Hardcore Monkey Crash
Hardcore Monkey what?
Hardcore Monkey Crash was the unusual name for an amazing mixed media online/offline game experience.
What is Hardcore Monkey Crash?
Hardcore Monkey Crash was a suite of different games that all worked together, featuring a purple monkey (called Hardcore Monkey). We produced various games like a racing game and a shooting game. But the games worked together. Bananas collected in the racing game could be used as ammo in the shooting game. Powerups could be obtained in one game and used in another.
An extra special feature was that we hid secret codes for the Hardcore Monkey Crash games on T-shirts, stickers, posters, books and other merchandise. Players who found the secret codes could upgrade their hardcore monkey with turbo speed or rapid firepower.
The games were available on a wide variety of platforms, including web based games, PDA’s and mobile phone games via SMS.
Hardcore Monkey Crash was ground-breaking at the time, because multi-platform deployment for entertainment had not really happened before in the UK, so it gave players a new, well rounded play experience.
Who made It?
Adam Montandon was the main game programmer. Mike Cobb did all the graphics, design and various interface elements. Andy Early worked on the database and backend to the games. Korash Sanjideh worked on all the audio for the games.
What happened to Hardcore Monkey Crash?
In 2003 Hardcore Monkey Crash was awarded 1st prize for Commercial Value at the Submerge awards. The prize was to work with top lawyers Wiggin and Co to develop the idea into a fully fledged company.
After a lot of time and development, Hardcore Monkey Crash became the digital production agency HMC Interactive, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The games and the website are no longer available, as the team moved away from online gaming to create more real world projects. But Hardcore Monkey Crash is still held in high regard as a great example of gameplay across established and emerging platforms.
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