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Learn how to improve the monetization and balancing for your game in real time with Illuminate, an in-the-moment decision-making and actionability solution based on live analytics tracking of your online game data.

Read our complete guide to build game alerts. Read this and our other information when building game alerts and push notifications.

Access Manager allows you to set rules that grant read & write access to specific channels and user metadata and define permissions for who can read, write, and modify that data. This guide discusses how to implement Access Manager within a PubNub Function.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.