Facebook Messenger has its first game – CNET in Spanish

The game Doodle Draw supports Facebook messaging platform, which has gradually added more and more features. Messenger reached 1,000 million downloads on Android this week.

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Do not expect a game of strategy or FPS ( first person shooter) in Facebook Messenger.

In fact, the games that come to the Facebook messaging platform will be very simple. That is the case with Doodle Draw, the first game available on Facebook Messenger for Android and iOS. The game is simple: you create drawings in the app, share them with your friends and they have to guess what your capable hands created

Facebook told the tech site TechCrunch . they are allowing developers to make any kind of app that can work within Facebook Messenger, and see which ones are well accepted, and which are not. The social network also said that for now, applications that are running are to create content.

The platform Messenger Platform, the technology that enables third party applications to run in-app messaging, was announced by Facebook at its F8 developer event. The idea of ​​the initiative is that users do more activities within the application and not have to get out.

The application, which already has 500 million users and 1,000 million downloads on Android, allows users in a few countries to transfer money to friends just by typing the amount of the transfer in the message field and press the submit button.

Facebook Messenger was launched in 2011 as an additional app that offered network social then. The app Messenger has evolved tremendously in this period and now allows VoIP calls, share your location and to send stickers .

Competitors like the app Line provide long support to work with third-party apps. The Japanese messaging app has diversified its application and service users can download games created by the company itself, send money and use stickers. Very soon also they have access to a music service by streaming.