Our Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder, Montabi, is releasing on August 6th! If you were watching the Southeast Asian Game Showcase for Summer Game Fest then, you may have seen our new trailer featuring the release date of August 6th! Only two months away.   Montabi is a Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder, where you tame, collect, and fight […]

Few problems are as big and complex to tackle as climate change, but for the students at the University of Chicago’s “Serious Play: Video Games and Global Politics,” it’s a challenge they’re meeting head on. There are many ecosystems in the world on land and in the oceans where even the smallest change will disrupt […]

March has been a very busy month for us! From an art month with thousands of art pieces drawn for it to announcing a release date to a pair of playtests, there is a lot to talk about. A little bit for everyone.   Here are the games in this dev log! Kumitantei Darkside Detective: […]

The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon demo is out now!   The demo covers the first half of the first case, “Honey, I Shrunk the Detectives,” which I’m sure you can guess– is about Dooley and McQueen getting shrunk to the size of mice in the Darkside Division offices. Talking rats! Magical artifacts! Particularly […]

Signing with a publisher can be a pivotal moment for a developer looking for external support and financing, and even the most experienced industry veterans don’t always know or recognize the telltale signs of a bad partnership. Publishing deals are often positioned as a necessary lifeline: funding, marketing support, platform access, and perceived legitimacy. But […]

Happy October! Halloween is here! Did you see any stunning costumes people were wearing? If you’re like me, you bought the candy for all the tricker-or-treaters only to eat three quarters of it yourself. We’ve been celebrating spooky month with a bunch of new merch, new demo, and more!   Here are the games in […]

Happy Halloween everyone!  Akupara Games is publishing Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter! If you are an enjoyer of the Danganronpa or Ace Attorney series then I would strongly recommend Kumitantei!    Janus Institute’s Class of ’89 are trapped and forced to kill each other ‘for science’, is survival in the cards? Kumitantei is an episodic murder-mystery ADV […]

We have partnered up with Joe Richardson to publish not one, not two, but four of his games!   Joe Richardson is a solo developer who’s developed four story rich games each with their own unique satirical twist. If you’re a fan of Renaissance artwork,  classical music, and a story sure to make you softly […]

 It’s time to get punk, we are publishing Dead Pets Unleashed! Dead Pets Unleashed got cancelled (like a ton of other indie games) in 2024 and here at Akupara, we kind of think that’s bullshit. So, we’re going to do what the rest of the industry is scared of: Revive a cancelled project and put […]

Happy August! This month was not the time I was expecting to hear about Silksong news. September 4th huh? I have Hollow Knight in my library but have yet to play it… Err distracted! We’ve been a bit more quiet this month but that doesn’t mean we don’t have more exciting things that happened during […]