Former GamesMaster presenter voices his first lead role in horror game Black Tides: Draga’s Wake
After 50 years as a video game player, a Scottish father and former GamesMaster presenter has taken on his first starring role, voicing Draga in the survival horror game Black Tides: Draga’s Wake. The experience has made him reflect on how strange it is to see and hear himself in a game, while giving him a memorable moment when his children recognised his voice.
The game is set aboard a decaying steamship in the early 1900s after a heist goes wrong, and follows a sailor infected by an ancient god. Its character artist, Greg Strangis, invited the writer to record the role; he says lowering his voice and easing off the acting helped the performance work. The team is making the game in its spare time across different locations, which the writer sees as a reminder of independent game-making’s energy amid major publishers’ studio cuts.
In short
- A former GamesMaster presenter voices the hero of a new horror game.
- Black Tides: Draga’s Wake is being made by a distributed team in their spare time.
- His children’s reaction became a favourite moment of the project.
Explained simply
Black Tides: Draga’s Wake is an independently made survival horror game, a type of game in which players face danger while trying to stay alive. It is set on a crumbling steamship in the early 1900s, where a failed heist is followed by a sailor’s infection by an ancient god.
The game’s central character, Draga, is voiced by a Scottish player and former presenter of the television show GamesMaster. Character artist Greg Strangis invited him to take the role; the game is being made by a team working in their spare time from different locations.
The story brings together a long-time player’s move into a leading acting role and a small team’s effort to make a game independently. That offers a glimpse of how games can be made outside large publishers, whose studios have faced cuts.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “After 50 years of playing video games, I’m finally starring in one”.