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This article is about the company. For the Special Agent in BTD5, see Ninja Kiwi (Special Agent).
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
NinjaKiwiLogo

Ninja Kiwi's current logo

Ninja Kiwi 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 has two divisions: Ninja Kiwi Auckland (in Auckland, New Zealand) and Ninja Kiwi Europe (formerly Digital Goldfish in Dundee, Scotland).

Ninja Kiwi has a cloud service and a support system.


Ninja Kiwi Website[]

Ninja Kiwi's official website is the main website for featuring their content. Prior to the website's redesign in early-2021, the Ninja Kiwi website had a collection of Flash games and Flash-related content. Among the Flash-related content exclusive to their website were the Wheel of Fate and Clans.

Ninja Kiwi Blog[]

Main article: 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.

Features[]

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.

History[]

Early Years[]

Ninja Kiwi was founded by Stephen Harris and Chris Harris. ... (insert game history stuff and pre-bloons stuff)

[insert much more stuff about early years of Bloons and Bloons TD and those developments and leading into Bloons TD 4 and those generations.]

Bloons TD 5 Generation Period (2011-2018)[]

[insert more information about BTD5 generation, including developments of various games and whatnot and their social media presence and all sorts of cool news]

On the June 29th 201X (?) update, everyone was given Monkey Dollar200 to "Celebrate Independence Day," as well as another double MM period.

The final update to a Flash game was Bloons TD 5 Flash, on about December 21st, 2018, with the release of Hearthside. After this, Ninja Kiwi stopped updating their Flash games and deprecated support for those games.

Release of Bloons TD 6 and beyond (2018-Present)[]

[insert more information about 2018 and beyond]

In preparation for the release of Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi had created dedicated their growth and breadth of their many other social media, such as creating Reddit communities starting with the subreddit r/btd6.

As usual, much of their connectivity with the Bloons community comes from their weekly Ninja Kiwi Blogs. 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.

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

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.

Ninja Kiwi announced the discontinuation of Bloons TD 5 Flash online features alongside various other old non-Bloons Flash games, as discussed in their April 1st 2022 and April 8th 2022 blogs. Bloons TD 5 Flash's online features will be discontinued after 30th April 2022, according to the April 1st 2022 blog. Other affected games include SAS Zombie Assault 3 and 4, Counter Snipe, Unmentioned is the removal of online features for Bloons TD Battles Flash.

As of August 19th 2022, Ninja Kiwi announced their discontinuation of logins of Ninja Kiwi accounts.[1] In addition, it is no longer possible to log into the Ninja Kiwi Archive, earn Awesome Points from achievements, or earn or use NK Coins. All games that rely on a Ninja Kiwi account no longer can have those features playable unless a Ninja Kiwi account was created before 19th August 2022. Any NK accounts previously still logged into the Ninja Kiwi Archive can still use the account until it is logged off or until the app is uninstalled. As a result, the games Bloons Super Monkey 2 and Bloons Monkey City Flash are no longer playable unless a NK account was previously logged on prior to the aforementioned date.

Socials[]

In addition to an official website, Ninja Kiwi has promoted themselves on various social media. They have a dedicated socials link on linktr.ee that shows all of their latest up-to-date social stuff. Among these social medias include:

Ninja Kiwi also has an official merchandise store.

Sounds[]

Ninja Kiwi itself is not a subject with associated sounds, but its production logos do. Sounds for Ninja Kiwi logo began in the Flash version of Bloons 2.

When the Ninja Kiwi "nighttime slash" production logo loads in Bloons 2, BTD5 Flash, or BTDB Flash:

  • File:TBA [Cricket sounds, landing feet on a roof, footsteps, a Bloon pop, and a sword shine]

When the Ninja Kiwi "skeuomorphic sword shine" production logo loads in BTD5 Mobile, BTDB Mobile, or BMC Mobile:

When the Ninja Kiwi "skeuomorphic sword shine" production logo loads in BSM2 Mobile:

When the Ninja Kiwi "2D sword shine" production logo loads in BTD6:

When the Ninja Kiwi "smash glass" production logo loads in BATTD, Bloons Pop!, or BTDB2:

  • File:TBA [swipe movement and glass smash]

Gallery[]

Logos[]

Trivia[]

  • Ninja Kiwi has never released a game on physical media.
  • Ninja Kiwi is referenced in games occasionally and indirectly.
    • Ninja Kiwi Pet for Ninja Monkey is similar to old iteration of their mascot.
    • Ninja Kiwi agent, released on BTD5 mobiles 10th anniversary.
    • License plate of jeep located in Bloody Puddles reads "NK 02" a abbreviation of the name.

Ninja Kiwi Blogs[]

  • According to 25th March 2016 blog, they have more focus on Mobile than Flash because they wanted to move forward with the game industry, and they were doing well in the mobile industry.
  • 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.
  • According to Ninja Kiwi's 25th March 2022 blog, Fortress Destroyer Mobile was one of Ninja Kiwi's first games made on Unity, a game engine that would later be used for Bloons TD 6.
  • When differentiating between Flash counterparts versus Mobile counterparts, Ninja Kiwi consistently refers the Flash counterpart as "[game] Web" instead of "[game] Flash". An example of this is in their 8th April 2022 blog.
  • According to Ninja Kiwi's 3rd June 2022, Ninja Kiwi's goal for making games is to make games that themselves and their fans like to play too, motivated by a life-long passion to run a stable company that their employees "love for a living".

External links[]


  1. Our team has also made the difficult decision to remove logins from the Ninja Kiwi website as many of the features that use those logins on the site are no longer available, with the end of Flash. However, the accounts will still be useable for the Ninja Kiwi Archive and all game data will be preserved. This will mean things like Awesome Points, Achievements and Clans will also be closing down. Thank you again to everyone who loved and appreciated the website community, clan challenges and awesome ranks, stay More Awesomer!

    We’ll provide an update closer to the time with an actual date for when these features will be removed.

    ~ Ninja Kiwi, 19th August 2022 blog
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