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How to Create Game Alerts

Read our complete guide to build game alerts. Read this and our other information when building game alerts and push notifications.
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How-to Upgrade your Message-Level Encryption to 256-bit Key Strength

At PubNub, we are committed to providing customers with the highest level of security for their data, this how-to will explain how to upgrade to the new 256-bit encryption method introduced to our SDKs starting in October 2023.
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How to Add a Friend List to Your Unity Game

Learn how to add a friend list to your Unity Game with PubNub. Understand how to construct friend groups, listen for online status changes and messages from friends, and how to add/remove friends.
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How to Add a Scoreboard and Leaderboard to Your Unity Game

Learn how to add a scoreboard and leaderboard to your Unity Game with PubNub. Walkthrough how to update player scores during a match and display a global ranking leaderboard, all in real time.
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How to Add Moderation and Translation to Your Unity Game

Learn how to add Moderation and Language Translation to your Unity Game with PubNub. Moderating your chat is an essential feature in protecting your players from harmful behaviors and translating messages allows for more players to access your game.
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How to Add Presence to Your Unity Game

Learn how to add Presence to your Unity Game to track the online and custom status of players. You'll learn about the different Presence Events, as well as implementing custom state to manage the exact location and activity of players in your game.
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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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How to Summarize Missed Chat Messages with ChatGPT

This how-to focuses on an innovative method to optimize user interaction within your chat applications, employing OpenAI's sophisticated language model, ChatGPT, to summarize chat messages.
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Test Cases for Chat Application

As software becomes more easily accessible than ever before, you need to ensure your chat application can successfully handle and support typical user behavior, as well as unintentional, odd, or even malicious behavior that can cause issues for your app.