The Complete Guide to Videogame Performance Directing

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames. Starting from a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nuts and bolts of directing on the motion capture floor and in the voiceover booth, this book dives deeper with concrete examples from the authorâs 25â'year career directing seminal games from the early years to todayâs blockbusters.

Identifying the Place (What is the physical environment?), Time (What just happened?), and Action (What do the characters want?) of every scene empowers directors with essential tools to dive straight into the subtext, the life below the words. Through stepâ'byâ'step instructions, this book shows how to make scenes and lines come alive. It offers realâ'world advice on everything from casting to table reads, rehearsal, and production days. In addition, readers can find valuable advice about selfâ'care and sustaining a longâ'term career as a performance director.

This book is sure to be an essential resource for directors, actors, voiceover artists, and game developers who want to master videogame performance.