If you’ve been following Akupara Games over the last year, you’ll have seen us in a ton of different indie showcases. We’ve been featured in The Mix Next, by IGN and just last week Mutazione won the Grand Jury Prize at IndieCade 2020! A neat side effect of participating in all these shows is it […]

Fifteen years ago, anyone launching an indie game would have needed to make a Facebook. Ten years ago, they’d need Twitter. Five years ago, they’d need Instagram. Today, every marketing expert in gaming is going to tell you to set up a Discord server for your upcoming indie titles, whether it’s a thoughtful adventure game, […]

Last month, our psychedelic, 2D precision platformer dropped for the Nintendo Switch and all across stores on the PC. We’ve been getting tremendous feedback from the community, especially for the art and music, but this story isn’t about that stuff. This story is about competition, precision, and optimization.    Speedrunning has come to Spinch. Now, […]

In a world where getting the word out about indie games gets harder and harder, we as developers and publishers need to find new opportunities and avenues to rise above the chatter and make a place for ourselves and our games. There are dozens of ways to do this – Victoria Tran of Kitfox fame […]

From a game jam in 2015 to a premium title on the Nintendo Switch, Relic Hunters Zero has gone through quite a journey! One of the most impactful changes made to the game over its lifetime has been the efforts to localize the game for its 1.5 million players worldwide. As a game driven to […]

Today, we’d like to highlight black developers and black owned indie game studios in an effort to help the cause of representation within the games industry.     Notion Games LLC Notion Games is the vision of Andrew Augustin, a Forbes 30 under 30 dev from Texas. His game, Super Ubie Island, brings a cartoonish […]

  This is a living article and will be updated as more opportunities are announced, information on listed events is made available, and timelines are defined. We also encourage you to sign up for our events calendar, Indie Calendar Buddy, which tracks opportunities worldwide and year-round. We hope you find these helpful resources. Digital Events […]

Akupara Games is a fully remote video game developer and publisher operating mainly out of Los Angeles, California. My name is Alyssa Kollgaard and I am Akupara’s main producer across all of our development, marketing and publishing efforts. We have been successfully shipping products for over three years across a multitude of genres, engines (Unity, […]

In what feels like a truly spectacular whirlwind, Akupara Games announced its attendance to the Indie Megabooth at PAX East 2020 on February 11th. For several weeks before and since, we’ve been consumed by it. What are we presenting? How many machines? Where are we going to find the hardware? What kind of configuration are […]

While this blog and our company’s outreach tends to focus on our publishing efforts, we’ve also spent plenty of time and energy into developing projects of our own! While we won’t be making any announcements regarding those developments here, we do want to declassify some of our best methods and insights for the team to […]