Voice assistants - the future of tabletop gaming?

The first game in the new genre will be St. Noire detective story from Atari. The product’s features were detailed by the company co-founder Nolan Bushnell and its creative director Zay Ortiz.

Modern technology is changing the gaming industry, and doing so in a most unexpected way: who would have thought that voice assistants would find application in such a field? Alexa plays the leading part in the soon-to-be-released St. Noire - the smart speaker will evaluate the players’ actions and explain what is happening on the board. If the project is a success, we may see similar games integrated with other voice assistants.

St. Noire is a detective story where a murder is investigated. The game has a number of main and side storylines with a lot of details and suspects. Thanks to this, gamers can play St. Noire over and over again, as if for the first time.

Alexa will speak with the voices of professional actors who have recorded more than 1,200 lines of dialogues for the project. The game costs $40.00.