Bloons Super Monkey

"Bloons Supermonkey" redirects here. For the series in general, see Bloons Supermonkey (series).

This article is about the Flash game. For the iOS game, see Bloons Super Monkey (iOS). For the level in the mobile version of Bloons 2, see Bloons Super Monkey (level).

Developer(s)		Ninja Kiwi
Publisher(s)		Ninja Kiwi
Platform(s)		Adobe Flash
Latest update		Version 3.6

Release dates
Ninja Kiwi		15 February 2010
MochiGames		11 February 2010
Newgrounds		22 February 2010
Kongregate		22 February 2010

Language(s) supported
English

Bloons Super Monkey (Bloons Supermonkey on MochiGames) is a vertically scrolling arcade shooter game in the Bloons franchise. It is a spin-off of Bloons Tower Defense and the first game in the Bloons Supermonkey series. The player controls Super Monkey to pop formations of Bloons across 15 levels called "waves" that gradually increase in Bloon count as the player progresses. Bloons drop Power Blops when popped that can be spent on upgrades to improve Super Monkey's firepower. The player is required to pop enough Bloons to earn at least a bronze trophy on each wave, otherwise the game ends in a game over, but the player can pop more Bloons and earn silver or gold trophies to improve their score. The player wins by progressing through all 15 waves and popping the final boss, the BFB.

The original version of Bloons Super Monkey is an Adobe Flash game developed by Ninja Kiwi and released in February 2010. This game received a port to iOS under the same name, which was developed by Digital Goldfish and released in August 2010.

Gameplay

The player controls Super Monkey by moving their mouse. Super Monkey attacks automatically, so the player can only move him to aim at Bloons and collect Power Blops and powerups that drop from popped Bloons. Super Monkey's default attack fires darts straight ahead every 2.67 seconds, each of which can pop up to two Bloons, but he can be upgraded to add more attacks, enhance existing attacks, or replace attacks. The player can spend Power Blops on upgrades on the pause screen, opened at the end of each wave or by pressing Escape. There are 24 upgrades in total, split into three upgrade paths and eight upgrade tiers.

This game is split into five stages with different themes, each with three levels called "waves", for a total of 15 levels. On each wave, Bloons move across the screen in different formations and patterns, and the player has a limited amount of time to pop them before they go off-screen and disappear. There is a target number of pops that the player must reach in order to complete the wave and progress to the next wave, otherwise the player gets a game over. The game also ends if the player allows a MOAB-Class Bloon to escape. As the game progresses, the number of Bloons and target pops of each wave increases. Each stage has a different scrolling speed, which affects the background scrolling speed and the "gravity" of Power Blops as they fall from popped Bloons.

Regular Bloons come in different layers, ranging from Red Bloons that are popped in only one hit, to Rainbow Bloons that have six layers, to Ceramic Bloons that have multiple hit points and layers. These Bloons only drop blops when all layers are popped, and can sometimes drop "super powerups" that trigger an effect when collected. There are two types of MOAB-Class Bloons, which do not have layers, instead spawning one Red Bloon per point of damage taken and spawning 80 Red Bloons, 20 Yellow Bloons, and 100 Power Blops when popped.

Score

The ending screen with the final score tally

The player earns one point for each Bloon layer popped. At the end of each wave, except the final wave, the player can earn a bronze, silver, or gold trophy depending on which pop targets they reached, which increases the player's score for that wave by 10%, 20%, or 50%, respectively. At the end of the game, regardless of if the player won or lost, the final score is the total wave score plus a "blop bonus", which is the total number of Power Blops collected times 2.

Upgrades

Path 1

Item	Tier	Cost
Faster Darts Increase your throw rate greatly	1	400
Twin Darts Throws two streams of darts	2	2,500
Quad Darts Only a really super duper supermonkey can throw four darts at once	3	6,000
Extra Speed Throws four darts with faster throw rate	4	5,000
Laser Vision Pop bloons just by looking at them	5	8,000
Twin Darts Shoots lasers and two darts every shot	6	6,000
Triple Twin Multi directional laser ownage	7	18,000
Death Ray Vision Solid unstoppable beam of bloon melting madness!	8	12,000

Path 2

Item	Tier	Cost
Boomer Toss out a boomerang for extra poppage	1	200
Double Boomer Throws two boomerangs each time!	2	800
Heavy Missile Dispense with the rangs and move onto explosives	3	1,500
Twin Missiles Two missiles is explode-tastic	4	2,000
Smart Missiles These missiles have degrees from harvard, they seek out bloons	5	2,500
Quad Missiles Each salvo unleashes four smart missiles	6	5,000
MOAB MAULERS Twin guided missiles that pack extra punch, especially to MOABS	7	5,000
QUAD MOAB 4 X Moab Maulers for extreme bloon wreckage	8	10,000

Path 3

Item	Tier	Cost
Plasma Tentacle Seeks out and pops nearby bloons automatically and instantly	1	500
Double Plasma twice the fun	2	1,000
3-Way Plasma three for the price of three	3	1,500
Quad Plasma Sometime more is more	4	2,000
Super Plasma This is like liquid sun	5	2,500
Twin Super Each tentacle is stupidly powerful	6	5,000
Triple Super For those who don't like to aim much	7	5,000
Quad Super More popping power than you could ever need, want or reasonably afford	8	5,000

Bloons

Sprite	Name	Health	RBE
	Red Bloon	1	1
	Blue Bloon	1	2
	Green Bloon	1	3
	Yellow Bloon	1	4
	Pink Bloon	1	5
	Rainbow Bloon	1	6
	Ceramic Bloon	10	16

MOAB-Class

Sprite	Name	Health	RBE
	MOAB	500	1,160
	BFB	2,500	5,160

Super powerups

Sprite	Name	Chance	Effect
	Super Bomb	50%	Deals 10 damage to all Bloons on-screen, instantly destroying everything below a Ceramic Bloon.
	Freeze Out	35%	Freezes all Bloons and Power Blops on-screen and stops the current wave from progressing for 3.2 seconds. Super Monkey is unaffected.
	Sun God	15%	Transforms Super Monkey into a Sun God for 5 seconds. During the transformation, Super Monkey's attacks are replaced with a new attack that rapidly fires five sun beams at once, each having high damage and pierce.

Stages

Stage	Wave	Pop requirements			Gravity
		Bronze	Silver	Gold
Stage 1	1	150	200	240	2.2
	2	500	670	750
	3	800	1,000	1,150
Stage 2	1	1,000	1,500	1,600	3.4
	2	1,300	1,600	1,680
	3	2,000	2,500	2,850
Stage 3	1	2,500	3,500	4,200	4.2
	2	3,000	3,800	4,400
	3	3,000	4,000	4,600
Stage 4	1	1,500	2,800	3,200	5
	2	3,000	3,800	4,500
	3	4,000	5,500	6,500
Stage 5	1	3,500	5,500	6,150	2.2
	2	11,000	12,500	14,000
	3	14,000	18,000	23,000

Technical information

Engine	Adobe Flash (SWF version 9)
Resolution	640×480
Frame rate	30 fps

Errors

• Twin Darts is supposed to reduce the dart attack's attack speed by 25%, and Extra Speed is supposed to restore its attack speed back to the rate of Faster Darts. However, due to a programming error, Twin Darts does not lower its attack speed, and Extra Speed has no effect whatsoever.
• Some upgrade names are too long to fit in their allocated text space, which causes the game to cut off their full names.
  • Triple Twin is supposed to be named "Triple Twin Lasers".
  • Twin Super is supposed to be named "Twin Super Plasma".
  • Triple Super is supposed to be named "Triple Super Plasma".
  • Quad Super is supposed to be named "Quad Super Plasma".

Development

Bloons Super Monkey was heavily inspired by Raiden, a shooter arcade game that released in April 1990. Designing a shooter game without any violence was a challenge for the developers.

Unused content

• Super Monkey has an unused health stat and an unused MAX_HEALTH value of 50.
• The wave text at the start of each wave supports wave numbers as high as ten, but in the final game, only wave numbers one, two, and three are used.

Descriptions

Ninja Kiwi / MochiGames / Kongregate

Take control of Super Monkey as he embarks on a Bloon popping frenzy through 5 stages and 15 waves. Collect and use Power Blops to upgrade Super Monkey in three different skill paths. Watch out for super powerups and make sure you score at least Bronze in each wave to advance to the next. Good luck!

MochiGames instructions

Move mouse to control Super Monkey, hit ESC to bring up upgrades screen and to pause the game. Super Monkey fires non-stop automatically - after all, he is Super Powerful.

Kongregate instructions

Control Super Monkey with the mouse. Hit ESC at any time during a wave to access the upgrades screen.

Newgrounds

We thought it would be cool to make a RaidenX style game using a balloon popping game play mechanic. Also, people love the super monkey and we wondered what he'd get up to when he wasn't playing BTD4.

It was originally going to be a tiny little project to keep us busy for a week or so but it ended up being quite epic. I love the leve design - it gets really intense.

Hope you enjoy it!^[sic]

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Title screen
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  Pause screen
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  Ending
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  Game over

Assets

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  Super Monkey
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  Sun God
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  Super Monkey on the title screen
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  Super Monkey in the ending
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  Power Blop
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  Bronze trophy
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  Silver trophy
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  Gold trophy

Thumbnails

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  Ninja Kiwi
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  MochiGames
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  Newgrounds

External links

• Bloons Super Monkey on Ninja Kiwi
• Bloons Supermonkey on MochiGames
• Bloons Super Monkey on Newgrounds
• Bloons Super Monkey on Kongregate