Key features
UGC provides the following key features:- Easy-to-integrate APIs to allow you to build your own in-game experiences
- Moderation built into the publishing pipeline to ensure content is safe and appropriate for your players
- Search experiences to allow your UGC catalog to scale and players to quickly find interesting content for them
- Review and reporting capabilities to empower players to keep the quality high
Key concepts
There are a few common terms used throughout the UGC service:- Catalog - Catalogs are a place for you to store and manage your content. There are two main catalogs, the draft catalog and the public catalog which store draft and published items, respectively
- (Published) Items - PlayFab UGC Items are data blobs containing information about a specific item. Published Items are accessible to other players through the
GetItemsandSearchAPIs - Draft Items - Draft Items are accessible to only the item creator and the
TitleEntity. Draft Items can become Published Items by calling thePublishDraftItemAPI - Content - Content are the images and files that are uploaded to Items
Limitations and important considerations
Before playing around with the UGC features and APIs, there are a few limitations and important considerations you should know about the service:- UGC only supports PlayFab Entities - you will need to use entity-based authentication to utilize UGC.
- UGC does not work with PlayFab Economy (Legacy) APIs - it is a separate service built on top of the Economy v2 system.
Getting Started
- The UGC Quickstart guide walks you through the steps of publishing an item
- The Publish your first user generated content tutorial goes over the details of uploading content and populating URL blobs.