Five Minute Chat is a globally available chat service, primarily aimed at Unity3D developers, designed for quick implementation, taking less than five minutes to set up in your game or application. It offers a robust backend for chat, eliminating the need for developers to build and maintain their own always-on online services for chat functionality.
Five Minute Chat is developed by fiveminutes.io. Their mission is to allow developers to focus on core game development by taking care of the complexities of building, maintaining, and hosting a scalable, high-performance cloud service for chat. A short presentation is available in out about us pages.
Yes, Five Minute Chat is designed to be a serverless solution for adding live chat to your applications. By using Five Minute Chat, you can integrate chat functionality without the need to manage your own servers or infrastructure. This allows you to focus on building your application while we handle the complexities of real-time communication.
Five Minute Chat addresses the significant effort and time typically required to implement and maintain a chat function in games and apps. It removes the burden of developing, hosting, and maintaining a scalable, high-performance cloud service, which is often the only feature in many games requiring an always-on, online backend. This allows developers to quickly integrate chat without worrying about infrastructure.
Five Minute Chat offers a range of features designed to enhance the chat experience in games and applications, including:
- Real-time messaging channels: Channel based communication.
- Real-time private messaging: Private messaging between users
- Moderation tools: Features to manage and moderate chat content
- Support tickets: Users can submit support requests directly through the chat interface
- Customizable UI: Options to tailor the chat interface to match your application's design based on demo assets, as well as rolling your own
- Analytics and reporting: Insights into user engagement, resource utilization, and more
Integrating chat features can significantly enhance player retention by fostering a sense of community and engagement. Players are more likely to return to a game where they can interact with friends, join groups, and participate in real-time conversations. Chat features can also facilitate collaboration in multiplayer games, making the gaming experience more enjoyable and immersive.
We'd like to think that Five Minute Chat is one of the easiest ways to integrate chat functionality into your app. With our Unity asset, you can have a functional chat system up and running in just a few few minutes. Simply import the asset, drag the demo prefab into your scene, and you're connected to our chat services.
For more customized setups, we provide scripts and components that you can easily integrate into your existing UI, and everything is easily modifyable and customizable.
For more customized setups, we provide scripts and components that you can easily integrate into your existing UI, and everything is easily modifyable and customizable.
There are many ways to build a community within your game. Implementing chat features is a great start, as it allows players to communicate and form connections and a sense of belonging. You can also create in-game events, forums, and social media groups to encourage interaction and engagement among players.
Officially, Five Minute Chat supports Unity builds targeting Windows, Android, iOS, and WebGL. More platforms will be coming in the future. However, its public API is open for anyone to use, meaning you can integrate chat functionality into projects on non-officially supported platforms as well.
Yes, Five Minute Chat is available for free download from the Unity Asset Store. It also offers a Free Plan that costs $0.00 forever and includes 1 GB of monthly bandwidth (suitable for up to ~25 CCU) and 25 peak Concurrent Users (CCU).
This free tier comes with unlimited channels, chat messages, direct messages (DMs), the Discord moderator bot, message translations, support tickets, status updates, user events delivery, text-to-speech, all web dashboard features, and basic moderation features through the web dashboard.
This free tier comes with unlimited channels, chat messages, direct messages (DMs), the Discord moderator bot, message translations, support tickets, status updates, user events delivery, text-to-speech, all web dashboard features, and basic moderation features through the web dashboard.
You can download the Five Minute Chat Unity asset directly from the Unity Asset Store. Once imported, you'll find the asset in your project, ready for a quick walkthrough.
Detailed documentation for Five Minute Chat, including quickstart guides and API descriptions, is available in our documentation pages. You can also find quick-start video tutorials on their YouTube channel.
For support, questions, issues, feature requests, or general feedback, you are encouraged to join the Five Minute Chat Discord server. You can also send an email if you prefer.
Yes, Five Minute Chat emphasizes security and privacy. User messages are protected using industry-standard encryption methods both in transit and at rest, from the moment a client connects until the session ends. The service's Privacy Policy outlines its commitment to protecting user data and details data collection and usage practices, primarily focusing on anonymized metadata for service provision and improvement.
Five Minute Chat offers a wide range of features including: unlimited chat channels, private messaging (whispers) with delivery tracking, support tickets, on-demand message translations, text-to-speech generation, advanced moderation tools with Discord integration, and AI assistance for moderation and support agents.