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, designer, director, and producer, he is currently the CEO of the Striking Distance Studios. He was formerly the vice president and general manager at

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, co-founder of

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, and the creator and executive producer of the third-person

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video game ''

''.

Career

Schofield trained in both fine arts and business, earning a BFA from

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and an MBA from

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. His career began as an artist and art director with the New Jersey video game company

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. He then relocated to Seattle to join the West Coast's burgeoning video games industry. His professional influences included ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Disruptor'' and the ''

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'' series, followed later by ''

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'', ''

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'', and the franchise he would eventually contribute to, ''

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''. As a vice president at

Crystal Dynamics Crystal Dynamics, Inc. is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California and part of Embracer Group. The studio developed the '' Gex'', ''Legacy of Kain'', and ''Tomb Raider'' series. Founded in 1992 by Madeline Canepa, Judy L ...

, Schofield headed development on two of the studio's franchises: '' Gex'' and ''

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''. Moving to EA Redwood Studios as general manager of the company's

, he collaborated with Bret Robbins, including the popular ''

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'' video series and '' 007: From Russia with Love''. Schofield's reputation grew with the 2008 title ''

'', which the magazine

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called "a work of passionate sci-fi horror that became one of most commercially successful new properties of the year." Schofield has said that the film

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inspired him to create a game that fused the genres of

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and horror. The game's theme of humans in space losing perspective to their place in the universe is influenced by the works of Arthur C. Clarke, after whom the game character

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was named. Schofield, executive producer on the project, worked with

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, 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

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' Action Game of the Year and two awards from the

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. 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.

Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey at the Sledgehammer Games headquarter -- 21 October 2009

In 2009, Schofield and Condrey created

, with Schofield as general manager and Condrey as chief operating officer. They retained those roles when, that November,

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acquired the company as a wholly owned development studio operating on an independent model. Schofield was also a storyboard director and created over 100 characters for the animated series ''

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''. In June 2019, Schofield announced that he was joining

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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 ''

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'' universe. The game would later drop this connection in May of 2022, no longer being attached to the ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'' universe. ''

'' was revealed at

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and planned for release in 2022.

Personal life

He is married and has three children, paints in his spare time, and is a habitual exerciser, both cardiovascular and weight training, averaging once a day while on deadline, twice that when not.

Games

References

External links

Personal websiteSledgehammer Games official site
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MobyGames profile
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