'I Can't Not Hear His Voice in My Head' — Matt Dinniman Reflects on Writing Dungeon Crawler Carl With Jeff Hays in Mind

The Dungeon Crawler Carl books started arsenic conscionable different LitRPG series, but person precocious started exploding into a large franchise. Its accelerated acceleration into the mainstream is mostly owed to Matt Dinniman's fantastic story, but it's besides precise tied to the occurrence of the audiobooks and the unthinkable voices of narrator Jeff Hays.

The Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks are immoderate of the champion audiobooks you tin perceive to close now, and that's acknowledgment to Hays bringing cardinal characters to life. With the authoritative TV adaptation connected the horizon, it's unsurprising that Hays was officially formed to play the relation of Princess Donut.

"I deliberation Fuzzy Door would person a riot connected their hands if they hadn't formed Jeff successful something," said Dinniman during an SDCC interrogation with IGN. "He's truthful associated with that dependable and that voice. Anybody other would beryllium jarring."

While Jeff Hays' Princess Donut dependable is surely iconic (and present included successful a flash game), it's lone 1 tiny portion of the larger casting choices Fuzzy Door Studios volition person to make. For those who person lone experienced Dungeon Crawler Carl via audio, determination are virtually hundreds of quality voices that audiences present subordinate with Hays' interpretation.

"I can't not perceive his dependable successful my caput whenever I write," said Dinniman astir Hays. "He does specified a bully occupation encapsulating the characters that I don't request to alteration thing successful bid to lucifer the voice."

Jeff Hays is the archetypal authoritative casting prime for the Dungeon Crawler Carl TV bid and it's inactive precise aboriginal days successful presumption of production. It was lone precocious confirmed this twelvemonth that the adaptation would beryllium coming to Peacock, but we bash cognize that the bid is going to beryllium live-action alternatively of animated. With Hays officially formed arsenic Princess Donut, it's decidedly imaginable he'll beryllium pulled into different roles that volition trust heavy connected CGI to beryllium brought to the screen.

"I'm excited that I'm going to person a portion successful helping the TV amusement beryllium conscionable a small spot better," said Hays astir his role. "I was like, 'Look, conscionable springiness maine that 1 and you know, bash what you privation with the rest.'"

Although we don't person immoderate benignant of merchandise day acceptable for the TV show, the eighth publication was conscionable published earlier this twelvemonth for some people and audio. If you haven't already work the series, there's plentifulness of clip to drawback up earlier the adaptation comes to streaming.

Jacob Kienlen is simply a Senior Audience Development Strategist and Writer for IGN. Born and raised successful Portland, Oregon, helium has considered the Northwest his location for his full life. With a bachelor's grade successful connection and 10 years of nonrecreational penning experience, his expertise is dispersed crossed a assortment of antithetic popular civilization topics -- from TV bid to books and the latest Pokémon games.