Best practices for building great voice game experiences with Amazon Alexa. For those that want to dive deep on each of the points, be sure to check this blog post: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/fae82327-15dc-4f31-9b52-11ef75203bfc/best-practices-for-building-voice-enabled-games

1. Building Next Level Voice Games
With Alexa
Mark Bate
@markbate | alexa.design/games
October 2018

2. M a r k B a t e
HALLÖCHEN!

3. • Speaks 10 Languages
• US English 🇺🇸
• British English 🇬🇧
• Indian English 🇮🇳
• Australian English 🇦🇺
• Canadian English 🇨🇦
• German 🇩🇪🇦🇹
• French 🇫🇷
• Canadian French 🇨🇦
• Mexican Spanish 🇲🇽
• Japanese 🇯🇵
• Developer Preview: Spanish 🇪🇸 & Italian 🇮🇹
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 /
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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. LEVELLING UP

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

14. Developer Portal Metrics - Overview

15. Developer Portal Metrics - Intents

16. Developer Portal Metrics

17. CloudWatch Metrics

18. LEARNINGS

19. Fun 😃

20. Easy to Learn, Hard to Master
📈

21. Great Writing 🖋

22. Humour 🖋

23. Build For An Audience 🎭

24. Sounds Good 🎻

25. Stay Fresh 🖋

26. Multiplayer 🏆

27. Available 🆙

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

29. 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

31. 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