2017-08-29 14:26:32

Hi,

I got a amazon echo dot and, I was wondering if their are any audio games made for it?

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2017-08-29 14:48:51 (edited by Orko 2017-08-29 14:56:33)

The games I currently have enabled on my Echo are:

Jeopardy
Colossal Caves: explore a cave
Unofficial Zork: explore an underground empire
Dungeon Adventure: an RPG
Rogue's Choice: another RPG *
Starlanes: build a space empire *
The Wayne Investigation: investigate Bruce Wayne's parents murder
Earplay: platform for a variety of audio games

The ones ending with an asterisk are games I haven't played yet, so I'm not certain if my description is accurate.

Games I've heard of but not enabled are

Magic Door
Mini Dungeon

Have fun!

2017-08-29 15:34:13

Thanks. Does alexa have madlibs?

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2017-08-29 15:42:49 (edited by Orko 2017-08-29 16:04:59)

As a matter of fact it does, I just enabled it. One caveat though, it only has a 1 out of 5 rating.

2017-08-30 10:26:12

I need to get my own echo dot sorted as well.
I have had it since last  Christmas but haven't had much luck with it so far, it seems worse on the hole than siri for usual siri like functions such as the time and the weather, and I couldn't find much by way of other functions or interesting skills.

What it mainly does apart from time and weather is spam with requests to use Amazon prime or amazon music,but the music thing just looked plane crap, being as it was all pop top fourty stuff, and I  certainly don't want to pay to stream music out of just one device anyway, not when I have an actual music collection of muisic I really own and several things I can play that out of (including far better speakers than the Echo).

I did try to begin fixing things a few weeks ago by sorting my amazon account, but the account setup wasn't playing nice with Nvda, and had the wrong credit card number even when I phoned amazon customer services to try and change the details, (I was only trying to buy a cd).

Hopefully more skills have made it over to the Uk these days, though since at the moment I'm in the middle of moving house it'll probably have to wait a bit, ditto with the amazon account and credit card situation.

I would like to get some good out of the echo dot though, since it was a Christmas present from my brother, but thus far it's mainly been sitting on a shelf gathering dust as my attempts to get the thing to do anything of any practical use have been so depressing.

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2017-08-30 15:07:07

The most useful thing I do with my Echo is stream a local radio station that I can't get any other way because I'm too far away from the station to pick it up with indoor antennas.

Sure, I have a bunch of skills enabled, but really haven't done much with them.

I like the Echo and have definite plans for using it, I just lack the free time at the moment.