David Jaffe Leaving Eat Sleep Play After Twisted Metal

Does this mean Calling All Cars 2?

@TheKing said:

Seems like odd timing to announce this.

That's what I was thinking. I thought Jaffee wanted to found his own company. He did. Now what does he want to do? I'm confused.

I'm gonna miss that son of a bitch.

No f-bombs? What happened to the real Jaffe?

I'm taking this to read: "This is your last good Twisted Metal, bitches." :(

I forgot Twisted Metal was coming out so soon.

This is for the better, for those who can't tell.

He currently works from home, and ESP works on the game hundreds of miles away in Utah.

Jaffe wants to go back to being internal so he can work with his team in person.

So weird news.

Seems like odd timing to announce this.

again?

No! Not my David!

David Jaffe will leave Eat Sleep Play after the latest Twisted Metal is finished, according to comments by the designer on Twitter.

The initial report on Jaffe and Eat Sleep Play came from The Salt Lake City Tribune, which reported both Jaffe and Eat Sleep Play would technically be parting ways, but both pursuing casual games.

Jaffe downplayed the characterization of his future career as a casual game designer on Twitter.

“Talking2peeps about some big, huge next gen game ideas I'd love for us2make, as well as cool stuff in the browser space (action oriented, gamer centric)& a few things in between,” he said.

In essence, it appears that very little groundwork has been laid for Jaffe’s life after Eat Sleep Play, only that he’ll continue to work on Twisted Metal following its launch, but will move on soon after.

Jaffe also clarified there are still no plans to produce downloadable content for Twisted Metal.

“We're totally supporting game post launch with balance tweaking, tuning, and bug crunching, he said. “But I've been saying for a YEAR there was no DLC planned. But the team- me included- is still cranking on TM post launch.”

Twisted Metal launches next week.