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The Voice Originals podcast takes a look behind the scenes at what goes into making the world's first series of voice connected games: board games that you play with your smart speaker! The show investigates each aspects of the design process: from recording locals in different cities, to developing the infrastructure to host an Alexa game, to what makes a voice connected board game fun? Each week we have different voices from the team in for a chat, including artists, designers, programmers ...
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WiR Ep. 6: Even More Voices! (Aggie Nyagari & Shane Solanki)
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In our sixth episode of the Voice Originals podcast, we continue delving behind the scenes of When in Rome, the travel trivia board game that’s hosted by Alexa.This week, we get together with our Nairobi local Aggie Nyagari and Dialogue Director Shane Solanki. We delve into Aggie’s work as a film maker, the path that led her to work on When in Rome…
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WiR Ep. 5: More Voices! (Daniella Valz Gen & Shane Solanki)
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In our fifth episode of the Voice Originals podcast, we continue delving behind the scenes of When in Rome – a travel trivia board game that’s hosted by your smart speaker.This time, we chat with our Lima local Daniella Valz Gen and Dialogue Director Shane Solanki. Daniella’s experiences living in different cities while working as a journalist and …
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WiR Ep. 4: The Voices! (Manisha Ferdinand & Shane Solanki)
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In the fourth episode of the Voice Originals podcast, we're digging deeper into the process of making When in Rome – a travel trivia board game that's hosted by your smart speaker.This week, we chat with one of When in Rome's locals, Manisha Ferdinand, as well as one of the game's Dialogue Directors, Shane Solanki. Manisha is When in Rome's voice o…
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WiR Ep. 3: The Free Skill! (George Buckenham & Andrew Marks)
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In the third episode of our Voice Originals podcast, we're looking further at When in Rome: a travel trivia board game that works with your smart speaker.One of the (many) unique aspects of making a board game that uses an Alexa skill is the opportunity to create free elements that offer a taster of the game. This week, we're looking at the free da…
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WiR Ep. 2: The Board! (Steve Bachmayer & Alex Fleetwood)
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In the second episode of our Voice Originals podcast, we’re looking behind the scenes at what goes into making When in Rome: a travel trivia board game that works with your smart speaker.This week, we looked at the design of the game board itself – the stylised map of the world that players travel across in the game. We talk with Product Designer a…
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WiR Ep. 1: The Words! (Deborah Pearson & Shane Solanki)
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In the first episode of the Voice Originals podcast, we peer behind the scenes of writing for When in Rome: a travel trivia board game that works with your smart speaker.This week, we chat with When in Rome's dialogue directors: community-orientated artist Shane Solanki and playwright Deborah Pearson, diging into the process of sourcing and working…
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