# Former GamesMaster presenter voices his first lead role in horror game Black Tides: Draga’s Wake

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/after-50-years-of-playing-video-games-im-finally-starring-in-one/
- Published: 2026-10-30T10:30:51+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T10:52:21+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/oct/30/after-50-years-of-playing-video-games-im-finally-starring-in-one
- Topics: Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Gaming, Space, Technology

## Key points

- 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.

## Summary

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.

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