Steve Peters (game designer)

Steve Peters
Steve Peters in Paris (2008)
Born	1961 Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Alternate Reality Game Designer

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,^[1] 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,^[2] where he was Lead Experience Designer for their Emmy® Award-Winning series Dirty Work,^[3] among others. He currently hosts the StoryForward Podcast,^[4] a show that explores the future of storytelling and entertainment.

From July 2006 to December 2008, he worked with 42 Entertainment^[5][6][7] 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),^[8][9][10] Year Zero (for the Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero),^[11][12] The Vanishing Point (Microsoft's Vista Release),^[13] Dead Man's Tale (for the film Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest),^[14] and Last Call Poker (Activision's Game Gun).^[15]

In 2003, Steve was a designer for Metacortechs^[16] (an independent Alternate Reality Game based in the Matrix universe), and founded both the Alternate Reality Gaming Network^[17] (now ARGNet) in 2002, and Vital Interactive Media in 1987.

Select Credits

• Endgame: Ancient Societies: Experience Designer (2015)
• Dark Detour: Creator, Writer, Experience Designer (2014, 2015)^[18]
• Redrum: Lead Experience Designer (2013)^[19]
• RVC: VP of Experience Design (2013)^[20]
• Dirty Work: Transmedia Design (2012)^[20]
• Meridian: Experience Designers, Transmedia Creative Director, Transmedia Design (2012)^[20]
• 6:14: VP of Experience Design (2012)^[20]
• Whispers: VP of Experience Design (2012)^[20]
• Flare: VP of Experience Design (2012)^[20]
• Airship Dracula: VP of Experience Design (2012)^[21]
• The Swarming: Transmedia Design (2012)^[20]
• Claire: Experience Designer (2012)^[20]
• The Gamblers: VP of Experience Design (2012)^[22]
• Goldfish Theatre: Lead Experience Designer (2012)^[23]
• Home: A Ghost Story: Senior Experience Designer, Transmedia Design (2012)^[24]
• Webishades: Lead Experience Designer (2010)^[25]
• The Hunt: Lead Experience Designer (2010)^[26]
• Mime Academy: Lead Experience Designer (2009)^[25]
• The Threshold: Lead Experience Designer (2009)^[27]
• 6 Minutes to Midnight: Experience Designer (2009)^[28]
• Why So Serious: Designer (2008)^[10]
• Year Zero: Designer (2007)^[11]
• The Vanishing Point: Designer (2007)^[13]
• Dead Man's Tale: Designer (2006)^[29]
• Last Call Poker: Independent Design Contractor (2005)^[15]
• Metacortechs: Designer (2003)^[30]

External links

Website

• Fourth Wall Studios
• Rides.tv
• No Mimes Media
• StevePeters.org

Writings

• This is Not a Game (contributing author)
• Space Time Play (contributing author)

Interviews

• Transmedia.ca: Steve Peters Interview 2012
• Popular Mechanics: Epic Win: The World's Most Lavish Gaming Gifts 2009
• WIRED: Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games 2007
• ARGNetcast: The Steve Peters Experience 2006
• Geekson Podcast: Steve Peters talks about a new geek art form 2006
• BNet: Bees, ARGs, and the Birth of the Collective Detective 2005
• Globe and Mail Canada:Advertisers reap real-world benefits from 'alternate reality' 2005
• ABC Radio Australia: Alternate Reality 2004
• Wired: I Love Bees Game a Surprise Hit 2004
• G4 TV: I Love Bees Mystery Continues (video) 2004

References