In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Aurash Mahbod from the Play Games team at Google -- covering trends in mobile games, challenges for Android games developers, console games, and more!

Chapters:

Intro (00:00 )

What’s Aurash working on currently? (02:40 )

How much is Play store providing users with content based on previous interests? (05:29 )

Longstanding games vs new games (08:34 )

Mobile gaming vs console (10:07 )

Are there stats on what type of games people are playing? (18:07 )

Difficulties and solutions for transitioning games from various devices (21:14 )

Movie corner - War Games (25:15 )

How does Play console help devs optimize engagement? (26:23 )

What is the breakdown of tools that devs actually use for games? (27:53 )

Reducing the backend costs for devs (30:18 )

Where does loyalty content surface? (34:28 )

Balancing add load (35:16 )

Cloud saves (38:18 )

Aurash’s history with Play store (42:18 )

Wrap up (42:58 )

Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social

Aurash: https://twitter.com/aurash - @aurash

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