Luke Whittaker is a British game designer and creative director. With a background in animation and games design, he co-founded the BAFTA-winning indie studio State of Play in 2008, helping establish a reputation for meticulous, hands-on craft and playful experimentation. He was the creator and lead designer of Lumino City, the puzzle adventure built entirely from hand-made paper and card models, which won a BAFTA for Artistic Achievement.
Since then he has worked on a string of distinctive projects including the Apple Award-winning pinball painting game INKS and the paper-crafted puzzle games KAMI and its sequel. As writer, director, and lead artist on South of the Circle, he even travelled to Antarctica to research a deeply human Cold War love story. Now, with Spycraft, a 1960s spy adventure that blends a physical board with video game mechanics—and comeswith a physical gadget built to play it—he continues to blur the boundaries between digital play and physical craft.
Relevant Links:
Luke Whittaker & State of Play
State of Play Games – official site
State of Play – about the studio
Spycraft & the Board device
Spycraft – State of Play Games page
Board – the gaming device Spycraft runs on
South of the Circle
South of the Circle – State of Play Games page
South of the Circle – Apple App Store
Luke's Perfect Console
North & South (1989) – Wikipedia
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure – Wikipedia
Sega Rally Championship – Wikipedia
Other games and references mentioned
Lumino City – State of Play Games page
KAMI 2 – State of Play Games page
Shadow of the Colossus – Wikipedia
Oxenfree – Night School Studio
RetroPie – retro gaming on Raspberry Pi
The Turner Contemporary – Margate
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