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Funky Monkey Studios

A Réunion Island mobile game studio I co-founded before GRAFITOID: more than ten games, including Ice Core and Zombeo and Juliet.

A car racing at full speed in a Funky Monkey Studios mobile racing game.
Role
Co-founder
Disciplines
Mobile games · Game design · Art direction · 3D

Where it started

In 2012, making video games from Réunion Island was far from obvious: no ecosystem, few role models to follow. Mobile opened a door: small teams could publish worldwide.

The approach

With my partners, we set up Funky Monkey Studios to ship short games one after another: racing, arcade, sliding. Each title was a way to learn something specific, about controls, the pace of a session, or how to make people want to play again.

What I took from it

A game is judged in the player’s hands, never on paper. Shipping often teaches faster than polishing for a long time.

What exists

  • More than ten mobile games released, including Ice Core, Zombeo and Juliet and Shadow Pet.
  • More than 300,000 downloads.
An orange sports car on the title screen of a racing game.
A sliding game set in an icy world, in portrait mode.
The Ice Core home screen, with its high score.
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