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Adventurer – The Manor

Adventurer – The Manor

This is a multiplayer graphical text adventure game for the Amazon Alexa Show devices. The adventure was created with the excellent Evennia codebase. Instead of controlling the game with a keyboard, your voice is used. The skill uses the Alexa

Carl 18th November 202018th November 2020 Projects Read more

Skip Commercials on Live TV

Whenever the commercials come on while watching TV, I usually switch the channel over until they finish. The problem is, I have no way of knowing when the commercials have finished, and find myself changing back to the original channel

Carl 4th March 202012th June 2020 Projects Read more

Soccer Flash

Soccer Flash

This is a skill I wrote for the Amazon Alexa. Soccer Flash will send the user a notification whenever a goal is scored in a football match featuring the users chosen teams. The skill features in-skill purchasing. A paying subscriber

Carl 3rd March 20203rd March 2020 Projects Read more

Old Time Radio v2

Old Time Radio v2

I created a new version of my Old Time Radio skill for the Amazon Alexa. I needed to host this skill with Amazon, so this required a complete rewrite. This new version was written in Javascript and NodeJS. The new

Carl 3rd March 20203rd March 2020 Projects Read more

UPDATING SERVER

I’m afraid I have outgrown my Raspberry Pi server ‘farm’. They are beginning to struggle now, as I am asking far too much of them. It was a good learning experience running my servers from home, but now it’s time

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Old Time Radio – Alexa Skill

Here’s a new skill I have created. The skill turns the Alexa into an Old Time Radio player.The radio will play back-to-back episodes of a chosen show, interspersed with vintage commercials, giving it a more authentic vintage feel.Users can also

Carl 29th August 201812th June 2020 Projects Read more

Quizzitch – a quiz for the Alexa

This is a simple quiz game I have been working on for the Amazon Alexa. I wrote this in PHP and it uses the Open Trivia Database API for the questions. I just need to add a bit more functionality

Carl 30th July 201830th July 2018 Projects Read more

Adventurer – Village of Frandon

This is an adventure game I have written for the Amazon Alexa. The skill is available HERE (temporarily removed). This has been a fun project and I have learned a lot, not least Python! Although this is a Multi-User Dungeon

Carl 14th July 20183rd March 2020 Projects Read more

Multi-User Dungeon for Amazon Alexa

==UPDATED 04/05== I’ve now got the interface part of this project working, so I’m now working on actually writing the story. Being able to resume your adventure at any time means I can write a more in-depth game, rather than

Carl 24th April 20188th May 2018 Projects Read more

My New Server

I have been using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B for a while now as an adblocker for my network (https://pi-hole.net). As this is already on 24/7, I decided to see if I could use it to host my websites

Carl 5th March 201824th April 2018 Projects Read more
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