Alexa Skill - Dice Roll

You're playing a dice game, but instead of bringing all the dice, you brought a device with Amazon Alexa on it. Strange, but ok. Fortunately, this Alexa Skill will help you out.

• "Alexa, ask Dice Roll 4 d 6" ... "Rolling 4 d 6 ... 13"
• "Alexa, ask Dice Roll d 20" ... "Rolling 1 d 20 ... 20"

Deploy to AWS Lambda

The backend for this Alexa Skill is an AWS Lambda function, written in Golang, deployed via Apex

apex deploy

Read https://www.starkandwayne.com/blog/quick-guide-to-deploying-golang-to-aws-lambda-using-apex/ for an introduction to deploying Golang to AWS Lambda using Apex.

Once the Lambda function is deployed, you'll then need to add an Alexa Skills Kit trigger to it.

Then, in your Alexa Skills List, click "Add a New Skill", and set it up.

The Intent Schema will be:

{
  "intents": [
    {
      "intent": "RollDiceIntent",
      "slots": [
        {
          "name": "HowMany",
          "type": "AMAZON.NUMBER"
        },
        {
          "name": "DiceSides",
          "type": "AMAZON.NUMBER"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

The Sample Utterances will be:

RollDiceIntent {HowMany} d {DiceSides}

If you don't own an Amazon Echo or similar Amazon Alexa device, you can try https://echosim.io/ as a browser-based version.