David Cage Quotes

Video game designer and director, known for creating interactive and emotionally-driven narrative games.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

I've been playing video games since I was 10 years old, and I think it's important to play games if you want to design them yourself.

For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about living.

I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.

I'm not a frustrated movie director: I'm not makin... -David Cage

I'm not a frustrated movie director: I'm not making games because I can't make movies.

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This quote implies that the speaker is involved in game development and clarifies that their participation in the gaming industry is not a result of frustration or inability to make movies.

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.

I love games like 'Flower,' for example - I thought this was amazing. It's great, it's new, it's different, and it's invented something that didn't exist before.

Anybody working on storytelling has my respect.

Every time you try to create an experience with a character who doesn't use a gun, doesn't drive a car, doesn't jump off platforms, doesn't solve puzzles, you are taking a risk.

I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with storytelling in games is that people tend to separate story and interactivity. Both should be conceived as one entity, each using the other.

Whether you make an action blockbuster or a comedy or a drama, you've got the right camera and all the right technology to do it. In games, it's not the same yet, and I would like to see technologies dealing with cameras the way we do - dealing with bouquet, dealing with performance capture, with lighting - with all this stuff the way we do.

What we believe at Quantic Dream is that there is a space for adult games: meaningful experiences for a mature audience.

Each time you buy a used game, this is money that doesn't go into the pocket of the people that took the risk to create this, to finance it, to develop it.

Cinema became what it is today when technology allowed movie directors and actors to develop emotion. You can see into the eyes of the actors and know when they are going to cry.

When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.

I wish that there were more games having the courage to talk about more subversive topics. Talking about politics, sexuality, human relationships.

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game des... -David Cage

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

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The quote indicates that the speaker deliberately disregarded traditional or established rules of classic game design and instead sought to create new guidelines or principles. It implies a willingness to challenge conventions and explore innovative approaches in the field of game design.

Games are quite shy at talking about different things. Most are about facing hordes of monsters or saving the world or whatever; few games actually talk about the real world, about real people, about their relationship, their emotions, their feelings.

Life is sometimes you're happy, sometimes you're sad, sometimes you're in love, sometimes you fight, and that's a life.

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