CampFu got a 4 or a 5 rating (out of 5!) in every category, and Ange P’s review is a great overview and guide to the entire CampFu experience. Be sure to go check it out!

Thanks, Bright Hub!

Now you can earn FuCash in a whole other way: by participating in surveys and offers provided by our new partner site, Peanut Labs. If you complete a survey or offer, you’ll find FuCash in your account once we receive confirmation. They’ve got all sorts of surveys and offers that might interest you, so why not check it out?

We’re asking for everyone’s age so that we can make sure that CampFu is a safe place for Campers young and old. Starting on June 2, you’ll need to have a verified account in order to chat on CampFu, post on our forums, or fill out a Camper profile page. It’s the law, and it’s important for protecting your privacy! If you want to know more about how CampFu uses and protects your information, check out our privacy policy.

On top of that, we’ll be adding new CampFu features that will require an e-mail address. For instance, if you forget your password, we’ll be able to send you instructions on how to reset it, but only in an e-mail, so we know it gets to you and not someone else! In coming months, verified users will also be to find out about exclusive deals on hot new CampFu items and special offers via e-mail alerts, and much more.

As an added bonus, we’ll be handing out 100 tickets to every Camper who verifies. The big ticket handout will happen some time in June, so keep an eye on your tickets and stay tuned here for more!

Tell us what you think of the new look and feel over in the CampFu Forums.

Since our last update, we’ve made a bunch of other additions and upgrades to CampFu:

• The CampFu Campground keeps getting better and better! On top of being able to chat and socialize with other Campers, we’ve recently added animations and poses to the Campground. Try out a sassy attitude or make claws like a dinosaur!As an added bonus, now you can easily start a game right from the Campground. Ask people you meet if they want to play!

• There are some new types of information you can add to your Profile Page. In an upcoming addition to CampFu, you’ll be able to invite other campers to be your friends, and visit each other’s profile pages, so get all the information on there that you want to share!

• The CampFu Clothing Store has three new items for guys and three new items for the ladies, including some cool cargo pants, a zip-up jacket, and some amazing sneaks.

Stay tuned for much more. Coming soon: a new way to earn a pile of tickets and get access to the full features of CampFu!

As part of our grand opening, we’re giving out more tickets! All of the CampFu Games now award more tickets, and new users will get more tickets as part of registration, too. (Don’t worry, existing users, we haven’t forgotten about you!) We’ve also changed the prices of game items and clothes for your avatar. Some are cheaper, others are more expensive, but with games giving out more tickets, all you’ve gotta do to trick out your avatar is play more games!

Here are some handy tips to remember for earning more tickets:

• You’ll earn more tickets for playing together with friends than by playing alone. If you need more teammates, why not invite your friends?
• More difficult game levels will earn you more tickets than easier game levels. You’ve gotta master CampFu games to rake in the big rewards! Even the easy levels give you tickets, however, so if you’re still learning the ropes, don’t be afraid to start at the beginning.
• The better your team score during a game, the more tickets your team will earn. Whenever you earn another star during a game, that means more tickets once the game’s done!
• If you earn a higher score than your teammates, you’ll get a bonus reward in tickets. Similarly, if you come in last place with your personal score, you’ll get slightly fewer tickets than your teammates. It pays to contribute more to winning! Overall, teamwork is still the most important element of games at CampFu — if you don’t work together, you won’t earn as many stars.
• Not everything at CampFu costs tickets. Some exclusive clothing items cost FuCash. Coming soon, you’ll also be able to spend FuCash to expand your closet so it can hold more stuff, and unlock special bonus game levels.

Stay tuned to this blog for even more ways to earn tickets, new clothing releases, and much more!

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REBEL MONKEY™ ENABLING FUN THROUGH CASUAL, REAL-TIME MULTIPLAYER GAMING PLATFORM
Monkey Wrench Gaming Platform Provides Unprecedented Levels of Interactivity for “CampFu™” – Rebel Monkey’s Premiere Casual MMO

NEW YORK – March 17, 2009 – Rebel Monkey, a New York City entertainment company focused on the convergence of games and social media, today announced the unveiling of its Monkey Wrench real-time multiplayer gaming platform. The Monkey Wrench platform delivers unprecedented levels of real-time interactivity for casual gamers as well as persistent in-game and in-world avatars, badges and achievements, and a robust virtual goods management system.

Unlike most multiplayer platforms that only offer asynchronous or head-to-head competitive play, Monkey Wrench provides additional levels of gameplay interaction, including the unique ability to allow players to form teams and engage together in real-time co-op games. Co-op games also form the foundation for Rebel Monkey’s premier virtual world, CampFu – a browser-based Casual Massively Multiplayer Online (Casual MMO) community powered by the Monkey Wrench platform.

In CampFu’s free-to-play environment, co-op games drive players to form natural teams, fostering deeper engagement and providing greater opportunities for monetization through the sale of virtual goods. Co-op gameplay emphasizes group as well as individual achievement. The recent success of games such as Rock Band points to their popularity. The initial co-op game offerings to be played on CampFu include FunGeez, WordMob, Critter Smackdown and Veg-Out.

“Monkey Wrench makes CampFu possible – allowing for rapid, scalable and cost-effective deployment of real-time multiplayer content,” said Margaret Wallace, Rebel Monkey CEO. “We’ve taken care of all the technical heavy-lifting and intend to make the Monkey Wrench application programming interface (API) available to developers for launching their own co-op games on CampFu.”

In 2008, Jeff Kesselman joined Rebel Monkey as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) to head up Monkey Wrench platform development and architecture. Kesselman’s experience in the video games and multimedia industries spans over fifteen years. As the inventor of Sun Labs Project Darkstar, he is a leading expert on Internet scaling and security.

With an estimated 231 million casual gamers worldwide and an expected 180 million registered users of virtual worlds such as Club Penguin or Habbo Hotel by the end of 2009, Rebel Monkey stands at the nexus of several significant trends.

About Rebel Monkey, Inc.
Rebel Monkey, Inc. is a NYC-based entertainment company. Founded in 2007, Rebel Monkey’s Casual MMO, CampFu is built on top of its own multiplayer gaming platform. CampFu offers collaborative gaming, highly customizable avatars and an array of virtual goods in a fun online environment. For more information, please visit www.campfu.com.

Contact
Rebel Monkey Press Office
press@rebelmonkey.com

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CampFu is bursting with fun features right out of the gate. You can try on the latest styles and buy a new outfit in the CampFu Store, meet up with other CampFu players on our forums, and last but not least, try out four different co-op multiplayer games. Every one of these games is designed for you to play together and win together as a team with your friends — or new teammates you meet here on CampFu. (You can practice by yourself in solo mode too, but the real rewards come with teamwork!)

Our starting lineup of games includes:

• Critter Smackdown:A horde of mischievous forest critters are out to steal camp supplies… even the luggage of new campers! It’s up to your team to fend them off and lay the smack down.
  
• FunGeez: The pond at CampFu has a colorful but nasty fungus infestation that’s stranded some innocent ducks. Grab your friends and help clear their way to freedom!
  
• WordMob: A classic CampFu pastime, where teams of players use letter tiles to spell words as fast as possible.
  
• Veg-Out: Help out at the CampFu farm, where you’ll need keen teamwork to deal with weeds, pests, watering, and customers who want their produce pronto!

Beat one of the many levels of these games and you’ll earn tickets to spend in the store. It’s up to you whether you spend your hard-earned tickets on threads or on power-up items to help you earn a record-setting score! Heck, you might even be able to earn a special CampFu merit badge or two for your profile if you play your cards right!