Cage exploring "very different universes"

By Robert Purchese Published 13 July, 2010

Quantic Dream "will not play it safe".

Quantic Dream's creative conductor David Cage has shared his desire to explore "very different universes" with his new game.

Heavy Rain bestowed "credibility" upon the studio, he said, and Quantic Dream has no desire to "play it safe" from here.

"I remain interested in drama, dark themes and characters' feelings and psychology, but now I would like to explore very different types of universes and tell different types of stories," he told Examiner.

"We currently work on two very different projects. After the success of Heavy Rain, we continue to explore how we can go further with interactive drama, working on emotion and interactive storytelling for a mature audience, but with a very different story and a different approach.

"People who enjoyed Heavy Rain will be surprised by what we prepare," he added.

Cage said Quantic Dream's fans expect the studio to attack "exciting challenges" and "invent new ways of playing." "It is also what keeps me passionate about what we are doing," Cage offered.

Earlier this month, David Cage scotched rumours by telling Eurogamer "there is no project called Horizon featuring a couple in a science-fiction world currently in development at Quantic Dream". And he wouldn't lie. Would he?

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • the_sas_man #1 2 years ago

    At least he is trying to take the medium to somewhere new.

    Just like Heavy Rain, whether or not you liked it, at least it tried to do something against the grain. Fair play I say.

  • captain_Carl #2 2 years ago

    Loved Heavy Rain and the direction he took that in, so i will definitely be jumping on this.

  • Stompy #3 2 years ago

    While I would like to see Ethan Mars again (it would be fun if his life was messed up a second time!), a direct sequel to HR would be weak. I mean, what would it be called - "Snow Day"? Or maybe "Severe Gale Warning"?

  • sonicyoda #4 2 years ago

    2 projects you say? Colour me interested.

    Also, even though I've said it before, please don't take another 5 years to release a game. Quantic Dream have a solid foundation after the success of Heavy Rain; I hope they don't squander it.

  • ParanoidZombie #5 2 years ago

    thx to EG for providing us with weekly updates on David Cage's state of mind. Now let's recycle last week's comments thread: he's overrated no he's not his games are innovative no they're not he's a piss-poor writer no he's great QTEs suck no they're immersive blah blah blah blah see you next week.

  • neilka #6 2 years ago

    Are there cupboards on spaceships?

  • Doctor_What #7 2 years ago

    This time the internet is coming to life in the form of purple see-through dinosaurs. You heard it here first.

  • humble #8 2 years ago

    Fine, as long as Omikron 2 is still on its way!

  • Spunkweazle #9 2 years ago

    Looking forward to "Patchy Drizzle"
    Or "Turning Gusty Later"

  • Stompy #10 2 years ago

    ...it is logically inconsistent that I am -'d while Spunkweazle is +'d.

    Waah.

  • kangarootoo #11 2 years ago

    It is puzzling, though I think it was "Turning Gusty Later" that clinched it ;)

  • Sunyavadin #12 2 years ago

    If one of your next projects doesn't involve David Bowie I'm not interested.

  • Bleemo #13 2 years ago

    I would deffo be interested in Omikron 2, actually more so than anything HR like.

  • Capa26 #14 2 years ago

    Can Cage mouth more than three sentences without the words interactive, mature, emotion, different and further (each one or more times).

    Look mate I like what you're trying to do and I like Heavy Rain... but you're a pretentious bellend. Read a GamesTM interview a while back where he was proclaiming Heavy Rain could be gaming's Citizen Kane. It isn't, but he's so painfully trying to be the Orson Welles of the gaming medium its getting irritating.

  • Stompy #15 2 years ago

    "Can Cage mouth more than three sentences without the words interactive, mature, emotion, different and further (each one or more times)."

    I accept that it is not pretentious to use words like dark, gritty, adult, mature, hardcore etc. that litter the dev-talk about mainstream games. Yet it is clear that, when talking about games, there are this repetitions.

    If the price for expanding what games are, beyond this well-trodden field, is a bit of pretentiousness in the buzzwords of developers then I will gladly pay it.

  • theonomous #16 2 years ago

    The sci-fi thing is not the right assumption. Cage is going to out-gritty Dragon Age. It will be incredibly unsafe, as there will be blood spatters all over awkwardly naked bodies. You will have to rock a half-elf baby to sleep beneath a sky filled with wizard lightning. You cannot get a game-over, but every time you choke on a QTE you will have to watch some crazed maniac make your simpering child play five levels of Gauntlet. And all the silly accents will have a back-story.
    Edited by 1 at 13/07/10 @ 20:13

  • dudefella #17 2 years ago

    That's great, but it probably won't be out for another 4 years which makes me sad because Heavy Rain is my game of the year.

  • taurus82 #18 2 years ago

    Nah, the sequel to Heavy Rain would be Blinding Sunlight.
    And I think a horror movie like Hellraiser would make a fine 'interactive drama'.

  • Cronan #19 2 years ago

    If retro-fitting Playstation Move into Heavy Rain instead of producing DLC for it isn't playing it safe, then I don't know what is.