Eipix Entertainment Marktanteilsanalyse für Dezember 2025

On October 6 Eipix released Path of Discovery: Europa, a voice-controlled adventure designed for Amazon Alexa devices. Since this was our first time developing this type of game for a brand new platform, we asked the game team to share some insights into the development process. Here's what they had to say...    Making video games in the age of accelerating technological development has both its downsides and its upsides. On one hand, you often find yourself lagging behind the latest updates and constantly pursuing the latest solution that will be replaced by an even newer one as soon as tomorrow. On the other, sometimes you get a chance to try something wholly new and innovative, something that takes you out of your comfort zone, forces you to rethink everything you think you know and devise unique solutions for unique problems. Developing Path of Discovery: Europa, a voice-controlled Sci Fi adventure game intended for Amazon Alexa devices, has been an exploratory, revealing, and ultimately rewarding experience. It pushed us to break the game down to its most basic elements and rethink each and every one of them in order to translate them into a new medium, one that creates unusual limitations and asks for a different type of storytelling. Story-wise In approaching the new medium, we first looked at the overall landscape of games (or, we should say, “Alexa skills”) available for Alexa devices, in order to assess how we can expand upon it. We have detected a clear lack of Sci Fi entertainment, and the decision was quickly made: we would design a high quality Sci Fi adventure to be played in the safety of your home. In its essence, Path of Discovery: Europa is a choose-your-own adventure game told through sound. What this meant was that the entire story and all player actions had to be told through nothing but spoken words and sound effects – a stark contrast to our usual modus operandi that relies heavily on images and animation. Since the player only relies on so