I also encountered challenges with the audio Enqueue functions that sent me into the Amazon Developer forums to work collaboratively to find workarounds (which we did!). This stalled my development activities while I waited on certification results, until I came up with alternatives to host multiple versions of the skill so development could continue while awaiting a certification result. In addition, I did not initially understand that the certification process would effectively "lock up" the development instance of the skill until it passed certification. This meant that I needed to extend the library in order to play audio files longer than 90 seconds and at higher quality. In the Technical arena, I quickly found that the AlexaSkillsKit.NET library was not up-to-date with support for audio directives. Challenges I ran intoĬhallenges fell into three major areas for me: The Santa Tracker features of the skill come from the open source data set Google provides and are synchronized with the visualizations provided through Google's Santa Tracker web and android apps. Streamed audio files for the North Pole Radio and Story Time functions are pulled from Amazon's S3 web services. Santa Pals is built using an extended version of the open source AlexaSkillsKit.NET library, hosted on Microsoft Azure services using C# and SQL Server. Santa Pals encourages thoughtful and kind behavior, and includes edutainment style games that seek to improve logic, math and memory skills. As you collect Peppermint Points, you will be promoted toward becoming Head Elf, by taking care of Santa's reindeer, giving him virtual hugs, playing games, and uncovering "Easter eggs" along the way. Santa Pals includes a rewards points system - called Peppermint Points, and a leveling engine to encourage return visits.
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