End of Service Announcement for The 3% Challenge

Thank you, Candidate.

You’ve been a great help to us all. You’ve gone above and beyond all expectations and overcame every challenge. You’ve been with us through thick and thin; you’ve competed in the global competition, shuffled through the maze's unruly waters, freed yourself from the cell, and went through the Winter Challenge. You’ve played every ending. You’re still in the top 3%.

You have ultimately earned your place in the Offshore; therefore, the “Process” is no longer necessary.

Therefore, we’re discontinuing The 3% Challenge on August 12th, 2022.  

As thanks for sticking with the game, we’re offering you every chapter of the game for free until Aug 12, 2022 so you can enjoy it until that date. It will not be possible to purchase any chapter as of today.

On October 8th, 2019, we launched the game with the help of talented people. Thank you, Netflix and Rio Games, for your work and dedication to the project, and thank you to everyone on The 3% Challenge team. We’d also like to thank the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa teams and our supporters and investors for helping make this happen.

While this is the final stretch for this game, we’re building new and interesting things that we hope will excite you just as much.  

Once again: Thank you, Candidate.

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Obrigado, Candidato.

Você tem sido uma grande ajuda para todos nós. Você superou todas as expectativas e superou todos os desafios. Você esteve conosco nos bons e maus momentos; você competiu na competição global, atravessou as águas turbulentas do labirinto, se libertou da cela e passou pelo Winter Challenge. Você jogou todos os finais. Você ainda está entre os 3% melhores.

Você finalmente conquistou seu lugar no Offshore; portanto, o “Processo” não é mais necessário.

Portanto, descontinuamos o Desafio 3% a 12 de agosto de 2022.

Como agradecimento por continuar com o jogo, oferecemos todos os capítulos do jogo gratuitamente até 12 de agosto de 2022 para que você possa aproveitá-lo até essa data. Não será possível adquirir nenhum capítulo a partir de hoje.

Em 8 de outubro de 2019, lançamos o jogo com a ajuda de pessoas talentosas. Obrigado, Netflix e Rio Games, por seu trabalho e dedicação ao projeto, e obrigado a todos da equipe The 3% Challenge. Também gostaríamos de agradecer às equipes do Google Assistente e Amazon Alexa e nossos apoiantes e investidores por ajudar a tornar esse projeto real.

Embora este seja o trecho final para o jogo, estamos construindo coisas novas e interessantes que esperamos que o empolguem muito.

Mais uma vez: Obrigado, Candidato.

Doppio at Alexa Live 2020

Amazon announced a slew of new and exciting features for the Alexa platform yesterday as part of Alexa Live, an all-online streaming developer conference. At Doppio, we’re really bullish about the future of the Alexa platform for games, and so we were thrilled to be a part of several of the event’s announcements.

Here’s a quick roundup on all things Doppio from the Alexa Live program!

The Web API for Games lets us take our games to the next level

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The Web API for Games is an exciting leap forward for our ability to deliver voice-forward games that also have great visual experiences. It enables developers like us to build rich animations on the back of web-standard technologies; to provide more a more dynamic audio experience with background tracks, loops and effects; and to take greater control of the player’s experience by controlling how and when the device prompts for voice input. 

Back in April, we updated The 3% Challenge with a refreshed visual experience built on top of this exciting new technology, and we think it was a great improvement. You can try it out now on any Echo Show or Fire TV Cube device.

However, that’s not the most exciting thing we’re doing with the Web API for Games…

We’re bringing PAC-MAN to Alexa!

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Yeah, you heard that right! As Jeferson announced during the conference, we’re working on a new game that will bring a voice-controlled PAC-MAN experience to your Alexa devices! 

We’re really excited about this new game and we can’t wait to share more about it with you soon. To be the first to hear more, you can sign up for our newsletter – you definitely won’t want to miss out on this one!

Using APL-A to upgrade the audio experience on The Vortex

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APL-A is an exciting new platform feature that allows developers to do more advanced audio mixing in our skills’ audio experiences. All of this happens at runtime, meaning we don’t need to spend a lot of time in development tweaking every audio clip by hand. And, it’s done in a simple and straightforward way that doesn’t slow down the player’s experience with our games.

João Costa, our Sound Designer, spoke about our experience converting The Vortex’s audio content to APL-A. You can also try it out for yourself in the game right now!

Quick Links allow you to launch directly into our games from a link

The new Quick Links feature provides a way for you to launch directly into our games from a link on the web. As our Marketing Lead Carolina Rocha discussed during the conference, this provides a quick and easy way for you to try out new games on this exciting platform; now, instead of having to remember an invocation phrase, you can just click a link and send the skill directly to the device of your choice. 

In fact, you may have already seen these links throughout this post! But if not, here’s one for The 3% Challenge and one for The Vortex – try them out now!

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That’s all for now! Stay tuned for more news about all these updates in the coming weeks!

The 3% Challenge is Now Available!

We’re thrilled to announce The 3% Challenge, our second title! We worked hard on this to bring something new to the space. The 3% Challenge has both a multiplayer mode with a weekly competition and an interactive story (a prequel to the Netflix Original Series 3%). The first three chapters of the story are now available for Amazon Alexa, and will be available soon on the Google Assistant!

The game is set in the world of Netflix’s “3%,” a dystopian future where residents of the impoverished Inland, after turning 20 years old, are made to participate in an experiment called The Process. “The Process” is a series of unusual challenges that were set up so only the most worthy would have the opportunity to leave the slums of the The Inland and go to the Offshore— a paradise. Can you beat the competition and make it to the 3%?

The game is available on devices that run Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. These devices include Android, iOS, and Fire OS mobile devices, Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Google Home, Google Nest Hub, and many more. For a full list of supported devices and help with opening the game, please see the FAQ. This game is also our first bilingual release – it will be available in both English and in the series’ native Brazilian Portuguese.

Our goal is to expand and improve the game over time, so make sure to send us your feedback! And if you enjoy the game, please leave us a review on the store and spread the word to your friends!