The Ninja Blog

We’ve had another week of awesome entries to go through and decide who gets sent some Ninja Kiwi stuff. The winner this week submitted some cool BTD 5 pixel-art.

But before we get to that we’ve got some other things to show you. You may have noticed it was Mother’s Day on Sunday, and to express our love for the most… motherly of bloons Rohan has made this Mother’s Day MOAB

Nico has written a plot for BTD: The Movie and has even included a poster!

Both Rohan and Nico will be sent some Ninja Kiwi stuff for their effort.

And now, here’s the second Fan-of-the-Week-winning entry with an “8-bit” rendition of BTD5 by Pawsrent. FotW winners get sent a Ninja Kiwi t-shirt and an assortment of smaller knick-knacks.

Check out his great DeviantArt page by clicking the picture.

Thanks for submitting your fantastic creations. Keep them coming ’cause we’ve got a whole cupboard full of stuff to give away.

Email Fan of the Week entries to fotw@ninjakiwi.com. Make the subject “Your Name – Fan of the Week” and make sure you include your t-shirt size, mailing address and age.

For most of the next 24 hours you can get the iOS version of SAS Zombie Assualt 3 for free thanks to Free App a Day.

Go grab it from freeappaday.com and let’s see if we can get it to number one.

You sent us some awesome stuff in the first batch of Fan of the Week entries, but alas, there can only be one winner. However, we make our own rules so we’ve decided there will be five runners-up as well.

The five runners-up this week are (in no particular order):

• Bloonninja2009 with a Napalm Tower schematic
• Rider339 with a Battle Panic fan fiction.
• Necromancer10 with the Whammer Monkey
• Nathan R. with some Robo-Monkey fan art
• John Fausnaught with a (very in-depth)  bloons story mode

Each of them will receive an NK badge and some stickers.

The first Fan of the Week is rgmandratpm with an SAS: ZA3 remix. rgmandratpm will get a Ninja Kiwi t-shirt, a badge and stickers.

SAS Zombie Assault 3 Remix – rgmandratpm

Congratulations to rgmandratpm and the runners-up.

If your entry didn’t win, don’t worry, we’re holding on to them and they’ll still be considered each week. Keep on submitting your art, fiction and other creations to win some cool NK merchandise!

Email Fan of the Week entries to fotw@ninjakiwi.com. Make the subject “Your Name – Fan of the Week” and make sure you include your t-shirt size, mailing address and age.

We were sitting around chatting about the finer points of our community when someone at the back of the room shouted forth, “why can’t we reward them?”

Some murmurs of agreement and impressed expressions were shared among us, thinking of the possibilities. What do we reward them with? Who gets rewarded? Just who was that fellow who hollered?

After some discussion we’ve come up with a way to reward our awesome fans (you) for showing how much you like our games.  Each week we will have a Fan of the Week competition allowing you to win some awesome Ninja Kiwi merchandise. You might want to draw a picture, write a story, make a video, create a costume or sculpt a… sculpture.  Maybe you have an awesome idea for one of our games. Whatever you want, as long as we can see it or hear it.

We’ll go through all the entries and reward the awesomeness and pick some of the more outstanding examples to show each week.

So pull out your pen, pencil, paintbrush, sewing machine or chisel – kids, please ask your parents before hewing your vision into stone –  and create something that shows us how much you like our games.

We will have a blog post every week showing some of our favourites. These will go up Monday/Tuesday depending on your time zone so check in to see if you get your entry featured. The cut off time will be each weekend, but if you miss it don’t worry ’cause we’ll still look at it and your entry can go in the next week.

Email Fan of the Week entries to fotw@ninjakiwi.com. Make the subject “Your Name – Fan of the Week” and make sure you include your t-shirt size, mailing address and age.

We have just released our latest game – Battle Panic. This is a game we’re tremendously proud of both in terms of originality and quality. The graphics are cute but really convey the action well, and the sound effects support this. The music is especially cool, it swells and changes depending on how intense the action is at any time, seamlessly and awesomely.

We loved the idea of everything that you mouse over having some effect in the game – so you have this sort of “time budget” that you can choose to spread around different things as you see fit. Want more footmen? Spend more time hovering your mouse over the gold mines and the barracks. Want to help your army survive better? Spend more time hovering your mouse over your units to heal and bless them and enemy units to chop them up with your mouse directly. Every action you do has consequences in that you can only do one thing at a time.

Some levels will require fast action early on, whereas others will require a more considered long-term strategy. On that note, we were careful to make all the units have a strength and a weakness in addition to their obvious qualities. For instance, footmen are cheap and fast to train because they don’t require any wood. Despite being a bit slow and relatively weak, they excel at fighting the spear throwing orcs, but are crushed more easily by larger mace wielding units. These strengths and weaknesses become more pronounced when you play in Hard or Panic modes. On that note, good luck to anyone trying to beat the game on Panic mode. To even attempt it you need to pass the game on Hard mode first, which of course requires a campaign win in Normal mode to unlock too.

Play Battle Panic now!

So it’s been a while since the last SAS3 update we’ve been busy with a ton of things but we have a doozy today. Included are:

• Cryo grenades – toss one to freeze everything in a radius. Very, very handy in a tight spot.
• Apocalypse  – Ever increasingly difficult mode to test your skills and patience. and to that point…
• Selectable Game Modes – now you choose if you want Onslaught, Purge or Apocalypse
• Elite Ranks – This is a biggie. Ranks 41-50 have been added as Elite I, II, III…Elite X. All rank 40s can now start earning Elite XP to go up ranks playing in…
• Nightmare Mode – Earns you Elite XP which is required to progress up Elite ranks. It’s much harder and there are no shortcuts (Elite Ranks cannot be purchased)
• New standard guns – M134 Minigun, Mark II, MAC10 and the Zombie Combat Systems “Seizure”
• New Elite Skills – Double Health with the “Highlander” skill, “Faster Reload Specials” and “Speed Boost”. Also earn the right to the new Black SAS once you achieve rank 50 (Elite X)
• New Premium Guns – Two new super powerful Premium guns, the ZCS “SCIMTR” semi-auto biotox shotgun that creates corpse explosions and the ZCS “Wipeout” which is a full-auto assault rifle with White Phosphorous ammo that sets targets on fire…

That should keep everyone busy for a while, we’re still working on things so expect a few more updates to keep coming in.

Play SAS: Zombie Assault 3 now!

Some of you may have already discovered the awesomeness of Awesome but now we’re officially announcing the NK Awesome level up system! If you’ve registered to NK (as of course you have, to play BTD5, right?), you’ll start earning Awesome as you complete Achievements within NK Games (BTD5 is the main one to start, but new games are about to release). And of coure more Awesome is more awesomer, as it unlocks a whole set of new avatars and brand new player titles.

Besides the 8 initial avatars available we’ve added another 32 to level up and unlock. Once unlocked, just click Change Avatar on your NK profile page (must be logged in to NK to view profile page) to choose from this sweet selection of some of our favorite Ninja Kiwi game characters. Titles are assigned automatically based on level and help boast your awesomeness without you saying a thing. As the NK system continues to evolve and we get functionality for friends and teams/clans, these avatars and profile pages will be visible to others in more places than just leaderboards.

Soon we’ll be adding new ways to earn Awesome in Bloons TD5, such as Special Missions with bonus Awesome awards and new epic achievements for true fans.

So go forth, be awesome, and earn Awesome!

Now for the inside scoop: BTD5…double rank xp and double tower xp…4 days only starting mid-day tomorrow (Feb 23)…that is all

Cheers!

Brand New BTD5 Update – Daily Challenges! Log in each day and get access to a cool challenge – different modes, tracks, and restricted towers each day, but always a fun test of your skills. Beating it will win you Monkey Money and make progress against 4 new Achievements. Each Challenge is only available for 24 hours, and playing every day is the only way to beat them all. Daily Challenges require that you have all of the towers unlocked, so Log In, get to Rank 18, and play the Daily Challenge!

Bloons Tower Defense 5 Daily Challenges

Ok so this has been in the works for a while now and I’m happy to say its finally out!

Bloons Tower Defense 4 Android

The game is every bit as awesome as BTD4 web or BTD4 iphone

If you’re one of the hundreds of people who email us all the time about BTD4 android – you can stop now. Go buy the app.

Many of you have been enjoying our super sweet multiplayer shooter SAS3. Well in what could only be described as a moment of madness, overwhelming good Christmas spirit, or both, SAS3 is available now, free for what may be a limited time

Get SAS: Zombie Assault 3 for your iPhone and iPad here!

Merry me-mas.