Heads or Tails: Alexa Skill Lambda

Links

• Homepage and High Scores
• Skill Page on Amazon.com
• Launch Skill with Quick Link

Usage

User: Alexa, open Heads or Tails.
Alexa: Welcome to Heads or Tails. Say FLIP to start, or HELP for how to play.

User: Flip.
Alexa: Okay, the coin is in the air. What's your call? Heads? Or Tails?

User: Heads
Alexa: Correct! Here we go: What's your call? Heads or Tails?

[...]

User: Tails
Alexa: Sorry, the coin came up heads. You got 3 in a row, and that's a high score this round.

Development

Configure Nodejs:

nvm use

Setup environment:

vim .env

LOG_LEVEL="debug"
TEST_MODE="1"

Install Dependencies:

yarn

Build for debugging:

yarn run debug

Open VS Code:

code .

Download and edit skill:

• Alexa Skills Toolkit -> Skills Management -> Download and edit skill -> Heads or Tails

Run debugger:

• Press F5

Open the simulator or run the ask dialog command:

ask dialog \
    --profile rulez \
    --locale en-US

Documentation

• Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Toolkit

Alexa Developer Docs

• https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs
• https://github.com/alexa/ask-toolkit-for-vscode
• https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smapi/ask-cli-command-reference.html
• https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs/overview.html

Other References

• Coin flipping