Snapchat Launches Gaming Platform With Snap Games

Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, has officially released its gaming platform Snap Games.

When Snachat was first released, the goal was to get people to experience more fun by being able to talk with friends faster. For Team Snap however, talking is only just the beginning. Friendship is also about doing and experiencing things together. Thus, the team has "been working hard to build an entirely new experience for friends to play together."

The result of these efforts is Snap Games, a platform that allows users to play multiplayer games in real-time while still being able to talk and text with friends.

This new platform initially offers six games:

- In Bitmoji Party, you can play as yourself in a series of quick, wacky mini-games.

- In Tiny Royale from Zynga, you and your friends shoot to the top in bite-sized Battle Royale action.

- In Snake Squad from Game Closure, you and your squad work together to be the last ones standing!

- In C.A.T.S. Drift Race from ZeptoLab, you’ll drift around the track and speed past friends for the win!

- In Zombie Rescue Squad from PikPok, your squad will rescue survivors in a zombie-infested city.

- In Alphabear Hustle from Spry Fox, you’ll collaborate to form words — fast! — to build your village.

The company also released its new slate of Snap Originals programming.

The shows are:

- In Two Sides from New Form, a young couple navigates a breakup — told from both characters’ points of view at the same time.

- Can’t Talk Now from New Form is a teen soap that takes place inside the phones of a few high school freshman BFFs.

- In Sneakerheads from Indigo, we’ll follow the misadventures of three college freshmen as they navigate the crazy, shady, and mercurial world of Los Angeles sneaker culture.

- In Commanders from Dakota Pictures, two high school outcasts discover a retro computer with a mysterious code that can alter real life.

- Denton’s Death Date from Insurrection Media centers on Denton Little: a high school junior whose death date is only a week away.

- While Black from Indigo is a docuseries that explores racially charged social issues through disarmingly candid conversations led by author, filmmaker, recording artist, and educator MK Asante.

- BuzzFeed’s upcoming daily afternoon show will bring viewers the latest celebrity, entertainment, and sheer OMG moments blowing up the internet.

- In Dead of Night from Bazelevs, a teenage girl must escape a quarantined city full of zombies armed with only her phone.

- Compton Dreams from October Films is a docuseries following the highs and lows of three up-and-coming artists from Compton.

- In Stranded with Sam and Colby from Bunim/Murray, two paranormal investigators go off the grid into a cursed Pennsylvania town.