Menu
MiniMonos - PrimaryGames.com - Free Games Online. Fun site for. Sign in now to see your channels and recommendations! Watch Queue Queue.
NO MORE MONKEY BUSINESS: A promotional image for MiniMonos, the online 'virtual world' which is to close next month., an 'online virtual world' for children founded in 2009 by high-profile entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds, will close next month because of dwindling membership. Chief technology officer Greg Montgomery said it was not the end of the road for the company of the same name, which employs 15 staff in Wellington and three at its head office in Britain, where Clark-Reynolds now lives. MiniMonos would instead focus on developing applications for children and could extend its virtual monkey franchise into book publishing and merchandise, he said.
Clark-Reynolds is a former boss of software firms PayGlobal and Intaz and of insurance company GMV Associates, and was last year named one of the top 10 female company founders to watch by Forbes Magazine. She said in blog that she was sad to see the virtual world close, but MiniMonos could no longer keep it world going 'and develop the apps that we are so excited about at the same time'.
'Like us, many of you will be sad, disappointed and maybe even angry at this news,' she told fans. The virtual world outwardly appeared a success, especially in Britain, where most of its players live. About 1.5 million children joined MiniMonos' virtual world, where they could create monkey avatars, play, socialise and learn about the environment.
Montgomery said the number of active members had declined to about 50,000, and the company could see it getting harder to recruit new ones. The virtual world needed to be played on a personal computer, in part because it required Flash software, but many younger children now predominantly had access to tablets, Montgomery said. Personal computers were becoming more important to adult 'hard-core' gamers as the market for console-based games softened, but he believed many parents with younger children preferred the security provided by closed apps. Last year, Clark-Reynolds said about 3 per cent of visitors to the virtual world were paying customers who bought premium subscriptions or paid for virtual items in the game. Montgomery said that conversion rate was good by industry standards, but the company's market had become 'soft'.
Its new MonkeyMe app had been downloaded about 10,000 times in its first month, and Montgomery said it did not feel as though the company was starting again from scratch. Some of the community-based elements of its virtual world could not be easily moved across to its new apps and forthcoming games. MiniMonos would try to convert as many of its customers as possible to its new offerings and had developed good partnerships with companies such as the BBC and Microsoft, he said.
'We have got a great team and a lot of people have got to know the brand,' he said. The former chief executive of British record company EMI paid $1.6 million for a 10 per cent stake in the firm last year. The Crown-owned New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, Swiss ethical investment fund Go-Beyond and Wellington 'angel' investor Phil McCaw are also shareholders. Stuff.
I logged into MiniMonos today to find something new! MiniMonos has updated there Scratchy login page! Not only have they updated the Scratchy page but they have updated the login page too! The Epic Monkey Games has updated also! You can now earn Top Caps and xPowers!
Also on the buddies page you can now find (of the monkey is online) what server they are on! I can see Zinky whenever I like now!
Well not really!! When you click on your monkey it tells you what server your on too! Awesome updates right!! What do you think of these fantastic updates?? Let me know in the comments!! Welcome to MiniMonos Time!
MiniMonos Time was originally a Club Penguin cheats blog, and now is a MiniMonos cheats blog, although, due to being hacked, I quit, I didn't really know what to do, although, I found this website, where you could save the planet and have fun at the same time! =D I joined MiniMonos in early 2010, and really loved it! So a few months later, I decided to open a MiniMonos cheats blog!;) MiniMonos Time was released on 10th of January 2011. Tommypp Subscribe! Enter your email here to receive and be the only people who can receive contest info, first to know about posts and exclusives! Error: Twitter did not respond.
Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page. MiniMonos Fansite.