{"id":113125,"date":"2020-05-19T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/363241"},"modified":"2020-05-19T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:21:00","slug":"video-how-ubisoft-handled-npc-voice-design-for-the-division-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/19\/video-how-ubisoft-handled-npc-voice-design-for-the-division-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How Ubisoft handled NPC voice design for The Division 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2020 virtual talk Ubisoft&#8217;s Adam Ritchie offers&nbsp;insight into the effort that goes into making NPCs talk in games like&nbsp;<em>Tom Clancy&#8217;s The Division 2<\/em>, as well as&nbsp;the pipeline and tools behind it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was an in-depth look at some of the&nbsp;challenges faced and overcome by the Voice Production team on a big, triple-A online, open-world game project.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t catch it live earlier this year, good news: you can now watch Ritchie&#8217;s talk anytime you like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WXPWQFe8NYQ\">over on the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2020 virtual talk Ubisoft&#8217;s Adam Ritchie offers&nbsp;insight into the effort that goes into making NPCs talk in games like&nbsp;Tom Clancy&#8217;s The Division 2, as well as&nbsp;the pipeline and tools behind it.&nbsp; It was an in-depth look at some of the&nbsp;challenges faced and overcome by the Voice Production team on a big, triple-A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}