Name Steve Peters | Role Game designer | |
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Occupation Alternate Reality Game Designer Education California State University, Northridge, Chatsworth High School | ||
Steve Peters (born 1961) is a game designer, experience designer and podcast host specializing in alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling. Steve is currently Founder and Chief Creative Officer at No Mimes Media, an Alternate Reality Game company which he co-founded with Maureen McHugh and Behnam Karbassi in March 2009. From 2011 to 2012, he was VP of Experience Design at Fourth Wall Studios, where he was Lead Experience Designer for their Emmy® Award-Winning series Dirty Work, among others. He currently hosts the StoryForward Podcast, a show that explores the future of storytelling and entertainment.
From July 2006 to December 2008, he worked with 42 Entertainment as Experience Designer, Game Designer and/or Community Manager. Projects on which he worked while at 42 Entertainment included Why So Serious (for the film The Dark Knight), Year Zero (for the Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero), The Vanishing Point (Microsoft's Vista Release), Dead Man's Tale (for the film Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest), and Last Call Poker (Activision's Game Gun).
In 2003, Steve was a designer for Metacortechs (an independent Alternate Reality Game based in the Matrix universe), and founded both the Alternate Reality Gaming Network (now ARGNet) in 2002, and Vital Interactive Media in 1987.