David Jaffe
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| David Jaffe | |
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| Born | December 1, 1971 Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America |
| Occupation | Video game designer |
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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.
Jaffe is somewhat unique amongst game developers in how directly he interfaces with the public, known for conducting interviews, regularly posting developer blogs, and communicating regularly through his own personal blog - where he also discusses things outside of the game industry, such as his personal politics. Jaffe has developed a reputation for candidness and liberal use of profanity when expressing his opinions.
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
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.
- ^ 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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