Papers, Please creator wants to make (or outsource) a Vita version

Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope says he's interested in putting the game on Vita, but hasn't decided if he wants to tackle the design challenges himself or outsource it to someone more familiar with the device.

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The indie game Papers, Please may come to Vita. Creator Lucas Pope says he'd like to put the game on Sony's handheld, but isn't sure whether he should field it directly or pass it off to someone else to port.

"A lot of people offered to just, ’send me over the assets and codes and I’ll kick out all your localised versions, you’ll be set’, but I wanted to do it myself because it was a little bit fun and because I’m a control freak," Pope told VG247. "For a Vita version, I’m 50 percent I want to do it myself and 50 percent I should just hand it off to somebody who knows what they’re doing and can take it over for me."

He did note that the Vita version would come with its own special considerations, and as a developer he'd prefer to solve them personally. “I do want to do a Vita version, but the thing is there’s a lot of kind of interesting UI challenges to make it work well on Vita: much smaller screen, much smaller hit targets. So that kind of stuff interests me to try to figure out how to make it work well on Vita."

He also said he'd like to make a "quick, short free game" on PC before going back to developing an iPad version of Papers, Please.

Papers, Please was a critical success with generally positive reviews. It tasks the player with screening immigrant passports in a dangerous and oppressive regime.

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    February 24, 2014 4:15 PM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Papers, Please creator wants to make (or outsource) a Vita version.

    Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope says he's interested in putting the game on Vita, but hasn't decided if he wants to tackle the design challenges himself or outsource it to someone more familiar with the device.

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      February 24, 2014 5:04 PM

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      February 24, 2014 5:42 PM

      Would work so much better on the DS

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        February 24, 2014 5:49 PM

        but would probably require a lot more work for the two screens.

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          February 24, 2014 6:44 PM

          When I was in the service, I used to stand posts. During night owl shifts, you can just lay low in the guard shack and await vehicles or foot traffic to arrive. During those nights, I would prop a DS on the table inside the guard shack which lay just below the front window away from view. I'd usually just play a turn based JRPG or something as I can play it w/o requiring that I two hand the DS. I can play games w/o it looking like I am playing games. To end this rant, I'd just think that if Papers Please existed then, how glorious the scene would be that I am playing a game about checking passes and ID while I should be checking actual people's passes and ID.

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        February 25, 2014 6:41 AM

        Yes I would think this is a no brainer for 3DS.

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      February 24, 2014 5:50 PM

      On tablets rather.

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      February 25, 2014 5:49 AM

      I'm really excited that Vita is mentioned in more and more conversations about Indie games. Its kinda becoming this awesome Indie device. Spelunky, Lone Survivor, Guacamelee, Hotline Miami. I've been playing tons of Indies on my vita this past year. Keep em coming!

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