The creator, please, the developers want to make the most personal games

Lucas Bob, a single creator of games like Please leaves and Obra Dinn returnReceived Pioneer One of the annual game selection prizes this year. It is a great achievement that puts it in a league with industry giants such as Gabe Newell, Yu Suzuki and Roberta Williams.

“Now that I became an official pioneer, I have some requests,” he said in him Sent acceptance letter. “It is clear that world peace. But for this crowd, I will be happy if it continues to make the types of unique, experimental and creative games, especially the games I love.”

It was similar to something that the Pope told me earlier – especially the personal part. I asked him about the advice you may have for developers who have just started. “Make something personal, make it small, launch it on (ITCH.IO). Try to find people who love the same things you do and then make the things you enjoy.”

For him, Bob said, for him, it was always about “making something I want to play.” with Please leavesWhere you have to make difficult decisions while working as an inspector of immigration in a fictional country, “I was,” I want this type of game. I like to look at the documents. “Nobody really liked it, my thinking was.

This experience gave him confidence to follow a similar path to his next matches. He said: “I will try it again. I will do a game that does not exist, and I hope to get it and I can play, and I will do it. Based on faith, I hope that others will like them as well.” “If something you are excited about, do a game on this topic.”

That game turned into Obra Dinn returnWhere you are an insurance inspector looking for deaths and puzzles on the ship’s ship itself. The last Pope title is Mars after midnightPlaydate game on the offer of foreigners at the Mars Support Center.

It is more bustle than Please leaves and Obas; One scenario in Mars You only ask you to confess foreigners who are fierce. in Blog post About the game, Bob described it as “something that my children might like”, and he told me that while the children know Please leaves and ObasThey are younger than playing them because they are classified as M. This is why I wanted to do it Mars. I wanted a game where they can only play and enjoy it. “

The Pope said they played Mars “Dozens of times” and made suggestions for some sessions in the game. He said that as children, they do not have a lot of prior concepts, so although some of their ideas may be “somewhat ridiculous”, he may see “the essence of something really wonderful I can deal with it a little and get it there.” He added: “I am thinking about games in a certain way, but children have no such framing. So having children helps me to see how to play games.”

As for what the Pope wants to explore after that? “When I can think about Obas and Please leavesHe said: “I have somewhat realized (this) may have to return to 2D.” Mars It is “more or less” a two -dimensional game, too. From the point of view of production and creativity, “it is good to work in 2D”. “But with regard to actual topics, mechanics and things like this, I am working on some things. Nothing is ready for advertising, unfortunately.”