David Cage

Cage has been critical of "game over" events in story-driven, non-action video games, calling them "a failure of the game design". Cage was the first game developer to receive the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration granted in France. In October 2018, he received a Ping Honor Award for his career.

— David Cage, A word about Fahrenheit..., 2005

He is the first video game developer to have received the French Légion d'honneur on March 13, 2014 for his work, notably for the video game Beyond: Two Souls.

At the British Academy Games Awards, in which Quantic Dream won three awards for Heavy Rain, Cage stated that "games always explore the same things. They're about being powerful, being the good guys against the bad guys – that's a very tiny part of what can be done. There are so many other stories to tell, so many other emotions to trigger – this is a fantastic new medium, we can do much more than we currently do with it." Game developer Warren Spector described Cage as one of the best storytellers in the business, calling him a genius.

David Cage has been a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres since 21 December 2007, by decision of the then French Minister of Culture and Communication, Christine Albanel.

His earlier works include the music in the video games Super Dany (1994, credited as David De Gruttola), Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring Speedy Gonzales (1995, credited as David De Gruttola), Timecop (1995), and Hardline (1996).

Born in Mulhouse, France, Cage is the head of the game developer studio Quantic Dream. Early on he developed a passion for music and wanted to make it his profession - he even worked as a freelance musician early in his career. David Cage grew up during the boom of the video games industry and witnessed the democratization of home consoles during his teenage years. As a professional musician, he created the company Totem Interactive in 1993, which worked in music and sound productions. He worked as a freelance musician on several television, film and video game projects, involved with original soundtrack work.

In the early 1990s David Cage decides to write a video game script in parallel with his other activities. He formed a team of five friends and began writing his first video game script for a PC and Playstation port,After one year of labour, the final script consisted of more than 250 pages and hundreds of sketches and other ideas. He presented his project to the major video game publishers of the time, who showed interest yet refused to commit in the absence of a clear development structure. David Cage founded Quantic Dream in 1997. Cage plays a central role in the company and the development of the games, being founder, co-CEO (with Guillaume de Fondaumière), director, lead game designer, and screenwriter.

David De Gruttola (born June 9, 1969), known by his pseudonym David Cage, is a French video game designer, writer and musician. He is the founder of the game development studio Quantic Dream. Cage both wrote and directed the video games Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls for the PlayStation 3, and Detroit: Become Human for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows.