Volley

Development cycles at Volley last for two weeks. At the beginning of the two-week cycle (on Monday mornings) we meet with everyone in the company to collaboratively set goals for the upcoming cycle. On the following Monday, we do a shorter full-team meeting in order to assess our progress and reevaluate our priorities for the final stretch. Other than these two meetings, we primarily work independently. Each piece of our infrastructure is owned by a lead engineer who gets to decide on a testing and deployment cadence that works best for them.

Voice-controlled software is an exciting emerging field of engineering that brings with it new challenges. We are continually inventing new approaches to conversation-based gaming. It is a real challenge to design great voice-based user interfaces and user experiences for smart-speakers which cannot display visual information. A related challenge is to ensure our games have a conversational quality to them that make it natural for people to engage the game with their voice. We strive to be the best at recognizing the true intent behind user voice commands and handle these commands in a natural way.