Glen Schofield

Glen A. Schofield is a former American video game artist, designer, director, and producer. He was primarily known for his roles as the vice president and general manager at Visceral Games, co-founder of Sledgehammer Games, founder and former CEO of Striking Distance Studios, and the creator and executive producer of the third-person survival horror video game series Dead Space.

Career Schofield trained in both fine arts and business, earning a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MBA from Golden Gate University. His career began as an artist and art director at Imagineering, the development division of Absolute Entertainment at New Jersey. He then relocated to Seattle to join the West Coast's burgeoning video games industry. His professional influences included Asteroids, Moon Patrol, Gunstar Heroes, Disruptor and the Contra series, followed later by Resident Evil, Gears of War, and the franchise he would eventually contribute to, Modern Warfare. Schofield has said that the film Event Horizon inspired him to create a game that fused the genres of science fiction and horror. The game's theme of humans in space losing perspective to their place in the universe is influenced by the works of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, after whom the game character Isaac Clarke was named.

Schofield, executive producer on the project, worked with Michael Condrey, senior development director. The game launched a franchise of sequels, comics, novels and films, and went on to win more than 80 industry awards, including the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Action Game of the Year and two awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. During his time at EA Redwood Studios, the studio was ranked 17th in the top 50 Game Developers List of 2009 by Game Developer Research. Edge named him one of the Hot 100 Game Developers of 2009. In December 2018, he announced his departure from Sledgehammer Games to seek new opportunities.

Schofield was also a storyboard director and created over 100 characters for the animated series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.

In June 2019, Schofield announced that he was joining Krafton as the CEO of a new development team called Striking Distance Studios. Under Schofield, the studio will be developing a game with a narrative experience set in the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds universe. The game would later drop this connection in May 2022, no longer being attached to the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds universe. The Callisto Protocol was revealed at The Game Awards 2020 and planned for release in 2022.

The Callisto Protocol failed to reach its anticipated sales goals, resulting in Schofield voluntarily leaving Striking Distance Studios in September 2023.

Since then, Schofield (along with Christopher Stone and Bret Robbins, the creative producers behind original Dead Space) has reportedly tried to pitch Dead Space 4 to EA on at least two separate occasions in 2024-2025. The proposal was turned down by the publisher both times. In July 2026, Glen Schofield announced his retirement from daily work within the gaming industry, thus ending his 35-year long career.

Personal life Schofield is married and has three children. In his spare time, he enjoys painting and exercising; he has said that he enjoys both cardio and weight training so much that he will exercise once a day when working on a project with a deadline and twice a day when not.

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