Ronimo Games
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| Industry | Video games |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Utrecht, Netherlands |
Key people | Fabian Akker, Joost van Dongen, Gijs Hermans, Jasper Koning, Ralph Rademakers, Martijn Thieme, Olivier Thijssen |
| Products | Swords & Soldiers Awesomenauts |
Number of employees | 17 (2015)[1] |
| Website | ronimo-games.com |
Ronimo Games is a Dutch video game developer founded in 2007 by former students of the Utrecht School of the Arts.
History
The team that formed Ronimo Games initially came together under the name of Banana Games,[2] and created the original freeware PC version of de Blob.[3] Publisher THQ noticed the game, was very impressed with the team's work, and acquired the rights to the game. THQ subsequently handed over further development to Blue Tongue Entertainment (Nintendo DS, Wii) and Universomo (mobile/iPhone/iPod).
With the money earned from selling the rights to de Blob the team founded Ronimo Games.[1] The name "Ronimo" came from a brainstorming session in which the team decided to combine the first letters of the words "Robot Ninja Monkey".
In May 2009, the studio released the WiiWare title Swords & Soldiers. In September 2010 the game was released for PlayStation Network with publisher Sony Online Entertainment and in December the Windows and Mac version on Steam. In June 2011 the game was ported by Two Tribes and published by Chillingo for iOS.
The studio developed Awesomenauts, a multiplayer online battle arena for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC. Despite the publisher's financial problems, the game was released on PC at May 2, 2012. The studio went to Kickstarter to fund Awesomenauts: Starstorm, the game's first expansion. A second expansion, Awesomenauts: Overdrive, was released on March 2, 2016. Ronimo Games released updates for the PC version, adding new characters, addressing balancing, connectivity, and bug-fixes until development on the game was discontinued[4] with the last update released in July 2018.
Swords & Soldiers II was released on Wii U on May 21, 2015, to generally favorable reviews according to Metacritic.[5][6][7] Renamed as Swords & Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon, it was released for PC and PlayStation 4 in November 2018. It was released for Nintendo Switch on March 1, 2019.[8][9][10][11][12]
It should be of note that the developer has canceled development on projects while issues were known and admitted by the developers.
Blightbound was shut down mid early access production with a laundry list of issues and bugs that the developer excused themselves of with "We are not able to fix this because we don't have next gen dev kits. Without PS5 or Xbox Series X dev kits, we are not able to find the issue causing this problem, so any fix we would want to implement would essentially be guesswork, as there are no debug settings or error logs on commercial consoles. Furthermore, any fix would also need to be tested in a live build of the game, which is not an option.".[13]
This implies Ronimo developed a game for a console without a devkit, but then somehow needed that devkit to work on the code of the game for the consoles they had sold it for.
Games developed
As Banana Games
- The Blob! (Windows, 2006)
As Ronimo Games
- Swords & Soldiers (Wii, 2009; PS3, 2010; Windows, 2010; Mac, 2010; iOS, 2011; Linux, 2012; Android 2012)
- Awesomenauts (PlayStation 3, 2012; Xbox 360, 2012; Windows, 2012; Mac, 2012; Linux, 2013)
- Swords & Soldiers II (Wii U, 2015)
- Swords & Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon (PC, 2018; PS4, 2018; Nintendo Switch, 2019)
- Blightbound (PC; Devolver Digital) (PC, PS4, Xbox One, July 2021[14]
Further reading
- De Pers, "Nederlandse studenten maken succesgame" - October 6, 2008
References
- ^ a b http://internships.controlmagazine.net/job/ronimo-games-utrecht-6-c-programming-internship-on-awesomenauts/
- ^ Developer's site De Blob Archived 2013-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ronimo Games Interview: Swords and Soldiers". Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved October 6, 2008.
- ^ "Youtube title: Making Our FaZe Audition Tape". YouTube. November 5, 2019. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Review: Swords and Soldiers II". destructoid.com. May 20, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "A sidescrolling RTS? The shenanigans continue in Swords & Soldiers II". quartertothree.com. June 8, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Swords and Soldiers II Wii U". metacritic.com. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Swords & Soldiers II Shawarmageddon Brings Side-Scrolling Strategy To Switch Very Soon". nintendolife.com. October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon is out next month on PC/PS4, Switch coming 'later'". destructoid.com. October 24, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Tarason, Dominic (November 6, 2018). "Swords And Soldiers 2: Shawarmageddon brings the beef back to PC today". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon Launches Today on PS4". blog.us.playstation.com. November 6, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon". nintendo.com. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Blightbound - Known Issues - Steam News". store.steampowered.com. June 27, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
- ^ Chalk, Andy (May 14, 2020). "Blightbound is a three-player co-op dungeon crawler from the makers of Awesomenauts". PC Gamer. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
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