Initiating real-time games in video communications

One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that when executed, configures a client system to:

• present a communication interface comprising a plurality of layers, wherein a first layer of the communication interface comprises a video communication of the second user, and wherein a second layer of the communication interface comprises a thumbnail view of a video communication of the first user;
• receive a request from the second user to initiate a first game;
• receive a user input indicative an acceptance of the request to initiate the first game;
• generate a game container containing the first game in a third layer of the communication interface;
• reduce the first layer to a thumbnail within the communication interface;
• and
• overlay the first layer onto the third layer, wherein the second layer is closed responsive to the overlaying of the first layer onto the third layer.

A client system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions that, when executed by the processors, configures the client system to:
• present a communication interface comprising a plurality of layers, wherein a first layer of the communication interface comprises a video communication of the second user, and wherein a second layer of the communication interface comprises a thumbnail view of a video communication of the first user;
• receive a request from the second user to initiate a first game;
• receive a user input indicative an acceptance of the request to initiate the first game;
• generate a game container containing the first game in a third layer of the communication interface;
• reduce the first layer to a thumbnail within the communication interface;
• and
• overlay the first layer onto the third layer, wherein the second layer is closed responsive to the overlaying of the first layer onto the third layer.