Amazon Pushes Voice as Gaming Interface at Developers Conference

Amazon, streamed live from the Game Developers Conference Friday, showed viewers how to build an Alexa game skill. It boasted a voice-first riddle game created from “blank canvas” to fully planned in 7.5 hours. In the game, Alexa celebrates a right answer and corrects a wrong one, then tallies the number of correct answers at the end of the game, blogged Cami Williams, Alexa evangelist. The app isn’t all about voice: users can play against each other using Echo Buttons, tapping a button when they know the answer to a riddle, she said. In-skill purchasing allows players to buy packaged hints.