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Sandy Petersen is an American game designer and author who has been involved in the development of many popular role-playing and strategy games. He is best known for his work on the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game and the Doom video game series. He is also the creator of the popular board game, Cthulhu Wars.
Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied mathematics and computer science. After graduating, he worked as a programmer for a number of companies, including Atari and Activision.
In 1981, Petersen joined Chaosium, a game publisher, as a game designer. He was the lead designer of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, which was released in 1981. He also wrote several supplements for the game, including the popular Masks of Nyarlathotep.
In 1993, Petersen left Chaosium and joined id Software, where he worked on the Doom video game series. He was the lead designer of Doom II and the co-designer of Doom 3.
In 2005, Petersen founded his own game company, Petersen Games. He is the designer of the popular board game, Cthulhu Wars, which was released in 2014.
As of 2021, Sandy Petersen's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.
| Popular As |
Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen |
| Occupation |
Game designer |
| Age |
68 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo |
| Born |
16 September, 1955 |
| Birthday |
16 September |
| Birthplace |
St. Louis, Missouri |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Sandy Petersen Height, Weight & Measurements
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Sandy Petersen Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
In June 2015, it was announced that Petersen and Greg Stafford had returned to Chaosium Inc.
In mid-2013 Petersen led a highly successful Kickstarter campaign by his company, Green Eye Games, to produce the Cthulhu Wars boardgame. Over US$1,400,000 was raised achieving over 3,500% of the initial target. This success allowed the creation of more figures (60), map expansions and additional scenario options. In most, if not all, previous Cthulhu games "you strive to avert the impending catastrophe. But in Cthulhu Wars you ARE the catastrophe! The Great Old Ones have returned to claim the ruins of Earth, and you are one of them!" Green Eye Games also produced the unsuccessful kickstarter Cthulhu World Combat (iOS, Android, Windows, PSN, Xbox Live).
Petersen was the Executive Producer for the 2011 movie The Whisperer in Darkness which was nominated for awards at the Chicago and Warsaw International Film Festivals. It was produced by H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society Motion Pictures in the style of a 1930s black and white horror movie.
Petersen took a professorship at The Guildhall at SMU in 2009 following the closure of Ensemble Studios, where he taught several courses on game design.
He left id Software for Ensemble Studios in June 1997. There, he has worked as a game designer on several of their Age of Empires titles, including Rise of Rome, Age of Kings, and The Conquerors. During this time, he was a frequent poster on the HeavenGames forums under the username ES_Sandyman. He ran an extremely popular series of threads, "Ask Sandyman", where forum members could ask him about anything they wanted.
Primarily interested by the first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D, Petersen joined id Software about 10 weeks before the December 1993 release of Doom and in that time created 19 levels for it (of which 8 were based to some extent on early drafts by Tom Hall). He later created 17 of the levels for Doom II, and 7 levels for Quake. His Lovecraftian influences also resulted in some changes to the monster designs for these games.
He worked some time for MicroProse, where he is credited for work on Sid Meier's Pirates! and Sword of the Samurai. Between 1989 and 1992 he also worked on the video games Darklands, Hyperspeed, and Lightspeed. He also made some contributions to Civilization.
He is a well-known fan of H. P. Lovecraft, whose work he first encountered in a World War II Armed Services Edition of The Dunwich Horror and other Weird Tales found in his father's library. In 1974, Dungeons & Dragons brought his interest to role-playing games. He became a full-time staff member at Chaosium. His interest for role-playing games and H. P. Lovecraft were fused when he became principal author of Chaosium's game Call of Cthulhu, published 1981, and many scenarios and background pieces thereafter. While working for Chaosium he co-authored the third edition of RuneQuest, for which he also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Trollpak and a number of other Gloranthan supplements.
Carl Sanford Joslyn "Sandy" Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is an American game designer.
He currently serves as the publisher of horror magazine Arcane: Penny Dreadfuls for the 21st Century.
