Space Game

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Inspiration

• Life-long admiration of Astronomy.
• Enjoy teaching tech./science-related topics.

What it does

• Alexa Skill presenting space-themed facts in the form of missions that ask the player various questions.
• Pre-mission "info. session" gives user hints about upcoming questions.
• Basic score-keeping based on completion of tasks.

How I built it

• .NET Core 2.0
• Custom library for building Alexa skills.

Challenges I ran into

• Trying to build fluid transitions between each part of a mission when dealing with Alexa Skill's template of having one endpoint for all requests.
  • Combining output of multiple steps in a mission within one response.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• An almost fully-featured library/middleware for building Alexa skills.
• Recording lots of personal vocals/music.
• Utilizing Alexa Skill cards to progressively enhance the skill.

What I learned

• Building a library and skill/game from scratch within a short time-frame requires trade-offs.
  • Could not build as many missions up-front.
• Having complex logic flow through one-endpoint is very complicated. Not having a cookie-cutter pattern to the logic within the app. does not help either.

What's next for Space Game

• Build more depth into each mission. This mainly includes more tasks. Having more tasks will allow for randomization.
• Add support for Echo Buttons once API is available.
• Possibly re-do some of the audio.

Built With

• .net-core
• marten