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Doppio is now part of Fortis!

We’re delighted to announce that Doppio is now part of Fortis!

Throughout our journey at Doppio over the past three-plus years, we have had a blast inventing the next generation of games. It has been our mission to bring gaming to everyone, through voice, live streaming, the web, mobile, and video conferencing platforms, and we’re still extremely excited about doing just that. 

So today, we’re thrilled to announce that Doppio is joining the Fortis team. Fortis is an early but mighty organization, with a leadership team of game-industry veterans that aspires to make great games that bring people together, while redefining how game companies work. It was a natural next step for us to join forces given the alignment of our goals: we both are fierce believers in building a sense of belonging through our games and their communities, and in how we operate and treat each other. We’re looking forward to working with some of the industry’s coolest people, who have also designed and launched some of the best games in the world!

In the meantime, don’t worry - for now, all the games you know and love are staying live and being updated as needed. More news as it develops!

To all our investors, friends, and family who have supported us on this path, we can’t thank you enough. We’re looking forward to the future, and we can’t wait to share our next games with you. 

Thanks/Obrigado!


Five radical innovations voice brings to gaming

Five radical innovations voice brings to gaming

I joined Doppio a year ago as a Product Manager because I shared the company’s vision that voice technology, and more broadly Natural Language Processing, would enable developers to create radically new games - games that have never been made before. Here are five ways in which voice-first games are unique in the gaming landscape.

Happy Birthday, Doppio!

Happy Birthday, Doppio!

Two years in, we’ve been fortunate to have some success with our first two titles, The Vortex and The 3% Challenge, both of which approach the challenge of designing fun and engaging voice games from slightly different angles.

I wouldn’t say, however, that we’ve found the “perfect formula” for success here yet. We believe that just falling into complacency with existing design patterns and limiting oneself to just building more of the same sort of games that already exist would be a terrible mistake to make in this space right now.

Doppio closes seed funding round

Yesterday, we announced the completion of our first funding round. We’ve raised €1 million from a group of investors that includes the Amazon Alexa Fund and the Google Assistant Investment Program, as well as leading gaming and tech investors Sisu Game Ventures, Andy Chung and Philipp Moehring from AngelList and BreakawayGrowth Fund, alongside Portuguese investors Portugal Ventures and Busy Angels. The round also included several leading angel investors in the gaming industry, such as Lasse Seppänen (Supercell), Alexis Bonte (Stillfront & Atomico) and David Helgason (Unity).

We are tremendously grateful to this group of investors for the confidence they’ve shown in us. We strongly believe that voice-first games have the potential to bring exciting and compelling entertainment experiences to whole new audiences, and this investment will help us continue to do that.

In fact, we’re already putting some of that money to work on a brand new game, which we talked about a bit on stage at the VOICE Summit in Newark, New Jersey yesterday. We’ll have a lot more details to share on that soon, so stay tuned!

And if you are interested in joining the revolution, please get in touch!

In the meantime, here are a few of the articles in the media yesterday covering our funding round:

And here are a few from our own back yard, em Português:

The Vortex Highlighted in Amazon's Alexa Developer Spotlight

Jennifer King from Amazon published a new interview with us today on the Alexa Blog’s developer spotlight.

We discussed how we set about to make The Vortex, why we’re so excited to be working on voice-first games, and how we use in-skill purchasing to provide a premium experience for our players who want to experience all of the game’s story faster.

Give it a read today!

PG Connects London 2019

On January 21st and 22nd we will be in London giving a high-level overview of Voice Games for the PG Connects audience. As we gear up for the conference, the PG.Biz team interviewed us to find out a bit more about what we've been up to! You can read the full interview here.

And if you're at the conference, please come say hi!

Welcome to Doppio

Hello, worlds!

Today is the culmination of a lot of work behind the scenes in the past few months. Through this time, we had support and help from lots of people - you were too kind, and too numerous to list here. To you, a heartfelt THANK YOU!

Doppio is part dream and part strategic bet: both of us love stories and games, and we feel that this is a great time to be making entertainment that can be played in a uniquely human way - with our voices.

We decided to set on this voyage of discovery from Lisbon, as we feel there's a renaissance going on in Portugal, and we wanted to ride (and contribute to!) this wave of excitement and positivity.

Although we have lofty goals, we're not quite sure where this journey is going to take us. But we're glad that you're here with us.

Let's change gaming forever.