Ninja Kiwi Europe
Ninja Kiwi Europe, formerly known as Digital Goldfish, is a software company founded in Dundee, Scotland in 2004. It was originally focused on mobile games, but has expanded to include PC games. It is one of the two main developers of many Bloons video games alongside its parent company, Ninja Kiwi.
History
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In 2004, David Hamilton and Barry Petrie founded Digital Goldfish with the goal of developing mobile games targeting the female market.[1] In 2005, they released their first game for Java phones called Babygrow, which required a purchase at an unknown price. They subsequently worked on a new version that was never released.[2]
In March 2009, Ninja Kiwi announced that Digital Goldfish will work on porting the iOS version of Bloons, Digital Goldfish's first Ninja Kiwi-related game.[3] They then continued working on numerous other iPhone titles, many of which were iPhone or iPad versions of existing Ninja Kiwi games. After years of making mobile versions of Ninja Kiwi games, Ninja Kiwi purchased Digital Goldfish for an undisclosed sum in 2012.[4] The company officially renamed to Ninja Kiwi Europe on 26 March 2013.[5]
Technology
[edit | edit source]LiNK
[edit | edit source]Light interface to Ninja Kiwi,[6] or LiNK for short, is the proprietary account system created by Ninja Kiwi, which has been used since the release of the multiplatform version of Bloons TD Battles in 2013. It supports cloud saving of game progress and friend lists, and can be linked to other services such as Steam.
BTD4Framework / NewFramework
[edit | edit source]BTD4Framework is the internal name of the codebase used in Bloons TD 4. It was created to unify the codebases of the iOS and Android ports of BTD4, which originally ran on separate game engines.[7] A heavily modified version of this framework, internally named NewFramework, is the engine of the mobile versions of Bloons TD 5, Bloons TD Battles, Bloons Monkey City, Bloons Supermonkey 2, and SAS: Zombie Assault 4, as well as the console version of Bloons TD 5, and a further heavily modified version is the engine of Bloons TD Battles 2. The only games developed by Ninja Kiwi Europe since BTD4 that do not use NewFramework are Bloons Adventure Time TD and Zombie Assault: Resurgence, both of which use Unity instead.
List of Bloons games developed by Ninja Kiwi Europe
[edit | edit source]As Digital Goldfish
[edit | edit source]- Bloons (iOS) (2009)
- Bloons TD (iOS) (2009)
- Bloons Festive Fun (2009)
- Bloons Super Monkey (iOS) (2010)
- Hot Air Bloon (iOS) (2010)
- Bloons TD 4 (mobile) (2010)
- Bloons 2 (mobile) (2011) (iOS port only)
- Bloons TD 4 (DSi) (2012)
As Ninja Kiwi Europe
[edit | edit source]- Bloons TD 5 (multiplatform) (2012)[8][fn 1]
- Bloons TD Battles (multiplatform) (2013)[7]
- Bloons Monkey City (multiplatform) (2014)[7]
- Bloons TD 5 (console) (2017)[7]
- Bloons Adventure Time TD (2018)[9]
- Bloons TD Battles 2 (2021)[10]
Additionally, Ninja Kiwi Europe assisted in testing Bloons Card Storm[11] and some updates to Bloons TD 6.[12][13]
Gallery
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Footnotes
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Despite releasing before the company was legally renamed to Ninja Kiwi Europe, the Ninja Kiwi Blog credits them as such, and the game credits the developers as Ninja Kiwi.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "Digital Goldfish website in 2006". Archived from the original on 12 May 2006.
- ↑ "From the bottom up: mobile developer Digital Goldfish's life in a bowl". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved Mon, 23 Jun 2025.
- ↑ "Bloons for iPhone is on it’s way!". Ninja Kiwi Blog. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009.
- ↑ "Ninja Kiwi acquires the best Scottish games studio in Scotland!". Ninja Kiwi Blog. Retrieved Mon, 5 May 2025.
- ↑ Registrar of Companies for Scotland (Tue, 26 Mar 2013). "Certificate of Incorporation on Change of Name". Retrieved Mon, 15 Sep 2025.
- ↑ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2876550/Bloons_Card_Storm/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Ninja Kiwi Insider Session #2: Dundee Studio EVP Danny!". YouTube. Retrieved Thu, 25 Sep 2025.
- ↑ (Thu, 1 Nov 2012) "Bloons TD5: Now 178% more portable.". Ninja Kiwi Blog. Archived from the original on 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "What's Up At Ninja Kiwi? - 31st August, 2018". Ninja Kiwi Blog. Retrieved Sat, 26 Jul 2025.
- ↑ "What's Up At Ninja Kiwi? - 14th May, 2021". Reddit. Retrieved Sat, 26 Jul 2025.
- ↑ "Bloons Card Storm Developer Diary - 25th July 2024". Reddit. Retrieved Thu, 28 Aug 2025.
- ↑ "Bloons TD 6 - Update Notes! Version 34.0". Reddit. Retrieved Thu, 28 Aug 2025.
- ↑ "The First BTD6 Dev Diary!". Reddit. Retrieved Thu, 28 Aug 2025.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website (archived)
- Digital Goldfish on Facebook
- Digital Goldfish on X (formerly Twitter)
- Digital Goldfish on YouTube
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