David Jaffe

David Scott Jaffe is an American video game designer.

Biography

Jaffe is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and currently resides in San Diego, California.^[1] Jaffe graduated from Alabama's Mountain Brook High School, located in Mountain Brook, AL, a suburb of Birmingham. Jaffe then attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He applied to their film school, but was never admitted. After a few years pursuing his dream of directing movies, he turned to game design.

Jaffe is well known for directing the Twisted Metal series and God of War. Jaffe's Twisted Metal: Black and God of War have both ranked into IGN's "Top 25 PS2 Games of All Time", with Twisted Metal: Black in ninth place and God of War winning first place as IGN's best PS2 game of all time.^[2] In 2007, Jaffe left SCEA to found Eat Sleep Play. The studio signed a multi-year deal with Sony to create games exclusively for PlayStation platforms.

Works

• Twisted Metal (2012) (PS3) - Game Director
• Twisted Metal Head On: Extra Twisted Edition (2008) (PS2) - Game Director
• Calling All Cars! (2007) (PS3) - Game Director
• God of War II (2007) (PS2) - Creative Director
• God of War (2005) (PS2) - Game Director
• Twisted Metal: Head-On (2005) (PSP) - Game Director
• Kinetica (2001) (PS2)
• Twisted Metal: Small Brawl (2001) (PlayStation) - Writer
• Twisted Metal: Black (2001) (PS2) - Game Director
• Twisted Metal 2 (1996) (PlayStation) - Game Director, Producer, and Designer
• Twisted Metal (1995) (PlayStation) - Designer
• Mickey Mania (1994) (Super NES/Sega Mega Drive/Genesis/Sega CD)^[3] - Designer
• Skyblazer (1994) (Super NES) - Tester

References

External links

• David Jaffe's blog
• David Jaffe on Twitter
• David Jaffe at MobyGames
• David Jaffe's Giant Bomb Page
• David Jaffe at the Internet Movie Database
• Business Week
• Wired.com