Indie Game Developer

My name is Ross Omland, and
I am the co-creator of Ninja Playground.
I've been an artist / game designer at eV Interactive, a small game company located in the NW suburbs of Chicago, for about 10 years now. The experience I've gained from working with such talented group of individuals forced me to take on many roles I never would have considered otherwise.  As a result, I learned a great deal about making games and decided that I wanted to branch out on my own.

Mixing with my own personal interests of martial arts and particularly Ninjutsu,
Ninja Playground was created with a close friend of mine, Isaias Martinez, in order to establish a name for ourselves in the gaming community. Plus, in working at another game company, we needed some separation and identity of our own.

If you are interested in hiring me as an artist, you can also find me and my work at www.rossomland.com
In March of 2016, our first game
"The Hand of Panda" was released for the Nintendo 3DS, with the help of many friends, family and backers from our Kickstarter campaign. Even with such a small project, development was quite difficult although it didn't stop us from completing our first project.
Our experience in creating games came from the prior time that we've spent working on various titles while working at eV Interactive.  We have completed roughly a dozen titles for various platforms including PC, Wii, 3DS, Android & iOS devices.