While large investments continue to be made in the field of virtual reality, Meta announced that Unit 2 Games, the developer of the game development platform called Crayta, was acquired by Facebook last year. Meta announced today that it has brought Crayta to Facebook Gaming’s cloud streaming service, which lets you create and play games with your friends in real time.
The company had acquired Unit 2 Games, the game studio behind Crayta, in June 2021. While the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, the entire Unit 2 Games team participated in Meta. Initially released exclusively for Google Stadia, Crayta was later made available to users on the Epic Games Store.
Crayta makes it easy to develop 2D games
Meta states that Crayta has an extremely easy-to-use developer toolset and lets you play on your mobile phone or on your computer. explained that you can develop and play with your friends. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the launch, “If you want a game to run in a high-quality 3D environment, it’s very difficult to produce it in a browser or on a phone. However, being able to do this thanks to the cloud infrastructure and then sharing it with the whole world is quite a progress,” he said.
After making Crayta available on Facebook Gaming cloud streaming service, other users don’t need to download the game to their computer to play. The platform, which is completely free to play, will be available to anyone with a Facebook account. Zuckerberg stated that until now, most people think of Metaverse as virtual and augmented reality 3D experiences, but this feature offered by Crayta shows that Metaverse experiences can be created and enjoyed very easily, even in any 2D environment.
It is possible to create a game on the platform in 15 minutes
With Crayta, the company has built a simple game in as little as 15 minutes without the need for coding or other skills. In this structure, he says, it is possible to create a game that you can play with many players at the same time and share it with the world. The platform allows 20 people to play games at the same time. In addition, in the announcement made today, Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook Gaming cloud gaming section is also available in Western Europe.
Here is Crayta’s promotional video:
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