David Jaffe
| David Jaffe | |
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| Born |
December 1, 1971 Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America |
| Occupation | Video game designer |
| Known for |
Twisted Metal series God of War |
| Website | |
| Blog | |
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. He left Eat Sleep Play in February 2012 due to creative differences. [3][4]
In 2014, he announced his first project on his new studio The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency called Drawn to Death as a Playstation 4 exclusive.[5]
Works
- Drawn to Death (2015) (PS4) - game director
- Twisted Metal (2012) (PS3) - game director
- Calling All Cars! (2007) (PS3) - game director
- God of War II (2007) (PS2) - creative director
- God of War (2005) (PS2) - game director
- Kinetica (2001) (PS2)
- Twisted Metal: Black (2001) (PS2)
- 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)[6] - designer
- Skyblazer (1994) (Super NES) - tester
References
- ↑ "David Jaffe Opens Up," GamePro 235 (April 2008): 23.
- ↑ IGN PlayStation Team (2007-03-16). "The Top 25 PS2 Games of All Time". IGN.com. Retrieved 2007-04-01.
- ↑ Sliwinski, Alexander. "David Jaffe leaves Eat Sleep Play, layoffs hit developer [Update]". Joystiq. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ↑ Jaffe, David. "Why I Left Eat Sleep Play". DavidJaffe.biz. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ↑ Matulef, Jeffrey. "David Jaffe reveals arena shooter Drawn to Death". Eurogamer.
- ↑ Jaffe's Blog with Project Listing
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
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