game industry founded auckland new zealand 2002 1 founders chris harris stephen harris number of employees 35 website ninja kiwi ninjakiwi.com web address ninjakiwi.com slogan more awesomer commercial yes type of site video gaming service registration optional owner ninja kiwi launched 2006 2006 alexa rank 9 261 august 2015 update 2 current status active ninja kiwi is a mobile and online video game developer founded in auckland new zealand in 2006 by chris and stephen harris . 3 ninja kiwi s first game was a browser based game called cash sprint developed on the adobe flash platform . 1 since then they have produced more than 60 games across platforms including adobe flash android ios playstation portable nintendo ds and most recently steam . their most well known titles are the bloons and bloons td games . in 2012 ninja kiwi purchased dundee scotland based developer digital goldfish for an undisclosed sum . 4 5 6 ninja kiwi has a virtual currency known as nk coins ; purchases of games and in game purchases can be transacted using nk coins . 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 . 7 ninja kiwi has an online forum as well ; people can discuss ninja kiwi s games and other various topics on the forum . 8 when ninja kiwi switched to its new website that contained a new forum most users still preferred the older forum mostly due to the new forum s formatting and the fact that it does not contain any of the threads from the older forum . upon the pressure received from users ninja kiwi decided to keep the older website s forum . 9 10 until june 7 2016 when both forums were shut down and replaced with a new forum . contents 1 history 2 awards 3 games 3.1 bloons games 3.2 fortress destroyer 3.3 mobile games 3.4 shooting games 4 references 5 external links history edit ninja kiwi games was founded by chris and stephen harris in 2006 . the decision to develop games was brought about by stephen upon completion of a game design course at the auckland media design school . he had previously graduated at the university of auckland with a degree in geophysics . 11 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 . 1 however they were unable to draw in advertisers to finance the project and were forced to scrap it after 14 weeks of operation . next they launched their own web portal that pooled toget veloper 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 . 12 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 . in 2012 ninja kiwi purchased digital goldfish . the previous titles that the two companies created together had racked up millions of downloads . 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 . digital goldfish was renamed ninja kiwi europe . 13 the merger increased the number of ninja kiwi employees to 35 . 6 logo in 2014 note the beta label awards edit in 2012 sas zombie assault 3 won flash gaming summit awards for best shooter game and best multiplayer game . 14 in 2013 bloons td 5 was nominated at the flash gaming summit for awards in best strategy game and best cross platform game . 15 games edit bloons games edit bloons was a major breakthrough for ninja kiwi . they idea came from developer stephen harris wife who suggested they make a game similar to the carnival game where people throw darts at balloons . 16 the original bloons was released in april 2007 and has spawned many sequels and spin offs including the also successful bloons td . bloons 2007 bloons 2 2010 bloons insanity bloons junior bloons player packs 1 5 bloons pop 3 even more bloons hot air bloon bloons for mobile bloons td series 2007 present bloons td 4 bloons td 4 expansions bloons td 5 deluxe bloons td 5 steam bloons td battles 2012 bloons super monkey bloons super monkey 2 2013 bloons monkey city 2013 bloons monkey city mobile 2014 2015 fortress destroyer edit in 2015 ninja kiwi announced the release of fortress destroyer a naval warfare action game . it is officially the first of the games by ninja kiwi to be run on the unity web player mobile games edit many of the games ninja kiwi created for web browsers were then released for mobile devices mainly ios and android devices . this is a brief list of games released by ninja kiwi for mobile . battle panic mobile cursed treasure mobile edition driller bunny for mobile extreme tilt snowboarding hungry sumo mobile edition meeblings mobile powerpool mobile sas zombie assault 3 mobile sas zombie assault 4 mobile sas zombie assault td ios bloons td battles mobile bloons td 3 as bloons td bloons td 4 bloons td 5 bloons td battles bloons monkey city fortress destroyer shooting games edit sas 4 may 2014 present sas 3 2011 2012 sas 2 2010 2011 sas zombie assault 2009 2010 references edit a b c irwin mary jane 5 july 2008 . blowing up bloons . forbes . retrieved 13 february 2014 . ninjakiwi.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 12 august 2015 . south gill 6 february 2012 . your business monkey business leads to games success . the new zealand herald . retrieved 11 february 2014 . ninja kiwi buys digital goldfish . bbc news . 2 november 2012 . retrieved 11 february 2014 . williams mike . ninja kiwi acquires digital goldfish . gamesindustry.biz . retrieved 1 january 2014 . a b rose mike . bloons studio acquires ios partner digital goldfish . gamastrua . ubm tech . retrieved 2 january 2014 . mochicoins announcement . ninja kiwi forum . archive link . ninja kiwi games forums . https www.linkedin.com in stephen harris 25b4a724 chapman smith . ben 21 nov 2012 . auckland company s latest game making it big in us . the aucklander . apn new zealand limited . retrieved 3 april 2014 . lee aaron 6 september 2013 . ninja kiwi europe begins ambitious expansion plan . develop online . internet media . retrieved 21 april 2014 . armor games the mochis . flash gaming summit . 4 march 2012 . retrieved 26 february 2014 . armor games the mochis . flash game summit . 2013 03 24 . retrieved 26 february 2014 . bardinelli john 20 april 2007 . in the flash bloons . joystiq . retrieved 19 february 2014 . external links edit ninja kiwi website archive forum retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ninja kiwi & oldid 744213418 categories 2006 establishments in new zealandvideo game companies established in 2006video game companies of new 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