Welcome to Akula Games

Akula Games has been on hiatus for the past few years, both in terms of contracting and working on personal development, but I’m about ready to get back into personal projects (but not contracted work)! Several project announcements are coming soon, and this webpage will slowly be evolving out of its current “professional” projection of the company and more into a vehicle for my personal projects and whatever associated blogging I feel like doing that’s related. This means not only games, but writings, art, research, and whatever else I get up to and feel like sharing.

You might be thinking “if you do all that, the name ‘Akula Games’ won’t really fit anymore, will it?” You’re probably right, but as a counterpoint, the more I think about “games” the more I think about the Latin word for “games” which is ludus. Ludus, interestingly, is also the word for plays, sports, and school. That is to say, it means “fun.” Games are fun, creative pursuits are fun, learning is fun.

So in that spirit, Akula Games fits just fine – and mixing Russian and Latin for an English-speaking company would be a bit overdramatic, right? (Also let’s not think too hard about trying to decline “akula” and “ludus” together in a sensible way).

2023

The Planet of Pyre

Pyre is the pyrean homeworld in Triple Strike, and while the first two books don’t go into much detail about it, Pyre will feature more heavily in later book...

The Ma’jenn and the Civilized Ones

The ma’jenn will play an increasingly large role from Triple Strike book 3 onward, which is very exciting for me. I love the ma’jenn quite a bit, and while p...

Languages of Triple Strike

There are a lot of languages in Triple Strike, and in hindsight, I guess I should have had some sort of “universal translator” technology instead of making a...

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2022

Triple Strike now DRM-free on Itch!

While Amazon will remain (for now) the only place to purchase a physical copy of Triple Strike, I’ve decided to add itch.io as one of the vendors. This will ...

Creating Tension without Stress

Ursula K. Le Guin discussed the emphasis on conflict as the central element in storytelling, saying “conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equa...

A Foray into Light Novels

I got distracted this past year working on a light novel. “Light novels” are a style of novel popular in Japan that are essentially short (e.g. ~50k words), ...

Welcome to Akula Games

Akula Games has been on hiatus for the past few years, both in terms of contracting and working on personal development, but I’m about ready to get back into...

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