New York-based Rebel Monkey has launched its casual web-based MMO
CampFu, as well as the Monkey Wrench platform on which it runs.
CampFu had been running in beta form since February, racking up some 30,000 players. The free-to-play game allows players to join teams and participate in cooperative challenges, as well as purchase in-game items.
The Monkey Wrench platform itself forms the backbone of the game's social community, and powers numerous games within
CampFu including
FunGeez, WordMob, Critter Smackdown, and
Veg-Out. Its APIs are not yet available to outside developers, but the company plans to allow externally-created games to plug into
CampFu once Monkey Wrench is released more broadly.
"Monkey Wrench makes
CampFu possible -- allowing for rapid, scalable and cost-effective deployment of real-time multiplayer content," said CEO Margaret Wallace.
"We've taken care of all the technical heavy-lifting and intend to make the Monkey Wrench application programming interface available to developers for launching their own co-op games on
CampFu."
