Lucas Pope
Lucas Pope is an independent game developer who created Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn.
Career
Worked as a programmer at Naughty Dog on Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
Released The Republia Times in 2012.
Released Papers, Please in 2013; it won the 2014 IGF Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Design awards.
Released Return of the Obra Dinn in 2018; it won the 2019 IGF Seumas McNally Grand Prize.
Created Mars After Midnight for Playdate, announced and released in 2024.
Interesting Facts
- Return of the Obra Dinn uses a monochrome 1-bit visual presentation inspired by early computer graphics.
