NimbleBit
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| Company type | Apple iOS Game developer and producer. |
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| Industry | Interactive entertainment |
| Founders | Ian Marsh and David Marsh |
| Headquarters | 13955 Stow drive, Ponway, California, U.S.A. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Ian Marsh David Marsh |
| Products | Tiny Tower Pocket Frogs Pocket Planes Sky Burger Scoops - Ice Cream Fun for Everyone Textropolis Dizzypad - Frog Jump Fun Dizzypad HD Bluebird Fishtropolis - Word Fun for Everyone Hanoi Hanoi Plus Moon Drop Threads Mega Panda |
| Website | http://www.nimblebit.com/ |
NimbleBit is an American developer and publisher of iOS and Android mobile apps. Some of their popular titles include Pocket Frogs, Tiny Tower, and Pocket Planes. It was co-founded by brothers David and Ian Marsh.[1]
Founder Ian Marsh has accused Zynga of copying its award-winning Tiny Tower game to create Dream Heights.[1][2]At this point, Zynga had attempted to buy NimbleBit, but on refusal, Zynga created Dream Heights. NimbleBit then added a mission in Tiny Tower called "Beware of dog", where the caption states "After failing to buy your tower, a rival developer would like:" and several materials are listed, which they want to build their own tower.
Games
All the games listed below have been created by Nimblebit so far:
- Tiny Tower
- Pocket Frogs
- Pocket Planes
- Nimble Quest (NimbleBit's newest game)
- Zero Gear
- Sky Burger
- Scoops - Ice Cream Fun for Everyone
- Textropolis
- Dizzypad - Frog Jump Fun
- Dizzypad HD
- Bluebird
- Fishtropolis - Word Fun for Everyone
- Hanoi
- Hanoi Plus
- Moon Drop
- Threads
- Mega Panda
Note: some of these apps do not appear when searching in the App Store, so a removal of these ones is suggested, once it is proven that these apps do not exist anymore.
Most Popular Games
Tiny Tower
Tiny Tower is a business simulation video game developed by NimbleBit for iOS and Android devices. In Tiny Tower, the player manages an expanding tower filled with virtual people, who are referred to as “bitizens”. The tower has multiple types of floors, all of which are randomly generated. The game is customizable, allowing the player to customize their bitizens, repaint new floors, or even evict bitizens. The goal of the game is to build the tallest of towers, which will attract bitizens to move in and work in any floor the player designates. On February 7, 2012, Tiny Tower reached 10 million downloads, so Nimblebit gave all Tiny Tower users 10 free "tower bux".[3] The game received a positive reception, reaching a score of 82/100 on Metacritic, with no negative reviews. In the App Store, Tiny Tower reached 4.5 / 5 stars, based on more than 155 thousand user reviews. Tiny Tower game received a positive reception, reaching a score of 82/100 on Metacritic, with no negative reviews. The game has many aspects, such as active and passive playing and pixel art graphics, making the game successful with recognition that includes iPhone Game of the Week, and was elected by Apple as The Game of the Year for iPhone in 2011. Tiny Tower released on June 23, 2011 for iOS devices and on November 16, 2011 for Android devices.
Pocket Frogs
The aim is to earn money by breeding and selling your own frogs. It has Game Center support. When the game begins, the player owns two frogs, a Cocos Bruna Anura and a Green Folium Anura, one regular habitat, a nursery habitat, and 1000 coins. In the pond view, players control their frog, eating flies to tame it, which makes it happy, breeding with other frogs players find, and finding presents. Presents include various breeds of frogs, potions (for quick frog growths and races), stamps (for quick delivery of mailbox items) and coins. Besides taming the frog, eating flies increases their happiness and, if they are not yet mature, can lessen the time left to maturation. The goal is to collect all 36,000 frogs available in-game. It was released on September 15, 2010 for iOS devices, and it is available in the Google Play Store by Mobage.
Pocket Planes
The point behind this game is you have your own airline. In the game you buy planes, plane parts, and airports. Your main goal of this game is to ship passengars and cargo both from one place to another. There are a total of 250 airports in the game, and you can get all of them by buying them. There are 60 different planes that carry passengers, cargo, or a combination of both passengers and cargo. This is NimbleBit's newest game, and it is very similar to Tiny Tower. This game was released June 14, 2012 for iOS devices, and later that year it was ported to Android by Mobage.