Heavy Rain Creator Inducted Into Order Founded by Napoleon

Here’s something odd: David Cage, the maker of Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain, now has something in common with Marcel Marceau, Jacques Cousteau and Alexis de Tocqueville: all are members of France’s Legion d’honneur, an award akin to being knighted in the United Kingdom.

Le Figaro reported this weekend that Cage, 44, (pictured) the founder of studio Quantic Dream, would become the first video game developer to earn the award. Of course, the discipline is relatively new when compared to an order dating to 1802. When you consider that more than 94,000 people (some of them from nations other than France) have been awarded the Legion of Honour, it sounds even more special. The Legion of Honour is France’s highest national decoration.

Cage will be inducted at the rank of Chevalier, or knight, which requires a minimum of 25 years of professional activity (or 20 of public service) and “eminent merits.” Membership is capped at 113,425 Knights; the order currently has 74,384 (living and dead).

Le Figaro notes that in 2006, France’s minister of culture presented the Chevalier of Arts and Letters to Shigeru Miyamoto, Michel Ancel and Frederick Raynal, but that is a separate award.

Jeux vidéo: la Légion d’honneur pour David Cage [Le Figaro viaGamasutra]

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