“There’s a movement around it at the moment in the last year or two. You can tell by all of the GDC talks…I think there’s a real appetite for it. I think interactive fiction is a great thing. It’s beautiful on a mobile device, people get excited about it. The more interactive fiction, the better.”

“I left PlayStation in December to ‘go indie,’ as they say. And I didn’t get scared. I thought about it for quite a few years. I wanted to go back to making video games for a quarter of a century. I felt bad about leaving it in the first place. But I had no choice. It became absolutely impossible for a single person to make a game, starting from the early 90s. And I didn’t want to be making games in a team, or for, dare I say, consoles -- the consoles we had at the time. The consoles were effectively toys, cartridges, rigorous QA…oh it’s just utterly horrible to try and do [game dev] even as a very small team.

“So the industry found itself bolstering itself up in that time, and I worked within those constraints. So I guess I had to go through that. The last few years at PlayStation were a bit unexpected in a very very nice way.”