Quantic Dream founder and co-CEO David Cage has claimed that Detroit: Become Human “changed me forever.”

The French-based studio has been celebrating its history on social media in the buildup to its 22-year anniversary today, May 2, with the Detroit writer and director also sharing his thoughts on Twitter.

Cage posted a series of tweets centering on the developer’s adventure title, highlighting the “most ambitious” project from the studio through the “4,000 pages of script, 65,000 variables, 300 characters, 360 days of shooting [and] 30,000 camera shots” that were needed to bring it to life.

“It all started with a short, Kara, released in 2012,” he said. “Initially just a tech demo, I wanted to write a short piece showing different intense emotions.

“With this video, Kara reached the heart[s] of millions of people. We knew we had to tell her story.

“For two years, I've been studying history to understand how revolutions happen, how people fight for their rights, from ancient Greece to today's conflicts, from segregation and women's rights to LGBT fights.

“What is right or wrong when fighting for your rights?

“We learnt from philosophers Plato, [Friedrich] Nietzsche, Aristotle and many others. We wanted to talk about our society, about segregation, discrimination, domestic violence, the right to be different, humanism. Could a video game talk about such serious things?

“[Detroit: Become Human] changed me forever. It proved [to] me that video games didn't have to be about killing people. They could evoke complex themes and subtle emotions, resonate differently with different people.”

The Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls developer initially released Detroit as a PlayStation 4 exclusive last year, which was met with both widespread critical acclaim and commercial success.

In December, Sony Interactive Entertainment confirmed that the title had sold over two million copies worldwide, becoming the fastest-selling title in the studio’s history.

Back at the Game Developers Conference in March, Quantic Dream revealed that its past three titles -- Heavy Rain, Beyond and Detroit -- would be heading to PC.

Detroit has players step into the shoes of three androids -- Kara, Connor and Markus -- across different stories, all of which can overlap with one another depending on the choices made over the course of the single-player campaign.

Hardcore Gamer was impressed with Quantic Dream’s work on Detroit, saying in our review that it has “an endearing story that verges on the profound, diving deep into the nature of humanity itself. It proves that interactivity and focused storytelling aren’t mutually exclusive and that the two can enhance each other given a proper degree of talent behind the scenes.”

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