Lesson 12. Game Center for Playing with Friends

Goals

Set up your Game Center account

Manage your Game Center profile

Find and buy games

Find friends to compete with

See your friends’ scores

You’re getting used to using your Mac to make you incredibly productive. Calendar, Contacts, Preview, and TextEdit save you lots of time. They might save you too much time. Perhaps you now have a bit of free time, and you’re not sure what to do with it. Or maybe you’re ready to have a little fun.

Lucky for you, there’s Game Center. Game Center is an app that manages your collection of Mac games, keeping track of them and giving you an easy way to boast about your prowess to others. But it’s much more than that. Use Game Center to connect with friends, and ...

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