Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope spoke about what he is engaged on subsequent—and why we’re not listening to about it extra—on the most recent episode of Mike & Rami Are Still Here, the podcast of Nuclear throne developer Rami Ismail and No More Robots founder Mike Rose.
Though Pope stated he sometimes enjoys speaking about his work, he thinks “the situation just feels different” within the business. “You don’t really talk about stuff when you’re working on it,” stated Pope. “It’s getting slurped up by AI or people are gonna copy it, or something else like that.
“It’s not a hard rule, but I’ve got a kinda feeling about that. I just don’t feel as comfortable talking about what I’m working on again.”
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Even with the radio silence, you would possibly suppose that not less than means he is engaged on one thing—however it does not imply the artist will finally resolve to share it. “I was pretty happy with Obra Dinn and Papers, Please,” Pope stated. “And maybe I can’t do it again? Maybe I just wanna go out on a high note. Why drag myself down with the next thing that people maybe won’t like.
“I really feel fortunate with these two video games. And I can do the identical issues once more—I can give attention to narrative and gameplay and mechanics—however who is aware of. It might be a complete miss. So in that sense, I do not actually wanna push my luck an excessive amount of.”
Fair enough—two stone cold all-timers is more than most people can aspire to, and with Pope having published both hit games himself, he likely doesn’t face the same financial pressures as other developers. “I’m simply discovering the enjoyable over right here,” Pope stated of the final six years of his recreation dev profession, which included the Playdate-exclusive alien assist group sim, Mars After Midnight. You can listen to Ismail and Rose’s full interview with Lucas Pope on episode 10 of Mike & Rami are Still Here.