Building an Alexa Skill is relatively easy, but building a voice game that customers love & use every day can be a much harder challenge. After diving deep on skill metrics and customer reviews, we found there’s a few key things that the top games skills do that others skills don’t. Join us to learn how to start building voice game skills with Alexa, as well as discovering the key points and how to Alexa tooling & AWS services to implement them in your game skills.

1. Building Next Level Voice Games with Alexa
Mark Bate
Berlin | November 20 - 21, 2018

2. M a r k B a t e
HALLÖCHEN!

3. • Speaks 12 Languages
• US English 🇺🇸
• British English 🇬🇧
• Indian English 🇮🇳
• Australian English 🇦🇺
• Canadian English 🇨🇦
• German 🇩🇪🇦🇹
• French 🇫🇷
• Canadian French 🇨🇦
• Spanish 🇪🇸
• Mexican Spanish 🇲🇽
• Italian 🇮🇹
• Japanese 🇯🇵
• Available in over 100 Countries
ALEXA

4. ALEXA ENABLED DEVICES

5. Ambient Sounds:
Ocean Sounds
RuneScape Quests Recipedia Deutsche Bahn
ALEXA SKILLS KIT
Over 50,000 Alexa Skills Available Worldwide

6. Jeopardy! Trivial Pursuit Tap Trivia Hero Akinator
CASUAL GAMES & TRIVIA

7. The Magic Door RuneScape Quests:
One PIercing Note
Der Fall Rachel:
Schicksal einer KI
Path of Discovery:
Europa
INTERACTIVE ADVENTURES

8. Destiny 2: Ghost Call of Duty Craft Helper Steam Deals
ASSISTANTS & REFERENCE

9. Speech
Alexa Service
Automatic Speech
Recognition
Natural Language
Understanding
TextTo Speech
Intent Events
Skill Code
HOW ALEXA WORKS
Card /
RenderTemplate

10. Voice User Interface Programming Logic
+
developer.amazon.com aws.amazon.com
Intents
Utterances
Slots
BEHIND THE SCENES

11. Voice First
Cognitive Load
Conversational Content
Speech
alexa.design/guide
Designing for VOICE

12. alexa.design/games

13. LEVELLING UP

14. CUSTOMER REVIEWS
Best skill ever!
By A Customer on 27 November 2017

15. Developer Portal Metrics - Overview

16. Developer Portal Metrics - Intents

17. Developer Portal Metrics

18. CloudWatch Metrics

19. LEARNINGS

20. Fun 😃

21. Easy to Learn, Hard to Master
📈

22. Great Writing 🖋

23. Humour 🖋

24. Build For An Audience 🎭

25. Sounds Good 🎻

26. Stay Fresh 🖋

27. Multiplayer 🏆

28. Available 🆙

29. Review
• Fun 😃
• Easy To Learn, Hard To Master 📈
• Great Writing 🖋
• Humour 🖋
• Build For An Audience 🎭
• Sounds Good 🎻
• Stay Fresh 🖋
• Multiplayer 🏆
• Available 🆙

30. Next Steps
• Developer Portal – developer.amazon.com
• Design Guide – alexa.design/guide
• Gaming Pages – alexa.design/games
• German Page – alexa.design/germany
• Developer Blog –
developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa

32. V O I C E I S T H E N E W C O N T R O L L E R
a l e x a . d e s i g n / g a m e s
a l e x a . d e s i g n / g e r m a n y
@markbate