My name is Buddy Sola and I’m the Community Manager for Akupara Games. In today’s Indie Insights, I want to share with everyone an insanely useful resource we put together this year. Earlier this year, we launched The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on PS4, PS5, Xbox, Switch…

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…

With two weeks left in 2020 right before the holiday season, we decided to take a break from some of our usual publishing, development and porting tasks to instead have a little fun. The Akupara Game Jam saw teams of developers, artists, writers, and designers come together to create prototype games and let the imagination of our teams run wild. Today, we will be wrapping up with the last of our 3 game jame titles, Brain Frame. You can play the game right now on Itch.io or Gamejolt for free, or you can keep reading to get a little insight from the game’s creative lead, Alyssa Kollgaard.

With two weeks left in 2020 right before the holiday season, we decided to take a break from some of our usual publishing, development and porting tasks to instead have a little fun. The Akupara Game Jam saw teams of developers, artists, writers, and designers come together to create prototype…

With two weeks left in 2020 right before the holiday season, we decided to take a break from some of our usual publishing, development and porting tasks to instead have a little fun. The Akupara Game Jam saw teams of developers, artists, writers, and designers come together to create prototype…

One of my favorite things to do in these blogs is pull back the curtain a bit about our development, production and marketing processes. By doing that, we hopefully help give other indie studios a little window into what we consider to be important, interesting or helpful uses of our…

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.

Over a million players have played Relic Hunters Zero as a free title on Steam. It’s uncomplicated. It’s high energy. It’ll run on a toaster. For the past five years, Relic Hunters Zero has created a real community of active, avid players who are hungry to see what pops up…

Here are some programs you may find useful while working from home. Trello — Trello is a pretty straightforward tool that is useful both for internal development as well as community facing progress reports (if you are the type of developer that likes to give your playerbase insight into development…