īloons TD 6 is the currently newest installment of the Bloons TD series, and the aim of the game remains mostly similar to other games of the Bloons TD series, but with additional features that earlier games of the series lack.īloons TD Battles 2 is a multiplayer-oriented version of Bloons TD 6, as well as a sequel to Bloons TD Battles. The first person to make the opponent have 0 lives wins and gets a battle score/medallions for winning. This game was followed by several sequels.īloons TD Battles is a multiplayer-oriented version of Bloons TD 5 where the aim of the game is to make the player lose all their lives by sending bloons while defending against the opponent's bloons at the same time. Unlike the "aim and shoot" gameplay of Bloons, the Tower Defense games focused on building towers to stop balloons from reaching the exit of the track, with different towers offering different styles of attack. Ninja Kiwi Europe (formerly Digital Goldfish) in Dundee, Scotland, was acquired in 2012.įollowing the release of Bloons in 2007, the Bloons Tower Defense series also saw its first release in the same year with the game of the same name.Ninja Kiwi had also announced their plans with MTG over the next year, including releasing Bloons TD Battles 2, the sequel to the multiplayer tower defense game Bloons TD Battles. The founders of Ninja Kiwi have responded that they are "genuinely excited to join MTG", with intent to join them on creating future business opportunities together. Maria Redlin, MTG's group president and CEO, expressed her interest for acquiring Ninja Kiwi because of how they have created a "successful combination of paid and in-app purchase models in its pricing structure", which she argues is a major factor in Ninja Kiwi's success at creating quality games. The negotiations with MTG began on January 14, 2021, starting with an initial sum of between $130 to $150 million USD. On March 24, 2021, Ninja Kiwi was acquired by Modern Times Group for around 1.6 billion Swedish crowns ($186 million USD), "broaden its gaming portfolio", with expressed intent to expand into the tower defense genre whilst still maintaining the high quality standards that it strives for. By 2021, the total number of employees had increased to 70. The merger increased the total number of Ninja Kiwi employees to 35. Digital Goldfish was renamed Ninja Kiwi Europe. Due to the already close relationship between the two companies, the merger was described by Digital Goldfish co-founder, Barry Petrie, as a "natural progressive step in the relationship between the two companies". The previous titles that the two companies created together had racked up millions of downloads. In 2012, Ninja Kiwi purchased Digital Goldfish.
The relationship between Ninja Kiwi and Digital Goldfish continued long after this, with several members of the Digital Goldfish staff being completely devoted to the mobile development of Ninja Kiwi games.
Next, they launched their own web portal that pooled to getĭeveloper, Digital Goldfish, who wanted to team up to release Bloons as an iPhone application, where it reached the number two position in the US app store. However, they were unable to draw in advertisers to finance the project and were forced to scrap it after 14 weeks of operation. The first game that the brothers created was the now-defunct Cash Sprint, a browser-based game where players raced a ghost car and the player with the fastest time each week was rewarded a cash prize. He had previously graduated at the University of Auckland with a degree in geophysics. The decision to develop games was brought about by Stephen upon completion of a game design course at the Auckland Media Design School. Ninja Kiwi Games was founded by Chris and Stephen Harris in 2006. Ninja Kiwi was acquired by Modern Times Group on 24 March 2021. About eighteen months before its dissolution by its parent company, Mochi Media (another major gaming website) discontinued its virtual currency (Mochi Coins) and replaced it with Ninja Kiwi's virtual currency. Ninja Kiwi has a virtual currency known as NK Coins purchases of games and in-game purchases can be transacted using NK Coins. In 2012, Ninja Kiwi purchased Digital Goldfish, a Dundee, Scotland-based developer, for an undisclosed sum. Their most well-known titles are the Bloons and Bloons Tower Defense games. Since then, they have produced more than 60 games across platforms including Adobe Flash, Android, iOS, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, and more recently, Steam. Ninja Kiwi's first game was a browser based game called Cash Sprint, developed on the Adobe Flash Platform. Ninja Kiwi, previously known as Kaiparasoft Ltd, is a mobile and online video game developer founded in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2006 by brothers Chris and Stephen Harris.
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