2007 headquarters utrecht the netherlands key people fabian akker joost van dongen gijs hermans jasper koning ralph rademakers martijn thieme olivier thijssen products swords & soldiers awesomenauts number of employees 17 2015 1 website ronimo games.com ronimo games is a dutch video game developer founded in 2007 by former students of the utrecht school of the arts . contents 1 history 2 games developed 2.1 as banana games 2.2 as ronimo games 3 further reading 4 references 5 external links history edit the team that later formed ronimo games initially came together under the name of banana games 2 and created the original freeware pc version of de blob . 3 publisher thq noticed the game was very impressed with the team s work and acquired the rights to the game . thq subsequently handed over further development to blue tongue entertainment nintendo ds wii and universomo mobile iphone ipod . with the money earned from selling the rights to de blob the team founded ronimo games . 1 the name ronimo came from a brainstorming session in which the team decided to combine the first letters of the words robot ninja monkey . in may 2009 the studio released the wiiware title swords & soldiers . in september 2010 the game was released for playstation network with publisher sony online entertainment and in december the windows and mac version on steam . in june 2011 the game was ported by two tribes and published by chillingo for ios . currently the studio is developing awesomenauts a multiplayer online battle arena for xbox live arcade playstation network and pc . despite the publisher s financial problems the game was released on pc at may 2 2012 . the studio then went to kickstarter to fund the game s first expansion awesomenauts starstorm . a second expansion for the game is being released in march of 2016 called awesomenauts overdrive . regular updates continue to take place for awesomenauts addressing balancing connectivity and bug fixes . games developed edit two teams battle it out in awesomenauts as banana games edit de blob windows 2006 as ronimo games edit swords & soldiers wii 2009 ; ps3 2010 ; windows 2010 ; mac 2010 ; ios 2011 ; linux 2012 ; android 2012 awesomenauts playstation 3 2012 ; xbox 360 2012 ; windows 2012 ; mac 2012 ; linux 2013 swords & soldiers ii wii u 2015 further reading edit de pers nederlandse studenten maken succesgame october 6 2008 references edit a b http internships.controlmagazine.net job ronimo games utrecht 6 c programming internship on awesomenauts developer s site de blob ronimo games interview swords and soldiers external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to awesomenauts . official site this european video game corporation or company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ronimo games & oldid 710210376 categories dutch companies established in 2007video game companies of the netherlandsvideo game development companiesutrecht school of the arts alumnieuropean video game company stubshidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages magyarpolski edit links this page was last modified on 15 march 2016 at 16 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view