press
everything a story needs, on one page: who we are, what the apps do in their own words, and the artwork as files you can download right here. no form, no embargo, no zip.
questions go to post@aksial.io, which is read by the two people who wrote the apps. the studio does interviews.
the studio
two people, two day jobs, and the evenings in between. no clients, no investors, nobody deciding what we build. most side projects die at ninety percent; we do the last ten anyway.
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ios · game
a five-letter word game without the noise. one shared word a day, no account forms, no streak-shaming. duel a friend turn by turn, race a room of strangers live, and a weekly maze of seven doors that plays offline.
no call mints credits and no client writes a score. we deleted three leaderboards rather than rank numbers we could not verify.
ios · cooking
a recipe app built around what people actually do with recipes: find one, save it, cook from it, and remember afterwards whether it was any good. paste a link, share in from safari, or photograph a page from a cookbook. culin keeps the ingredients and the steps and drops the life story. cooking mode walks you through dinner with the screen kept on and the timers already wired.
the import is what looks impressive. what is worth defending is that the cooking loop works without an account and keeps none of your behaviour.
ios · utility
a network instrument for the moment something changed and nobody believes you. it watches the path, inventories what is on the lan, runs the probes you would otherwise run by hand, and writes the evidence into a bundle you can hand to an isp.
no account. no cloud. no email collected. nothing leaves the device.
ios · game
an ode to 1942 and the vertical-scrolling arcade shooters that followed it. one thumb flies the p-38 lightning, the guns fire themselves, and twenty-five stages carry the pacific war from the coral sea in 1942 to the japanese mainland in 1945.
five acts, three years, one aircraft.
assets
direct files. use any of it in coverage of the studio or its apps, at any size, without asking. the one rule is the wordmark: it stays lowercase, and the second a stays teal.
app icons
the icon each app ships with.
screenshots
one frame per app, captured from the build, not mocked up.
there is no press office to route around. one address, post@aksial.io, answered by the people who built the thing. we will happily be told our screenshots are the wrong size, and we would rather answer a hard question than a polite one.
