Ronimo Games is a Dutch

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founded in 2007 by former students of the

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History

The team that formed Ronimo Games initially came together under the name of Banana Games,Developer's site De Blob
and created the original freeware PC version of ''

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''. Publisher

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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

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(Nintendo DS, Wii) and

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(mobile/iPhone/iPod). With the money earned from selling the rights to ''de Blob'' the team founded Ronimo Games. 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

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title '' Swords & Soldiers''. In September 2010 the game was released for

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with publisher

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and in December the Windows and Mac version on Steam. In June 2011 the game was ported by

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and published by

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for iOS. The studio developed ''

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'', a multiplayer online battle arena for

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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 with the last update released in July 2018. ''Swords & Soldiers II'' was released on

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on May 21, 2015, to generally favorable reviews according to

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. 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. Blightbound launched on Steam Early Access on 29th July 2020. After a year in early access, Blightbound fully launched on Steam, PS4, and Xbox One on 27th July 2021. Blightbound's development concluded after Update 1.1.2 in March 2022. Although the developers delivered all promised features from Blightbound's development roadmap, there are still unfixed issues in the game. Reasons for not fixing some of the bugs include: "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.".

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) * ''

'' (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;

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) (PC, PS4, Xbox One, July 2021

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