The new Google Play Games app turns Android into a social gaming platform

Google Play Games is one of the few new features Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, which was announced at the Google I / O this year. Today, this feature is now available to everyone, and we immediately took the opportunity to explore new possibilities of Android for gamers.

For anyone who never pay attention to Google News (and that there are?) Recalls that promises Google Play Games developers - this is a special application, which is designed to help us to find new games to play multiplayer games with your friends, save and share their achievements and more. Let's see what happened in practice.

After installing and running (Google Play Games is already available in the app store for a limited number of regions), we see the start page that shows our past gaming activity on Google+ friends and their games, as well as a list of recommended applications. As the use and storage of data about your gaming habits app will change the contents of this screen.

The main aspect in the Google Play Games is made on the social component, allowing to view the game of your friends, share your, get recommendations, publish records and so on. And for that, not surprisingly, used Google+ features. So if your friends enjoy this social sphere, now you can still "make friends games."

On My games, you can see a tiled list of all currently installed in the past games. When the tapas by name to a page with a detailed description of the game and the start button. Some games will be visible tab with the achievements and ranking players.

Of course, you are interested in the ability to synchronize game achievements between different devices. It really would be very convenient - start the game on your tablet, continue on your smartphone, and then, as if nothing had happened to finish in the browser. This possibility is, but not for all games, but only for those developers who have taken care to incorporate appropriate functionality to their applications.

This feature works through your account for Google+, so look at the interface of your favorite games input button in this social network, and save your progress and records in the clouds. And in order to find those games that have already got integration with Google+, simply open the section Google Play Games Recommended and click on the tab Multiplayer games.

Thus, in the face of Google Play Games we get convenient gaming platform that can significantly expand your gaming experience due to socialization and cloud technologies. We have an opportunity to invite their friends to play together, to publish the results, and save progress, receive guidance and notification about new games and much more.

However, there are a number of problems, which can significantly slow down the development of this technology. Firstly, the game developers have to specifically adapt their applications to work with Google Play Games, what, obviously, will not all. And secondly, everything is tied to Google+, so if you are not a user of this social network, or have you got there quite a few friends, then this story, alas, is not for you.