Grease Monkey Games is an Australia-based multi-platform video game studio and subsidiary of Animoca Brands. Established in 2013 in Melbourne by Founder and CEO Arran Potter, the company was formerly known as League of Monkeys. Grease Monkey Games began developing and publishing its own original IP games in 2014. Since then, they have published motorsport titles Torque Burnout and Torque Drift and are now developing the new title Torque Drift 2.
The company just announced that it is the recipient of an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games. The grant will go towards supporting the development of Torque Drift 2. Launched in 2019, the Epic MegaGrants is a program that helps accelerate creative, noteworthy, and innovative projects built in and around Unreal Engine, as well as those that enhance the open source 3D graphics ecosystem.
Grease Monkey Games stated that the MegaGrant will be utilized to help fund the development of new drift physics in Torque Drift 2, which will enable the company to produce “its most immersive and true-to-life motorsport game yet”.
Torque Drift 2 is the newest addition to Grease Monkey Games’ popular motorsport game portfolio and the REVV Motorsport ecosystem. The game represents the next generation of motorsports products leveraging blockchain technology, where fully functional and playable NFTs are a core feature used to deliver true digital ownership of game assets to players.
