22 Facts About Sandy Petersen

Carl Sanford Joslyn "Sandy" Petersen was born on September 16,1955 and is an American game designer.

Sandy Petersen worked at Chaosium, contributing to the development of RuneQuest and creating the acclaimed and influential horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu.

Sandy Petersen later joined id Software where he worked on the development of the Doom franchise and Quake.

Sandy Petersen was born in St Louis, Missouri and developed a love for dinosaurs at age 3.

Sandy Petersen studied zoology at Brigham Young University and later attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in entomology.

Sandy Petersen became a full-time staff member at Chaosium in 1982.

Sandy Petersen authored several critically acclaimed RuneQuest supplements for Avalon Hill and Games Workshop.

Sandy Petersen served as co-designer for West End Games's Ghostbusters role-playing game.

Sandy Petersen was laid off in 1992 and was jobless for 5 months.

Sandy Petersen considered that period as one of the worst times of his life.

Romero was ultimately happy with the results, so Sandy Petersen was brought on to production for Doom.

Sandy Petersen was a fast level designer and produced all maps for the third episode of Doom, Inferno.

Sandy Petersen designed 17 levels for Doom II, a little over half of the 32 total.

Sandy Petersen was enthusiastic about the project, though he had not been a player in the original campaign as it was before his arrival at the company.

Romero credits Sandy Petersen with coming up with the title for the Hexen expansion Deathkings of the Dark Citadel.

Sandy Petersen left id Software for Ensemble Studios in June 1997.

Sandy Petersen ran a popular series of threads, "Ask Sandyman", where forum members could ask him about anything they wanted.

Sandy Petersen was the executive producer for the 2011 film The Whisperer in Darkness which was nominated for awards at the Chicago International Film Festival and Warsaw International Film Festival.

Sandy 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.

Sandy Petersen worked at Barking Lizards Technologies as their creative director, after leaving The Guildhall, and worked on their iOS release Osiris Legends.

In mid-2013 Sandy Petersen led a successful Kickstarter campaign by his company, Green Eye Games, to produce the boardgame Cthulhu Wars.

Sandy Petersen is a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but sees no conflict between his faith and his design of games involving Satanic elements.