[DEPRECATING] Building games on smart displays - Episode 18

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Welcome to season 5 of Assistant on Air. We’re all at home, but we’ve got a lot of great content coming your way! This season, we’re chatting with designers and developers who collaborated with the Google Assistant team on a couple of new games for smart displays.

Meet co-hosts Mary Chen (Google Assistant Strategy Lead) and Leon Nicholls (Google Assistant Developer Relations Engineer), who together launched a project to create several games for smart displays. In this episode, they’ll chat about the makings of this initiative and why games are a great use case for smart displays.

Try out the games! Just say, “Hey Google, play Mime Jam” or “Hey Google, play Cookie Detective” on your Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max.

Other episodes of Assistant on Air → https://goo.gle/2X0nBqG Please subscribe for more updates → https://goo.gle/googledevs

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[DEPRECATING] Building games on smart displays - Episode 18

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published 4 years ago

MP3•Episode home

*** Conversational Actions will be deprecated on June 13, 2023. ***

*** For more information go to https://goo.gle/ca-sunset ***

Try out the games! Just say, “Hey Google, play Mime Jam” or “Hey Google, play Cookie Detective” on your Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max.

Other episodes of Assistant on Air → https://goo.gle/2X0nBqG Please subscribe for more updates → https://goo.gle/googledevs

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[DEPRECATING] Game personas and visuals - Episode 22 8:35

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