In digging into the MyGlass Androd companion app for Google Glass, the fellas over at Android Police may have inadvertantly uncovered future plans Google has for standardizing, to some degree, multiplayer gaming over Anrdoid devices.
"When Google ships an app update, they grab all the necessary parts of GMS [Google Mobile Services] that their app needs, package it with the app, and ship it out the door. The important takeaway here is that GMS is a shared group of components provided by Google. You're supposed to pick the parts you need from a big pool and leave the rest behind."
The key here is it seems the Google Glass team seems to have accidentally included every component in GMS, both an uncommon move and revealing. A "games" folder popped-up, which the Android Police have never seen before.
Inside that folder are specific application add-ons that may standardize many multiplayer gaming features across Android games.
Real-time multiplayer and turn-based multiplayer have their own sections in the folder, indicating Google is going to "start handling all that scary net code and matchmaking stuff on their servers. That would be a dream come true for developers," writes the Android police.
Also in the "games" folder are in-game chat, achievements, leaderboards, invitations and lobbies.
It looks like Google may be trying to compete the iOS-wide service Game Center, though it's unclear if these new features will find their own application or simply be integrated into the background of new games. No interface elements were included in the "games" folder.
