David Cage, founder of the groundbreaking studio behind BAFTA-winning Heavy Rain, has asked an audience if games can be art.
The question came as Cage spoke at this year’s BAFTA Annual Games Lecture event on Tuesday, 3 September. The Quantic Dream founder, who has directed influential and innovative games like Fahrenheit and the forthcoming Beyond: Two Souls, was speaking about his passion for interactive storytelling at the time.
He said: “This is the most exciting evolution in storytelling since films were invented,” he said.
Cage also spoke about the power of modern performance capture, saying that before characters “could all look like dead fish” – but now it was possible to show actors’ subtle expressions.