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Azure PlayFab
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Azure PlayFab documentation
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Getting Started: Developers
Everything you need to know to get started with PlayFab as a developer. We have everything from step by step guides to copy and paste code to get you well on your way.
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Getting Started: LiveOps
Everything you need to know about doing LiveOps on the PlayFab Platform. We have everything you need to manage and optimize player engagement and monetization.
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Getting Started: Business Intelligence
Everything you need to know about your game’s analytics in PlayFab. Here you can get started with PlayFab Analytics and gain intelligent insight into your game and players.
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Concept: Game Manager
Learn about the different areas of Game Manager. Here you can find comprehensive guides about our features in Game Manager and explore how to configure and run your game as a service.
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Concept: Entity Programming Model
The new Entity Programming model provides your game access to the breadth of PlayFab features in a consistent way across your game's title configuration, player data, groups and more. Learn about the new entity programming model and how to utilize them in your game.
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Concept: PlayStream
PlayStream is the underlying event architecture that drives PlayFab and enables you to provide LiveOps in your game. Learn how PlayStream can help with retention, engagement, and monetization.
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Concept: CloudScript
CloudScript is one of PlayFab's most powerful features. Learn all about running servers in the Cloud and building robust systems with PlayFab CloudScript.
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Resource: Recipes and samples
PlayFab can be used in many ways. Everything from simple retention mechanics like Daily Prize wheels to complex commerce. Here you will find a list of available sample code for using features in PlayFab.
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Resource: Technical Whitepaper
A comprehensive white paper that provides an overview of all PlayFab features, the technology used to build and operate PlayFab, and the processes followed to create, deploy, monitor, and maintain the entire platform.
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Quickstarts
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PlayFab Quickstarts
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Authentication
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Authentication
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PlayFab Authentication Features
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Player Login
Authenticate your players using a breadth of providers. Start with friction-free authentication based on the device and allow your players to link their favorite accounts to enable roaming and recovery.
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Azure Active Directory Authentication for PlayFab Game Manager
Use AAD to create PlayFab accounts and users.
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Data
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PlayFab Data Features
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Players, Characters, and Group Data
Store settings, game save state, or other data for your players, characters, and groups.
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Content Delivery Network
Infrastructure to deliver assets (images, audio, binary content, etc.) to your customers.
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Configuration
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PlayFab Config Features
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Game Manager
The PlayFab developer portal and primary interface for inviting or managing teammates' access to your studios and titles.
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Automation
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PlayFab Automation Features
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CloudScript
Serverless functions that scale with demand and enable you to extend PlayFab however you want.
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Actions and Rules
Automatically react to your PlayStream Events in real time.
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Scheduled Tasks
Scheduled tasks are a way to automate common game operation routines.
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Social
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PlayFab Social Features
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Friends
Allow players to interact with their friends in your game. Manage your own friend list or utilize popular social networks to allow your players to quickly find their friends.
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Groups, Guilds, and Clans
Allow your players to join groups that will allow them to interact together. Utilize for building guilds or clans into your game.
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Tournaments and Leaderboards
Use leaderboards to drive social engagement in your game. Run live ops tournaments to reward players and get them to continue engagement.
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Trading
Trading is a set of preview APIs that allow you to facilitate the trading of Virtual Items between players.
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Commerce
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PlayFab Commerce Features
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Items
Items and inventories are common mechanisms to add customization and depth to your game. PlayFab gives you top-notch support to define and track items for your game and support a cloud based inventory for your players.
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Stores
Stores serve a subset of Catalog Items; these items can be offered at alternative prices when compared to those set on the corresponding Catalog and are the best way to manage virtual purchases in your game. You can use the Game Manager or APIs to change the order of items, adjust prices, and leverage PlayFab Segments to give special prices to certain players, run special sales events, or handle customized in-game vendors.
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Economy
Make your game economy work. PlayFab helps you build out your economy by providing a suite of tools including virtual currencies, inventory, rich actionable data, and a catalog that supports segmentation, sales, coupons, bundles and more.
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Multiplayer
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PlayFab Multiplayer Features
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Analytics
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PlayFab Analytics Features
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Metrics
Evaluate your game’s performance through the lens of the top metrics used across the industry, pre-calculated for you daily. Compare your performance against benchmarks for other titles in your genre.
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Reports
Review summaries of your game’s daily and monthly performance through auto-generated reports that can be viewed in Game Manager and downloaded or delivered to your inbox daily.
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A/B Testing
A/B testing is a technique for running experiments to determine the optimal setting for a particular variable.
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Segmentation
Player segmentation allows you to define automated groupings of players. Perform actions when segment membership changes for a player or for all the players in a segment.
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Insights
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PlayFab Insights Features
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Explorer
Discover insights in your data from Game Manager using the Explorer feature. Whether you're an expert or brand new to authoring queries, Explorer is for you.
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Schemas
Familiarize yourself with the data and data products available out-of-the-box in Insights for use in your analysis.
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Engagement
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PlayFab Engagement Features
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Push Notifications
Push notifications give developers a channel to send immediate, customized messages to their players' home screens. Using PlayFab's push feature, developers may send unlimited push notifications to any number of devices completely free of charge.
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Emails
Email messaging allows you to send customized emails to players on a prearranged schedule, PlayStream event rule, or by calling an API. Emails are fully customizable, with HTML templates which can include player profile properties.
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News
Title News is a mechanism for broadcasting news updates to your player base. It can be used to inform users of upcoming events, share release notes for a recent update, or disseminate any other information you want your players to have.
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SDKs
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PlayFab SDKs, tools, and extensions
SDKs are available for most popular engines and platforms.
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Core SDKs
Core SDKs let you perform the core player, admin, and server functions for your PlayFab titles.
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Android Studio Project (Java)
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Phaser.io (Javascript)
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Multiplayer
Multiplayer SDKs allow you to manage your PlayFab multiplayer services.
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Tools and extensions
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Azure PlayFab
