Google Play Games Leaks Ahead of I/O
Android Police reports on an information leak out of Google in the lead-up to their I/O conference, which starts on May 15th. A new version of Google Play Services contains information about "Google Play Games," the company's long anticipated unified gaming service. The leak shows support for saved game syncing, matchmaking, notifications, game invites, achievements, leaderboards, and integration with other Google services.
"Who can send you notifications is, of course, managed by Google+. Pressing that button will bring up the usual circle dialog. All Play Games identity work will be done by Google+. Try and look surprised. ... Play Games can somehow "auto pick" players, which means you can manually pick them too. Presumably this would go down in a match-making lobby of some kind. There are limited slots to a game, we just don't know how many. ... Leaderboards by time - choose this week, all time, or today. You can also show "player-centered" scores so you can find where you are on the boards. Leaderboards plug into G+ and can be non-public. You can also filter the leaderboard by people in your circles. It will also show you what percentile you're in.
A lot of assumptions based on a few strings. Don't worry, plenty of surprises left for IO.
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Kind of sounds like a database with a proprietary web API controlling access. Quite impressive what's being done these days.
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Welcome to 1983.
"Leak" is the new press release guys. Gives the story legs as people think they are learning something illicit. We all know that right?
This is so thrilling! Saved games! A score board! There was always something odd about gaming that i couldn't put my finger on it. Google is going to be so innovative with their games! Almost as innovative as this article.
For years I've been hearing about how tablets and phones are going to eat the Nintendo's handhelds for lunch. I got my first smartphone 6 months ago (yes I'm a little late to the party) and I was suprised by how horrible mobile games are. I've tried a bunch (Simpson's Tapped Out, Super MAMC, Angry Birds Star Wars, Pudding Monster and TripleTown) and all of them either feel like Flash games from the 90's or Facebook games that want to nickle and dime you for everything.
It's great that Google has a "Google Play Games" service coming out but what's the point when the games themselves aren't worth playing?
Not sure I really want to use my own name for gaming if we're doing random match making.
You've earned the badge of boring, repetitive, unimaginative phone-game player. Here's a preview of the upcoming Angry Birds - Cut the Rope tie-in.
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...when Google shuts down the service 18-24 months from launch.
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Google's been telling us about the hundreds of millions of Google+ members (and I'm sure there will be reminders of that during IO); so obviously with such a thriving membership it makes perfect sense to drive everything through it.
I'm sure it won't be contrived at all.
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You echo the arguments that CronoCloud used to make about the benefit of an entry barrier. In 1983, video game sales depended on physical shelf space and reviews in paper magazines. Three decades later, shelf space has since become far less constrained by the physical size of a retail store, reviews are available without charge through the web, and a growing number of games on Google Play Store have demos available without charge, as will all Ouya games.
can anyone recommend an app that denies (per app) access to various Android facilities (contacts, dialer, etc) that works w/Android 4.1+?
I can recommend a few: Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and F-Droid. A growing number of applications have descriptions that explain what they use the permissions for. If you don't buy the rationale, you can always cancel installation.
The IMEI permission is the same as the permission to tell whether the user is on a call. On Android, if an application is playing audio, it's polite to pause the application when the phone rings. There's supposed to be another way to duck out of the way of a phone call, called audio focus, and I'm not sure why more other applications don't use it.
A d-pad and button overlay on a game, especially on a small screen is not very appealing.
Then connect a regular game controller to your phone or tablet through Bluetooth. Or buy a device with built-in game buttons, such as a Sony Xperia Play or an Archos GamePad or a JXD S5110.
not released because game companies predict that they will be drowning in $0.99 crap
A game isn't "drowning" if it's marketed correctly. The publisher could run advertisements in traditional and online media, get it in the hands of reviewers on the major video game news sites, and have the online ads link to the application's page on Google Play Store where the user can choose to download the game's first chapter and send it to the device.
It probably will work at some point in the future, as soon as most customers have gotten used to in-game purchases and don't perceive it as scammy, which could take a while.
How is shareware any more scammy than two decades ago? Id Software distributed the entirety of the first episode of Doom without charge. Users who paid got two more episodes.
It's Apple's Game Center iOS has had since iOS5?
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Would the following wording be enough to clarify the difference between shareware style IAP and scammy pay-to-win IAP? "You can play the first chapter without charge. If you like it, a single in-game purchase of $9.99 unlocks the entire game. We won't nickel and dime you."
drinkypoo is what Google+ calls a "fake name", Google is so utterly averse to pseudonyms that they don't even use the term. so you're out of lucky there.
Reveal your real name so that you can be harassed and stalked and your house burgled when your online activity shows you're away from home, or don't play. The choice is entirely yours, praise Google.
Google+ was on my phone from the factory, without my direct consent. Because it contributes to excessive battery drain while trying to sync even when data and wifi are down, and to Google's privacy invasion, I've disabled it.
I did the same with Maps.
It's high time for Google to respect the wishes of its phone users. When they say don't do this, don't do this.
this update probably has a some relationship to Nvidia's handheld device Shield being able to play android games, especially because some of these features can be found on Steam and probably nvidia's own tegrazone. The question may then become is the 'syncing' among android apps and/or across these other platforms...
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