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NinjaBee
Wahoo Studios is a computer and video game development company based in Orem, Utah. Founded in 2001, the company largely serves as consultants or on a contract basis working with larger gaming companies such as Electronic Arts and Microsoft. Historically, the development house has mostly been responsible for console games. When developing original titles using internal capital, Wahoo Studios is recognized as NinjaBee. Since the release of the Xbox 360, the developer has supported Xbox Live Arcade with multiple releases, including '' A Kingdom for Keflings'' and '' A World of Keflings''. Events / History Wahoo Studios owes its roots to another Utah-based video game developer, Saffire. As Saffire encountered difficulties in 2001, Steve Taylor, the founder and president of Wahoo Studios, as well as a number of other employees, left to find more stable employment elsewhere. In 2004, Wahoo Studios introduced the brand name NinjaBee for use in developing self-funded games, reservin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band Of Bugs
''Band of Bugs'' is a turn-based tactics video game developed by NinjaBee. The game includes a level editor, leaderboards, Xbox Live Vision camera support, and multiplayer gameplay. It was released for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on June 20, 2007. On December 3, 2007, a Microsoft Windows version was released. ''Band of Bugs'' is also available on Xbox One through the Backward Compatibility program. Gameplay The game is focused on turn-based tactical battles between groups of anthropomorphic bugs, with each player controlling a number of individual bugs. The game includes a variety of different bug types (as units), each serving in a different combat role (e.g., heavy infantry, archer, support, etc.). As the title is intended to appeal to casual gamers (among others), turns are relatively quick and combats are small in scale. In contrast to many turn-based games where either an entire side moves at once or individuals move according to some initiative value, units in ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Kingdom For Keflings
''A Kingdom for Keflings'' is a video game developed by NinjaBee for the Xbox Live Arcade which was released on November 19, 2008. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows on March 20, 2010. Gameplay In the game, the player takes on a role of a giant in the land of the Keflings. Keflings are a small race of human-like creatures; similar to elves or gnomes. It becomes the job of the player to aid the Keflings in creating their kingdom. This is accomplished by building various structures, collecting resources, and managing the work of the Keflings. The Keflings will aid the player in gathering resources (wood, crystals, wool, and stone) and transporting them to various buildings for use in producing other buildings. Some buildings convert the resources into other products for use in building more complex structures. It is the first Xbox 360 title to allow full avatar player control in the New Xbox Experience. The game has been described as having "dashes of ''SimCity'' and ''Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outpost Kaloki X
''Outpost Kaloki'' is a city-building video game developed by NinjaBee that places the player in the role of a manager, tasked with building a financially successful fantasy space station. An enhanced port, known as ''Outpost Kaloki X,'' is available for download from Xbox Live Arcade on the Xbox 360. Gameplay In ''Outpost Kaloki,'' players try to address the needs of visiting space voyagers, while simultaneously attempting to meet any special victory conditions for the current scenario. Players do this by analyzing the small supply and demand bars next to each of the five types of service buildings available, such as social or research. When a demand is largely unmet, it represents an opportunity to build a new structure of the appropriate type in order to satisfy that demand and earn money to provide further services. As the game progresses, players can build larger, more expensive structures which satisfy more customers at once with a higher quality of service. As with many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A World Of Keflings
''A World of Keflings'' is a city-building video game developed by NinjaBee for the Xbox Live Arcade. It was released on December 22, 2010, and is a sequel to the 2008 video game ''A Kingdom for Keflings''. Gameplay The game follows the player's Avatar (or Mii, in the Wii U version), who is a giant in the world of the Keflings. As in the previous game, the Keflings are tiny people, similar to elves, who need the player's assistance to build-up their kingdoms. The player helps them by harvesting resources and constructing buildings, tasks that can be delegated to the Keflings as well. Throughout the game, the player completes missions and visits three separate kingdoms; the Ice Kingdom, the Forest Kingdom, and the Desert Kingdom. Each kingdom features its own unique climate, resources, and characters. The player can gain access to additional content if they also own ilomilo, Cloning Clyde or Raskulls. In addition to the online multiplayer component carried over from its predecess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boingz
''Boingz'' is a Wii game developed by NinjaBee and published by RealNetworks that was released on November 24, 2008. It costs 1000 Wii Points. Overview ''Boingz'' sees the player trying to help creatures lost on an alien world by helping them find the magical gates that will take them home. The game features 30 side scrolling levels. Using the Wii Remote, the players is able to flick around stretchy alien creatures by grabbing their antenna and pulling it in an opposite direction to launch them around the platforms. Around the level are additional creatures to flick around and use to solve puzzles. The player can also stretch the creature out and attach a thumbtack to their antenna to attach objects to them in order to pick up items and to pull down weights to open doors to other areas. However, the player will also have to find and collect Twinklies to power-up their creatures' elastic-power. Reception IGN gave it a 7/10, calling the game "fun and unique" with "satisfyingly cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloning Clyde
Cloning Clyde is a side-scrolling platform game developed by NinjaBee and released on July 19, 2006 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade and March 15, 2011 for Microsoft Windows. A group of identical clones all known as "Clyde" work together to try to escape the laboratory in which they are trapped. In 2022, the game was made backwards compatible on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Plot Clyde is an unintelligent character who willingly signs up for genetic experiments to be carried out on him for $20. Due to a malfunction in a cloning machine, Clyde is cloned hundreds of times. The facility goes into lock-down in order to prevent him from escaping. Clyde must gather together his clones and work with them to fight their way out of the laboratory. Gameplay ''Cloning Clyde'' is a side-scrolling platform game. The player has the ability to switch between multiple Clyde clones at any time in order to progress/solve increasingly complex puzzles. The puzzles mainly involve dropping ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancients Of Ooga
''Ancients of Ooga'' is a 2.5D puzzle-platform game developed by NinjaBee and Bacon Wrapped Games for the Xbox Live Arcade. It was released on June 30, 2010 for Xbox Live and on May 20, 2011 for Windows. Plot The story follows the Spirit of Ooga in the quest to help the Oogians exact revenge on the Boolis, after they tricked them into thinking their chiefs were evil, leading the Boolis to burn them. Gameplay ''Ancient of Ooga'' is a side-scrolling puzzle platformer where the player controls the Spirit, who can possess the other Oogians. Oogians are separated into tribes, each with different abilities, with the chief of each tribe having enhanced versions of those abilities. In addition to these special abilities, all Oogians have the ability to swallow and vomit certain objects on the ground. This can be useful as when you are holding an item, you cannot climb a ladder, and cannot hold another item, but you can hold an item in your hands and in your stomach simultaneously, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akimi Village
''Akimi Village'' is an adventure building simulator video game developed by NinjaBee in 2011 for the PlayStation 3 Network. Plot The game is on a mysterious floating island in the sky where the tiny Akimi villagers are trapped in the tight grip of the Gloom's thick shadow. Players must help the Akimi by putting the villagers to work harvesting and refining resources, unlocking a huge set of blueprints to rebuild their village, spread the light and purify the island from the Gloom's dark power. Reception ''Akimi Village'' received mixed reviews from critics, achieving a Metacritic score of 69 out of 100. Maurice Tan of ''Destructoid'' gave a positive review of the game, describing it as "a fantastic little game" and comparing it favourably to Ninjabee's previous games, ''A Kingdom for Keflings'' and ''A World for Keflings''. Tan also noted that the game's mechanics subtly portrayed the player character as a "slaver overlord". Tim Leigh, writing in ''Console Monster'', also ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orem, Utah
Orem is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, in the northern part of the state. It is adjacent to Provo, Lindon, and Vineyard and is approximately south of Salt Lake City. Orem is one of the principal cities of the Provo-Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Utah and Juab counties. The 2020 population was 98,129, while the 2010 population was 88,328 making it the fifth-largest city in Utah. Utah Valley University is located in Orem. History At one time the area was known as ''Sharon'', a Biblical name for a mostly level strip of land running between mountains and the sea, and the name of the Vermont birth town of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Another former name was ''Provo Bench.'' In an apparent attempt to attract more investment to the town and provide an easy way for the large population of farmers with orchards to ship produce, in 1914 it was named after Walter C. Orem, President of the Salt Lake and Utah Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xbox Live Arcade
Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) is a digital video game download service available through the Xbox Games Store, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360. It focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers. Titles range from classic console and arcade video games, to new games designed from the ground up for the service. Games available through the XBLA service range from $5–20 in price, and as of October 2016, there have been 719 Xbox Live Arcade titles released for the Xbox 360. Prior to the Xbox 360, "Xbox Live Arcade" was the name for an online distribution network on the original Xbox, which was replaced by the Xbox Live Marketplace. History Xbox The Xbox Live Arcade service was officially announced on May 12, 2004, at Microsoft's E3 press conference by Bill Gates and launched on November 6, 2004, for the original Xbox game console. The XBLA software was obtained by ordering it on Microsoft's website. It was sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xbox Game Studios
Xbox Game Studios (previously known as Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, and Microsoft Games) is an American video game publisher and part of the Microsoft Gaming division based in Redmond, Washington. It was established in March 2000, spun out from an internal Games Group, for the development and publishing of video games for Microsoft Windows. It has since expanded to include games and other interactive entertainment for the namesake Xbox platforms, Windows Mobile and other mobile platforms, and web-based portals. History As Microsoft Games and Microsoft Game Studios (2000–2011) In the early 1990s, Microsoft published a few video games. It published subLOGIC's '' Microsoft Flight Simulator'' and several Microsoft Entertainment Pack compilations of minigames, but was best known for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. In 1992, the company began increasing its focus on games. It announced '' Microsoft Golf'' for Windows, based on Access Software's '' Links'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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