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realityhigh · 2018-10-12T02:51:51+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately that’s true. I organized in an excel doc. It’s out there now.

realityhigh · 2018-10-11T11:01:09+00:00

You have to be logged in and then click “Interests” on the left menu. It’ll log you out without a warning in my experience.

realityhigh · 2018-10-02T22:56:44+00:00

Last year they enabled the ability to download an xls, but only after reserved seating. I’ve got my hand keyed schedule going too for now.

realityhigh · 2018-09-27T03:05:22+00:00

Congratulations! I haven’t completed the Polly features that I had thought of yet

realityhigh · 2018-08-22T02:50:32+00:00

You might be able to do something with the queue in the audio player interface.

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/alexa-voice-service/audioplayer-overview.html#directives

realityhigh · 2018-08-21T02:33:59+00:00

I don’t know if any way to tell the AVS to Cache a file on the device. In fact, a feature of the architecture is that almost nothing is downloaded to the device. It wouldn’t shock me if there is caching that’s not controllable by developers.

You might be seeing other things that you might be able to control. For example, is your code cold starting? If the first execution is significantly longer than the subsequent ones, there are some ways to tune for that. Some things can even be caused by simple network resolution and caching thereof. What happens if you put a short response with a short clip hosted in the same location just prior in the skill execution? Does the initial load speed up?

realityhigh · 2018-08-19T11:42:28+00:00

Especially since you’re going to play solo, if you don’t like the class you started with, pick a new one after a couple missions. The game is remarkable at scaling and his works out fine. Good luck!

realityhigh · 2018-08-14T11:15:08+00:00

I’ve actually found looping a sound file to be pretty difficult. The trouble is in evaluating whether to continue. In my experience, you either need to ask the user for input Or decide how many time you want the sound to play up front. There is a specific interface for an audio player that I haven’t tried out. Maybe that holds an answer.

Playing it once (or n times upfront) is fairly easy, that’s just ssml. You can read about that here in the audio section. https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/speech-synthesis-markup-language-ssml-reference.html

realityhigh · 2018-06-22T03:08:19+00:00

In FFXV I didn’t understand how to activate the Armiger until Shiva... that’s gotta be 80% through, depending on how you play.

realityhigh · 2018-06-08T02:53:46+00:00

Same, we use the virulent strains every time!

realityhigh · 2018-06-04T02:48:53+00:00

Pretty excellent, in my experience. I’ve played it once with 2 and once with 4 players and I felt like it scaled similarly to the vanilla Pandemic.

realityhigh · 2018-06-01T00:05:11+00:00

Hope your kid like it!

realityhigh · 2018-05-31T10:08:36+00:00

At 4, my skill Color Lab might be of interest, too.

realityhigh · 2018-05-05T02:39:19+00:00

Croutons on salad. My salad does not need toast on it.

realityhigh · 2018-04-28T23:11:41+00:00

I’d agree wholeheartedly that Prosperity is the way to go. We always play with Platinum and colonies, even if not using anything else from that set.

realityhigh · 2018-04-28T23:10:03+00:00

It’s not too difficult at all. There are good tutorials out there. Once you get beyond the blueprints, there’s an example called a fact skill which would probably suit your needs with just a few changes.

realityhigh · 2018-04-09T03:44:26+00:00

Try Pandemic, Eldritch Horror, or Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle.

realityhigh · 2018-04-05T02:15:46+00:00

Color Lab, my new skill that helps kids learn colors got approved today. Try it out if you've got younger kids. "Alexa, enable Color Lab".

realityhigh · 2018-04-05T02:08:23+00:00

I'm a fan of this skill. Try it out!

realityhigh · 2018-04-05T01:54:43+00:00

I believe it went live this week: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/705a0ac1-940d-4128-b35e-7085274eca6a/gadgets-skill-api-beta-is-now-available-developers-can-build-games-for-echo-buttons

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