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| <h1 itemprop="name" style="margin-bottom:0;">Google Play Game Services</h1> |
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| Make your games social with Google Play game services. Add achievements, leaderboards, |
| real-time multiplayer, and other popular features using the Google Play game services SDK. |
| Let players sign in using their Google+ identities and share their gaming experience with |
| friends. |
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| <p>Visit <a class="external-link" |
| href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/">developers.google.com/games/services</a> |
| for more information about integrating game services into your app. |
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| <h3 style="clear:left">Key Developer Features</h3> |
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| <h4>Reward players with achievements</h4> |
| <p>Add hidden and incremental achievements to encourage users to explore your game in new |
| and interesting ways. A built-in achievement UI is available to display progress. <br /> |
| <a class="external-link" href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/achievements">Add |
| achievements to your game</a>.</p> |
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| <h4>Drive engagement with leaderboards</h4> |
| <p>Let players compare scores with friends using leaderboards and see how they rank |
| against other players worldwide. Google Play game services automatically maintains daily, |
| weekly, and all-time high scores. <br /><a class="external-link" |
| href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/leaderboards">Build leaderboards</a></p> |
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| <h4>Save game data to the cloud</h4> |
| <p>Offer seamless game progress across all of the user's devices. Use Cloud Save APIs |
| to quickly store and synchronize game data on Google's cloud |
| infrastructure. <br /> |
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| class="external-link" href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/cloudsave">Save |
| game data to the cloud</a></p> |
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| <h4>Create real-time multiplayer games</h4> |
| <p>Make your game more dynamic by letting multiple players compete or cooperate simultaneously. |
| You can use Google Play game services to invite game participants or auto-match players |
| anonymously, and exchange data between game clients. <br /><a class="external-link" |
| href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/multiplayer">Develop real-time |
| multiplayer games</a></p> |
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| <h3 style="clear:left">Getting Started</h3> |
| <h4>1. Get the Google Play services SDK</h4> |
| <p>Google Play game services is part of the Google Play services platform.</p> |
| <p>To use game services, <a href="{@docRoot}google/play-services/setup.html">set up</a> |
| the Google Play services SDK. Then, see the <a class="external-link" |
| href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/quickstart"> |
| Getting Started guide</a> to set up your app. |
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| <h4>2. Run the sample</h4> |
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| <p>Once you've installed the Google Play services package, <a class="external-link" |
| href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/downloads/">download the game services |
| samples</a> to learn how to use the major components of the Google Play game services SDK. |
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| <h4>3. Read the documentation</h4> |
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| <p>Read the <a class="external-link" href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/terms"> |
| API Terms of Service</a>.</p> |
| <p>Detailed documentation for the Google Play game services SDK is available at <a class="external-link" |
| href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/">developers.google.com/games/services</a>. |
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| <p>For quick access while developing your Android apps, the |
| <a href="{@docRoot}reference/com/google/android/gms/games/package-summary.html">API reference</a> is available here on developer.android.com.</p> |
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