Ninja Kiwi

"Play more Awesome games at ninjakiwi.com."

- BTD5D Round 13

"If you have not played more Ninja Kiwi games, you should - because those games are fun, and fun is good."

- BTD5 round 13

 is the game developer behind all Bloons games, along with many other games that don't have to do with the Bloons games. They are based in Auckland, New Zealand, but their target audience is the United States. They have been making online games since 2006. Ninja Kiwi started developing games in a spare bedroom with two people working part-time. They are currently working in an office with 15 people working full time. When the revamped website went into beta, it became no longer reliant on Cookies when logging into a Ninja Kiwi account. Older designs of the website can be found here.

On 24th/25th March 2021, Ninja Kiwi announced that they have become acquired by esports company Modern Times Group (MTG). They made an announcement on r/btd6 on here to announce the special announcement of recent acquisition here.



Ninja Kiwi Blog
The Ninja Kiwi Blog was launched on the Ninja Kiwi website on March 2, 2009 (link to first post). It has been the focal point of game announcements, reviews, updates, etc. ever since launch. Bloons (iPhone/iPod Touch) was the first Bloons game announced on the blog, with Bloons TD 4 being the first Bloons TD game announced.

History
Ninja Kiwi was found by Stephen Harris and TBA ... (insert game history stuff and pre-bloons stuff)

On the June 29th 201X (?) update, everyone was given 200 to "Celebrate Independence Day," as well as another double MM period.

Following the change of dealing with Adobe Flash games, Ninja Kiwi has changed the design of the website entirely on March 2021.

On 25th/26th March 2021, Ninja Kiwi hosted a AMA about potential future developments for the Bloons games. According to the AMA, there is evidence that a number of different topics have been revealed:


 * New Bloons sequel
 * Bloons TD Battles 2:
 * Mostly F2P with no clubs or powers
 * Early access will be added in the near future
 * Built from scratch
 * New engine
 * Streamlined compared to Battles 1
 * Heroes will arrive in the game
 * No exclusive towers at launch. COBRA planned to add soon but not on release. Not paid tower.
 * Bloons TD 6:
 * Arriving for consoles
 * Boss Bloons are hinted to arrive soon
 * 4 player local Co-Op can be added
 * No sequel is planned
 * Map/tower editor may be coming into BTD6.
 * Tower skins are not planned to be added

Ninja Kiwi releases a blog each week to add news on any news for their games. Every week, they will answer approximately 30-40 questions per week provided from various fans of their games. The majority of questions since late-2018 are related to Bloons TD 6, given their highest focus on that game. There is often more focus on currently hot topics relating to games; a particularly notable example is the Version 27.0 update with Boss Bloons and Paragons, where Ninja Kiwi elaborates further about the progress of those two long-awaited major new features.

As of 18th February 2022, according to their 18th February 2022 blog, Ninja Kiwi has plans to invest their resources primarily to regularly update BTD5 Mobile, BTD6, Battles 2, and Bloons Pop!, but no other games.

Trivia

 * According to Ninja Kiwi's 3rd September 2021 blog, the kiwi in the Ninja Kiwi logo represents and expresses New Zealand culture in their brand name.
 * According to Ninja Kiwi's October 8th 2021 blog, Ninja Kiwi is comfortable with keeping the Bloons franchise based primarily on the tower defense genre, but if they had to rebrand their Bloons games to a different game genre then they would opt for the team-based first-person shooter game genre.
 * According to Ninja Kiwi's October 29th 2021 blog, monkeys in the Bloons TD series enjoy eating bananas, pineapples, and sandwiches the most.
 * According to Ninja Kiwi's December 10th 2021 blog, Tim Haywood works in collaboration with NK.