INDIE STUDIO · RIGA, LATVIA
AAXCLTD
We build small things that feel big.
One developer, one studio, and software you can pick up in a second. We make games and everything around them — the engine, the art, the music, the release pipeline. Nothing we ship watches you, and nothing waits on a connection to be fun.
Poke the pilot.
WHAT WE SHIP
The work
One studio ships one thing at a time. Right now that thing is a space shooter and the eighteen-track soundtrack that came with it — both built end to end in-house.
Cosmic Defender
An arcade shooter in the old shape — one ship, one lane of sky, one thumb on the screen — and not a game of bigger health bars. Fifteen bosses stand between you and the end of a sector, and each is built around a single idea you have to work out: some you beat by learning a rhythm, some by changing where you stand, at least one by realising that shooting it is not the answer at all.
Everything in it is ours: the engine, the sprites, the eighteen boss themes, the Android release pipeline and the servers behind the leaderboards. It plays offline, asks for one optional sign-in, and carries no advertising or tracking of any kind.
- Campaign — 95 levels a sector, a boss on every fifth, par times to beat
- Boss Rush — no filler, an upgrade between each kill, one global board
- Mining — claim a star or asteroid and it earns while the game is shut
- Ship upgrades — laser columns, heatseekers, escort drones, pulse shields
- Cloud saves — optional, and progress lives on the device without them
- Offline first — nothing in a run ever waits on a connection
Cosmic Defender OST
Original score · 18 tracks · 2026
Every boss carries its own theme, written for the fight it belongs to and squeezed through a chiptune voice. Two singles are out now — Campaign and Intro — with The Sentinel next in the queue.
Whatever comes next
The studio finishes one thing before it starts the next, so this space is honestly empty for now. When something exists — a game, a tool, another record — it turns up here first.
LOADING… PLEASE WAITHOUSE RULES
How we build
Four rules, arrived at the hard way, that decide what goes in and what gets cut.
No ads, no trackers
No advertising SDK, no analytics, no ad identifier, no profile of you. If a feature needs surveillance to pay for itself, it does not ship.
Works offline
If it needs a connection to be fun, it is not finished. Sign-in stays optional and the game keeps its own save on the device.
One thumb, one second
Portrait, one input, no tutorial to sit through. You should be playing before you have decided whether you wanted to.
Small, then smaller
Ship it, watch it, cut what nobody uses. Every release is small enough to explain in one line of a changelog.
THE STUDIO
Behind AAXC
AAXC LTD is the company behind Cosmic Defender: one developer, Dainis Abols, working out of Riga. The same pair of hands writes the code, draws the sprites, writes the music and signs the Android bundle — which is either the charm or the bottleneck, depending on the week.
Being this small decides the work. There is no roadmap written to impress anyone, no growth team asking for a login wall, and no reason to collect data we would then have to look after. What there is instead: a game that runs on a five-year-old phone with aeroplane mode on.
So far
- 2026 AAXC LTD opens A company to put a game behind, and a domain to put it on.
- 2026 Cosmic Defender built Fifteen bosses, 95 levels a sector, Boss Rush, Mining and leaderboards.
- 2026 Soundtrack singles land Campaign and Intro go out on Spotify; sixteen more themes queued behind them.
- NEXT Google Play release The Android build is signed and testing; the listing follows.
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AAXC LTD — Riga, Latvia, EU