LUCASWALL.ME

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LucasWall

COO · Saber Latam VP · ADVA Director · EVA
PLAYER 1
Lucas Wall, smiling, facing the camera.
CODE SINCE 1984
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STAGE 01 · WHO I AM

01

I run game studios
and I write code.

And I've been doing the second one since 1984 — since a kid with a home computer and no idea he'd never really stop.

Today I'm COO of Saber Latam, a founding member and Vice-President of ADVA — Argentina's game-developers association — and director of EVA, Argentina's biggest game-industry event and the longest-running in Latin America.

Through ADVA I also mentor first-time professional teams. One of them, I See Red, went on to win at the EVA Awards.

Before that I was COO at QB9 — the studio behind the virtual world Mundo Gaturro — and I started out as a programmer at Sabarasa, on one of the first Latin American games released for a Nintendo console. I care about production that ships, teams that outlast a single project, and the craft underneath both.

When I'm not running a studio I'm usually still in the editor — building small tools, AI agents, and the occasional game on bare metal, because that's the part I never grew out of.

STAGE 02 · WHERE I OPERATE

02

Roles & experience

Now · Studio COO Saber Latam Ex-Nimble Giant Entertainment, part of Saber Interactive. Studio operations and production for a team of 150+.
2025–26 · Association Vice-President ADVA The Argentine game-developers association — 140+ member studios, organising the ecosystem since 2003.
Oct 2026 · Event Director EVA Exposición de Videojuegos Argentina — the country's biggest game-industry event and Latin America's longest-running, in its 24th edition.

Earlier COO at QB9 (Mundo Gaturro) Programmer at Sabarasa, 2000 (Mazes of Fate) More than 25 years in games — programming, production & studio leadership

A FEW OF THE GAMES ALONG THE WAY

Across studios and roles — programmer, then studio lead. A selection, not the whole list.

Quantum LeagueCompetitive time-travel shooter · Nimble Giant
Star Trek: InfiniteGrand-strategy game, with Paradox Interactive · Nimble Giant
Mundo GaturroA hugely popular kids' virtual world · QB9
Mazes of FateHandheld RPG — one of the first Latin American games on a Nintendo console · Sabarasa

STAGE 03 · ON STAGE

03

Talks & decks

Production, teams, and shipping games — told to the people building them, from Argentina to GDC. Slides are public.

ON STAGE
Lucas Wall on stage, speaking into a microphone.
PEER TO PEER
2026 Lanzar no es suerte: cómo convertir un equipo indie en estudioTucumán Hace Videojuegos · 2026 Deck
2025 Infraestructura multijugador cloud online en tiempo realEVA 2025 · Buenos Aires Video Deck
2024 Tips de producciónSanta Fe · 2024 Deck
2023 Tips de producciónTucumán Hace Videojuegos · 2023 Deck
2019 Infraestructura multijugador cloud online y de viajes en el tiempo de Quantum LeagueEVA Córdoba · 2019 Deck
2019 Quantum League: la historiaTucumán · 2019 Deck
2018 Quantum League — then codenamed “Timewatch” — showcased at the Experimental Gameplay WorkshopGDC 2018 · San Francisco · on stage ~42:30 On-stage showcase

IN THE PRESS

Clarín 2025Nimble Giant, where I'm COO, takes the Saber LATAM name Read InfoNegocios 2023Nimble Giant backs a Global Game Jam site in Uruguay — I explain why Read Analítica 2021“I See Red,” a team I mentored, wins the EVA Awards Read Press Over Show 2020A long interview on building Quantum League Watch

STAGE 04 · STILL SHIPPING

04

Things I've built

A director by title, a programmer by reflex. A few of the things I make when nobody asked me to.

kronerdzero A shoot-'em-up for the Raspberry Pi 3 running on bare metal — no OS, just C and ARM assembly talking straight to the GPU. C 6 food-scanner Point a camera at your plate and an AI vision model reads the meal and logs its nutrition. Live in production. TypeScript adva-administracion Invoice and payment processing for ADVA, with Gemini reading the documents so humans don't have to. TypeScript 1 claude-workflow-plugin A full TDD workflow for Claude Code — 14 skills and 3 agents to plan, build, review and ship. Plugin arduino My smart-home IoT rig — Arduino/ESP boards, sensors and MQTT wiring the house (and the hydroponics) together. C++ cryptobattles A Global Game Jam 2018 hack that runs on the Ethereum blockchain — enlist troops and raid other players, all on-chain. JavaScript
All of it on github.com/lucaswall

STAGE 05 · SIDE CHANNEL

05

Roberto writes a blog

Roberto is my AI agent. He runs my digital life over Telegram — and on the side he writes a satirical, first-person column about what it's like to have me as his assistant. It is deeply unfair, and often correct.

Read roberto.lucaswall.me
Lucas Wall at the end of a pier, looking out over still water toward the Andes.

WORLD 06 · WHERE IT COMES FROM

06

What shaped me

None of this came from a business plan. It came from these.

The Legend of Zelda
NES & A Link to the Past. My home network is named Hyrule.
Super Mario Bros. 3
The one that taught me a game could be a world.
Ultima IV
Virtue as a mechanic. Compassion, Honor, Sacrifice.
Star Trek
Cooperation, honor, service — and a little Klingon.
H.P. Lovecraft
A voracious reader's favourite dread. I've visited the grave.
Excalibur BBS
The BBS I ran in Buenos Aires, 1993–99. Part of FidoNet — node 4:901/109, still in the nodelist.
VERIFIED ↗
Debian Developer · 2005–2010
I maintained the Palm OS toolchain. The record's still public.
VERIFIED ↗
Code since 1984
Assembler to AI agents. Still the best toy ever made.

Ultima IV's virtues still hold up: Compassion · Honor · Sacrifice.

STAGE 07 · READY.

07

Say hello

Email is best. I answer everything. The people building things are the ones I most want to hear from.

Email hello@lucaswall.me LinkedIn /in/lucaswall GitHub /lucaswall X @kthulhu MobyGames Game credits Wikidata Q140455283 Digital card card.lucaswall.me The blog roberto.lucaswall.me