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How to Add Real-time Chat to Your Unity Game

Learn how to add real-time chat to your Unity video game with PubNub. Understand how to set up different channel patterns, send/receive messages, and then enhance/secure your in-game chat with advanced features.
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Understand your PubNub data better - and fast - using Analyse with AI

PubNub Insights is a valuable tool for understanding your data, but analyzing the data and deciding what actions to take can be harder - which is where the new "Analyze with AI" feature can help
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How to make the most of PubNub’s Dashboards

This How-to guide will explain the different dashboards PubNub offers, what metrics they contain, when you would use them, and where you can find them.
Gaming

How to Develop a Scoring System for a Game

Read our complete guide on developing a scoring system for a game. In this guide, you’ll learn to build a scoring system to make your game interactive and social.
Virtual Events

How to Build Chat for Virtual Events

Virtual events need chat to keep users engaged, but it's often a challenge to build a chat solution that works at scale and can handle the network load surges that occur during popular events. As a developer, you need to select a robust backend API provider capable of transmitting and receiving the high volume of messages that your viewers and participants generate.
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How to Build Interactive 2d Chat Games

In this guide, we describe why you’d want to build a 2d game, types of 2d games, and tips for making your 2d games interactive, social, and engaging.
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Enabling Persistence

Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.
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Creating Keys

Follow this how-to on creating keys in the Admin Portal to connect your application to the PubNub network.
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Enabling Files

Follow this how-to on enabling Files in the Admin Portal to upload and share files.