Game Character Voices

Create a voice pack for a game character.

Character: [NAME, ROLE IN THE GAME, AND WHAT THEY WANT]
Game and tone: [GENRE + WHETHER IT IS SERIOUS, COMIC, OR BOTH]
Age, background, and speech habits: [INCLUDING ACCENT, VOCABULARY, AND ANY VERBAL TIC]
How often the player hears them: [A COMPANION HEARD CONSTANTLY / A BOSS HEARD ONCE / A SHOPKEEPER]
Where the voice comes from: [IN THE WORLD / OVER A RADIO / A NARRATOR]

Produce:

1. **The voice brief**: timbre, pitch range, pace, energy, accent, and the two or three qualities that make this voice recognizable in one line of dialogue. Then what it must never sound like, which is usually the nearest cliché for this archetype.

2. **The line list**, grouped by state, with the count of variations each state needs based on how often the player triggers it:
   - Idle and ambient: [8-12 variations, because these repeat most]
   - Combat start, attacking, taking damage, low health, victory: [4-8 each]
   - Discovery and reaction to the world
   - Interaction with the player: greeting, accepting, refusing, waiting
   - Death or defeat: [2-3]
   - Rare lines: [3-5 that appear infrequently and reward attention]

   Every line must sound like this character and nobody else. A line that any character in the game could say is a wasted line, and the ambient lines are where players spend the most listening time.

3. **Delivery notes per line**: the emotional state, energy level, and pacing, written as direction a voice model or actor can act on.

4. **The generation prompt** for each state group: the voice description plus the delivery direction, formatted for [ELEVENLABS / YOUR TOOL], with a note on what stays identical across every generation so the character sounds like one person.

5. **Variation strategy**: how the repeated lines differ from each other so the tenth hearing does not grate. Vary the sentence shape and the energy, not just the words.

6. **The consistency anchor**: the exact voice settings and description text to reuse for future content, so a line recorded for a later update matches the launch build.

Rules: keep lines short. Game dialogue is heard once, often over other audio, and a line that needs a second listen is a line that failed. Write for the ear, not the page.