Telegram launches bot-powered Gaming Platform, so you can play inside your chats
Obviously, you can play these games solo, but if you find one that you think you're better at, you can definitely challenge your friends from other chats by sharing it with them. According to Telegram, the new Gaming Platform saves high scores for every game played in every chat, so you check out how you and your friends are doing against each other. You can even set Telegram to notify you when there's a new leader in a certain game that you follow.
For those who want to build games for Telegram's new Gaming Platform, it's worth mentioning that it usually take a couple of hours to develop a game using the API made available by Telegram.
Of course, if you want to build a more complex game with advanced graphics, you will need more time, but that's for everyone to decide. The team behind Telegram also confirmed that the games that you can play in chats will work on iPhones 4 and newer, as well as Android 4.4 device or later.
Another requirement for the bot-powered Gaming Platform is for you to run Telegram version 3.13 or higher, if you want to play games in chats.
Things that are NOT allowed: