“Ninja Kiwi”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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]

History

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.^[8] 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.^[3] 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 to get

developer, 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.^[9] 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.^[10] The merger increased the number of Ninja Kiwi employees to 35.^[6]

Awards

In 2012, SAS: Zombie Assault 3 won Flash Gaming Summit awards for "Best Shooter Game" and "Best Multiplayer Game".^[11]

In 2013, Bloons TD 5 was nominated at the Flash Gaming Summit for awards in "Best Strategy Game" and "Best Cross-Platform Game".^[12]

Subsidiaries

Games

Bloons games

Bloons was a major breakthrough for Ninja Kiwi. The idea came from developer Stephen Harris' wife, who suggested they make a game similar to the carnival game where people throw darts at balloons.^[13] The original Bloons was released in April 2007 and has spawned many sequels and spin offs, including the also-successful Bloons TD.

Fortress Destroyer

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

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.

Shooting games

References

1. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ninjakiwi.com |title= Ninjakiwi.com Site Info | publisher= Alexa Internet |accessdate= 18 January 2018}}
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10783652 | title=Your Business: Monkey business leads to games success | publisher=The New Zealand Herald | date=6 February 2012 | accessdate=11 February 2014 | author=South, Gill}}
3. ^¹²{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/07/25/casual-games-bloons-tech-personal-cx_mji_0725bloons.html | title=Blowing Up Bloons | publisher=Forbes | date=5 July 2008 | accessdate=13 February 2014 | author=Irwin, Mary Jane}}
4. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-20179832 | title=Ninja Kiwi buys Digital Goldfish | publisher=BBC News | date=2 November 2012 | accessdate=11 February 2014}}
5. ^{{cite web|last=Williams|first=Mike|title=Ninja Kiwi acquires Digital Goldfish|url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-11-02-ninja-kiwi-acquires-digital-goldfish|work=Gamesindustry.biz|accessdate=1 January 2014}}
6. ^¹{{cite web|last=Rose|first=Mike|title=Bloons studio acquires iOS partner Digital Goldfish|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/180730/|work=Gamastrua|publisher=UBM Tech|accessdate=2 January 2014}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Mochicoins Announcement|url=http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1c2da7d6e8&id=13d091b066}}
8. ^https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-harris-25b4a724
9. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/aucklander/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503378&objectid=11082262 | title=Auckland company's latest game making it big in US | publisher=APN New Zealand Limited | work=The Aucklander | date=21 Nov 2012 | accessdate=3 April 2014 | author=Chapman-Smith. Ben}}
10. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.develop-online.net/news/ninja-kiwi-europe-begins-ambitious-expansion-plan/0115782 | title=Ninja Kiwi Europe begins ambitious expansion plan | publisher=Internet Media | work=Develop-Online | date=6 September 2013 | accessdate=21 April 2014 | author=Lee, Aaron}}
11. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.flashgamingsummit.com/past-events/2012/awards.html | title=Armor Games: The Mochis | publisher=Flash Gaming Summit | date=4 March 2012 | accessdate=26 February 2014}}
12. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.flashgamingsummit.com/awards.html | title=Armor Games: The Mochis | publisher=Flash Game Summit | date=2013-03-24 | accessdate=26 February 2014}}
13. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/20/in-the-flash-bloons/ | title=In the Flash:Bloons | publisher=joystiq | date=20 April 2007 | accessdate=19 February 2014 | last=Bardinelli | first=John}}