Unit 2 Games
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- 2017
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About Unit 2 Games
Unit 2 Games is a British game development team working within Meta Horizon Studios and Reality Labs. Established in Royal Leamington Spa in 2017, it develops multiplayer experiences and systems for collaborative world creation. Its work spans user-generated content platforms, cloud-streamed games, virtual reality and social play across headsets and mobile devices.
The studio first became known for Crayta, a collaborative game-creation and sharing platform designed to make building games more accessible. Players could create and edit multiplayer environments together in real time, combining creative assets and scripting with cloud streaming. This approach connected the process of making games with the experience of playing and sharing them.
Crayta launched on Google Stadia on 1 July 2020 and expanded to the Epic Games Store in March 2021. Facebook acquired Unit 2 Games in June 2021, bringing its creation technology into Facebook Gaming and the company's wider work on shared virtual worlds. Crayta subsequently launched on Facebook Gaming's cloud platform in June 2022.
From collaborative creation to social worlds
Crayta closed on 3 March 2023. The platform's closure was followed by continued development work within Meta, where the team applied its experience in real-time, multi-user environments to Meta Horizon Worlds. Its subsequent projects include Kaiju City Showdown and Kaiju Evolution, extending its multiplayer work into action experiences for Meta's ecosystem.
Released in 2025, Kaiju Evolution is a 15-versus-15 team battle game available on Meta Quest headsets and Meta Horizon mobile. Its cross-platform format connects the studio's experience in shared environments with multiplayer action and virtual reality mechanics.
Although the original standalone UK company completed liquidation and was dissolved in April 2026, the creative team continued operating within Meta. The studio's development history therefore connects its original collaborative creation platform with its later first-party work on social and interactive worlds.
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Founders and leadership
- Richard Smithies founded the business with senior developers previously behind SkySaga: Infinite Isles at Radiant Worlds. The report identifies him as chief executive at establishment; it does not establish that he retains that role.
- Andy Shenton was identified as Head of Studio when the team confirmed its continued employment within Meta Reality Labs in 2023.
Production technology
Crayta was built on Unreal Engine 4 and combined Lua scripting with modular creative assets for collaborative world building.
Operating model
The report describes hybrid and remote development distributed across the UK, Europe and the United States under Meta Reality Labs.
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Where Unit 2 Games is based
- Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
Royal Leamington Spa offices
About this office
**Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 2 Jephson Court, Tancred Close, Royal Leamington Spa, CV31 3RZ Opened: 2018 Closed: 2021 Former physical headquarters, occupied from 2018 until late 2021. The premises have been vacated and offered to let. --- **Office** Status: active Address: Aura Building, 1 Harrison Way, Leamington Spa, CV31 3HH Subsequent registered office and regional operating hub shared with Meta UK. The report supports continued regional operations rather than an overall company headquarters designation.
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