David Cage Quotes

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.

The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.

Story may not be a great addition to some games - games where action is the whole reason for the game to exist.

The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.

There have been a lot of amazing action games that, perhaps, the focus is on cinematics or story or even how the camera works so that they've created this amazing immersive experience.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.'

I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You can't just come up with an idea for a game and stick the drama on top. It all has to be one driving thrust.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

I like games that are complex - the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.