Google Play Game Services and Advantages

In addition to being completely platform-independent, these services improve user engagement and enhance rigidity.

  Google Play Game Services  is a critical element of  building a gaming platform  for the games of the next generation. These services will help you to  make your games  more social, through achievements, multiplayer, leaderboards, as well as more powerful, by storing the saved games in the cloud. By using Google's strengths in cloud services, you can create  fantastic gaming experiences  for the users.

Significance of Google Play Game

Google Play Game Services  has four main features: achievements,  leaderboards, real-time multiplayer, and cloud saves. Cloud saves, leaderboards and achievements will be available to Google Play users on three platforms. With Google Play Game, you can integrate

1- Achievements that enhance engagement and improve different play styles.
2- Social and public leaderboards that use Google+ circles to easily track high scores among friends and around the world.
3- Cloud  saves  provide an improved and straightforward storage API for storing  saved games  and settings. Players will never have to play level 1 again.
4- Real-time multiplayer facilitates the easy addition of competitive or cooperative games to Android devices.
5- Integration with social features and Google Plus sign in

Here are the essential features of Google Play Game Services for  game developers  to save their user's game data on their cloud or show the leaderboard of gamers' scores.

Achievements

Achievements are a wonderful way to increase user interaction in your game. Achievements can be implemented to inspire players to try out features they usually don't use or to approach your game with completely different gameplay. Achievements can also be an enjoyable way for the players to participate in a fun competition.



Here are the essential elements that are related to achievements

- ID
- Name
- Describe
- Icon
- List Order

Leaderboards

Leaderboards   can be an enjoyable way to stimulate competition between your players for casual players and your hardcore fans. Casual players are the ones that are interested only in comparing their progress with their friends, and hardcore fans are the ones who are competing for top rank in the public leaderboard. When creating a leaderboard,  Google Play Game Services  will handle most of the aspects of that leaderboard for you. The games can contain multiple leaderboards, up to a maximum of 70. A multiplayer game may offer a different leaderboard for every level.



To create and manage leaderboards, you'll want to learn more about these leaderboard features. Here are the essential elements of each leaderboard

- ID
- Name
- Icon
- Limits
- List Order

Saved games

The Saved Games service  offers you a suitable way to track the progress of your players on Google's servers. The game can save game data by allowing returning players to follow the game to the last saved point from any device. The Saved Games service enables you to sync game data from players across multiple devices. This service can also ensure that the players can continue the left-off game even on a different device.



With Google Play Game, you can enjoy  REST-based API with built-in  iOS  and Android libraries, support for leaderboards and achievements on all platforms, and cross-platform cloud storage.