Hi, I’m Nat, I’m an Actor/Voice Actor/Director/TTRPGer working on a bunch of nerdy projects you might like!
(This is the entrance to my Nat-Cave/studio. Yes it is smol. It is me-sized)
Never once have I been concerned about a trans woman in my shared space. The claim that 'this is what (cis)women want' is a dangerous sweeping statement, and based of anti-trans myths that have been debunked over and over.
#notinmyname
Now it’s out I can talk about the fact that my voice is in
#AssassinsCreedValhalla
! Had some amazing sessions
@SideGlobal
talking almost entirely in Old English - hard work but absolutely fascinating and so much fun! Brb, gotta go buy an axe to go with my sword collection...
So I’ve been told I’m officially allowed to say what I’ve been working on since the start of the year! Some will know/have figured this out already but I’m ecstatic to join the team of dialogue directors at
@PitStopTweets
working on
#baldursgate3
!
this was the video from one of my favourite sessions
the voice director
@WinterNatters
and I kept doing *flawless* lae’zel impressions at Jen who got the giggles and couldn’t say ‘discussion’ correctly
“shadowheart this is serious” lmaoo
Abso-flipping-lutely thrilled to say I voiced a bunch of different characters in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga!
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love a) Star Wars and b) the Lego games, so this was a dream job and a nightmare to keep secret for years! 😂
Congratulations to
@TTGames
and
@wbgames
on the release of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
Our SIDE-troopers from
#SIDELA
and
#SIDELondon
teamed up to provide casting, recording, directing and post-production services in six languages + Mumble Mode.
So yesterday we picked up the keys to our new house. We’re a bit excited to get cracking and make a home. Look at our faces! (also isn’t husband-creature a cutie?)
Allow me to weave you a tale:
Directing a video game at
@omuk_london
all this week, and a break in the schedule yesterday meant I had time to have a little dalliance with the armoury, including this handsome smallsword 😍 think it might be my favourite, shhh don’t tell my rapier at home…
From Welsh coal mines to the Void Pit, two exciting adventures for the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Kamelion are out today in
#DoctorWho
- Black Thursday / Power Game ->
They definitely can’t get rid of me now*, I’ve been accepted as part of
@BAFTAGames
#BaftaCrew
this year, huzzah! Looking forwards to getting stuck in to those infamous sausages. And the learning, of course.
*they probs can get rid of me. Promise I’ll behave.
Look, it’s worth sharing this photo because Marta’s a badass in general, but also a handy reference for what a curvy woman in body armour *actually* looks like, eh game designers? ;)
It took no small level of courage on my end to canter the four-legged tank that is Troy downhill in an open field, in a HEAVY(~10kg) chainmail shirt and armour one-handed.
But good god, it was worth it. 🤩
For anyone who has seen the footage of news reporters waving at refugees on boats and who's first response is 'why aren't they sending them back' rather than 'why aren't they helping them?' I've a couple of game recommendations for you to activate your out-of-action empathy gland
Playing with these toys again this week! The swordfighting team are at
@The_Globe
for half term (I’m in today, tomorrow and Saturday) and ready to get nerdy chatting early modern weaponry!
This week I have mostly been hiding in the TARDIS directing a couple of different games projects. Rewarding work, but also very grateful for the snatches of sunshine I’ve managed to see when I have time to emerge!
#Astrologaster
is out today, so please enjoy photos of me failing to point at the logo, then go buy it in the App Store! Thanks
@nyamyamgames
for my T-Shirt and for being the most awesome creatures
I wrote a thing, and it’s been printed! Thanks
@TheBuzzVOMag
and
@NetworkVO
, hope your readers find it useful! Toad and Goomba being supportive in the office as usual.
Posted on Insta but I’ll pop them here as well ‘cause I’m proud: lookit these trousers I made! This was my first time trying freehand machine embroidery for the Wonder Woman logo on the back pockets, and I’m super chuffed with how they came out.
Everyone else working from home is posting pictures of their pets, but I just got a tiny succulent for my tiny Bulbasaur planter and please meet my new baby
🚨Woop woop!🚨
Another gorgeous indie game I’m thrilled to be a part of (with a smashing cast to boot!). A pleasure to finally get to work with
@WadjetEyeGames
, go check out the spooky trailer with the vocal stylings of one
@SamanthaBeart
:
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
We are pleased to announce we are publishing The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, a new folk horror game by
@cloakanddaggerg
!
Coming later this year!
Wishlist here:
Sad to miss seeing folks at EGX this time, but I’ve been hiding away directing games at
@omuk_london
all week (plus popping the other side of the glass myself!) so it’s for a good reason! Hope you’re all having a smashing time (and still staying plague-safe, yeah?)
Dave is another wonderful voice actor I’ve known for flipping ages and deserves everything that comes his way. Truly made up that this cast is made up of many voiceover superstars you might not have heard of yet, because they deserve to be celebrated as much as the celebs!
Were it not for the fans taking him to their hearts (and Larian reading *everything*) this bear would have stayed an NPC in Baldur’s Gate 3.
So yes… I’m Halsin, and I cannot thank you all enough.
To the *amazing* folks at
@larianstudios
and
@PitStopTweets
… you’re incredible x
First time out of my neighbourhood, on a train, and in a studio that isn’t my little home setup since mid-March! So lovely to see the shiny new
@SideGlobal
studios, thanks for having me over to play and looking after me!
@damngoodvoices
Tired: masks are a muzzle! A restriction on my humon rightsss!
Wired: I get to wear cute fabric patterns, dress like a video game character and protecc the vulnerable like a hero!
Today I am 33 and I spent the day playing online games with my family, auditioning for a children's toy commercial and rehearsing a panto - something which I didn't think was going to be possible this year. Feeling very lucky right now 🥰
A present? Pour moi? Thanks so much
@inkleStudios
! I did some beta-testing their new game
@HeavensVault
, (it’s out today - go play it!) and they sent me this awesome mug and card 🥰 now I have some homework to do to translate what it says!
Lovely to see lots of friendly faces getting welcomed into
#BAFTAConnect
, but also a big hellooo to those I’ve never met before - looking forwards to chatting more!
@BAFTAGames
Glad there’s backlash against the host teasing Prince George for doing ballet - baffled at the opinion that ballet isn’t masculine anyway. Have you watched male ballet dancers?
✅ Muscles for days
✅ Hold women in skimpy clothes tightly
✅ Grow up to be Spider-Man
🤷🏻♀️
So this might have happened yesterday... One of the perks of working at The Globe is that occasionally happenstance leads you to working through a fight routine on the stunning Wanamaker stage!
We are absolutely THRILLED to hear that
@NattyChisholm
@JoAshe2
and
@CGTester
have been nominated for
@OneVoiceConf
awards with pieces they recorded for us, and to see lots of lovely Ragged Scratch Podcast alum over all the shortlists! Congratulations everyone!
Ok. Ok that's enough producer work for before 10am on a Saturday.
Voice Actor Nat mode activated in time to shout that the One Voice Awards are tonight and I'm nominated for Best Female Gaming Performance for Alice in Astrologaster, wheee!
Might even put some makeup on
Hey, need you all to know about Lizzie. She was awesome. She was a bit of an institution in the UK games industry and regularly made it on to lists of good people. But beyond work she was one of the kindest, funniest and practical ‘let’s get it done then’ people I know.
Huzzah! Keep eyes peeled at the end of the month for some excellent point-and-click narrative goodness (and it's one of a series of games that I've voiced no-nonsense older Northern women for recently, on a bit of a roll with them!)
🚨The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is coming September 28th!! 🚨
Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
Wishlist the game (and find out more!) here:
I
#advx19
’d too hard and now I am 😴
So lovely to see everyone today and play your beautiful, beautiful games. Here’s me with photos of my Once Upon a Crime in the West characters’ corpses (not spoilers) courtesy of
@GaryJKings
from a time of day when I had more energy
It's Hob's Barrow release day! 🎉 If you enjoy folk horror and mystery adventure games this one's for you (and it looks like it's got some pretty spangly reviews already 👀)
Thanks once again to
@WadjetEyeGames
and
@shaunaitcheson
for having me on board!
📣Announcement!📣
After 3 years of development, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is NOW AVAILABLE on Steam and GOG!
💀Explore the isolated moors of 19th century England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow in our
#folkhorror
adventure! ⛏️
I've had a few chats with indie game devs about working with voice actors in the last few days, so feels like a good time to big up this really useful and thorough set of pdfs that
@AmeliaTyler
put together (there's also one for becoming a VA for games):
Doing a swordfighting demo to a school group y'day, 12/13 years old, and one girl immediately asked if we were going to be looking for volunteers, said her middle name was violence and asked whether women carried swords in Shakespeare's day. You, my friend, are going places.
This is the face of someone who handed her first audiobook yesterday, a video game audition this morning, has posted most of her Christmas cards and is ready for a long weekend of fun and friends lined up. Feeling the Christmas spirit!
Team Nigel’s Mongolian Throat Singers, finally meeting face to face! We didn’t win the voiceover game jam, but they were hilarious to work with 😆
#GameOnVOND18
@NetworkVO
Doing a Shakespeare tomorrow, ain't I?
It's a great technical challenge to perform over Zoom, but
@robmyles
and the
@TSMGOnlineLive
have got it down to a fine art. Been awesome to see Romeo and Juliet come together over the last couple of days, have a watch of what we've done!
If you haven’t watched a BSL interpreter translate a guy doing a Michael Caine impression whilst yo-yo-ing a raccoon, have you even been to
@AdvXConf
?
#advx19
First kickboxing grading passed! It was one of my goals this year to finally take up a martial art and I’ve loved it so far - particularly the challenge of switching my brain from stage combat mode and actually trying to hit people! 🥊🥊🥊
In amongst everything else going on we got to swing swords and nerd out over them for the public at
@The_Globe
again today for the first time in 19 months and that made me so very happy 😊
Also also, uh, hi to everyone who just followed me because of
@alionabaranova1
's tweet. I'm going to be a huge letdown as I'm barely on here anymore, but big love to everyone who loves this game as much as we do!
In the 11 years we’ve lived together my drummer boy hasn’t been able to have a kit as our flats have always been too small. Today Christmas comes early, and I guess we find out how tolerant our neighbours are 👀
Look, I don’t typically hide that I’m very liberal and left wing, but I don’t shout about it too much either. Allow me to be as explicit as I can be today. I’m
#VotingLabour
, but also happily
#VotingTactically
.
#GE2019
Look I’ve been social media quiet because I’ve been knee-deep in cleaning, painting and ferrying our belongings to the new house for the last fortnight but I’m here to say the look on the local kid’s face as I packed my car with PCs, training swords and a bo-staff was 👌🏻
A huge congratulations to the Hekate team for the release of
@adinfinitumgame
!
I took great pleasure in directing a wonderful cast for the English VO version of this game through
@omuk_london
. It's pretty dark horror though, so prepare yourself for the trailer!
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. 💀
Trapped between the walls of your family home and the trenches of World War I, you try to piece together your past and take back control of your life.
👉 Ad Infinitum is OUT NOW on
@Xbox
!
🔗
Chatting with the lovely guys
@PolyTreehouse
at the
@SalixGames
Du Lac and Fey: Dance of Death launch party. It says a lot about my expressive listening face that none of the candid photos taken of me made the final album.