🧵(3/3) For those don't get selected after our final announcements, we will notify those we want to stay in touch with. This is the 1st casting round for our main characters. There are further roles to fill for our game and I'd hate to see talent wasted.
Make sure to follow for latest updates!
🧵(2/3) There are many wonderful & talented people that this has been a difficult process and we're splitting hairs. The response has been incredible and honestly humbling. I would love to work with almost everyone if we had unlimited resources.
On Casting Call Club, we have 1003 submissions and 605 followers for EIDOLWARE! Amazing!
🧵(1/3) We are now over 1000 #voiceacting auditions for #EIDOLWARE! Casting will close in 8 days, next Saturday 4/18.
What's next: We are working on narrowing down to 5 candidates per role. We will then coordinate with the finalists after closing to schedule script readings.
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Regarding your project, you likely have to show more for actors to be able to better imagine the roles they're auditioning for. Specific bios about a character's background and what their motivations are. I am not an expert because this is our first time casting, but this is my educated guess.
Hi Juan, we likely got a lot of auditions due to being a paid project ($150/hr) as well as a lot of details on our game (website, comprehensive bios with character art) and folks vibed with the characters. The more you show your project is viable the more likely they'll want to participate.
We have a Newgrounds page! Feel free to follow us there: fatbatstudio.newgrounds.com
I'll be reposting previous art and new art as well there (aside from here on BlueSky).
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NEW #EIDOLWARE BLOG POST, "Where We Draw the Line on AI": eidolware.com/blog/where-w...
I moved this up to be the 2nd blog post because I feel it’s important to address this early. I detail how we prevent corrupting the craft and artistry of the game & protect those involved.
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Posted our first #EIDOLWARE OST visualizer up on YouTube.
"ANIME IS REAL!" by @debiscomusic.com is the Exhibition Hall theme, the track that plays when you first step onto the game's convention floor.
More music and game updates coming soon!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4nD...
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582 voice acting submissions and 380 followers on Casting Call Club for #EIDOLWARE!
582 #voiceacting auditions, 380 followers and counting! I'm still shocked how many folks have been interested in working with us for our game.
Reminder: the Fedora Mask role is closed and the Anna role closes next Monday, April 6th! Submit here: www.castingcall.club/projects/eid...
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I've been reviewing the #voiceacting auditions we have for #EIDOLWARE so far (324 submissions!) and there are many amazing VAs from indie to pro.
It opened my eyes to the depth of talent available. Knowing what's out there, it's hard to imagine why any #gamedev would resort to AI instead.
Attention all FedoraCon guests!
Due to the amazing number of submissions (100+), #voiceacting auditions for Fedora Mask will close on 3/28/26. If you haven't auditioned, then please do so soon!
Good luck to everyone!
www.castingcall.club/projects/eid...
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#voiceacting submissions are still open until 4/18, but with this many auditions we might close the roles by the end of this or next week. We'll give ahead notice by a few days before we decide on that tough.
A lot of amazing talent heard so far!
Apply here: www.castingcall.club/projects/eid...
It's the end of DAY 1 since our #voiceacting post for #EIDOLWARE on Casting Call Club and it's been wild:
🗣️186 Submissions across 6 Roles
✅133 Followers
🔟Hovering in the 1-10 spot for paid VA roles sorted by Activity
People are hyped about the premise and it's been validating!
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Bat's out of the bag 🦇
Thrilled to announce that I'm the lead composer for @fatbat.studio's forthcoming cyberpunk anime convention action-RPG, EIDOLWARE!
FedoraCon awaits...
eidolware.com
Glad to be part of this project! It's so exciting hearing everyone's auditions, and there's some steep competition already!
Also we are accepting character #voiceacting auditions outside of using Casting Call, so please get in touch with @deftbeck.bsky.social for more details. We will finalize and select our candidates next month, on April 18th!
The #EIDOLWARE team is growing! @deftbeck.bsky.social joining as casting & voice director, @debiscomusic.com on music. Couldn't be more excited!
We started casting for VA: 73 auditions so far, still looking for our female leads! castingcall.club/projects/eidolware
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SpriteBat is free and open-source under GPL-3.0. Feedback and PRs are welcome, I'm actively adding features as my own game development needs evolve. Source: github.com/fatbatstudio/spritebat
Since #EIDOLWARE contains hundreds of NPCs, I needed a quicker way to build sprites or separate parts out into individual assets. Doing it by hand in an sprite editor for dozens of characters was painfully slow. SpriteBat lets me layer them, tweak colors with HSL shifting, and export in seconds!
🦇 I built a free tool for 2D game artists!
SpriteBat - layer, tint, and combine sprite sheets into unified output. Asset splitter, library, animated preview, PNG/GIF export. Works offline!
Free & open-source 🔗 spritebat.fatbat.studio
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Screenshot of the new EIDOLWARE website, with a (hopefully bi-monthly) Devlog!
The new #EIDOLWARE game website is now live! A lot of work went into this.
I've also written the first Devlog on the origins of the project (back in 2015 as a graphic novel), which you can read here: eidolware.com/blog/robot-d...
More updates to come!
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New #EIDOLWARE title screen for 2026:
youtu.be/MlDtz6iusYs
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The main character of EIDOLWARE, Anna (right), sitting with her mentor Dr.Morgan (left).
New year, new #EIDOLWARE game #art!
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Finally got the dialog system visuals and functionality working in #EIDOLWARE!
Sizing boxes based on text and stacking them right was way harder than expected, but I’m glad I didn’t settle for a static text box. It feels way more conversational now.
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Rough WIP haunted forest tileset for EIDOLWARE, created in Pixquare.
Some rough WIP on the first parts of the haunted forest tileset for #EIDOLWARE. Going from Aseprite to Pixquare has sped up my sprite making process a ton!
It helps being able to draw directly on a tablet away from distractions, like I do my non-pixel artwork.
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Progress on new character sprites for #EIDOLWARE.
Susie, aka the "Shojo Sheriff" (or "Weeb Detective" from those who hate her), is one of FedoraCon’s enforcers and an internal investigator. She seeks Anna's help to uncover what’s going wrong inside the convention.
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Sprite animation I created for an unlockable archetype ability in #EIDOLWARE called "Echo Step": Performing a perfect dodge creates a shadow phantom that stabs enemies.
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One of Fedora Mask's projects, he hopes to go beyond his "hard light" hologram technology to make Anime a reality.
Jared Jimenez is the "Ultimate Collector" and one of Fedora Mask's lieutenants. Jared believes the collectible vinyl figures known as Chiibos aren't just collectables, some of them are ancient vessels of druidic power. Scouring the convention for the four sacred Chiibos, he hopes to obtain a long dormant ancient power. The pic in the upper-left is the old character design from 2021.
WIP new character art for #EIDOLWARE
Extra lore info in the alt text.
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Character artwork of J-Woo, one of the antagonists of the game Eidolware.
Finished character art of J-Woo 🕺 for #EIDOLWARE!
Once a member of the famed K-pop group 3NIX, J-Woo now serves as one of Fedora Mask’s lieutenants as an avant-garde solo performer devoted to an oath of uninterrupted dance! He reigns over the ballroom wing of the convention.
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Finished the base dialog UI for #EIDOLWARE.
Portraits by name, speech bubble tails, open/close animations are working smoothly.
This time around I'm moving from JSON to a full conversation system using the flowchart editor in #construct3. Excited to build more!
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