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It was back in May during Google’s Nexus 7 (2013)/Chromecast event that the internet giant took the wraps off Android 4.3 and Google Play Games. A new set of APIs for developers, Google Play Games allowed game makers to incorporate new features like multiplayer matchups, leaderboards, trophies and achievements, and best of all: the backing up of game saves to the cloud.
The single most convenient feature of Google Play Games, we were hyped at the idea of taking our game progress with us as we moved from our smartphones to our tablets, the only problem is months down the road, we’ve yet to see game developers take advantage game save backups.
Today, developer Defiant Development has updated Ski Safari — an old Phandroid favorite — adding Google Play Games integration, most notably cloud backups. Simply sign in with your Google+ account, and your game progress will be synced online, allowing you to pick up where you left off on your tablet, or future Android device. Pure. Freakin’. Genius.
Download: Ski Safari on Google Play
We couldn’t be more excited about this feature and are excited to finally see more Android developers implementing cloud game saves into their games. Noticed any other games now using this feature? Shout ’em out in the comments, we’d love to invest our time and money into them.
argh this would have been awesome like a year ago when i got every achievement… oh well time to start over :)
They finally updated this game. Took em long enough
Riptide GP2 has the cloud save via Google, which is nice. Any consensus as why other games have not adopted such a great “cloud save” method?
Laziness? No clue but it really frosts my weenie. Especially when it’s 40+ hour long games like Final Fantasy :/
No doubt, I was stunned when Dead Trigger 2 came out not utilizing Google Play Games cloud save. Here’s to hoping developers see how clean the Google cloud save method works within the actual game.
The vast majority of games will probably never support cloud saves across devices, or even the old google backup service, so I’ll continue to rely on being rooted + TitaniumBackup for a long time to come.
This is good to know. Beach Buggy Blitz and PBA Bowling (or whatever it’s called) both have cloud save games. More games need them.
Clash of Clans
We just added GPGS cloud saves, achievements and leaderboards to 2DMX Motocross. Was a pretty easy implementation.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acr21.mx.android.beta
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Plants vs. Zombies 2 and Asphalt 8 use them (but Asphalt 8’s is painful and buggy).
Glad to finally see an update to Ski Safari, however I opened up the new version to check out the new slope only to find it locked and my whole game data reset. All those coins…all those high scores…it’s a tragedy. :P