Steve Peters (game designer)


Steve Peters is an American independent game designer and experience designer specializing in alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling. Steve was 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. From 2012 through 2017, he hosted the StoryForward Podcast, a show that explored 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, Year Zero, The Vanishing Point, Dead Man's Tale, and Last Call Poker.
In 2003, Steve was a designer for Metacortechs, and founded the Alternate Reality Gaming Network in 2002.

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Mesmer & Braid : Co-Designer Twenty One Pilots' Level of Concern : ARG Experience Designer Blackout Interactive Series: Transmedia Experience Designer The Quest for the Golden Bananas : Lead Experience Designer Endgame: Ancient Societies : Experience Designer Dark Detour: Creator, Writer, Experience Designer Redrum: Lead Experience Designer RVC: VP of Experience Design Dirty Work: Transmedia Design Meridian: Experience Designers, Transmedia Creative Director, Transmedia Design 6:14: VP of Experience Design Whispers: VP of Experience Design Flare: VP of Experience Design Airship Dracula: VP of Experience Design The Swarming: Transmedia Design Claire: Experience Designer The Gamblers: VP of Experience Design Goldfish Theatre: Lead Experience Designer Home: A Ghost Story: Senior Experience Designer, Transmedia Design Webishades : Lead Experience Designer The Hunt : Lead Experience Designer Mime Academy : Lead Experience Designer The Threshold : Lead Experience Designer 6 Minutes to Midnight : Experience Designer Why So Serious : Designer Year Zero : Designer The Vanishing Point : Designer Dead Man's Tale: Designer Last Call Poker : Independent Design Contractor Metacortechs : Designer

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  • 2012
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  • 2007
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  • 2004