VOICE ASSISTANTS: STATE OF THE MARKET In early 2017 Mike Jeffs, the Commercial Director for Branded3, put together a nice article called “OK Google, Siri, Alexa, Cortana; Can you tell me some stats on voice search?” that summarizes where VAs are…
VOICE ASSISTANTS: STATE OF THE MARKET In early 2017 Mike Jeffs, the Commercial Director for Branded3, put together a nice article called “OK Google, Siri, Alexa, Cortana; Can you tell me some stats on voice search?” that summarizes where VAs are…
CNET PROFILES THREE TSATSATZU GAMES Stacy Colella, Partner, TsaTsaTzu The IT tech industry magazine CNET just published an article called TRY THESE 43 GAMES ON YOUR GOOGLE HOME: 43 GAMES YOU CAN PLAY WITH YOUR GOOGLE HOME. Our company, TsaTsaTzu,…
BOOK RELEASE: DEVELOPING AMAZON ALEXA GAMES Stacy Colella, Partner, TsaTsaTzu Following up on our category best selling book, HOW TO PROGRAM AMAZON ECHO, we’ve finally published the definitive guidebook to creating games with an audio interface, DEVELOPING AMAZON ALEXA GAMES:…
AMAZON IS NOW PAYING GAME DEVELOPERS OF POPULAR ALEXA SKILLS As reported by Bret Kinsella on voicebot.ai, Amazon will be paying customer usage fees to its top Alexa skills developers starting April 2017. So far we don’t know much about…
VENTUREBEAT SHOUTOUT FOR SIX SWORDS ON GOOGLE HOME VentureBeat, the techie blog for the Google-inclined, put together a list of its picks for best audio apps for Google Home. Our own Six Swords has made the cut. From the article:…
SIX SWORDS IS LIVE ON AMAZON ECHO AND GOOGLE HOME Our own audio-based fantasy roleplaying game, Six Swords, is now live on Amazon Alexa (Echo, Dot & Tap). Now you too can play your campaign anywhere with in-game support. Here’s…
GOOGLE ASSISTANT NOW ON ANDROID 6.0 AND UP We’ve been predicting for some time that Google is in a strong position to dominate the intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) market. And just today Google announced its plans to roll out Google…
EXPLORING GOOGLE HOME PERMISSIONS (Part 1) In last night’s live vidcast, we did some live programing, integrating Google Home permissions into the StarSquad game. Google Virtual Assistant uses the Google Home Permissions as a sort of tracking information somewhat along…
CROSS PLATFORM AUDIO DEVELOPMENT TsaTsaTzu’s CTO Joseph Jaquinta shares our experience releasing SubWar and 21 Blackjack on both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Each game has been designed such the bulk of the code (~90%) is shared across platform. In…