Case Study: Pocket Gems boosts player engagement with PubNub

Pocket Gems scales War Dragons to hundreds of concurrent players with PubNub

Pocket Gems, a mobile game developer, faced a challenge scaling the in-game chat for their multiplayer strategy title War Dragons. Their in-house solution could not handle the real-time communication required during large battles, which was a breaking point for player engagement and community building. To address this, they turned to PubNub's real-time data network for a robust chat and push notification service.

By implementing PubNub, Pocket Gems instantly enabled scalable, real-time chat for private, group, and global battle conversations. The PubNub solution also facilitated real-time in-game updates, keeping players immersed with live notifications. This created a greater sense of community, which significantly increased player retention and engagement, with some players from 2014 still active today. PubNub also provided the scalable infrastructure to support worldwide events with hundreds of concurrent users and offered operational visibility through Datadog dashboards to ensure reliability.

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