Apple MC989LL/A, MC769LL/A manual Purchasing and Downloading Games, Playing Games, Game Center

Games

Purchasing and Downloading Games

Games for the Game Center are available from the App Store. If you haven’t entered credit card information for your Apple ID, you’ll be prompted to enter that information before you can purchase and download games.

Purchase and download games: Tap Games, then tap Find Game Center Games.

The Game Center section of App Store displays games that work with Game Center. You can browse this section, and purchase and download games from it. See Chapter 18, “App Store,” on page 119.

If you want to purchase a game that a friend has, tap the game on your friend’s info screen to go directly to that game in the App Store.

Playing Games

The Games screen displays the games you download from the App Store. For each of the games, your number of achievements and your ranking among all the game’s players are displayed.

Get information about a game: Tap Games, then tap a game. If available, you can display the game’s leaderboards, see your achievements for the game, and find out who’s recently played the game.

Play a game: Tap Games, choose a game, then tap Play.

Depending on the game, the home screen may provide instructions or other information, and let you view leaderboards and achievements, set game options, and start a single or multiplayer game. To play against others, you can either invite a friend or use auto-match to have Game Center find other players for you. For information about making friends in Game Center, see “Friends” on page 134.

For multiplayer games, you can also send a game invitation from the Friends screen.

Invite a friend to a multiplayer game from the Friends screen:

1Tap Friends at the bottom of the screen.

2Choose a friend.

3Choose a game and tap Play.

If the game allows or requires additional players, you can choose players to invite, then tap Next.

4Enter and send your invitation, then wait for the others to accept.

5Start the game.

If a friend isn’t available or doesn’t respond to your invitation, you can tap Auto-Match to have Game Center find another player for you, or tap Invite Friend to try inviting some other friend.

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