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Ted Litchfield

Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope no longer feels comfortable talking about work-in-progress games: 'the situation just feels different'

Lucas Pope accepting the Pioneer Award at GDC 2025.

Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn creator Lucas Pope spoke about what he's working on next⁠—and why we're not hearing about it⁠ more—on the latest episode of Mike & Rami Are Still Here, the podcast of Nuclear throne developer Rami Ismail and No More Robots founder Mike Rose.

Though Pope said he typically enjoys talking about his work, he thinks "the situation just feels different" in the industry. "You don't really talk about stuff when you're working on it," said Pope. "It's getting slurped up by AI or people are gonna copy it, or something else like that.

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