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: <a href= "https://twitter.com/romainguy">@romaing</a>uy, <a href= "https://www.threads.net/@romainguy">threads.net/@romainguy</a>, <a href= "https://androiddev.social/@romainguy">romainguy@androiddev.social</a> Tor: <a href= "https://www.threads.net/@tor.norbye">threads.net/@tor.norbye</a> and <a href= "https://androiddev.social/@tornorbye">tornorbye@androiddev.social</a> Chet: <a href= "https://twitter.com/chethaase">@chethaa</a>se, <a href= "https://www.threads.net/@chet.haase">threads.net/@chet.haase</a>, and <a href= "https://androiddev.social/@chethaase">chethaase@androiddev.social</a> Aurash: <a href= "https://twitter.com/aurash">https://twitter.com/aurash</a> - @aurash Catch videos on YouTube → <a href= "https://goo.gle/adb-podcast">https://goo.gle/adb-podcast</a>

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