Indie Game Developer

My name is Ross Omland, and
I am the creator of Ninja Playground.
I've been a modeler, UI artist and game designer at eV Interactive, a small game company located in the NW suburbs of Chicago for over 12 years now. The experience I've gained from working there has helped me take on several roles I never would have considered otherwise.  As a result, I learned about the development of games and the process from initial concept to publishing.

I wanted to branch out on my own and in 2014, Ninja Playground LLC was created.
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.