David Cage plays there the new wave of the video game industry? The author of “Beyond Two Souls” acts gem in a world increasingly formatted, where inventiveness too often leaves room for safe values and the reluctance of publishers.
The French 44-year name voluntarily Anglo-Saxon sounding brings a breath of fresh air feels good. Especially when the industry is preparing for yet another clash of the titans programmed long, between Call of Duty and Battlefield. David Cage annoys. Some critics and gamers inflamed that it no longer really part of the video game, his world more joined the cinema, with an extremely interventionist and scripted gameplay. When we asked the question, the founder of the studio Quantic Dream says he takes all tastes. “With Beyond, we offer more experience or a trip,” he says. The player leaves actually take by the hand and lead in the shocking story of the main character, Jodie. A perfect example of the diversity that can provide interactivity. There it hurts. Especially when GTA V, symbol of extreme freedom, out in front, by linking sales records. David Cage has to face the “conservatism” of some. We must deal with it, even though deep inside him, bore a small wound. But it will not come to much of the line drawn from Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, both titles became cults create more adult games, affecting a wider audience and allow to interact in different ways. The cynicism of some industry
“I feel very lonely,” admits David Cage who finds grace in games “indies” (independent), the future of the industry, he said. “I am surprised by their audacity.” Regret and cynicism that pushes the industry to develop more products for consumers. “We are part of a different approach, more artistic. We want to create a work. We are sincere in our approach. Is it to be so highbrow?”, Does he asks.
To to develop “Beyond Two Souls”, the support of a big industrialist was nevertheless necessary. Sony, in this case, has nothing of a patron. The Japanese group has been against the good sense to leave David Cage full artistic freedom and independence to carry out its stake in entrusting a pretty package, a budget of € 20 million, excluding marketing, right same.Three years of hard work, with 200 people on the spot, 160 actors and a year of filming. It took fetch Hollywood stars, selected from the script, with Ellen Page (Juno, Inception) in the role of Jodie and Willem Dafoe (Platoon, The Last Temptation of Christ …) in the Nathan . “They were interested in the experience,” says David Cage. “We contacted them, it happened in an extremely simple manner. And we had their answer before you even mention the amount of the stamp,” he says. Without revealing the secret, he admits that these amounts are not significant next to those incurred for the development of the title.
A french touch emigrating
course, there the desire to provoke emotion from the player, offering unique scenes. And admit, however, that it is still extremely difficult for some players to play as a little girl playing with dolls. Or even embody a heroine in a still sexist world. The only game heroines are often bimbos advantageous forms … For the author who made this choice without even asking the question once its consequences, “nobody can say openly ‘I do not want to play the role of a woman.’” And yet, he was confronted with this kind of talk from another age.
David Cage plays a French touch endangered, he said. “We do not come to recruit in France. We are people who go elsewhere,” he says. Hard to face weight hunters American heads. And then bring developers abroad too expensive. So much so that one can imagine Cage expatriation for the future of his studio. “We would not be responsible if we do not we ask the question. We are at the head of 200 people, mostly permanent.” Quantic Dream is dredged every month from England, Australia, Canada, with a 40% tax credit, is trying to attract talent. For the moment, David Cage resists the siren song, but until when?