Warframe at 13: Digital Extremes on Japanese Voice Casting and Music
The interview shows Digital Extremes treating music and Japanese voice casting as core to Warframe's identity at 13 years, with the team embracing the community's 'music studio' joke as a design philosophy.
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Digital Extremes community director Megan Everett discussed Japanese voice casting, vocal music, and storytelling in an interview marking Warframe's 13th anniversary. She named four Japanese voice actors as dream casting, said Japanese voice audio remains possible, and explained why the team keeps adding vocal tracks, embracing the community's joke that the studio is a music label that also makes games.
Everett named Nakamura Yuuichi, Ishikawa Yui, Hanae Natsuki, and Kamiya Hiroshi as voice actors she would love to see in Warframe, calling anime a major inspiration for her casting sense. She noted Alpha Takahashi, who voices Aoi in Warframe: 1999, has collaborated with the studio frequently over the years.
On Japanese voice audio, Everett said the idea is not ruled out, but the volume of voice lines accumulated over 13 years makes it a large undertaking. She also pointed to the "Shihan" quest, co-developed with Sumo Digital, as a recent effort to make the MOD system clearer for new players, and said the team deliberately keeps some story elements ambiguous as part of the "discovery fun."
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