David Cage

David De Gruttola (born June 9, 1969), known by his pseudonym David Cage, He worked as a freelance musician on several television, film and video game projects, involved with original soundtrack work.

His earlier works include working on the music for Cryo Interactive 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). David Cage left Totem Interactive and founded Quantic Dream in 1997. Game developer Warren Spector described Cage as one of the best storytellers in the business, calling him a genius.

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.

In 2018, Quantic Dream was involved in a lawsuit with Le Monde and Mediapart, accusing the studio of fostering a toxic workplace, after it was found that one of the employees had been photoshopping pictures of other employees. In April 2021, Quantic Dream won an appeal overturning a July 2018 ruling in favour of a former employee who sued the studio. It was later alleged that Cage said that all the female characters in his games were "whores" and that Quantic Dream "didn't make games for fags". Cage denied these allegations by saying "I have never said or even thought such things. I fully understand people were shocked by seeing those words, and I am deeply sorry for the pain and confusion they have caused to women and the LGBTQIA+ community. The quotes are abhorrent, and they do not reflect my views, nor the views of anyone at Quantic Dream." Representatives of LGBTQ+ employees at the studio defended Cage, stating that deeply hurtful and misleading perceptions "do not reflect [their] everyday lives at work".

Credits Director and writer Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999) Fahrenheit (2005) Heavy Rain: The Casting (2006; demo) Heavy Rain (2010) Heavy Rain: Chronicle One - The Taxidermist (2010; DLC) Kara (2012; demo) The Dark Sorcerer (2013; demo) Beyond: Two Souls (2013) Detroit: Become Human (2018)

Composer Super Dany (1994) Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring Speedy Gonzales (1995) Timecop (1995) Out of the Vortex (1995, unreleased) Hardline (1996) Detroit: Become Human (2018, opening sequence)