Name: Andrew Montemayor Job Title: 2D Animator DnD Class: Bard Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff Pokemon Go Team: Valor Empire or Rebellion: Rebellion Turtle: Green Sea     When did you first get started in games and how? When I was six years old, my dad got me a Sega Genesis. It was my first console and […]

How to optimize Twitter for indie game marketing   Say for the sake of argument, you’re an indie game company about to crack into the next phase of your development pipeline. You’ve been hitting milestones dead center, you’re on your beta, you’re planning your tour of the big conventions and everything in between. Now, maybe […]

Name: Rob Clifford Job Title: Programmer DnD Class: Rogue Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff Pokemon Go Team: Instinct Empire or Rebellion: Rebellion Turtle: Michaelangelo     When did you first get started in games and how? My actual earliest experiences with games were when I was too young to remember, watching my older brother play his SNES. […]

Publishing 101 | Publishing 102 | Publishing 103 | Publishing 104   This is David Logan, CEO of Akupara Games, and I’m back with the final part of my game publishing trilogy! For those of you who have stumbled across this series for the first time, let me direct you to the original article that […]

Funktronic Labs and Akupara Games have partnered up, and Akupara Games is providing marketing for Wave Break on Steam. This game is a cute, colorful, and exploding mash up of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Wave Race 64 that will have you exchanging trick shots with your friends for hours.     Grab and grind to your heart’s content […]

Composer and SFX Artist DnD Class: Warrior Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Pokemon Go Team: Valor Empire or Rebellion: Rebellion Turtle: Florida red-bellied cooter       When did you first get started in games and how? When I was six there was a crazy flood and only me and one other kid made it to school. They […]

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 […]