Top stories published by #VoiceFirst Games in February of 2018

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Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 23, 2018

Review: The Magic Door

This one is the single most successful interactive story Alexa Skill, so there’s a lot to learn about how to make a great #VoiceFirst game in general! Let’s investigate what makes this door so magical.

Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 27, 2018

Review: Mein Auftrag (German detective game)

This Alexa Skill is currently Germany’s most popular interactive story #VoiceFirst game. While it’s unfortunate that this game is ‘hidden’ behind a language barrier for much of the international community, this shouldn’t keep us from analyzing what…

Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 15, 2018

Review: Mr. Robot — The Daily Five/Nine

This is the best #VoiceFirst interactive story game I know, so let’s examine what it is about, what makes it so amazing, and what we can learn from it.

Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 5, 2018

High-level success factors for voice games

Before we get into the question of what makes a voice game successful, we should first get a common idea of what success means.
For example, you might define success as publishing a voice game at all, creating an app that you yourself enjoy, getting 100…

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Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 26, 2018

Lessons learned from producing a music-themed voice game

For the ‘One game a month’ #1GAM challenge, I used much of my free time in February 2018 for producing a music-themed #VoiceFirst game. Despite having produced a ‘minimum playable product’ version, I’m putting this game on hiatus…

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Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 18, 2018

Review: Select a Story

This interactive story explores how else the tale of Cinderella and Prince Charming might have turned out, and is a prime example of how compelling storytelling and careful design successfully translate the classic ‘Choose your own adventure’ format into an enjoyable #VoiceFirst…

Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 5, 2018

One game a month? Challenge accepted!

Some days ago, my friend Kevin Marshall made me aware of Christer McFunkypants Kaitila’s ‘One game a month’ challenge, and this one immediately resonated with me!
If you don’t care about the background, it’s safe to skip the next paragraph and read about my take…

Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 11, 2018

Some thoughts on producing a music-themed voice game

The theme for February 2018 on the ‘One game a month’ #1GAM challenge by Christer McFunkypants Kaitila is Music. Here’s a brainstorming on coming up with an enjoyable game whose concept is centered around music.

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Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 10, 2018

Mau-Mau, part 2: Performance metrics

In the second article of this series on my ‘deepest’ voice game Mau-Mau, we’re taking a look at its actual performance. Is it doing well? What does doing well even mean for a voice game?

Florian Hollandt in #VoiceFirst Games

Feb 10, 2018

Mau-Mau, part 3: Optimizing the difficulty level

What makes a game difficult? How difficult can a game be to be enjoyable? Or is there a good and a bad kind of difficult? In this third part of my series on my ‘deepest’ voice game Mau-Mau (the German version of the Crazy Eights card game), we…

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