How will you rate last update?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – 1K
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 73%

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – 267
👍 15%

⭐️ – 107
👍 6%

⭐️⭐️⭐️ – 84
▫️ 5%

⭐️⭐️ – 36
▫️ 2%

👥 1818 people voted so far. Poll closed.

BTW this update is not a gamee partnership or something like that, this is bigger.


We cant say more but keep tunned, as you can see a big update is coming to Telegram's Bot Platform.

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Telegram version 3.13

- Introducing a major update to Telegram's Bot Platform: Bots can now offer you rich HTML5 experiences like games.

- For a taste of what's coming your way, check out the @gamee bot that has more than 20 games.

- You can use this bot in inline mode: simply type @gamee in any of your chats to share a game and compete with friends.

- Here are a few examples from Gamee for you to enjoy:
https://telegram.me/gamee?game=FootballStar
https://telegram.me/gamee?game=MrMuscle

- Games are really easy to create, check out what our team built for @gamebot over the weekend:
https://telegram.me/gamebot?game=Corsairs
https://telegram.me/gamebot?game=MathBattle
- All games are loaded as ordinary web pages, so this update won't add a single byte to the size of our apps.
- We've also introduced many small improvements to the sticker panel.

via Telegram Blog

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Telegram Gaming Platform: Info for devs

- Creating a Game
- Launching the Game
- Adding Buttons
- Tracking High Scores

via Telegram

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Telegram API: Games

New methods:

- sendGame
- Game
- Animation
- CallbackGame
- setGameScore
- getGameHighScores
- GameHighScore

via Telegram API

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/newgame added at @BotFather

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Bot API for monetization will be released in the future:

We understand that developers providing HTML5-experiences for Telegram users may expect financial returns on their work. To that end, we will introduce unified monetization tools for our Bot API later.

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Android update is ready via google Play, for those who got 3.13 go try @gamee or @gamesBot

And if you want to play multiplayer, try this group: @inLineGamers

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TDesktop update is coming too

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Introducing the new Gaming Platform. As of today, your bot can offer HTML5 games – anything from simple puzzles and arcades to multiplayer 3D-shooters and real-time strategy games.

Read the blog announcement:
https://telegram.org/blog/games

Check out our introduction to Games:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/games

Also in this update:

- You can now specify an HTTP URL for a file in all methods where InputFile or file_id can be used. Telegram will get the file from the specified URL and send it to the user.
- Added a new method for checking current webhook status.
- Added a detailed guide to webhooks:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/webhooks
- And more.

See the full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#recent-changes

we know games are not meant for channels (you can't share them), but we couldn't resist to use a little hack 😎

let's see who is the best!

What do you think about the new games platform?

Telegram Desktop new features coming:

- Now you can change desktop notifications screen corner and mac count (except macOS) + quick reply from them!

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Today is Durov's birthday (32 years old, happy birthday!) and he posted 10 lessons he learnt from making VK.com, we tried to translate the text:

It has been 10 years. I publish 10 lessons that I received in the process of creating VKontakte:

1. All can be done quickly. The first version of VKontakte was released in 2006. Growth was very fast. Contrary to popular belief, the work is done quickly and accurately either, or long and bad.

2. Everything need to be done quickly. In 2006 there was a few more sites like VKontakte with the same concept. Now they are forgotten because VKontakte grew faster.

3. Growing needs a direction. VKontakte grew from the success of St. Petersburg State University Forum - a site for scholars. Each next step should be based on the foundation of having a successful experience.
Your ideas should evolve in something which fits the best. Something logical and natural like this evolution: small website -> university forum -> Social network.

4. People feel the quality of what you offer. Each nice touch and attention to detail, no matter how insignificant it may seem, brings new loyal users.

5. It's efficient to have multiple roles at the same time (like coder and designer). The first months of existence of VKontakte I created all the code, graphics, language interfaces, marketing. Combining it possible to eliminate the time spent on communication.

6. Trust only your intuition. Whenever I listened to the opinion of "older and reasonable" people, I lost time. If you feel that you need to do - ignore the opinion of the authorities.

7. Quantity doesn't turn into quality. VK team was small, but consisted of talented and motivated people. Such team is more efficient that large team of hired people who work for money.

8. Don't 100% trust anyone. It doesn' matter how much you think someone is trustworthy, and how many years know him.

9. Fear doesn't make sense. During VKontakte there was a lot of problems like DDoS-attacks, criminal, stock war, melting server, media wars, lawsuits, intrigues. Emotions are not productive - do what you need to do.

10. Principles of important benefits. VKontakte defended the interests of users, while its competitors have betrayed them in favor of advertisers, shareholders, officers. Benefit others - the only possible cause of true success.

🌐 via @tglive

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Happy 100000th birthday Pavel! 🎂🎉🎁

🔥 small improvements at latest beta:

- Camera buttons reordered
- Blue button now is transparent

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🔥 small improvements at latest beta:

- Now you can add caption to videos, and even mention people on the caption

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And we got 2 good news:

1⃣ This small improvements are now ready on Play Store, update will come in the next hours.

2⃣ Android code for 3.13.1 version has been released at GitHub. Plus messenger users will love this.

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