Dead Space creator Glen Schofield has announced his retirement from day-to-day game development after 35 years in the industry, sharing an emotional farewell message reflecting on his career. Schofield's retirement marks the end of a career that helped shape modern survival horror and FPS games, including titles like Dead Space and Call of Duty.
Glen Schofield's storied career began as an artist at Absolute Entertainment in the early 90s. He then became a vice president at Crystal Dynamics and contributed to projects such as Gex and Legacy of Kain at the close of the decade. Later on, Schofield would gain renown for leading the creation of Dead Space at EA Redwood Shores, which would eventually become Visceral Games. Dead Space is still widely regarded as one of the best survival horror games in the seventh console generation, even spawning a recent remake that proved the franchise still has legs. While the creative director's later projects, such as The Callisto Protocol, which was produced at his self-founded Striking Distance Studios, received a mixed reception, Schofield has largely remained one of the industry's most recognizable figures for the past thirty years.
Glen Schofield, the creator of the original...
