Ninja Kiwi, previously known as Kaiparasoft Ltd, is a mobile and online video game developer founded in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2006 by brothers Chris and Stephen Harris.
[2] Since then, they have produced more than 60 games across platforms including Adobe Flash, Android, iOS, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, and more recently, Steam.
In 2012, Ninja Kiwi purchased Digital Goldfish, a Dundee, Scotland-based developer, for an undisclosed sum.
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.
[12][13] On March 24, 2021, Ninja Kiwi was acquired by Modern Times Group for around 1.6 billion Swedish crowns ($186 million USD), to "broaden its gaming portfolio",[14][15] with expressed intent to expand into the tower defense genre.
[15][17] Maria Redlin, MTG's group president and CEO, expressed her interest for acquiring Ninja Kiwi because of how they have created a "successful combination of paid and in-app purchase models in its pricing structure", which she argues is a major factor in Ninja Kiwi's success at creating quality games.
The Ninja Kiwi Archive was released July 8, 2020 as a way for NinjaKiwi to preserve their original Flash games after its end-of-life announcement by Adobe as a free Steam app.
12 January 2021, NinjaKiwi officially removed its flash games from the playable section of the website, and simultaneously announced that because of the end-of-life deadline, the archive will remain indefinitely unplayable.
The game begins with members of the elite Special Air Service (SAS) being sent into a rural area after reports of zombie attacks.
The mission is to investigate these incidents as well as get rid of any evidence, but while staging an operation in a farmhouse, the SAS become under attack by a horde.
Red Reign is a real-time strategy video game released by Ninja Kiwi as a launch titles for Apple Arcade in September 2019.
[30] In the game, players try to conquer the enemy's castle by deploying units, in the vein of StarCraft and Warcraft's multiplayer modes.
[31] Awesome Points were used to keep track of a player's achievements and medals they earn within Ninja Kiwi games.