David Cage Interview

[fitbabits]

Edge Magazine (http://www.edge-online.co.uk) has posted an interview (http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/2005/11/faq_david_cage.php) with David Cage, founder of Quantic Dream and director of Indigo Prophecy (aka Farenheit) and Omikron: The Nomad Soul.

What projects are you working on at the moment? What stage are they at?

We're working on two new projects for next-gen consoles. One will continue to explore the Interactive Drama format we initiated with Fahrenheit, pushing it much further in concept, game play, narrative and technology.

The other one will be a very ambitious Action/Adventure/RPG title called Karma, which is kind of a spiritual sequel to Nomad Soul.
A very brief and unchallenging interview, but it's nice to read that they (Quantic Dream) are expanding on the 'Interactive Drama' formula.

[KamaItachi]

I like Cage, I think he has a lot to offer the industry and I hope he takes what he learned from Farenheight/Indigo Prophecey and improves on it for whatever he plans next.

I think it's ironic though that he claims we need to stop making new games and cow-towing to the media standards of the media, despite the fact that IP was half Simon says/Track and Field and in the end still pulled a cliched and trite ending that could have come from the mind of any EA hack.

But we all make mistakes, and I think what he did right before more than outweighs what went wrong. Let's see you pull a real masterpiece next time, Dave.

[sTubbs]

I think it's ironic though that he claims we need to stop making new games and cow-towing to the media standards of the media, despite the fact that IP was half Simon says/Track and Field and in the end still pulled a cliched and trite ending that could have come from the mind of any EA hack.

I agree. As good as that game was, it definitely felt like some major concessions were made - like they had many more great ideas but held back for fear of being too different. Oh well, it still blows aways most of the games this year for at least trying to be different. I am glad the game industry still has guys like David Cage hanging around. We need guys like him and Warren Spector right now.

[Deadend]

I think their next Interactive Drama game will be on the Revolution, the controller-style simply begs for it.

I also hope that on the next game they do not compress as much, as Indigo Prophecy started off perfect, but as the game went on, it kept becoming more disjointed and boring, which is funny as the further the game went on, the more epic the scope became. I really liked the first few hours of IP.

[Serapth]

Isnt David Bowie somehow involved with this companies foundation?

[Blade]

Omikron, heh.. what a missed opportunity.

Serapth: Probably, given Bowie's appearance in Omikron.