{"id":123,"date":"2019-10-17T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T17:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2019-10-17T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:20:53","slug":"5m-investition-in-unit2games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/5m-investition-in-unit2games","title":{"rendered":"Makers Fund invests $5 million in Unit 2 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Makers Fund<\/em> is a venture capital firm that supports <em>VR Chat<\/em>, Redhill Games, Betadwarf and has invested in more than 20 game projects. And another deal with <em>Unit 2 Games<\/em> was announced at the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit today.<br><br>The main aim of the investment is &#8220;<em>Crayta<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; a development platform from <em>Unit 2 Games<\/em>, that is designed to facilitate the process of game creation and to make it more user-friendly. The project is due to launch in Spring 2020.<br><em><br><\/em>The UK-based games studio was founded in late 2017, and it has grown its team to over 30 people nowadays<em>.  &#8220;We had a strong vision for Crayta from the very beginning so continued  to put a lot of time and effort into building our deck alongside the  product itself, and had honed our pitch and demos during the year, too<\/em>.&#8221; &#8211; CEO and founder Richard Smithies.<br><br>The partners of the deal are excited to work with each other and the $5 million will help the studio to make their best for the project ahead of its launch in Spring. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> &#8220;<em>There&#8217;s a lot of work to be done but we&#8217;re confident we can pull it off  with Makers Fund&#8217;s support, as well as the financing from our other  as-yet-unannounced partner<\/em>,&#8221; says Richard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makers Fund is a venture capital firm that supports VR Chat, Redhill Games, Betadwarf and has invested in more than 20 game projects. And another deal with Unit 2 Games was announced at the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit today. The main aim of the investment is &#8220;Crayta&#8221; &#8211; a development platform from Unit 2 Games, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[7,8,10,11,9,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}