You can use PICO platform services to diversify app experience and enhance app engagement.

Accounts & Friends

Account & Friends service allows you to access the info of a specified account, get the friends list of the currently logged-in users, enable users to send friend requests, and more. You can use Accounts & Friends service to provide users with a basic social interaction experience.

RTC

Real-time communications (RTC) service enables users in the same room to communicate with each other through voice chat. You can enable RTC service for your app on the PICO Developer Platform.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer service enables player-to-player networking, matchmaking, room management, and inter-player messaging. Its major features are room management, matchmaking, and messaging.

You can enable Matchmaking service, create matchmaking pools, and configure matchmaking pool details for your app on the PICO Developer Platform. Users matched to the same room can play games together and chat with each other.

Interaction

Interaction is an important part of app experience. The PICO Unity Integration SDK provides Interaction service which enables users to have social and sharing experiences in your apps, such as inviting friends or joining friends to play a game together, thereby bringing your apps with more users and improving app engagement.

Leaderboard

Leaderboard is one of the basic and important features of an app. By displaying users' rankings in a multi-dimensional approach, leaderboards can give rise to a competitive atmosphere among users in specific scenarios such as gaming, drive users to improve their skills, and therefore increase app engagement.

Achievements

The Achievements service can help build a "positive feedback mechanism" in your games. You can create prizes such as trophies and badges and distribute them to players when they hit a goal, like completing the beginner tutorial or reaching level x.

Challenges

Challenges create fun-to-join competitions among users, which can therefore provide users with more opportunities to interact with others. Both you and your app's users are able to create challenges, configure challenge settings (including name, visibility, start time, and end time), and invite friends to join challenges to have fun together. Users can also join the challenges created by PICO.

In-app purchase (IAP)

You can diversify user experience and grow your revenue by selling products such as cosmetics, props, and coins/diamonds within your app. The PICO Unity Integration SDK provides In-App Purchase (IAP) service which enables users to purchase products within your app. The IAP service packages a series of payments systems such as Alipay, bank card, and Paypal, thereby providing you with a one-stop multi-payment-method solution.

Downloadable content (DLC)

Downloadable content (DLC) represents the contents/files such as expansion packs that users can purchase and download, which can help grow your revenue. Besides, DLC enables you to update your app in a more flexible and lightweight way. Once you want to update the content for a published app, you only need to upload new resources such as levels and cosmetics as DLCs on the PICO Developer Platform, but do not need to upload a new build.

Exercise data authorization

Exercise Data Authorization provides multiple APIs for you to access users' exercise data from the built-in PICO app — PICO Fitness. You can collect data to understand the exercise habits of individuals, thereby providing users with a better exercise experience.

Cloud storage

Cloud storage is used to back up users' app data, such as identities, custom settings, preference settings, and game progress, on specific devices.