Posted by Greg Hartrell, Product Director, Video games on Play/Android
Through the years, we’ve seen that apps and video games usually are not simply experiences – they’re companies – led by gifted folks like yourselves. So it is our aim to proceed supporting your companies to succeed in even larger potential. At our current Google for Video games Developer Summit, we shared how groups throughout Google have been persevering with to construct the following technology of providers, instruments and options that can assist you create and monetize prime quality experiences, extra applications tailor-made to your wants, and extra academic assets with finest practices.
We wish to assist you all through the sport improvement lifecycle, by making it simpler to develop prime quality video games and ship these nice experiences to rising audiences and units.
Simpler to deliver your sport to extra screens
To allow video games on new screens and units, we wish to assist you meet gamers the place they’re, giving them the comfort of taking part in video games wherever they select.
- Gameplay throughout tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks is on the rise and affords the chance to be extra partaking and immersive than ever earlier than. In 2021, Android utilization on CrOS grew 50% versus the earlier 12 months, led by video games.
- Google Play Video games for PC Beta rolled out in January to South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This standalone Home windows PC software constructed by Google, permits customers to play a top quality catalog of Google Play video games seamlessly throughout their cell phone, pill, Chromebook, or (now) their Home windows PC. Study extra and begin to optimize your sport for extra screens at the moment.
- Play as you obtain beta program was introduced final 12 months and we’ll quickly open it as much as all Android 12 customers. PAYD permits customers to get into gameplay in seconds whereas sport belongings are downloaded within the background. and might occur with minimal developer modifications to your underlying implementation. Join the beta.
Simpler to develop prime quality video games
We’re dedicated to supporting you construct prime quality Android video games, by persevering with to deal with instruments and SDKs that simplify improvement and supply insights about your sport, whereas additionally partnering with sport engines, together with homegrown native c/c++ engines. Final 12 months, we launched the Android Sport Improvement Equipment (AGDK), a set of instruments and libraries to assist make Android Sport Improvement extra environment friendly, and have made a number of updates primarily based on developer suggestions.
- Android Sport Improvement Extension permits sport builders to construct immediately for Android from inside Visible Studio. To make debugging simpler throughout Java and C, AGDE will now embrace cross compatibility between Android Studio and Visible Studio so you’ll be able to open and edit your AGDE initiatives in Android Studio’s debugger.
- The brand new Reminiscence Recommendation API (Beta) library added to AGDK helps builders perceive their reminiscence consumption by combining the very best alerts for a given gadget to find out how shut the gadget is to a low reminiscence kill.
- We’ve totally launched the Android GPU Inspector Body Profiler that can assist you perceive when your sport is bottlenecked on the GPU vs. CPU, and obtain higher body charges and battery life.
Extra instruments that can assist you succeed on Google Play
The Play Console is a useful useful resource to assist in your sport lifecycle, with instruments and insights to help earlier than and after launch.
- We proceed to spend money on applications to assist builders of all sizes develop their companies with Google Play. For our largest builders, we launched the Google Play Associate Program for Video games, providing extra progress instruments and premier providers, tailor-made for the distinctive wants of builders at this scale.
- Attain and units helps you make foundational choices about what units to construct for, the place to launch and what to check, each pre-launch and post-launch. It already reveals your set up and challenge distributions throughout a spread of gadget attributes. At the moment, we’re launching Google Play income and income progress distributions in your sport and its friends, so you’ll be able to construct revenue-based enterprise circumstances for troubleshooting or gadget concentrating on, if that fits your enterprise mannequin higher than utilizing installs.
- We just lately launched Strategic steerage in Console, which gives an intuitive method that can assist you consider how nicely your sport is monetizing, and see alternatives to develop income. You possibly can consider Attain & units as serving to you to grasp income alternatives from a technical perspective; strategic steerage does the identical from a enterprise perspective, so you need to use them collectively to supply a holistic image of your IAP income drivers.
- Android vitals is your vacation spot to observe and enhance your sport’s stability on Google Play. For these of you who’ve video games with international presence, we’ve simply launched nation breakdowns and filters for Vitals metrics, so it’s simpler so that you can prioritize and troubleshoot stability points. As well as, at the moment we’re launching the Developer Reporting API which provides you programmatic entry to your core Android vitals metrics and challenge knowledge, together with crash and ANR charges, clusters, and stack traces.
Study extra about the whole lot we shared on the Google for Video games Developer Summit and by visiting g.co/android/video games for added assets and documentation. We stay dedicated to supporting the developer ecosystem and vastly admire your continued suggestions and funding in creating prime quality sport experiences for gamers all over the world.
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