David Scott Jaffe is a former American video game designer, and is currently a streamer and YouTuber.
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Jaffe is originally from Birmingham, Alabama and currently resides in San Diego, California. He 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 firm school, but was never admitted. After a few years pursuing his dream of directing movies, he turned to game design.
Jaffe was one of the main designers behind some of the games from the Twisted Metal series, and the first God of War.
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. However, he left the studio after the release of Twisted Metal for the PlayStation 3, because of creative differences.[1]
He later released his last gaming project Drawn to Death for the PlayStation 4 on 2017, which was a critical and commercial failure. After this, he left the gaming industry.
In 2025, Jaffe became one of the hosts on the online podcast known as "LolcowMadHouse", before being fired.
Trivia[]
- Jaffe's favorite Twisted Metal games are Twisted Metal (1995), 2, and Twisted Metal: Black.
- He has stated that his least favorite game is Twisted Metal III.
- Jaffe had no involvement in the creation of Twisted Metal III, 4, Small Brawl, Head-On and the cancelled title Harbor City.
- The games he had some involvement in were Twisted Metal (1995), 2, Black, the Lost extra mode from the PS2 port of Head-On, and TM(2012).