Overview - Session chat - (Unreal Engine module)

Last updated on September 4, 2025

Introduction

While in a game session or a party, in-game chat is important for players social interaction to form deeper bonds. This module shows you how to intergate session chat to Byte Wars, allowing the players to chat with others via game session and party.

Prerequisites

To complete this module, you will need:

• To have completed the following module:

  • Introduction to party
  • One of the following game session modules:
    • Quick match with dedicated server
    • Quick match with peer-to-peer
    • Joinable sessions with dedicated servers
    • Joinable sessions with peer-to-peer

• The Byte Wars tutorialmodules branch checked out in your local Byte Wars Unreal project repository.

• To force enable this module by adding the following code to the Config/DefaultEngine.ini file:

  [AccelByteTutorialModules]
  +ForcedEnabledModules=TutorialModule:SESSIONCHAT
  ...

Learning objectives

At the end of this module, you will know how to implement:

• Sending and receiving chat messages in game session.
• Sending and receiving chat messages in party.

Preview

At the end of this module, your project will look like the image below:

• Game session chat:

  

• Party session chat:

  

References

• Chat: Introduction to Chat