I am having the same problem as piggarulo.
I have changed the code around a lot and messed with it initializing at the beginning of the game, and when the button is clicked.
I think i have tried every possible way to get Google play games to initialize, and it still doesnt work.
I have talked to 2 other people who have the same problem and they have messed with the code to.
I have no clue about this. Is it a new update to the blocks that require something else? I mean, i have enabled it with the id in the settings, put the blocks there, and set it up in the google play dev console and published.
Could this be a bug?
If anybody gets it to work, could they let me know how they got it to work, and if not maybe this could be a bug?
Thanks so much.
Jason
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