The comparison was interesting! I hadn't broken it down like that myself, but my experience recording my demos was very very similar to yours (except you got paid and I was paying *g*) and the difference recording podfic is similar too. It's so much easier when you love the source material to really tell the story instead of just read it.

Congrats on doing a game voice, btw. That's a huge market and now you have a foot in the door if you decide to pursue it. It sounds like you had fun doing it too.