Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope says he no longer reveals what he’s working on in case it’s stolen or ‘slurped up by AI’

Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope has shared some insight into his current status as a developer. In an interview with Mike Rose (No More Robots co-founder) and Rami Ismail (Vlambeer co-founder) in their podcast Mike & Rami Are Still Here, Pope explained that he had no aspirations to build a team of developers and was simply content to “sit at the computer, draw shit at the keyboard, and write some songs and put together some programming code and try to make games”. Ismail suggested that while he’s the sort of developer who has “one foot in the medium, just like, I want to make stuff” and “one foot on the business side of things”, Pope instead is “foot first in the medium” and creating things purely because he wants to, until one of his projects reaches the point that he realises he could probably release it as a game. Read More...

Apr 6, 2026 - 22:49

Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope says he no longer reveals what he’s working on in case it’s stolen or ‘slurped up by AI’

Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope has shared some insight into his current status as a developer.

In an interview with Mike Rose (No More Robots co-founder) and Rami Ismail (Vlambeer co-founder) in their podcast Mike & Rami Are Still Here, Pope explained that he had no aspirations to build a team of developers and was simply content to “sit at the computer, draw shit at the keyboard, and write some songs and put together some programming code and try to make games”.

Ismail suggested that while he’s the sort of developer who has “one foot in the medium, just like, I want to make stuff” and “one foot on the business side of things”, Pope instead is “foot first in the medium” and creating things purely because he wants to, until one of his projects reaches the point that he realises he could probably release it as a game.

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