Bionicle: Masks of Power - Matoric Conlang Dialogue Files
As you may have seen, it's now been publicly announced that LEGO has asked for the Bionicle: Masks of Power fan game by Team Kanohi to be shut down.
You can read the announcement letter from Team Kanohi here, and also view a walkthrough of the game demo on YouTube, with and without dev commentary. The demo would have been released on 8/10 of this year.
As I've posted about before, the game was slated to feature fully voice-acted lines in the Matoran Language conlang ("Matoric"), and I've been contributing Matoric line translations for this purpose for a few years now. This work amounted to nearly 800 individual lines of Matoric dialogue translated.
Needless to say, this was a very disappointing thing to experience behind the scenes, after the amount of work that Team Kanohi had put into the game, and (in my opinion) it's an extremely poor repayment from LEGO for the enthusiasm that the team has created in the Bionicle fandom over the years, although not unexpected or shocking on LEGO's part.
With that said, there is some solace to be found in the fact that many resources from the game, including 3D models, music, art, and other development materials, have been preserved by the team (for the time being) via Google Drive. This includes all of the individually recorded voice-actor lines in Matoric!
Here is a link to the full Google Drive.
Here is a link to the folder containing the Matoric line recordings.
Here is a link to a spreadsheet containing all of the written Matoric lines and their English translations (along with a few fun easter eggs).
Finally, here are the credits for the audio directors and individual voice actors whose excellent work was represented in the game:
Voice Acting Directors
Tasch Ritter
Gort (Garrett B)
Voice Acting
Lewa ……………….. Dane Braddy
Pohatu ……………….. Gianni Matragrano
Gali ……………….. Tasch Ritter
Onua ……………….. Ashley Quills
Kopaka ……………….. Tom Schalk
Tahu ……………….. Wes Wiggins
Makuta ……………….. Justice Washington
Mata Nui ……………….. Justice Washington
Matoran 1 ……………….. Ethan Godwin
Matoran 2 ……………….. Viator
Matoran 3 ……………….. Lou Haroldson
Matoran 4 ……………….. Tasch Ritter
Matoran 5 ……………….. Mark (Markle) Stefely
Matoran 6 ……………….. Anna Maguire
Matoran 7 ……………….. SyntheticCharmVa
Matoran 8 ……………….. Tabitha Bardall
Matoran 9 ……………….. Mark Beischel
Matoran 10 ……………….. Jordan (Jocool1231) Willis
Matoran 11 ……………….. Quinn Stokan
Matoran 12 ……………….. Abigail Adair
Matoran 13 ……………….. Cody (MasterGir) Littlefield
Matoran 14 ……………….. Zane Schacht
Narrator ……………….. Justice Washington
Announcer ……………….. David Michael Williamson
I was honored to be able to contribute to this project in a small way, and I hope that the Bionicle community will continue to support the team as it rebrands and moves on to future projects.
