The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

After starting and stopping dozens of times to re-record your flubs and mumbles, you’ll send off the resulting audio files to be processed and, in a few hours’ time, be told that a copy of your voice is ready and waiting. Influencers, actors, and celebrities could rent out their voices with minimal effort.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Not to be confused with James Cameron’s famously blue avatars. A play on words of the infamous emoji; these are customized avatars (see how we learn as we go along?!). An acronym for Graphics Interchange Format, a computer file format for the compression of visual digital information. Influencer . Impressions .

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

The tool strips narrative game-making down to its fundamentals — a room, an avatar, dialogue, all rendered in 8-bit pixel art. The first shows the room you’re working on; the second is for designing an avatar, items, and the tiles themselves; the third lets you choose colors. The impact was immediate.

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