Chirag Chopra New Delhi, India

Ten years of finishing things, and helping a thousand people finish theirs.

I'm the founder and game director of Lucid Labs, an indie studio building puzzle games with a point of view: Possessions on Apple Arcade, Xbox and Quest, Bloom on mobile and Steam. I also run wemake.games, a community of over 1,000 indie developers.

Apple Arcade App Store Google Play Steam Xbox Meta Quest

Selected work

Four shipped titles, one in development, two products of my own
2019-2025

Possessions

A minimalist 3D puzzle game about perspective and spatial awareness.

“Objects out of place, a story without words. Possessions is a vibrant puzzle where perspective reveals hidden truths.”

  • +Apple Arcade, Xbox, PC, Meta Quest, Steam
  • +3D · VR · AR
  • +Featured globally at Apple WWDC 2019
  • +Ported to Xbox through the Xbox Developer Acceleration Program
  • +Published in partnership with Noodlecake Studios on select platforms
Game of the Year Indie Game of the Year Best Game Direction Best of Apple Arcade

Indie Game of the Year, FICCI 2020 · Best Mobile Game, runner-up, IMGA 2020 · Indie Game of the Year, India GDC 2019

Possessions key art: a character standing on a floating room slice with objects drifting around her
Possessions puzzle level: a teal bathroom rendered as an open diorama
Possessions puzzle level: a kitchen diorama with a red refrigerator
Possessions puzzle level: a pink bedroom diorama with photographs strung along the wall
2023-2025

Bloom: a puzzle adventure

A casual puzzle with satisfying chain reactions and a charming story. Create your levels and share it with the world.

  • +App Store, Google Play, Steam
  • +2D · Puzzle · User-generated levels
  • +Player-made levels, published and playable in-game
Best of Google Play Mobile Game of the Year Indie Game of the Year Best Visual Art

Best Indie Game, FICCI 2025 · Best Game Direction, Best Casual Game and Indie Studio of the Year, GEM Awards 2025 · Best Indie Game, India Gaming Award 2024 · Best of Google Play 2024 · Game of the Year, Indian Digital Gaming Society / CII 2024 · Best Mobile Game, runner-up, Game Development World Championship 2023 · Best Visual Art, Indie Game of the Year and Mobile Game of the Year, India GDC 2023

Bloom key art: a girl lying in the grass beside a large purple creature
Bloom gameplay: connect blocks on a grid to bloom the plant
Bloom level editor: build your own level or play hundreds of public levels
Bloom world map: illustrated comic panels of the game's regions and characters
2021, live

wemake.games

A community for indie game developers to help them stay accountable and motivated. Join over 1,000 gamedevs, share your daily goals, showcase your work, participate in discussion and a lot more.

  • +Web · Community product, live since 2021
  • +Goal sharing with streak tracking
  • +A directory of 100+ indie games in development players can follow
  • +Work-in-progress sharing for feedback
  • +A discussion forum for game dev craft
Best of Product Hunt
wemake.games illustration: a crowd of cartoon creatures holding the wemake games logo
wemake.games goals screen: share daily goals and track streaks with other game makers
wemake.games games directory: follow the development of indie games in progress
2026, live

Workflo

A macOS menu-bar app that sets up your workspace before you ask. It opens the apps you need, places every window, and clears the rest, triggered by your clock, your calendar, or plugging in a monitor.

  • +macOS · Shipped, free trial
  • +Scenes: open apps, place every window, clear the rest
  • +Calendar and time triggers, with a cancelable countdown
  • +Restores every window position when displays change
  • +Product work outside games: my own product, design to release
#14 Product of the Day
Workflo: a MacBook staging notes, a video call, a keynote and an editor into one layout, with a countdown offering to apply the Meetings scene
Workflo scenes: preset layouts for a client call, deep work or a dev desk, and a map of which apps open on apply
Workflo countdown: a notification offering to stage the workspace before a meeting starts
Workflo in the macOS menu bar: the current desk, 8 windows remembered, and a Restore Now button
2026, open source

Clearance

A macOS utility that shows every privacy permission your apps hold, including the ones you never knowingly granted. It reads a copy of Apple's TCC database, lists every row in a filterable table, and writes your revocations to a separate file so the original is never overwritten.

  • +macOS 12+ · Free and open source, MIT
  • +Every camera, microphone, folder and automation grant on one screen
  • +Edit inline, then export a modified copy of the database
  • +Local-first: no analytics, no account, no backend, works offline
  • +Swift and AppKit, with SQLite compiled to WebAssembly for the table
Clearance auditing 230 apps: a table of granted and denied permissions with two pending changes
Clearance waiting for a database file, with a reminder that nothing leaves the Mac
Clearance editing a single permission row, showing what the app is asking for
Clearance in dark mode, following the system appearance

Also from the studio

Stay, Mum cover art: a mother and child at a night window
Stay, Mum
Apple
2016

Featured on the App Store homepage under Best New Games globally at launch.

ROTO cover art: a small flag planted on a black sphere
ROTO
Mobile
2014

My debut game as a founder.

Mellow concept art: a lone figure walking a red plain beneath tall stones
Mellow Upcoming
Mobile · Switch
TBA

In development. Not yet released.

Explorations

That Little Star

Shelved prototype

You play as Edward, a 12-year-old kid with Asperger's syndrome who gets caught up in a murder and decides to go deep into it while fighting his social disabilities. In production for about six months in 2017, shelved due to resource constraints. It never shipped. It's here because the idea still matters to me.

Also shipped, elsewhere

Times Internet 2018

Cricplay: India's top fantasy cricket game

1M+ users in 3 months

MadOverGames 2017-18

Toys Pop, Gummy Pop, Frozen Pop, Gummy Land & Witch Pop: five bubble-shooter and match-3 titles as Creative Director & Studio Head

50M+ players worldwide

Creatiosoft 2016

Bingo Live: online bingo with tournaments and leagues

Dinzy Labs 2016

Pocket Play: gaming & messaging app, shelved after two years

About

Portrait of Chirag Chopra

I've spent more than ten years in games: mobile free-to-play, hybrid-casual, and premium indie work. I founded Lucid Labs in New Delhi in 2015 and have been its game director since, shipping puzzle games to Apple Arcade, Xbox, Steam, Meta Quest and mobile.

I'm a Google Indie Games Accelerator alumnus (Singapore, 2018), and Lucid Labs was selected for Xbox's Developer Acceleration Program. I also lead IGDA India, the India chapter of the International Game Developers Association.

Masters
Game Design & Project Management
Rubika Supinfogame, 2012-2014
Bachelors
Animation & Filmmaking
Punjab Technical University, 2009-2012
  • 2026Lucid Labs featured in Microsoft's Xbox Developer Acceleration Program spotlight
  • 2025Best Game Direction and Indie Game Studio of the Year at the GEM Awards
  • 2023Bloom takes Indie Game, Mobile Game and Best Visual Art at India GDC
  • 2019Possessions launches on Apple Arcade day one and is shown at WWDC
  • 2015Founded Lucid Labs, New Delhi; Apple features Stay, Mum in 155 countries

Alongside and before Lucid Labs: Game Product Manager at Times Internet (2018-2020) · Studio Head at MadOverGames (2017-2018) · Consulting Producer at Dinzy Labs (2016) · Game Designer at Creatiosoft (2014-2015)

Honours

Accepting the Mobile Game of the Year award on stage at the IGDC Awards
IGDC 2023
Possessions shown on a giant phone screen on the WWDC 2019 stage
WWDC 2019
The team on stage at the NGDC Awards
NGDC Awards
Receiving the Big Indie Pitch certificate at GameExpo Summit in Dubai
GameExpo Summit
Three IGDC trophies lined up on a table
Hat-trick at IGDC
Lucid Labs on screen at the Google Indie Games Accelerator graduation
Google Accelerator

Also recognised

  • Best Indie Game: Bloom FICCI 2025
  • Best of Google Play: Bloom Google 2024
  • Game of the Year: Bloom IDGS, CII 2024
  • Best Game Direction: Possessions AnimationXpress 2022
  • Indie Game of the Year: Possessions FICCI 2020
  • 40 under 40 AnimationXpress 2020
  • Apple Arcade launch partner: Possessions Apple 2019
  • Official Unite Showcase: Possessions Unity 2018
  • Official Selection, Cologne Game Mixer Goethe-Institut 2018
  • Editor's Choice on the App Store: Stay, Mum Apple 2016

Contact

Building something? I'd like to hear about it.

Chirag Chopra, 2026 New Delhi, India