The team at Nasscom 2017, L to R: Paras, Avichal, Shruti, Ian and Anirudh
Ian Maude
FOUNDER & GAME ARTIST
Known affectionately within the team as “Grandpa”, Ian gained a job as a junior 3D artist with the highly acclaimed Stainless Software (creators of Carmageddon), shortly after graduating from the University of Teesside where he obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design & Illustration in 1998.
In the years preceding, Ian worked for some of the widely known companies in the video games industry. Some of which include Rockstar, Ubisoft, The Chinese Room and Acclaim, but to name a few. He rose through the ranks becoming a Lead Artist/Art Director for The Chinese Room where he oversaw the development and prototype for “Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture”, which went on to win 3 Bafta awards.
Ian later become a lecturer in video game art at a Pune institute where he met Shruti Ghosh and Avichal Singh who would later team up, and ultimately created Nodding Heads Games.
Paras Chaudhary
PROGRAMMER
Shreyas Pai
3D ARTIST
Avichal Singh
FOUNDER & GAME DESIGNER
Avichal graduated with a Masters Degree in Game Design and Project Management. Shortly after graduating he joined Zynga, where he worked on Farmville and Empires and Allies.
Since then he joined forces with Shruti and Ian, creating Nodding Heads Games. To date, Raji: An Ancient Epic has won numerous awards including Best Game Design at Dev Play 2019. Raji also went on to win Best of Show and Best Visuals.
Anirudh Singh
CONCEPT ARTIST
Himanshu Thakur
ANIMATOR
Pedro Pablo
VFX ARTIST
Isaac Walker
ANIMATOR
Linus Tzelos
SOUND DESIGNER AND COMPOSER
David Chung
CONCEPT ARTIST
Dipam Bora
PROGRAMMER
Jalay Bhatti
TECH ARTIST