In today’s episode, Leon Nicholls (Developer Relations Engineer for Google Assistant) is joined by John Hsu (Product Manager for Google Assistant). With 10+ years in the games industry, John shares 3 unique opportunities of building games for smart displays, what game genres port well to this new platform, and how to engage new players with this common-area device. Assistant on Air - Games season → https://goo.gle/2HqiYiH​ Subscribe to Google Developers → https://goo.gle/developers

In today’s episode, Leon Nicholls (Developer Relations Engineer for the Google Assistant) is joined by Andrezza Valentin (Creative Director at MediaMonks) who led the creative elements behind the game Cookie Detective. Hear how persona, onboarding, and helpful tap elements were created to help younger audiences enjoy this smart display game. Other episodes of Assistant on Air → https://goo.gle/2X0nBqG​ Please subscribe for more updates → https://goo.gle/googledevs

In today’s episode, Mary Chen (Strategy Lead for Google Assistant) chats with Eric Heaton (Technical Director at B-Reel), who led the development of the charades party game Mime Jam. Learn about the concepting, design, and development of this smart display game built with Continuous Match Mode. Other episodes of Assistant on Air → https://goo.gle/2X0nBqG​ Please subscribe for more updates → https://goo.gle/googledevs

In today’s episode, Leon Nicholls (Developer Relations Engineer for Google Assistant) chats with Richard Heuser (Technical Director at MediaMonks), who led the development of Cookie Detective and Junior Chef. Hear Richard describe the technical considerations of building kid-friendly games, handling intents and errors, and being an early user of Actions Builder, Actions SDK, and Home storage. Please subscribe for more updates → https://goo.gle/googledevs

Welcome to season 5 of Assistant on Air. This season is all about game development and we’re having conversations -- at home -- with designers and developers who recently built some fun and creative Assistant games for smart displays. In this episode, Mary Chen (Strategy Lead for Google Assistant) meets with Melissa Ames (UX designer at B-Reel), who plotted the design of the game Gnome Garden. Hear how the user experience, persona, and rich visuals were developed for this ambient-style game.

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 and Leon Nicholls, 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...

Meet Ismael Chaile, a GDE for the Google Assistant. Ismael is the Founder and CEO for Aineth, a startup working with the Google Assistant and creating actions for the community. In this episode, Ismael will give us his tips for building and developing actions for the community.

Meet Eliza Camberogiannis, a GDE for the Google Assistant. Eliza is a passionate Android developer who just recently joined the Google Developer Experts team. In this episode, we’ll learn how to extend your Android app to the Google Assistant. 

Meet Martin Krcek, a GDE for the Google Assistant. Martin discusses voice for the Google Assistant, organizing a hackathon in his hometown of the Czech Republic, ultimately leading to the Global Voice Hackathon by collaborating with Google Developer Experts around the world.

Meet Denis Valášek, a Google Developer Expert. Dennis discusses his journey and how Google Developer Groups and Google Developer Expert communities supported him during this episode with our host, Google Developer Advocate Jessica Dene Early-Cha.

Meet Adi Mazor Kario, a Google Developer Expert. Adi discusses her strategy with clients, the four stages of design methodology, and more during this episode with our host, Google Developer Advocate Daniel Myers.

Meet Sachin Kumar, a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Google Assistant. Sachin hosts workshops for beginners, and expands beyond beginner level to teaching how to build meaningful Actions with Machine Learning APIs. He is also touches on building for Interactive Canvas.

Meet Allen Firstenberg, a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for the Google Assistant. He shares his experience helping other developers understand the technology and how to develop it into their applications. Hear Allen discuss his work with both Google Assistant and Glass.

Meet Steven Gray, a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Google Assistant as he shares his experiences and learnings from building an Action he built for his students called Scavenger Hunt.

Meet Yüksel Tolun, a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Google Assistant. Yüksel is a big part of the developer community in Turkey, and teaches developers best practices for how to translate their Actions.

Meet Amanda Cavallaro, a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for the Google Assistant. Amanda shares her experience building two different Actions; one all about karaoke and another all about Aikido and the Japanese culture. Her goal is to bring her expertise and passion to others!

Meet Joe Birch, a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for the Google Assistant. He shares his experience building Chord Assist, an Action which makes playing guitar more accessible for everyone.