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Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is a game designer. Events 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) A "game designer" is a person who designs Video games or one who designs traditional games such as Board games Video Games Designer A video game designer

Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended University of California, Berkeley, majoring in zoology. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Zoology (from Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, " Logos " "knowledge" is the branch of

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. Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In 1974, Dungeons & Dragons brought his interest to role-playing games. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a Fantasy Role-playing game (RPG originally designed by A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. His interest for role-playing games and H. P. Lovecraft were fused when he became principal author of the game Call of Cthulhu, published 1981, and many scenarios and background pieces thereafter. Call of Cthulhu is a Horror fiction Role-playing game based on H Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 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. Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of Role-playing games still in existence RuneQuest is a Fantasy Role-playing game first published in 1978 by Chaosium, created by Steve Perrin based on the mythical world Glorantha is the Fantasy world created by Greg Stafford and since used as the background for several Role-playing games, including RuneQuest He still plays and runs role-playing games, and is a frequent guest at conventions where he usually runs a freeform game of his own devising, and/or helps to run someone else's game. Freeform role-playing games, also called freeforms, are a type of Role-playing game which employ minimal or no rules occupying a middle-ground between traditional

He worked some time for Microprose, where he is credited for work between 1989 and 1992 on the video games Darklands, Hyperspeed, Lightspeed, Sid Meier's Pirates! and Sword of the Samurai. MicroProse, as a corporation and brand name has been owned by several entities since its original founding by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey in 1982 Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Sid Meier's Pirates! is a Computer game created by Sid Meier published by MicroProse in 1987 Sword of the Samurai is an action and strategy Computer game developed and published by MicroProse in 1989 for the He also made minor contributions to Civilization. Sid Meier's Civilization is a Turn-based strategy computer game created by Sid Meier for MicroProse in 1991

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). A first-person shooter ( FPS) is an action Video game from the Shooter game The initial development of Maze War id Software (ɪd officially is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Doom (officially cased DOOM) is a 1993 Computer game by Id Software that is a landmark title in the First-person shooter Tom A Hall (born September 2, 1964) is a Game designer born in Wisconsin. He later created 17 of the levels for Doom II, and 7 levels for Quake. Doom II Hell on Earth is a First-person shooter Video game created by Id Software. Quake is a First-person shooter Computer game that was released by Id Software on June 22, 1996. His Lovecraftian influences also resulted in some changes to the monster designs for these games.

He left id Software for Ensemble Studios in June 1997. Originally founded as an independent developer in 1995 Ensemble Studios has been a Microsoft -owned developer since 2001 Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar 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. Age of Empires is a series of computer Video games developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The rise of Rome to dominate the overt politics of Europe, North Africa and the Near East completely from the 1st century BC to the 4th Age of Empires II The Age of Kings (often shortened to The Age of Kings or AoK) is a Real-time strategy (RTS Video game developed Age of Empires II The Conquerors Expansion (sometimes abbreviated to AoC) is the Expansion pack to the 1999 Real-time strategy game 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 (though there were some questions he did not answer).

Petersen is a Mormon, but his religion has not prevented him from designing games involving Satanic elements. TalkMormon#Latter Day Saint vs Latter-day Saint --> Mormon While working on Doom, he said to John Romero: "I have no problems with the demons in the game. Alfonso John Romero (born October 28 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a Game designer, programmer, and They're just cartoons. And, anyway, they're the bad guys. "

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