Volley games on Roku

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Company: Volley, Inc.

My role: Software Engineer

Time Length: 14 months ongoing

Platform: Roku TV

Language and tools: Brightscript, TypeScript, Roku release pipeline, Amplitude, CI/CD, K8s

Contribution:

Gameplay: Local Multiplayer, AI Bot generation and betting strategy, Daily Double, Final Jeopardy, Leaderboard.

Structure: utility components for tracking, bug tracking, staging/prod env setup, optimization. 

Description

Jeopardy is a voiced controlled game on Roku TV platform. User could use their microphone on the remote to navigate the game. This game hub will contain well-known games like Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Karaoke. 

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Our version of Jeopardy support single player mode and local multiplayer mode. Within each game the player will go through 12 clues in a 4 by 3 gird, with one of them being a surprise Daily Double. Then the user will hit their Final Jeopardy before getting the weekly leaderboard. The single player mode has 2 AI bot opponents to play against the real player. And the local multiplayer mode support 2-3 real players compete in the same match. We support the Roku TV remotes with voice input. For those doesn't contain a microphone, we also developed a web remote for smooth voice controlling game play. 

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This game utilize the latest text-to-speech engine of elevenLabs which will generate the most human-like host speeches in lightning speed.