Lucas Pope Interview | Obra Dinn Sequels & New Game Mars After Midnight
285Cressup talks to Lucas Pope, the creator of such unique and innovative games as Papers Please and Return of the Obra Dinn. They talk about his new game out exclusively on the Playdate, Mars After Midnight, how Obra Dinn was originally meant to be a series (and how the final scene gives an idea as to what they might have been), his design process for creating a game and his advice for solo devs creating a game.
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Chapters
00:00:05 Start
00:01:23 Mars After Midnight
00:03:25 Bureaucracy in Lucas Pope games
00:05:20 Challenges of creating for Playdate
00:07:20 More games for Playdate?
00:08:33 Engineering background
00:09:40 How do you set about designing a game
00:11:31 Knowing when to stop as a solo dev
00:12:20 Hints system in Obra Dinn
00:14:20 The joy in solving Obra Dinn
00:16:20 Working at Naughty Dog
00:20:15 What was Papers Please reaction like
00:21:40 Would you ever expand into a bigger team?
00:23:15 What feedback about Papers Please surprised you the most?
00:25:00 Did you ever just want to make a Papers Please sequel?
00:27:49 Would you ever do a sequel to Obra Dinn
00:29:20 Themes of Papers Please
00:31:10 Advice for solo devs
00:34:40 Would you ever look into VR
00:36:00 Obra Dinn's art style
00:39:00 What would an Obra Dinn sequel have been like?
00:39:40 Would you ever use AI
00:43:15 What are you working on now?
00:44:11 do you get much time to play games
00:44:40 do you feel the pressure after these games? how do you deal with it
00:46:30 How long have you been in Japan
00:47:30 Fav choc bar