My goal is for 'Heavy Rain' to leave an imprint in you and change a little bit of who you are and how you see things. Maybe the key characters and key moments will leave a trace in you. If you don't have this ambition as a video-game creator, then maybe you should do something else, because this is what creation and art is about.

David Cage

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In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.

mean moving thinking

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

designer player games

It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.

skills games play

Playing with light is something that is very important, especially when you want cinematography in your game.

game you important light

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

you sad love life

'Heavy Rain' is a cousin of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books... by David Cage

'Heavy Rain' is a cousin of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

choose your rain adventure

'Heavy Rain' is really 'Fahrenheit' with more experience, more maturity, and probably a better vision and understanding of how this type of experience can be created.

maturity experience vision rain

Game Over is a very frustrating game convention. In short, it means, 'If you were not good enough or did not play the game the way the designer intended you to play, you should play again until you do it right.' What kind of story could a writer tell where the characters could play the same scene ten times until the outcome is right?

game good you not-good-enough

When you're a writer, you talk about things that move you, that you feel really deep inside you that's something that moves you, and you hope it'll move people, too.

feel you hope people

We, as individuals, are defined by the choices we make. Some of our decisions can have very significant consequences and totally change the courses of our lives.

decisions consequences choices change

The first movies were made by technicians building their own cameras. Movies became an art when technicians worked on the technique and artists took care of the content.

movies building care art

People trying new ideas are a blessing for gamers and in the indu... by David Cage

People trying new ideas are a blessing for gamers and in the industry in general.

new blessing people ideas

'Indigo Prophecy' already brought a lot of new features to the traditional adventure genre, including the Action system, MultiView, Bending Stories, etc. 'Heavy Rain' will include features like advanced physics and AI, realistic characters and living environments.

ai action rain adventure

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.

cool technology change time

With 'Detroit,' we realized that we wanted to create an experienc... by David Cage

With 'Detroit,' we realized that we wanted to create an experience that could be meaningful.

realized create detroit experience

Choices are a very important part of our lives. by David Cage

Choices are a very important part of our lives.

our very important choices

As a storyteller, I've always been fascinated with the idea of recreating this notion of choices in fiction. My dream was to put the audience in the shoes of the main protagonists, let them make their own decisions, and by doing so, let them tell their own stories.

doing shoes choices dream

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

cinema time believe art

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried t... by David Cage

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

new game classic design

The right way to enjoy 'Heavy Rain' is really to make one thing because it's going to be your story. It's going to be unique to you. It's really the story you decided to write.

you enjoy unique rain