Occupation Video game designer Role Video Game Designer | Name David Jaffe Website Blog | |
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The overshield interviews david jaffe co ceo game director game designer at eat sleep play
David Scott Jaffe (born April 13, 1971) is an American video game designer; best known for his contribution to the Twisted Metal and God of War franchises.
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- The overshield interviews david jaffe co ceo game director game designer at eat sleep play
- God of wars game designer david jaffe defends nintendo s iwata
- Biography
- Works
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God of wars game designer david jaffe defends nintendo s iwata
Biography

Jaffe is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and currently resides in San Diego, California. 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 the USC School of Cinematic Arts, 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. 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.

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.
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