our little corner of the world
[39:23.700 –> 39:24.580] here on this podcast,
[39:24.580 –> 39:26.740] farming and object core games, right?
[39:27.540 –> 39:30.100] A lot of the player characters
[39:30.100 –> 39:32.660] are silent link slate characters, right?
[39:32.660 –> 39:34.340] Because, you know, they’re trying to
[39:35.620 –> 39:39.140] let you have that fantasy
[39:39.140 –> 39:40.340] or however you want to call it, right?
[39:40.340 –> 39:43.060] The role of owning the farm
[39:43.060 –> 39:44.420] or doing whatever it is, right?
[39:44.420 –> 39:47.700] So to have this Tara
[39:47.780 –> 39:49.220] on the total opposite side
[39:49.220 –> 39:52.900] where she’s a full character on her own
[39:52.900 –> 39:54.580] with her own likes, dislikes,
[39:54.580 –> 39:55.700] personality and whatnot.
[39:55.700 –> 39:58.020] It’s really refreshing
[39:58.020 –> 40:00.020] and incredibly well done.
[40:00.020 –> 40:01.700] Again, fantastic job on that.
[40:01.700 –> 40:03.540] Thank you very much for all that work.
[40:03.540 –> 40:03.860] Thank you.
[40:03.860 –> 40:04.980] I really appreciate that.
[40:05.620 –> 40:08.100] Do you have any favorite lines
[40:08.100 –> 40:10.260] or moments or scenes from the game?
[40:12.740 –> 40:14.660] Oh gosh, so many.
[40:14.660 –> 40:16.020] That’s hard to pick, I know.
[40:16.020 –> 40:16.820] It’s hard to pick
[40:16.900 –> 40:18.180] and I’m trying to think of what
[40:18.980 –> 40:20.260] everything with Grandma Hazel
[40:20.260 –> 40:20.900] was really fun.
[40:22.260 –> 40:25.700] I, oh gosh, I love
[40:26.420 –> 40:28.660] when Tara realizes
[40:28.660 –> 40:31.460] she can turn into Cleocatra.
[40:32.420 –> 40:35.940] Like, it’s so funny.
[40:35.940 –> 40:37.540] And I was so excited
[40:37.540 –> 40:38.420] because they didn’t tell me
[40:38.420 –> 40:40.180] until I started recording that scene
[40:40.180 –> 40:42.340] that that was going to be a thing in the game.
[40:42.340 –> 40:45.460] And like that I was just so like,
[40:46.100 –> 40:48.340] yes, oh my gosh, yes.
[40:48.340 –> 40:51.380] So it just was purely thrilling
[40:51.380 –> 40:52.580] and I just thought it was so cute.
[40:53.780 –> 40:54.900] Yeah, I agree.
[40:54.900 –> 40:56.340] That whole little scene
[40:56.340 –> 40:58.020] where they can transform into animals,
[40:58.020 –> 41:00.180] that was just an absolute delight.
[41:01.620 –> 41:06.100] And Cleocatra is a runaway star of the show.
[41:06.100 –> 41:08.980] Oh yeah, the amount of Cleocatra fan art
[41:08.980 –> 41:11.460] I’ve seen, I really want them to make
[41:11.460 –> 41:13.220] like a Cleocatra stuffy
[41:13.220 –> 41:14.100] or something like that.
[41:14.500 –> 41:16.740] Or like, because I’d buy it.
[41:16.740 –> 41:18.500] Yeah, I want it.
[41:19.460 –> 41:21.620] Oh man, I’d buy it in a heartbeat too.
[41:21.620 –> 41:23.380] That’s that’s a genius idea.
[41:25.780 –> 41:26.500] I’m trying to think
[41:26.500 –> 41:28.020] some of my favorite moments.
[41:28.020 –> 41:29.300] Well, obviously.
[41:30.340 –> 41:31.540] So I’ve only played
[41:31.540 –> 41:32.660] through the game once, right?
[41:32.660 –> 41:34.580] There’s like, I can’t imagine
[41:34.580 –> 41:35.380] the amount of dialogue
[41:35.380 –> 41:36.980] because you had to record for like
[41:37.700 –> 41:38.900] X number of routes
[41:38.900 –> 41:40.260] for each spouse and whatnot.
[41:40.260 –> 41:44.100] So Wesley was my spouse
[41:44.100 –> 41:46.500] and I like the boop that you do.
[41:47.700 –> 41:49.620] That you can do later on after mirror.
[41:49.620 –> 41:50.980] The boop is strong.
[41:50.980 –> 41:53.300] Those boops were so fun to record.
[41:55.060 –> 41:56.260] And they’re so cute.
[41:56.980 –> 42:00.100] They are, yeah, right?
[42:00.100 –> 42:02.340] And exactly like it’s these little things
[42:02.340 –> 42:04.420] that just really sell the game for me
[42:04.420 –> 42:05.380] and the performances.
[42:07.380 –> 42:09.220] The number of puns in the game,
[42:09.380 –> 42:11.380] I know we have Angus like one character
[42:11.380 –> 42:12.020] all about them,
[42:12.020 –> 42:13.380] but the number of puns
[42:13.380 –> 42:15.060] everyone else gets into too
[42:15.060 –> 42:17.300] is just delightful.
[42:17.300 –> 42:20.660] Oh yeah, I think it’s like a real testament
[42:20.660 –> 42:22.420] to the writing team who just,
[42:23.060 –> 42:25.540] they bring so much of their sense of humor.
[42:25.540 –> 42:26.820] Like they are just,
[42:26.820 –> 42:28.820] they are that sweet and funny
[42:28.820 –> 42:32.100] and like adorable in real life.
[42:33.300 –> 42:35.140] Because we would always have at least
[42:35.140 –> 42:37.140] one or two of the writers in every session.
[42:37.700 –> 42:42.180] And I love puns, so I love those.
[42:43.380 –> 42:43.940] So cute.
[42:45.700 –> 42:46.900] So I know you haven’t played the game,
[42:46.900 –> 42:47.860] but like there’s this,
[42:48.500 –> 42:49.780] you know, you have a list of quests
[42:49.780 –> 42:50.660] and missions and whatnot.
[42:50.660 –> 42:53.780] And I think almost every single title
[42:53.780 –> 42:55.940] of them is a pun or reference or something.
[42:55.940 –> 42:57.380] Yes, I love that.
[42:57.380 –> 42:58.580] They had an absolute ball.
[43:00.340 –> 43:01.860] So major props to the writing team.
[43:01.860 –> 43:04.660] They, I think one of the hardest things
[43:04.660 –> 43:06.740] to do in games is humor, right?
[43:07.220 –> 43:09.060] They really knocked it out of the park.
[43:10.980 –> 43:14.020] One line that always makes me laugh
[43:14.020 –> 43:16.180] when I think about it is early on
[43:16.180 –> 43:19.220] when Tara learned she can change
[43:19.220 –> 43:20.340] the seasons and whatnot.
[43:21.700 –> 43:23.220] Was it Finn, I think the little kid?
[43:23.700 –> 43:25.060] He mentions like,
[43:25.060 –> 43:27.300] feels like this spring’s taking forever.
[43:27.860 –> 43:29.860] Tara responds, I’m working on it.
[43:32.420 –> 43:34.580] Oh yeah, no brilliant, brilliant writing.
[43:34.660 –> 43:36.660] Major shout outs to the writing team for that.
[43:37.380 –> 43:41.460] And they had us in stitches in the booth.
[43:41.460 –> 43:44.900] Like I have had more than one session
[43:44.900 –> 43:47.460] where I’ve like, my sides are splitting
[43:47.460 –> 43:48.820] and I’m like doubled over,
[43:48.820 –> 43:51.380] like cannot breathe because I’m laughing so hard.
[43:52.180 –> 43:56.340] So I mean, it’s just, it was fun for us as well.
[43:56.980 –> 43:58.900] Yeah, yeah, I can tell like,
[43:58.900 –> 44:00.980] oh man, everyone really brought it.
[44:01.940 –> 44:03.300] You can tell how much love went
[44:03.300 –> 44:05.540] into every performance and the game as a whole.
[44:06.500 –> 44:09.060] So major, major props to everyone involved.
[44:09.060 –> 44:09.560] Thank you.
[44:10.740 –> 44:12.900] Who would you say is your favorite character,
[44:12.900 –> 44:14.180] you know, aside from Tara?
[44:14.180 –> 44:15.060] Cause like you said,
[44:15.060 –> 44:17.940] this is a big, pretty sizable cast and well done.
[44:17.940 –> 44:20.180] Everyone has their own quirks and personality.
[44:20.180 –> 44:23.780] So who are some of your favorite characters?
[44:23.780 –> 44:25.940] Ah, I love Finn and Emmy
[44:25.940 –> 44:28.340] cause I think they are so funny.
[44:28.340 –> 44:30.100] Like I just think they’re just so,
[44:31.060 –> 44:33.700] like that was me at 10 and nine years old,
[44:33.700 –> 44:36.420] like little, like go get her entrepreneur.
[44:36.420 –> 44:39.460] And I just, I think they’re both so funny.
[44:41.060 –> 44:44.820] I think for me, my favorite romance option
[44:44.820 –> 44:46.020] is probably Amira.
[44:46.020 –> 44:49.140] Cause I think Amira has like the best game
[44:49.140 –> 44:50.980] in terms of like her flirting game.
[44:52.500 –> 44:54.420] That’s the first thing she does.
[44:54.420 –> 44:54.980] I know.
[44:56.980 –> 44:58.740] She’s so good.
[45:00.500 –> 45:02.500] She is a superstar.
[45:02.500 –> 45:03.300] Absolutely.
[45:04.580 –> 45:05.060] Oh man.
[45:05.060 –> 45:05.460] Yeah.
[45:05.460 –> 45:06.020] I don’t blame you.
[45:06.020 –> 45:08.020] She’s definitely one of the top contenders.
[45:08.020 –> 45:08.580] Yeah.
[45:08.580 –> 45:08.900] Yeah.
[45:08.900 –> 45:13.380] And Emmy, I absolutely adore her business mogul,
[45:13.380 –> 45:14.420] Lemonade Stan.
[45:15.060 –> 45:16.100] It’s so cute.
[45:16.900 –> 45:17.700] It’s great.
[45:19.540 –> 45:20.660] Let’s see here.
[45:20.660 –> 45:21.780] Do you, okay.
[45:22.580 –> 45:24.020] Here’s a fun one, right?
[45:24.020 –> 45:27.300] So like one of the selling points is the witch
[45:27.300 –> 45:30.020] and all the potions and magic and whatnot of the game.
[45:30.660 –> 45:34.420] What, what would be one you’d like an incantation
[45:34.420 –> 45:36.420] or potion you wish you could use in real life?
[45:36.420 –> 45:38.900] Oh, that’s a really good question.
[45:38.900 –> 45:42.740] Um, I think it’d be really cool to be able
[45:42.740 –> 45:44.020] to change the seasons.
[45:44.980 –> 45:48.020] Um, I feel like that would be very helpful here
[45:48.020 –> 45:50.820] in California to be like, okay, let’s move it
[45:50.820 –> 45:52.740] to where we can get a good amount of rain.
[45:52.740 –> 45:53.940] And then now it’s going to be spring.
[45:53.940 –> 45:55.620] Cause now we watered everything and now everyone’s
[45:55.620 –> 45:58.260] tired of the rain or like, that would be cool.
[45:58.820 –> 46:01.620] Um, I probably would want to turn into a cat.
[46:01.620 –> 46:03.860] I just, because, or like any animal, cause like,
[46:03.860 –> 46:06.020] I look at my dog all the time and I’m like,
[46:06.020 –> 46:07.140] what do you do all day?
[46:07.140 –> 46:08.580] Like, what do you think about?
[46:08.580 –> 46:10.820] And I just would love to live a day as my dog.
[46:11.460 –> 46:13.780] So I think maybe that one.
[46:13.780 –> 46:15.460] I hadn’t even thought about that one.
[46:15.460 –> 46:16.420] Yeah, that’s good.
[46:16.420 –> 46:17.780] Do you have pets?
[46:17.780 –> 46:23.140] I, so I used to, I had a little toy poodle.
[46:23.140 –> 46:25.780] He passed away last October, unfortunately.
[46:25.780 –> 46:28.580] He was 17 years old.
[46:28.580 –> 46:29.700] Oh, what was his name?
[46:29.700 –> 46:31.300] The same age as my brother.
[46:31.300 –> 46:34.180] His name was Dodo, um, which is actually a name
[46:34.180 –> 46:36.900] my younger brother came up with as a baby.
[46:39.220 –> 46:40.580] That’s so cute.
[46:41.220 –> 46:41.540] Yeah.
[46:42.180 –> 46:42.500] Yeah.
[46:42.500 –> 46:45.220] He, um, 70 years was a good run.
[46:45.220 –> 46:45.780] Um, right.
[46:45.780 –> 46:47.620] And like my little brother grew up with him.
[46:47.620 –> 46:49.140] So it’s, oh man.
[46:49.140 –> 46:49.620] Yeah.
[46:49.620 –> 46:53.220] Like that’s so full of personality and such.
[46:53.220 –> 46:53.460] Right.
[46:53.460 –> 46:55.460] And, and that definitely carried over to the game.
[46:55.700 –> 46:58.260] Like Cleocatra was a ton of fun.
[46:58.260 –> 46:59.060] Amazing name.
[46:59.780 –> 47:03.460] Um, yeah, no, so that, that’s a, that’s a great pick.
[47:03.460 –> 47:07.140] Um, I could use the freeze time spell myself.
[47:07.140 –> 47:09.300] It’s just not enough hours in the day, you know?
[47:09.300 –> 47:10.980] No, that would be really helpful.
[47:11.540 –> 47:12.660] Yeah, that’s a good pick.
[47:12.660 –> 47:13.700] Absolutely.
[47:13.700 –> 47:15.060] Um, oh man.
[47:15.060 –> 47:15.540] Yeah.
[47:15.540 –> 47:17.700] Um, let’s see here.
[47:18.420 –> 47:22.340] So, you know, this we’re talking about wildfires a lot, but have you ever played
[47:22.340 –> 47:24.660] any other sort of farming or cottagecore games?
[47:24.660 –> 47:24.900] Right.
[47:24.900 –> 47:26.500] Do you have any history with them?
[47:26.500 –> 47:29.060] I’m unfortunately a terrible gamer.
[47:29.060 –> 47:38.180] So I, I do not, I have, I, I own animal crossing the, the new horizons one, which
[47:38.180 –> 47:43.140] I have played a couple of times and I own it cause I own a switch and I find it very
[47:43.140 –> 47:50.420] relaxing, but I am unfortunately such a workaholic that I, I have a really hard
[47:50.420 –> 47:52.260] time relaxing on my own.
[47:52.260 –> 47:56.420] So I have to like go out with my friends or like do something.
[47:56.420 –> 47:58.900] So I am, I wish I was a better gamer.
[47:59.540 –> 48:03.780] Um, but I have really liked what I’ve played of animal crossing, but I’m also a little
[48:03.780 –> 48:08.420] scared to go back to it because I’ve heard that the, that the people there are very
[48:08.420 –> 48:10.980] sassy to you if you haven’t played for a while.
[48:10.980 –> 48:14.340] And I know they’re going to like yell at me when I returned to my island.
[48:15.300 –> 48:21.540] Um, I, I’m a big, big animal crossing fan and, uh, going back is always a wild ride.
[48:21.780 –> 48:22.500] Absolutely.
[48:23.140 –> 48:25.460] But, um, but no, I get that.
[48:25.460 –> 48:25.620] Right.
[48:25.620 –> 48:29.060] Like you’ve clearly got the established career here.
[48:29.620 –> 48:32.100] I get that it’s hard to fit those hours in.
[48:32.580 –> 48:37.140] Um, and, and I can see from that, like I can see the Terra coming out right there.
[48:38.820 –> 48:41.380] Um, yeah, absolutely.
[48:41.380 –> 48:45.460] Um, you know, actually on that note, let me go back a second.
[48:45.460 –> 48:46.740] I want to go back to Terra.
[48:46.740 –> 48:52.340] Um, like I, I can’t appreciate enough to you and the, the writing and directing.
[48:52.980 –> 48:59.300] Like you mentioned like, yeah, she, uh, she had that messy breakup, the engagement
[48:59.300 –> 49:02.420] broke off and she just moved and, and, and lost her job even.
[49:02.420 –> 49:02.660] Right.
[49:02.660 –> 49:09.300] Like I think for so many people in their twenties and thirties, I think that’s so
[49:09.300 –> 49:09.940] relatable.
[49:09.940 –> 49:10.340] Right.
[49:10.340 –> 49:15.940] And, and it’s so cathartic to see her, you know, trying this fresh start in this
[49:16.020 –> 49:18.340] little island and meeting all these new people.
[49:18.340 –> 49:21.620] Um, I think that’s really one of the selling points of the game.
[49:21.620 –> 49:26.820] Um, and, and yeah, and I think you did a great job showing that of Terra, getting
[49:26.820 –> 49:28.260] her feet back up on everything.
[49:28.260 –> 49:29.060] Thank you.
[49:29.060 –> 49:34.740] I mean, I think that, um, I think that we collectively, I know so many people that
[49:34.740 –> 49:40.580] through the, through the end of, um, the hardcore quarantining, their lives had
[49:40.580 –> 49:42.340] completely changed mine as well.
[49:42.340 –> 49:46.420] You know, I think a lot of people went through a lot of really big life altering
[49:46.420 –> 49:51.700] stuff and, and came out the other side on a new adventure.
[49:51.700 –> 49:56.100] So I think that because we kind of have this collective experience, it may, it
[49:56.100 –> 49:59.060] makes her very relatable to a lot of people.
[49:59.060 –> 50:03.220] I know so many people that had huge breakups and had to move to the other side
[50:03.220 –> 50:05.140] of the country or things like that.
[50:05.140 –> 50:05.780] Yeah.
[50:05.780 –> 50:07.780] So I think it’s very relatable.
[50:07.780 –> 50:09.060] Yeah, absolutely.
[50:09.060 –> 50:10.980] Um, let’s see here.
[50:12.260 –> 50:16.180] Do you have any other hobbies or interests you’d like to talk about and such?
[50:16.180 –> 50:17.860] Yeah, I do a lot of stuff.
[50:17.860 –> 50:22.420] So acting is my job, obviously, um, acting and voice acting.
[50:22.980 –> 50:27.380] I also last year started making music for the first time, which was really fun.
[50:28.020 –> 50:31.060] Oh, do you play instrument or is it singing or what is it?
[50:31.060 –> 50:32.100] I’m a singer.
[50:32.100 –> 50:37.860] Um, I wish I played better, but I very luckily have, my brother-in-law is an
[50:37.860 –> 50:40.740] incredibly talented musician and producer.
[50:40.740 –> 50:46.260] So I have, um, him and my other producer, um, who I work with.
[50:46.260 –> 50:52.740] I, I write, but I wish I do not play, but I sing.
[50:52.740 –> 50:57.380] So I’m very lucky to have two collaborators who are like musical geniuses who can
[50:57.380 –> 51:00.100] play every single instrument known to mankind.
[51:00.100 –> 51:03.380] Um, cause I, I wish I played, but I do that.
[51:03.380 –> 51:09.940] And I, I, that was kind of, uh, something I, I’d always kind of like entertained.
[51:09.940 –> 51:15.620] Like I think every kid wants to be a rock star at some point, but over the pandemic,
[51:15.620 –> 51:20.260] I actually started writing and, um, have released a couple songs and released my
[51:20.260 –> 51:22.900] first music video last year and have more on the way.
[51:22.900 –> 51:27.220] So it’s been a really fun outlet that I’ve really enjoyed.
[51:27.220 –> 51:29.380] Oh, tell us about it.
[51:30.100 –> 51:31.060] Give us the plugs.
[51:31.140 –> 51:33.860] What are the names of some of the songs or albums or whatever?
[51:33.860 –> 51:36.900] So I produce under my musician name VRL.
[51:36.900 –> 51:43.380] Um, so it’s my initials and it’s, it’s like the complete opposite of like, if, if,
[51:43.380 –> 51:48.980] if Wildflowers is like bright and cheerful and just like delightful, the stuff I write
[51:48.980 –> 51:56.420] is like sad, depressing, like dark synthwave music, which always really surprises
[51:56.420 –> 52:00.260] people because I am myself very like outgoing.
[52:01.860 –> 52:07.620] And like, I don’t know, bubbly is usually the word people describe me as.
[52:08.340 –> 52:09.700] But my music is a complete opposite.
[52:09.700 –> 52:10.980] So I have two songs out now.
[52:10.980 –> 52:12.980] One of them is called easy to love.
[52:14.020 –> 52:20.180] And the other one that has a music video out is called kill for you, die for you.
[52:20.180 –> 52:24.980] And it’s the word kill and then the number four and the letter U and then the same thing
[52:25.700 –> 52:27.380] die is spelled correctly.
[52:27.380 –> 52:30.740] And then four, the number four and then you, the letter you.
[52:31.380 –> 52:33.940] Um, and it’s like dark and witchy.
[52:33.940 –> 52:39.540] Like Stevie Nicks is, I mean, I guess, okay, I guess I will say that like the witchy vibes
[52:39.540 –> 52:44.900] are parallel to Wildflowers, but it’s like, I’m really inspired by like Stevie Nicks and
[52:44.900 –> 52:50.260] Florence, um, Florence the machine and like Marina and the diamonds.
[52:50.260 –> 52:52.660] So that’s kind of the vibe it goes.
[52:52.740 –> 52:53.220] Yeah.
[52:53.220 –> 52:55.780] Also those, I love Marina.
[52:55.780 –> 52:56.420] Yeah.
[52:56.420 –> 52:58.500] Um, oh man, I love that music.
[52:58.500 –> 53:00.900] Um, Florence the machine’s pretty dang good too.
[53:00.900 –> 53:01.400] Yeah.
[53:01.860 –> 53:02.180] Right.
[53:02.180 –> 53:06.740] Like a jammer nerd here, but like the rendition of, uh, stand by me.
[53:07.540 –> 53:08.040] Yeah.
[53:08.580 –> 53:09.300] Is it stand by me?
[53:09.300 –> 53:09.700] Gosh, no.
[53:09.700 –> 53:10.740] Wait, what’s the name of the song?
[53:10.740 –> 53:13.220] Uh, I know what you’re talking about.
[53:13.220 –> 53:15.700] Um, they did it for fancy 15.
[53:16.340 –> 53:16.980] Um, wow.
[53:16.980 –> 53:17.940] It is stand by me.
[53:17.940 –> 53:18.420] Yeah.
[53:18.420 –> 53:18.980] Yes.
[53:18.980 –> 53:19.300] Yeah.
[53:19.300 –> 53:19.620] Okay.
[53:19.620 –> 53:19.940] Yes.
[53:19.940 –> 53:20.100] No.
[53:20.100 –> 53:20.500] Okay.
[53:20.500 –> 53:22.340] I can hear it in my head kind of.
[53:22.740 –> 53:23.240] Yes.
[53:23.300 –> 53:24.260] Um, yes, no.
[53:24.260 –> 53:24.820] Okay.
[53:24.820 –> 53:26.100] Um, but okay.
[53:26.100 –> 53:26.820] Going back here.
[53:26.820 –> 53:27.620] I’m getting distracted.
[53:27.620 –> 53:29.460] Um, yes.
[53:29.460 –> 53:29.700] Okay.
[53:29.700 –> 53:30.980] I need to listen to this music.
[53:30.980 –> 53:32.020] That sounds amazing.
[53:32.020 –> 53:33.540] I’m totally down for that vibe.
[53:33.540 –> 53:38.580] It’s on all platforms and the goal is hopefully to start performing live this year.
[53:38.580 –> 53:41.700] I have a few releases coming up.
[53:41.700 –> 53:47.220] So once, once the things are released, um, we can start thinking about performing live.
[53:47.860 –> 53:56.820] Um, yeah, it’s been, it’s been a fun juggle of I, um, of like spending time and also like
[53:56.820 –> 54:00.500] producing music is I didn’t realize kind of expensive.
[54:00.500 –> 54:07.380] So it’s like kind of slow going cause I I’m funding everything out of my own pocket.
[54:08.340 –> 54:10.500] So expensive is an understatement.
[54:10.500 –> 54:11.780] Oh my goodness.
[54:11.780 –> 54:12.980] That’s amazing.
[54:12.980 –> 54:16.340] Well, so that’s why I only released two songs last year.
[54:17.140 –> 54:21.620] So one has to budget to also be able to pay rent in Los Angeles.
[54:22.500 –> 54:24.100] Uh, yep, yep, yep, yep.
[54:24.100 –> 54:24.900] Absolutely.
[54:24.900 –> 54:26.580] Um, oh man.
[54:28.340 –> 54:29.060] Um, wow.
[54:29.060 –> 54:30.180] That’s really impressive though.
[54:30.980 –> 54:35.620] I’m definitely gonna take a listen to that after this interview and then follow along.
[54:35.620 –> 54:36.420] Absolutely.
[54:36.420 –> 54:36.980] Cool.
[54:36.980 –> 54:42.420] And I’m on, I’m on, um, the, I also have a separate Instagram account for it.
[54:42.420 –> 54:45.380] So it’s a VRL music official on Instagram.
[54:45.460 –> 54:45.780] Okay.
[54:45.780 –> 54:46.020] Okay.
[54:46.020 –> 54:46.340] Okay.
[54:46.340 –> 54:47.060] That’s right here.
[54:47.060 –> 54:48.820] See that from the first Google results.
[54:48.820 –> 54:49.540] Yeah.
[54:49.540 –> 54:50.420] Good to see you.
[54:50.420 –> 54:52.420] Um, uh, all right.
[54:52.420 –> 54:54.740] That’s um, and that’s, that’s super cool.
[54:54.740 –> 54:56.500] Um, I love music, right?
[54:56.500 –> 55:00.980] But I, I, I played a few instruments back in the day, but it’s one of the areas where
[55:00.980 –> 55:02.740] I, it just doesn’t click naturally.
[55:02.740 –> 55:07.700] So I’m just always in awe of anyone who can play or sing or write music.
[55:07.700 –> 55:12.020] Um, so hats off to you because I think that’s just really, really impressive.
[55:12.020 –> 55:12.580] Thank you.
[55:12.580 –> 55:16.180] I’m very lucky that my parents are very artistic.
[55:16.180 –> 55:17.380] Neither of them worked at the arts.
[55:17.380 –> 55:18.260] My mom was a nerd.
[55:18.260 –> 55:22.260] My mom still is a nurse and my dad was a bottle water delivery guy.
[55:22.820 –> 55:27.620] So like my parents are like absolutely did not work in the arts, but were very creative
[55:27.620 –> 55:27.860] people.
[55:27.860 –> 55:33.220] Like my mom has painted her entire life and done like stained glass and my dad like really
[55:33.220 –> 55:35.220] loved pottery and stuff like that.
[55:35.780 –> 55:38.180] And they really allowed.
[55:39.140 –> 55:45.460] My brother is like, he’s, he’s deciding whether or not he wants to go into like gaming design.
[55:45.460 –> 55:47.540] So like a different type of creativity.
[55:48.100 –> 55:51.700] Um, but my sister, my sister’s an opera singer.
[55:52.260 –> 55:55.380] Uh, so, and she’s nine years older than me.
[55:55.380 –> 56:00.260] So I was very, always very lucky to have like creative role models in my life.
[56:00.260 –> 56:02.660] I wanted to be just like her when I was little.
[56:02.660 –> 56:04.660] Oh, that’s, that’s awesome.
[56:05.380 –> 56:06.660] Man, what a cool family.
[56:07.540 –> 56:09.140] So you’re the middle child of three then?
[56:09.140 –> 56:09.620] I am.
[56:09.620 –> 56:09.940] Yes.
[56:10.500 –> 56:11.060] Okay.
[56:11.060 –> 56:11.380] Yeah.
[56:11.380 –> 56:11.860] Very cool.
[56:12.660 –> 56:14.900] Um, I’m, I’m the eldest of three myself.
[56:14.900 –> 56:15.300] Oh, cool.
[56:15.940 –> 56:16.180] Yeah.
[56:16.740 –> 56:19.220] Um, oh man, that’s, oh man.
[56:19.220 –> 56:19.780] That’s so cool.
[56:19.780 –> 56:21.060] Especially your sister and opera singer.
[56:21.060 –> 56:26.260] That’s such a kind of job, but so impressive.
[56:26.260 –> 56:27.620] She’s very impressive.
[56:27.620 –> 56:29.940] Her name is Brooke Iva Loman.
[56:29.940 –> 56:34.980] Um, and she is, she’s got a ridiculous voice.
[56:34.980 –> 56:37.700] Like I saw her sing at LA opera.
[56:37.700 –> 56:42.180] Like, uh, they did a really interesting, there was an intro, what was it called?
[56:42.980 –> 56:46.980] She worked for LA opera a couple months ago for this thing where it was like teaching
[56:46.980 –> 56:49.620] children about opera and it was just so cool.
[56:50.340 –> 56:53.540] Um, and she just, yeah, she just, she performs all over.
[56:53.540 –> 56:58.900] She’s so busy and she’s like constantly booked and busy and I’m just so proud of her.
[56:58.900 –> 56:59.380] Oh man.
[56:59.380 –> 56:59.620] Yeah.
[56:59.620 –> 57:00.260] Like I found her.
[57:00.260 –> 57:03.220] Iva, that’s I-V-A for people who might want to Google.
[57:03.220 –> 57:04.580] Um, Brooke Iva Loman.
[57:04.580 –> 57:05.140] Um, wow.
[57:05.140 –> 57:06.420] That’s, yeah, that’s really impressive.
[57:07.060 –> 57:08.340] Um, hats off to her.
[57:09.380 –> 57:18.660] Um, and like on this note of, of, uh, projects and whatnot, are there any other projects
[57:18.660 –> 57:21.940] or anything like the other side from the music that you’re hyped about right now?
[57:21.940 –> 57:23.620] Anything you want to plug?
[57:23.620 –> 57:26.660] Several things I’m excited about, but I can’t talk about yet.
[57:26.660 –> 57:30.260] Oh, I know that’s always the case with voice actors.
[57:30.260 –> 57:31.300] It is, it is.
[57:31.940 –> 57:33.380] It’s that NDA life.
[57:34.020 –> 57:40.420] Um, yeah, I feel like it’s, and because it’s always like you can’t talk about anything
[57:40.420 –> 57:44.020] and then all of a sudden you just talk a lot about the thing that came out and it’s just
[57:44.020 –> 57:46.420] kind of an endless rollercoaster of that.
[57:47.220 –> 57:48.020] Right, right.
[57:48.020 –> 57:48.660] I get it.
[57:48.660 –> 57:54.100] Um, and it’s, it’s funny for voice acting too because like at least when you do theater,
[57:54.100 –> 57:59.540] you know, you’re, you’re posting about it as you’re doing the thing or like even for
[57:59.540 –> 58:04.180] film, you, I feel like the, the, the window is often shorter.
[58:04.180 –> 58:09.300] Like it’s sometimes a year in post, whereas games, games and animation, sometimes you
[58:09.300 –> 58:14.740] start working on two or three years or more depending on the project before it ever sees
[58:14.740 –> 58:18.660] the light of day and you’ve wrapped it two years ago and then all of a sudden you’re
[58:18.660 –> 58:19.940] talking about it again.
[58:19.940 –> 58:26.500] So it’s such an interesting like cyclical experience for, for voiceover artists.
[58:26.500 –> 58:34.020] Yeah, like, oh man, hats off to you guys because some of those, like, I just imagine
[58:34.020 –> 58:38.900] being in your, in your shoes and having a really cool role and just having to hold it
[58:38.900 –> 58:39.940] in for two years.
[58:39.940 –> 58:41.780] That’s, that’s crazy.
[58:41.780 –> 58:45.620] It’s really good that my dog doesn’t talk because my dog does everything.
[58:46.740 –> 58:47.620] She’s the only one.
[58:48.420 –> 58:49.860] She has the friend DA.
[58:49.860 –> 58:50.360] Exactly.
[58:50.360 –> 58:53.800] Um, okay.
[58:53.800 –> 58:59.880] Well, what about stuff that is, uh, what are, what are some of your past roles or whatnot
[58:59.880 –> 59:01.320] that you’ve enjoyed doing?
[59:01.320 –> 59:01.720] Yeah.
[59:01.720 –> 59:05.320] So most people know me from the game What Remains of Edith Finch.
[59:05.960 –> 59:10.600] Um, that’s, that’s kind of the game that gave me my start and is still like, people
[59:10.600 –> 59:12.200] are still discovering that game.
[59:12.200 –> 59:13.880] It came out in 2017.
[59:13.880 –> 59:18.440] It came out five years ago and people are still messaging me being like, I just played
[59:18.440 –> 59:20.120] it for the first time today.
[59:20.120 –> 59:20.920] Oh my gosh.
[59:20.920 –> 59:22.040] Which is really exciting.
[59:22.680 –> 59:27.880] Um, and then, uh, I really loved working on Wolfenstein Youngblood.
[59:27.880 –> 59:30.840] I got to go, like, do all the mocap for that.
[59:30.840 –> 59:35.560] I got to go do the mocap in Sweden, which is actually where I, yeah.
[59:35.560 –> 59:40.440] Um, where, that’s where I met Shelby Young who plays Natalia in Wildflowers.
[59:41.000 –> 59:41.800] Okay.
[59:41.800 –> 59:45.720] And Shelby is like one of my best friends now and it just, it was very cool that we
[59:45.720 –> 59:48.040] have now gotten to work together on stuff.
[59:48.040 –> 59:50.680] Like since that, cause we played twins in that game.
[59:50.680 –> 59:52.120] Oh, that’s fascinating.
[59:52.120 –> 59:53.080] I love Natalia.
[59:53.080 –> 59:57.880] Um, since like her shop’s the closest to your, uh, to your farm in the game.
[59:57.880 –> 01:00:00.920] Like she’s like the first one to become best friends with.
[01:00:00.920 –> 01:00:03.880] Um, so yeah, that’s great.
[01:00:03.880 –> 01:00:06.360] Um, and then I also, that’s so cool.
[01:00:06.360 –> 01:00:07.640] All the way to Sweden.
[01:00:07.640 –> 01:00:09.480] Yeah, I didn’t expect that.
[01:00:09.480 –> 01:00:10.680] It was very cool.
[01:00:10.680 –> 01:00:14.600] We shot for like two and a half, three weeks over there and it was my first time working
[01:00:14.600 –> 01:00:15.160] overseas.
[01:00:15.720 –> 01:00:20.040] Um, I had been to Europe, but the first time I’d been to Europe was literally two months
[01:00:20.040 –> 01:00:21.640] before for the London BAFTAs.
[01:00:22.440 –> 01:00:23.960] Um, oh wow.
[01:00:23.960 –> 01:00:24.600] Yeah.
[01:00:24.600 –> 01:00:27.720] Uh, that year was a crazy, crazy year.
[01:00:27.720 –> 01:00:29.960] Um, it was a lot of traveling.
[01:00:29.960 –> 01:00:34.680] Um, and I had never, I had never worked in another country.
[01:00:34.680 –> 01:00:38.520] I had never been in another country for that long before.
[01:00:38.520 –> 01:00:41.720] And I’d also had never done motion capture before.
[01:00:41.720 –> 01:00:48.360] So it was like a lot of new things and it just, it’s still to this day, one of the most
[01:00:48.360 –> 01:00:52.520] special, lovely jobs I’ve gotten to do.
[01:00:52.520 –> 01:00:58.200] Like I just met so many people on that job that I love and care about so much.
[01:00:58.200 –> 01:01:04.760] Like Tom Keegan, who, um, I mean, he, he’s one of the best in the biz for video game
[01:01:04.760 –> 01:01:06.920] directing and especially for motion capture.
[01:01:06.920 –> 01:01:08.680] Like he does a ton of Star Wars stuff.
[01:01:08.680 –> 01:01:10.200] He does the Wolfenstein games.
[01:01:10.200 –> 01:01:12.600] He, he, he’s amazing.
[01:01:12.600 –> 01:01:19.880] And he’s also just like the kindest human and the loveliest human and just such an actor’s
[01:01:19.880 –> 01:01:20.840] director.
[01:01:20.840 –> 01:01:22.760] I just, I love him so much.
[01:01:22.760 –> 01:01:25.160] So that’s, that sounds awesome.
[01:01:25.160 –> 01:01:26.440] It is very cool.
[01:01:26.440 –> 01:01:27.400] It’s cool.
[01:01:27.400 –> 01:01:27.960] Yeah.
[01:01:27.960 –> 01:01:28.600] Yeah.
[01:01:28.600 –> 01:01:31.000] Um, oh man, that’s, that’s exciting.
[01:01:31.000 –> 01:01:37.640] Um, and going back one second here, Edith Finch, like I haven’t played it myself, but
[01:01:37.640 –> 01:01:38.680] I’ve heard about it.
[01:01:38.680 –> 01:01:38.920] Right.
[01:01:38.920 –> 01:01:43.800] And like, especially after Wildflowers, knowing that you’re like, uh, you’re playing Edith,
[01:01:43.800 –> 01:01:45.800] I’m probably going to play it.
[01:01:45.800 –> 01:01:50.440] I will absolutely play a game just to hear a voice performance.
[01:01:51.240 –> 01:01:53.080] It’s a really fun one.
[01:01:53.080 –> 01:01:54.600] Make sure you bring tissues though.
[01:01:54.600 –> 01:01:56.760] It’s incredibly sad.
[01:01:56.760 –> 01:01:57.640] Oh yeah.
[01:01:57.640 –> 01:02:00.920] I’ve, I’ve heard, um, yeah, with me with a name like that.
[01:02:00.920 –> 01:02:01.240] Right.
[01:02:01.240 –> 01:02:01.960] Oh yeah.
[01:02:02.520 –> 01:02:04.040] Um, uh, yeah.
[01:02:04.040 –> 01:02:08.200] And then I got to do the complete opposite of Terra simultaneously.
[01:02:08.280 –> 01:02:13.480] I worked on a game called Black Tail that came out in December and it’s about the origin
[01:02:13.480 –> 01:02:18.040] story of Baba Yaga from like Russian and Slavic folk folklore.
[01:02:18.680 –> 01:02:20.200] Oh, that’s interesting.
[01:02:20.200 –> 01:02:20.600] Yeah.
[01:02:20.600 –> 01:02:28.520] And it’s, she was like so fun to voice, but the complete opposite of Terra.
[01:02:28.520 –> 01:02:36.120] Also a young witch or a young, a young woman finding her power, but, um, lot of rage, lot
[01:02:36.120 –> 01:02:39.800] of screaming, lot of like dire situations.
[01:02:39.800 –> 01:02:42.040] And it was so fun to do.
[01:02:42.040 –> 01:02:47.160] And it was really fun to do parallel to recording Wildflowers because like some days I would
[01:02:47.160 –> 01:02:51.960] like cast spells and be all like happy and like, we’re going to change the seasons.
[01:02:51.960 –> 01:02:56.120] And then the next session would be like, we’re going to burn everything down.
[01:02:56.120 –> 01:02:59.880] And like, I like, I’m in a medieval Europe witch.
[01:02:59.880 –> 01:03:01.640] So it was fun.
[01:03:01.640 –> 01:03:02.140] Oh man.
[01:03:02.700 –> 01:03:07.580] That’s, oh, I hadn’t heard of this, but, oh, that’s such a fascinating, uh, Remus.
[01:03:07.580 –> 01:03:11.900] So let’s, uh, we’ll listen to this Black Tail, T-A-I-L, one word.
[01:03:11.900 –> 01:03:14.060] Um, I’m looking at it now.
[01:03:14.060 –> 01:03:15.980] Um, oh, this game looks fascinating.
[01:03:15.980 –> 01:03:18.780] The art is so trippy and cool.
[01:03:19.420 –> 01:03:24.940] Like it’s, it gives me like, just, it’s so, I love the art in it.
[01:03:24.940 –> 01:03:30.700] I think it’s so creepy and it really fits the eerie, eerie atmosphere for it.
[01:03:30.700 –> 01:03:32.700] Yeah, I can see that just from the screenshots.
[01:03:32.700 –> 01:03:34.460] Um, that’s some strong art direction.
[01:03:34.460 –> 01:03:40.940] And yeah, definitely opposite end of the spectrum from, uh, um, Wildflowers.
[01:03:40.940 –> 01:03:42.700] Um, oh, that’s so cool.
[01:03:42.700 –> 01:03:43.200] Yeah.
[01:03:43.200 –> 01:03:45.900] Um, oh man, that, okay.
[01:03:45.900 –> 01:03:50.620] That is, oh, I’m so glad we’re having this chat because I’m learning all these new things
[01:03:50.620 –> 01:03:52.140] I want to check out now.
[01:03:52.140 –> 01:03:55.900] I’ve just learned that I, and I only learned this recently because a couple of friends
[01:03:55.900 –> 01:03:56.940] commented.
[01:03:56.940 –> 01:03:59.660] I apparently, I always think I post a lot.
[01:03:59.740 –> 01:04:04.780] Like I feel like I post so much that I must be annoying or irritating with how much I
[01:04:04.780 –> 01:04:08.620] post, but lately I’ve been posting, I’ll like post some about something I worked on and
[01:04:08.620 –> 01:04:11.580] someone will be like, I had no idea you worked on that.
[01:04:11.580 –> 01:04:12.860] When did that come out?
[01:04:12.860 –> 01:04:13.980] You worked on that?
[01:04:13.980 –> 01:04:18.860] And I, I’ve just started to realize, oh, I don’t think I post enough on like my grid
[01:04:18.860 –> 01:04:19.980] on my Instagram.
[01:04:19.980 –> 01:04:24.620] So I try to get better with that because apparently no one knows what I’m working on.
[01:04:24.620 –> 01:04:25.660] Oh man.
[01:04:25.660 –> 01:04:27.020] I mean, it’s, it’s tough, right?
[01:04:27.020 –> 01:04:29.580] Like so many social medias to keep up with.
[01:04:29.580 –> 01:04:33.580] Like, I, oh yeah, that’s, that’s a tall order for anyone.
[01:04:33.580 –> 01:04:40.220] Um, but yeah, but hey, that’s what we’re here for too, to help, uh, spread the word a
[01:04:40.220 –> 01:04:40.620] little.
[01:04:40.620 –> 01:04:42.860] Um, that’s, that’s good.
[01:04:42.860 –> 01:04:44.140] That is exciting stuff.
[01:04:44.140 –> 01:04:49.180] Um, you also do some onscreen acting, correct?
[01:04:49.180 –> 01:04:55.580] Um, what, like how, so how do you prefer, but like, what do you, do you find any big
[01:04:55.580 –> 01:04:59.980] differences between the two on that camera and voice acting?
[01:04:59.980 –> 01:05:07.740] Um, yeah, I think, I think that there is a big difference between, um, any medium because
[01:05:07.740 –> 01:05:09.580] I also work in theater as well.
[01:05:09.580 –> 01:05:20.140] I think that voiceover requires so much imagination and trust because you have to trust your team
[01:05:20.140 –> 01:05:23.740] because you have to know that their vision is strong and that they are getting what they
[01:05:23.740 –> 01:05:28.860] want out of you because you usually, depends on the game, depends how far along it is,
[01:05:28.860 –> 01:05:34.540] but I’ve worked on plenty of things where I have zero concept art or any idea of what
[01:05:34.540 –> 01:05:35.820] something will look like.
[01:05:35.820 –> 01:05:39.900] I had no idea what Blacktail would look like until I think the first trailer dropped.
[01:05:39.900 –> 01:05:43.580] I think I had seen maybe like one piece of concept art halfway through recording.
[01:05:44.140 –> 01:05:46.060] So you do have to really trust.
[01:05:46.940 –> 01:05:52.380] Um, and also you, you don’t really have your scene partner most of the time, unless you’re,
[01:05:52.380 –> 01:05:56.620] I did a couple dual sessions for Wolfenstein with Shelby because we played twins.
[01:05:58.700 –> 01:06:01.260] But most of the time you don’t have your scene partner.
[01:06:01.260 –> 01:06:05.420] So you either get your director being your scene partner, which sometimes they’re actors
[01:06:05.420 –> 01:06:06.860] too, which can be really helpful.
[01:06:07.820 –> 01:06:09.260] And sometimes you’re on your own.
[01:06:11.020 –> 01:06:14.860] Whereas for on camera, so much is given to you.
[01:06:14.860 –> 01:06:18.220] Like you have to come to set knowing your lines and being memorized and doing your own
[01:06:18.220 –> 01:06:19.020] homework.
[01:06:19.020 –> 01:06:24.380] But then there’s a lot of collaboration and the costume designer helps figure out what
[01:06:24.380 –> 01:06:29.260] the visual look of your character is and putting on the costume helps you feel what they feel
[01:06:29.260 –> 01:06:29.980] like.
[01:06:29.980 –> 01:06:36.300] Hair and makeup makes you look even more like, uh, like you, like the character, you see
[01:06:36.300 –> 01:06:39.500] the set around you so you know what environment you’re playing in.
[01:06:39.500 –> 01:06:42.540] You have your other actor there most of the time.
[01:06:42.540 –> 01:06:47.500] I mean, sometimes you, sometimes you act off of a tennis ball if you really can’t get the
[01:06:47.500 –> 01:06:55.020] other actor for some reason, but most of the time you have, you have them.
[01:06:56.860 –> 01:07:02.620] And then for theater, there’s like that lovely extra element of you’re doing something that
[01:07:02.620 –> 01:07:07.340] like you are so memorized because you, you may be doing a, sometimes you’re doing a three
[01:07:07.340 –> 01:07:11.980] week run and sometimes you’re doing Broadway and you’ve, you’re working on a role for over
[01:07:11.980 –> 01:07:13.900] a year and it’s, it’s in your bones.
[01:07:14.540 –> 01:07:21.580] And it’s finding the nuances and the newness every night and letting it be so new and like
[01:07:21.580 –> 01:07:27.340] finding the discoveries and also having the energy of the audience because that really
[01:07:27.340 –> 01:07:28.620] affects the show.
[01:07:28.620 –> 01:07:31.740] So I love them all, but they’re all very different.
[01:07:32.460 –> 01:07:33.660] Yeah, that’s interesting, right?
[01:07:33.660 –> 01:07:39.500] Like I’ve, I mean, I like to say I like following voice actors and, you know, like you, some
[01:07:39.500 –> 01:07:42.380] voice actors dabble in on camera and theater and stuff.
[01:07:42.380 –> 01:07:46.700] So, but hearing it all laid out like that, yeah, that’s fascinating to hear all these
[01:07:46.700 –> 01:07:47.260] differences.
[01:07:48.060 –> 01:07:48.860] It’s very, very cool.
[01:07:50.860 –> 01:07:58.940] And speaking of audience energy, so you don’t get that per se in a game, but I know games
[01:07:58.940 –> 01:08:04.460] have some of the biggest like fandoms and fan arts and whatnot, right?
[01:08:05.020 –> 01:08:10.460] Have you had any memorable fan interactions or seen any fan art or et cetera that you’ve
[01:08:10.460 –> 01:08:11.180] enjoyed?
[01:08:11.180 –> 01:08:17.100] So I am just starting to try to get into the convention scene, but I’ve only done like
[01:08:17.100 –> 01:08:18.460] one or two so far.
[01:08:18.460 –> 01:08:25.420] I’ve only, the only two that I’ve done, I’ve done ClexaCon in Vegas twice, but I know the
[01:08:25.420 –> 01:08:31.180] team there and that one’s, it feels less like a meeting fan experience because like, I know
[01:08:31.180 –> 01:08:33.580] every single person who like works there.
[01:08:34.220 –> 01:08:37.740] So it’s more just like, let’s all putz around and talk about art.
[01:08:38.300 –> 01:08:42.380] But I want, I really want to get onto the convention circuit.
[01:08:42.380 –> 01:08:45.820] So I’m starting to try to figure out how to do that because I would love to meet more
[01:08:45.820 –> 01:08:53.500] fans in person because I do get a lot of, yeah, I’m really like, that’s the aim right
[01:08:53.500 –> 01:08:59.020] now, but I’ve had just such lovely interactions on social media.
[01:08:59.580 –> 01:09:06.700] Um, I think both, I, I definitely, I stock the hashtags of the games to look at the fan
[01:09:06.700 –> 01:09:09.420] art on TikTok, on Instagram.
[01:09:09.420 –> 01:09:15.900] I look for it because I love seeing what people are making inspired by like what, what we’re
[01:09:15.900 –> 01:09:16.620] doing.
[01:09:16.620 –> 01:09:24.940] I just found out, I didn’t read it, um, but I do know that there is like wildflowers fan
[01:09:24.940 –> 01:09:25.660] fiction out there.
[01:09:26.060 –> 01:09:27.340] I saw the tweet.
[01:09:27.340 –> 01:09:28.060] Yeah.
[01:09:28.060 –> 01:09:32.060] Craig Lee Thomas, uh, who plays Cameron found that for us, I think.
[01:09:32.060 –> 01:09:35.660] And that was, that was, that was so cool.
[01:09:35.660 –> 01:09:38.060] I don’t think I’ve ever worked on, actually, that’s not true.
[01:09:38.060 –> 01:09:41.820] I don’t think I’ve looked at the other AO3 tags for the other stuff I’ve worked on.
[01:09:41.820 –> 01:09:45.180] So maybe there’s, maybe there’s Edith Finch fan, uh, fan fiction out there.
[01:09:45.180 –> 01:09:46.300] Oh, I bet there is.
[01:09:46.300 –> 01:09:47.740] There has to be.
[01:09:47.740 –> 01:09:48.940] Yeah, there’s gotta be.
[01:09:48.940 –> 01:09:51.260] Um, but that’s always lovely.
[01:09:51.260 –> 01:09:53.340] People have been very kind to me.
[01:09:54.300 –> 01:10:00.780] Um, and also I, I always really appreciate when people like share how a game made them
[01:10:00.780 –> 01:10:03.740] feel and share how a project changed their life.
[01:10:04.380 –> 01:10:07.180] I still walk into parties sometimes.
[01:10:07.740 –> 01:10:11.820] There’s been one or there’s been, there’s been a few parties where I’ve just like dropped
[01:10:11.820 –> 01:10:15.580] that I, when people ask me what I do, I’ll say I’m a voice actor.
[01:10:15.580 –> 01:10:19.900] And the question that people always ask you is what have I heard you in?
[01:10:19.900 –> 01:10:22.540] And I always say Edith Finch first.
[01:10:22.620 –> 01:10:29.020] And there has been more than one occasion where like 10 people have stopped and turned
[01:10:29.020 –> 01:10:36.780] around and come to talk to me, which is like really like not a normal person experience,
[01:10:36.780 –> 01:10:38.300] but also like really fun.
[01:10:38.300 –> 01:10:40.060] And like, I do not take for granted.
[01:10:40.620 –> 01:10:46.540] Um, because like, again, it’s a game that came out five years ago and it’s still affecting
[01:10:46.540 –> 01:10:47.180] people.
[01:10:47.180 –> 01:10:50.460] And what a gift, what a gift.
[01:10:50.940 –> 01:10:56.940] Yeah, no, um, oh man, I, I, I really hope you get into the convention scene because
[01:10:56.940 –> 01:11:02.620] like, as someone who attends them, you know, from the fan side, it’s, it’s just so awesome
[01:11:02.620 –> 01:11:08.380] to, to see, um, yeah, people like you, the people who put the work into it and meeting
[01:11:08.380 –> 01:11:08.620] you.
[01:11:08.620 –> 01:11:13.100] Um, so I really do hope, uh, we get to see you around the cons a bit more.
[01:11:13.100 –> 01:11:18.860] Um, I’m over here in Atlanta, so MomoCon and Anime Weekend Atlanta are the big ones.
[01:11:18.860 –> 01:11:20.620] You need some suggestions.
[01:11:20.620 –> 01:11:22.060] Yeah, I’m always looking.
[01:11:22.060 –> 01:11:25.980] If there’s any, if there’s any programmers listening, I want to go to your convention.
[01:11:27.980 –> 01:11:28.700] I’ll go anywhere.
[01:11:30.060 –> 01:11:30.620] Oh man.
[01:11:31.580 –> 01:11:35.340] Look, talk to Ray from, um, Wesley Ray Chase.
[01:11:35.980 –> 01:11:37.500] He goes to lots of cons.
[01:11:37.500 –> 01:11:38.780] He goes to a lot.
[01:11:38.780 –> 01:11:40.300] He’ll, he’ll hook you up, I’m sure.
[01:11:41.020 –> 01:11:42.700] Um, I’ll send him a message.
[01:11:42.700 –> 01:11:46.460] Oh man, that’s, oh, that’s, uh, that’s super exciting to hear.
[01:11:46.460 –> 01:11:51.900] You might get into that more, but, um, yeah, very, very cool to see, to experience that.
[01:11:51.900 –> 01:11:57.580] I can’t even imagine because yeah, I, I, I, I know so many people who, you know, all,
[01:11:57.580 –> 01:11:59.500] there’s so many different stories in games, right?
[01:11:59.500 –> 01:12:04.220] And, and so many people get so close because you spend so much time with it, unlike maybe
[01:12:04.220 –> 01:12:05.020] other media, right?
[01:12:05.020 –> 01:12:08.940] You’re not, it’s not a two hour movie or X number, right?
[01:12:08.940 –> 01:12:13.260] You can spend hundreds and hundreds of hours, like, like I have in Wildflowers.
[01:12:13.420 –> 01:12:17.420] Um, so you really get attached to these characters and performances.
[01:12:17.420 –> 01:12:17.660] Yeah.
[01:12:17.660 –> 01:12:19.180] It’s very deeply personal.
[01:12:19.180 –> 01:12:22.540] And I, I, I think that’s so cool.
[01:12:23.500 –> 01:12:25.500] Like what a cool medium.
[01:12:25.500 –> 01:12:27.420] And I think it teaches empathy.
[01:12:27.420 –> 01:12:33.580] I think it is so wonderful to get to step into other people’s shoes in that way.
[01:12:35.100 –> 01:12:35.660] Yeah.
[01:12:35.660 –> 01:12:36.780] Yeah, absolutely.
[01:12:36.780 –> 01:12:37.180] Yeah.
[01:12:37.180 –> 01:12:38.620] Um, okay.
[01:12:38.620 –> 01:12:45.900] Um, and with that, um, let’s see, I guess, first of all, do you have any socials or links
[01:12:45.900 –> 01:12:48.060] or anything you like to plug here?
[01:12:48.060 –> 01:12:49.180] Shout out here.
[01:12:49.180 –> 01:12:49.740] Oh yeah.
[01:12:49.740 –> 01:12:51.260] Before we start wrapping up.
[01:12:51.260 –> 01:12:51.740] Yes.
[01:12:51.740 –> 01:12:55.740] So I am on Instagram at Valerie Rose Loman.
[01:12:55.740 –> 01:12:59.420] If you want to follow my music, it’s at VRL Music Official.
[01:12:59.420 –> 01:13:01.980] I’m on Twitter at Valerie Loman.
[01:13:02.460 –> 01:13:04.860] Um, I do have a TikTok.
[01:13:05.420 –> 01:13:08.940] I did quit, but I’m deliberating if I’m going to come back to it.
[01:13:08.940 –> 01:13:14.860] So if you do want to see my TikTok, which is mostly like ridiculous comedy stuff, it’s
[01:13:14.860 –> 01:13:16.940] also at Valerie Rose Loman.
[01:13:16.940 –> 01:13:25.740] Um, and then like, I, I, if, if you’re interested in like checking out more or like I, I private
[01:13:25.740 –> 01:13:29.820] coach voice acting and like, I also like do many things.
[01:13:29.820 –> 01:13:33.420] If you want to see like the hub, the hub is my website.
[01:13:33.420 –> 01:13:36.860] And that’s just www.ValerieRoseLoman.com.
[01:13:36.860 –> 01:13:37.340] Oh man.
[01:13:37.340 –> 01:13:37.580] Yeah.
[01:13:37.580 –> 01:13:38.300] No, you do a lot.
[01:13:38.300 –> 01:13:39.820] I saw the coaching thing too, right?
[01:13:39.820 –> 01:13:42.780] Like I’m getting personal here.
[01:13:42.780 –> 01:13:44.060] I’ve always wanted to dabble myself.
[01:13:44.060 –> 01:13:46.540] Never have had the time, but it’s still on my list.
[01:13:46.540 –> 01:13:49.340] So I might look at that some time.
[01:13:49.340 –> 01:13:49.820] Okay, cool.
[01:13:50.700 –> 01:13:51.100] Yeah.
[01:13:51.100 –> 01:13:56.460] Um, but yeah, I’m sure, you know, we have our website where we have the podcast and
[01:13:56.460 –> 01:13:57.580] Alan always has show notes.
[01:13:57.580 –> 01:14:02.460] So I’m sure I’m promising for him right now that we’ll have all those links posted for
[01:14:02.460 –> 01:14:05.180] listeners to click on and check out all your stuff.
[01:14:05.180 –> 01:14:05.740] Amazing.
[01:14:05.740 –> 01:14:06.220] Thank you.
[01:14:07.100 –> 01:14:07.340] Yeah.
[01:14:08.140 –> 01:14:08.620] Okay.
[01:14:08.620 –> 01:14:13.020] Um, so thank you once again, Valerie, for taking the time to chat with us today.
[01:14:13.020 –> 01:14:14.700] Um, it really was an honor.
[01:14:14.700 –> 01:14:20.300] Um, uh, fun fact, I actually reached out to you and planned all of this without letting
[01:14:20.300 –> 01:14:23.420] Al, our, our main host slash creator know.
[01:14:23.420 –> 01:14:30.220] So I dropped it on him just last week, um, just because I’m that big of a Wildflowers
[01:14:30.220 –> 01:14:30.700] fan.
[01:14:31.420 –> 01:14:31.920] Yes.
[01:14:33.180 –> 01:14:34.140] That makes me so happy.
[01:14:34.860 –> 01:14:39.100] I’m so much of a fan that I am announcing here.
[01:14:39.100 –> 01:14:40.940] He’s going to be listening to this when he edits it.
[01:14:40.940 –> 01:14:45.420] So he’ll be hearing this for the first time that I actually have another interview with
[01:14:45.420 –> 01:14:48.460] Ray Chase, the voice of Wesley set up.
[01:14:48.460 –> 01:14:48.960] Yes.
[01:14:49.580 –> 01:14:50.460] Okay, cool.
[01:14:52.620 –> 01:14:55.260] So that will be happening soon.
[01:14:55.260 –> 01:14:57.660] I’ll enter surprise when he hears that.
[01:14:58.460 –> 01:14:59.820] I absolutely adore Ray.
[01:14:59.820 –> 01:15:03.660] Um, his voice is so good.
[01:15:03.660 –> 01:15:09.260] It’s, uh, I love Wesley so much as a character, but yeah.
[01:15:09.260 –> 01:15:09.760] Yeah.
[01:15:10.220 –> 01:15:10.940] So dapper.
[01:15:11.580 –> 01:15:13.980] I know it sounds so sweet and lovely.
[01:15:13.980 –> 01:15:16.060] Like I love him.
[01:15:16.060 –> 01:15:17.100] Yeah, it’s great.
[01:15:17.100 –> 01:15:18.380] Um, okay.
[01:15:18.380 –> 01:15:24.460] But yeah, so thanks again for joining us and would you do us the honor of signing us off?
[01:15:24.460 –> 01:15:26.060] I would be so honored.
[01:15:26.700 –> 01:15:30.140] Until next time, farmers have a good harvest.
[01:15:36.780 –> 01:15:42.220] The harvest season is created by Al McKinley with support from our patrons, including our
[01:15:42.220 –> 01:15:44.460] pro farmers, Kevin and Stewart.
[01:15:45.100 –> 01:15:50.220] Our art is done by Micah the Brave and our music is done by Nick Burgess.
[01:15:51.020 –> 01:15:55.100] Feel free to visit our website, harvest season.club
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[01:16:05.820 –> 01:16:10.300] Uh, so the countries that are in the final are Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland,
[01:16:10.300 –> 01:16:13.660] Serbia, France, Cyprus, Spain, Sweden, all Albania.
[01:16:13.660 –> 01:16:14.780] I nearly said Albany there.
[01:16:14.780 –> 01:16:15.420] What on earth?
[01:16:15.420 –> 01:16:16.940] Why on earth was that in my mind?
[01:16:16.940 –> 01:16:24.220] Albania, Italy, Estonia, Finland, Czechia, Australia, Belgium, Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine,
[01:16:24.220 –> 01:16:29.340] Norway, Germany, Lithuania, Israel, Slovenia, Croatia, and the UK.
[01:16:29.340 –> 01:16:32.300] Whoa, Serbia, Dark Horse Serbia.
[01:16:32.300 –> 01:16:33.260] Can take it all.
[01:16:33.260 –> 01:16:39.820] I highly doubt it because I can’t even remember what that song was.