I just published in app to the Play Store that uses the Google Play Services API. I setup a leaderboard in my developer console, and can successfully publish scores and display the leaderboard in game (along with everyone else's score in my circles, and the public "all-social" leaderboard).
However, when I open the Google Play Games app (or even in my developer console), there doesn't appear to be a way view my leaderboard. Is there a way to view the leaderboard outside of my app? Even if it is through the developer console.
Thanks!
Andrew
The leaderboard can only be viewed in-app, you can only see how many people improved their scores in console and other stadistics.
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in my game i want to implement Google Sign in button, but i don't want to use any of GPG services. I just need an account information from google user. Any tips how to do this? I've found a lot of articles about using Google Play Game services in Unity app, but nothing about it.
I want to use Google Play Game Services to implement multiplayer in my game. The game will be deployed on Android and iOS.
Is it neccesary for iOS user to have an Google account in order to use GPGS ?
For the users using your game, They must sign in with a Google account to use multiplayer so that Google could generate an ID of the user to store in the db for achievement or for game search.
And if they do like to play with a friend, the friend must be in their circles.
yes, I believe that the user needs to have a Google account. When you go to the Developer Console to register the game (https://play.google.com/apps/publish/signup/), you get prompted for signin via Google.
I wonder if it is possible to sign in multiple player at the same time or store the login-info somehow for Google play games services. I developed a scorepad app and would love to sync games from different devices with the PlayGames-Accounts of the players. They are all present and play with one device. So it would be useful if different players can stay logged in on this device. Is this possible? Actually they dont have to be logged in at the same time, but it would be nice if they would only have to enter their login-data once on each device.
What do you think?
Thank you for your thoughts
Frank J.
It's possible to sign in and out of an account associated with Google Play Games on an Android device. The separate accounts will have private leaderboard scores, achievements, cloud saves, and so on.
I'm currently integrating an app (a game) with Google Play Games Services. I'm wondering why it is necessary to have a separate title and description for the app there as well as the main app listing form?
Where is this data displayed?
Yes it is necessary to have this information.
The data is displayed in another application from google called "Google Play Games". You can download "Google Play Games" from the regular Google Play Store.
I've done some tests while integrating the new Google Play Games with fake scores, now I need to reset the leaderboards before publishing my game!
I found this REST API:
https://developers.google.com/games/services/management/api/?hl=en#Scores
But this seems to be related only to web games, not Android games:
"Use the Google Play game services REST API to set and retrieve game services data from your web game"
Thanks!
I ended up switching all my leaderboards in the Developer Console to use "lowest scores are best" instead of the previous "highest scores are best" and this seems to have reset the old scores that were saved. It's a bit of a hack but very useful. You could probably switch back again and everything would still be cleared.
Updating the answer as it is now possible to reset the leaderboard during development.
You can only reset player progress data for your draft leaderboards.
To reset leaderboards in the Google Play Developer Console, click the
button labeled Reset leaderboard progress at the bottom of the form
for that event. To reset leaderboard data programmatically, call the
Management API Scores methods.
Reference: https://developers.google.com/games/services/common/concepts/leaderboards#resetting_a_leaderboard
Reset Test Achievements and Leaderboard Scores
As of Sep 9 2013 (From the Public issue tracker for the Play Games platform):
Issue 9: reset leader board / achievement data.
If you are still in test phase, you can reset your Achievements by deleting your account from the Test list in your developer console and adding it again.