We're not going to just duplicate 'Heavy Rain,' because we are passionate about innovation and discovery, so we're trying to discover new ground and see how we can move from 'Heavy Rain' and create something even more immersive.
I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.
We want to keep developing original games in the genre we pioneered but also expand our audience by being present on all platforms.
Our goal is to develop our studio as a global, multifranchise company while remaining an independent studio.
QTE is a very strange thing... it really depends on what you expect from your game experience.
Not everybody's interested in shooting.
I wish more people would be allowed to take risks and try new things and new ideas because new ideas are what this industry desperately needs. I mean, how many shooters can you make?
I think it's a mistake to limit ourselves to a certain audience when we could reach everybody.
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.
I try to get better at what I'm doing, game after game.
Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.
I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with storytelling in games is that people tend to separate story and interactivity. Both should be conceived as one entity, each using the other.
For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about living.
If you played 'Heavy Rain,' there are very few cutscenes and very few moments where you don't have control.
If we keep making things based on violence and platform jumping, you don't need Ellen Page to do this, to be honest. It would be a waste of time and a waste of money.
Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.
The thing is, the better the hardware, the more time we spend to improve the visuals to take advantage of the hardware.
Some people are shocked when a game evokes real-world issues. But this platform is about becoming the characters, not just seeing them from the outside, like in a film.
I disagree that injecting emotion into a game comes at the expense of the playing experience.
I love unusual games, games that dare to be different and that are not based on violent actions.
