The next-generation audio game revolution begins in Italy: Tuscany-based startup PlayNook combines AI and the magic of sound to bring the world high-quality interactive audio stories.

Stefano De Vivo, COO of PlayNook: “Our innovative storytelling puts people back at the center of stories, making them the protagonists of wonderful adventures that they will create themselves. Through technology and sound, we want to give everyone the freedom to imagine.” After the gamebooks of the 1980s and the podcasts of the early millennium, a new way of experiencing great stories is born, diving into vast narrative universes of adventure, suspense, twists. The first audio game, “Marco Polo: Adventures”, – available in English and Italian – will take audio gamers from Venice to the China of the legendary Kublai Khan, testing them with all kinds of decisions and adventures. The first chapters will be released on the PlayNook app in May.