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That’s a long way removed from today, when the yearly the Game Awards has a category for top performance.

“I basically had to manage Excel sheets, go into session, prep scripts, make sure actors were there, make sure all the assets were recorded, edit it and get it into the game.

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But Schoeffling has seen a full evolution, noting that in the early-to-mid-2000s dialogue was a last priority. Schoeffling has worked in the video game space since 2003, starting as a receptionist at Treyarch, a studio today known for its work on the “Call of Duty” franchise, with her casting focus consuming much of the last decade. For actors, there’s never been a guide what to expect, from auditions to showing up on set.” Games are kind of ragtag, and there’s not really a standard. “One of the main reasons I wrote my book was to connect everyone else to the game industry, and to make it more accessible and easier for people to understand the nuances.

“I say that 2 out of every 5 people I tell that I cast for video games will say, ‘Oh, they have actors for video games?’ Maybe even 50% of the time,” Schoeffling says of a medium she still feels is misunderstood in comparison to film and television. Schoeffling feels it’s still a part of the industry that’s overlooked. Throughout the book she tackles such topics as union and nonunion jobs, nondisclosure agreements and old-fashioned acting advice for the motion-capture stage. It opens with an unnamed celebrity actor who balked at taking off a baseball cap in an engineering booth (they compromised on turning the cap around). That’s one reason she wrote a book, “The Art and Business of Acting for Video Games,” which intermixes firsthand stories with practical advice. But casting director Julia Bianco Schoeffling has seen too many pros approach the video game medium without proper preparation. It’s expected that I, a writer, wouldn’t come ready-prepped to star in a video game. But Bhimani again said that was the wrong instinct, and to act as if voice wasn’t being captured, which gives the actors the freedom to aurally dictate their movements when they aren’t in direct eyesight. Then I struggled with what to say or not say, knowing that voice would be added later. “Those guys up there?” said Bhimani, pointing at the cameras that surrounded us, “all those guys are gonna catch us.” Bhimani would patiently remind me we were surrounded by cameras, all of them picking up my every subtle movement.

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