Posted by Arjun Dayal, Director, Google Play Video games
Reaching a motivated viewers to play on PC
Summoners Struggle: Chronicles is a cellular MMORPG from South Korean sport developer Com2uS, launched globally in March 2023. Up to now, Summoners Struggle has earned over $2.7 billion with greater than 180 million downloads worldwide. Set in a fantasy world the place gamers should accumulate and practice varied monsters to battle in opposition to different gamers, Summoners Struggle is likely one of the hottest cellular video games on the earth.
Practically a decade later, the sport continues to develop its giant and lively group of gamers, partly as a result of Com2uS continues to launch new content material and updates to maintain the sport contemporary and thrilling. As a part of Com2uS’s effort to supply their gamers the easiest way to benefit from the video games wherever they need to play, they determined to increase their sport to PC. They selected to increase to Google Play Video games on PC to succeed in new customers and provide the high-end immersive gaming expertise to an already motivated viewers able to play cellular video games on PC.
Seamless sync throughout signed-in gadgets for Summoners Struggle: Chronicles Topic to sport availability and PC compatibility |
Optimizing for PC with the identical Android construct
Google Play Video games on PC provided a fast and clean integration course of from cellular to PC utilizing the identical Android construct. With many developer instruments at hand, solely few optimization steps have been required to create a differentiated PC gaming expertise. You may watch our Google Play Video games on PC playlist to see extra particulars on the mixing course of.
The Com2uS group added enter help which is a necessary characteristic to allow gamers to benefit from the sport on giant screens together with tablets and foldables. Summoners Struggle: Chronicles at the moment helps keyboard, mouse, and sport controller, which has been one of many high requests from customers. Additionally, it was essential to optimize the consumer expertise with cross-platform means in thoughts. For instance, the sport’s interface wanted to be simply navigable and intuitive for gamers on all platforms, and the UI needed to be adjusted for various measurement screens and permit clear rationalization of the sport controls.
To optimize the graphics settings for every platform, Com2uS selected Vulkan as their main graphics API for its excessive efficiency and multi-platform means. Even on high-end cellular gadgets, some gamers most popular versatile high quality settings to keep away from overheating and to protect battery life. Vulkan allowed Com2uS to offer the absolute best graphics high quality for his or her key consumer demographic on each PC and cellular gadgets.
Utilizing the Google Play Video games on PC Emulator, Com2uS might take a look at and debug the construct in varied participant configurations, equivalent to the consumer surroundings. The emulator helps streamlined testing throughout a number of side ratios, straight accessible from the Play retailer and permits ADB entry for growing and debugging. Having developed the sport with Unity, they have been in a position to routinely detect the emulator and straight deploy the sport. Google Play Video games on PC Emulator is coming quickly for all builders, with help for the preferred sport engines together with Unity, Unreal, Cocos and extra.
Offering the very best consumer expertise with simultaneous launch
In November 2022, Com2uS concurrently launched Summoners Struggle: Chronicles on each PC and cellular. Gamers can now benefit from the sport on cellular or PC through Google Play Video games. The discharge of the sport on PC presents gamers a brand new degree of gaming expertise, permitting them to take pleasure in Summoners Struggle on a bigger display screen and with extra superior {hardware}.
With Play Video games Providers, gamers can sync their progress routinely every time they launch the sport on a brand new gadget and might proceed to gather rewards and Play Factors regardless of the place they select to play.
Get began with Google Play Video games on PC
Beginning as we speak, we’re excited to announce that Google Play Video games beta is opening up sign-ups for all gamers in Japan! Allow your gamers to expertise immersive and seamless multi-platform gameplay with Google Play Video games on PC. To hitch, specific curiosity in our beta program as we speak.
Google Play Video games on PC is accessible to obtain in 14 nations as of April 19, 2023.