Ninjabread Man

Ninjabread Man is an action-adventure platformer. There are three levels in the game, plus a tutorial level. In order to proceed to the next level, players must collect eight power rods to activate a teleporter. The Ninjabread Man can attack enemies directly with a samurai sword via a shake of the Wii Remote, as well as throw shurikens from a distance using the Wii Remote's infrared functionality to aim.

When the player completes a level and plays it again, a menu appears with a second mode available, 'Score Pickups'. If the level is completed again in this mode, the player will unlock 'Time Attack' mode. Completion of this mode unlocks the 'Hidden Pickups!' mode, in which the player must find pickups.

Ninjabread Man reportedly started development as a planned third entry in the Zool series, a 2D platforming series released for the Amiga. Not much is known about the pitch, though it is believed that Zoo Digital Publishing (Zool's rights owners) weren't impressed by the tech demo and pulled the license. As such, DDI released the game as a standalone original game. Despite this, evidence for the game originally being a Zool game are still present; such as leftover Zool-themed levels and items, and a since-leaked intro that shows Zool crashing onto a planet that closely resembles the one used in the game. The data indicates that each of the other four games DDI made with the same assets were originally worlds in the Zool demo, with Ninjabread Man being Sweet World, Rock 'n' Roll Adventures being Music World, Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland being Toy World, and Anubis II being Tooting Common from Zool 2.

The game was first announced in November 2004 as Myth Makers: The Ninjabread Man, originally intended to be part of the company's Myth Makers series before having the suffix removed during release. A PlayStation Portable version was listed in Metro3D's 2005 product portfolio, but such a version never materialised.

Ninjabread Man received unanimously negative reviews upon release. The PlayStation 2 version of the game has a 31% average rating on GameRankings, while the Wii version has an average of 17.5%. On Metacritic, the Wii version of the game has an average score of 20/100, based on 6 reviews. The PC version of the game was not reviewed by any major publication.

IGN gave the Wii version a score of 1.5/10, saying: "It's buggy, often completely broken, somehow manages to have frame issues in tiny levels, and is completely ruthless if (and when) younger players die." Thunderbolt gave it 1/10, criticizing the game's length and the unimaginative use of the character as key flaws.