{"id":89795,"date":"2026-09-18T19:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89795"},"modified":"2026-09-18T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:36:39","slug":"indie-dev-says-ai-voice-in-his-game-was-actually-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89795","title":{"rendered":"Indie Dev Says \u201cAI\u201d Voice In His Game Was Actually His Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Someone playing Refractive Entertainment’s recently released action-RPG Luminary for less than an hour accused the team of using AI for the game’s only voiced character. The player said the voice “killed it” for them. There was just one problem: It wasn’t AI. It was actually the developer’s wife doing her first-ever voice acting gig.<\/p>\n

Refractive Entertainment launched Luminary into Steam Early Access on August 11. It’s a resource-gathering action-adventure sandbox with an art style that’s giving Fable meets Immortals Fenyx Rising. It’s cute-looking and well-received, with a “Mostly Positive” rating out of almost 350 Steam reviews. But for an indie developer who says his game’s success lives and dies by its Steam review score, one particular negative review caught the creative director’s attention.<\/p>\n

On September 10, user NyteKnyte\u00a0posted a short Steam review<\/a> after only 0.4 hours with the game to say that Luminary looked good but “the awful AI-generated voice killed it” for them. “Feels off, like an AI game,” NyteKnyte said in their review. “Hopefully its temporary and gets better, but [the AI voice] killed it for me.”<\/p>\n

Not long after this review hit the game’s Steam page, Refractive Entertainment responded, saying that the \u201cawful AI-generated voice\u201d that NyteKnyte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone playing Refractive Entertainment’s recently released action-RPG Luminary for less than an hour accused the team of using AI for the game’s only voiced character. The player said the voice “killed it” for them. There was just one problem: It wasn’t AI. It was actually the developer’s wife doing her first-ever voice acting gig. Refractive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":89797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89798,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89795\/revisions\/89798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}