Case study

Two games, one universe, built and run by us.

StupidMonkeys is the universe FREDD Studios built and ran itself: Realm Hero, an action RPG in Unity; YourStupidMonkeyPet, a browser companion game whose progress carries into Realm Hero; and the ERC-721 collection, minting pipeline and marketplace underneath them.

Realm Hero key art: monkey characters running through a sunlit meadow as coloured frames float around them

The brief we set ourselves.

Ship two games, a 2,664-piece collection with three evolution stages and eight classes, a marketplace and a public site as one coherent product, with a team of five at peak.

It is the work we point to when a client asks whether we can take a product from idea to live: engineering and art, by the same two people who scope your project. Everything is still online at stupidmonkeys.io.

What shipped.

Code, Francesco

The engineering.

Unity clients: Realm Hero on desktop, with the companion game as a separate web build sharing the same account and progress.
Backend services: Accounts, inventory, progression and the sync between the two games.
ERC-721 and minting pipeline: Contracts, metadata generation for 2,664 pieces across three evolution stages, and the mint flow.
Marketplace and site: The public site, the marketplace and the collab and AR pages, all on the same stack.

Visuals, Riccardo

The art.

Characters: One base monkey, eight class variants, three ages each.
Worlds: Islands, jungles and villages for story mode, plus the key art around them.
Interfaces: Game UI, the marketplace and the public site.
Collaborations: Co-branded drops, including the Taiko collection.

See the creative work