With E3 right around the corner, we wanted to pass on some sage advice! Last year our very own Yoonsang David Yu wrote some tips for general attendees. This year we decided to write some tips for industry professionals heading to E3, or any other convention!     Be Positive E3 is magical and it […]

Art Lead DnD Class: Warrior Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff Pokemon Go Team: Valor Empire or Rebellion: Empire Turtle: Raphael     When did you first get started in games and how? Probably around 1st grade or so. My parents would drop me off at my grandparents for the weekend occasionally, and my Grandmother and I would play […]

With the release of our most recent project (DAMIEN, you can catch up on all the big details here) Akupara finally found some time to get the gang together for some good old fun and games!     Two Bit Circus in downtown Los Angeles hosted us for the night and we couldn’t have had […]

    Did everyone check out DAMIEN released by Markiplier on Sunday? If you haven’t, go ahead and watch the video above! Once you’ve finished watching it and loved it, keep scrolling down and catch our Behind the Scenes magic with two of the team’s artists – Cherlynn Lima and Ian Melinn. You can see the […]

Associate Producer DnD Class: Druid Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Pokemon Go Team: Mystic Empire or Rebellion: Rebellion Turtle: Donatello     When did you first get started in games and how? My experience started when I was really young – maybe 3 or 4 – and I would always watch my brother play games on his […]

OK, stop me if you’ve heard this one before: There’s no such thing as bad publicity.   If that’s the case, then the producers behind Sonic: The Movie should be feeling pretty good about themselves. The Internet has been having a field day making fun of this movie.  It’s pretty clear that Sonic memes are reaching […]

Social Media/Community Manager DnD Class: Ranger Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Pokemon Go Team: Valor Empire or Rebellion: Rebellion Turtle: Donatello       When did you first get started in games and how? My family moved to Japan when I was about ten years old in the late nineties, and if there was ever a time […]

We hope everyone had a great and productive time at GDC last month! For those of you who were there, did you get a chance to check out the awesome Genvid Trailer that Akupara Games produced? If you weren’t able to catch it, couldn’t make it out to San Francisco this year, or just simply […]

We’re excited to announce that Desert Child has been nominated for the NAVGTR Awards in the categories of:   • Game, Original Racing • Song Collection • Song, Original or Adapted (Mega Ran and Bag of Tricks Cat – Love is Here)   We’re so proud of this and hopefully Oscar can bring home the hardware […]

Publishing 101 | Publishing 102 | Publishing 103 | Publishing 104   New year, new advice! My name is David Logan, CEO of Akupara Games, and I’d like to start the year with some more insider details on game publishing. Last year, I wrote the first entry for a series of articles to help guide […]