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Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is an American game designer. ==Biography== Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended University of California, Berkeley, majoring in zoology. 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. He authored several critically acclaimed ''RuneQuest'' supplements for Avalon Hill and Games Workshop.〔 Petersen served as co-designer for West End Games's ''Ghostbusters'' roleplaying game.〔 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. 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''. 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 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. Petersen was the Executive Producer for the movie The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) 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. He currently serves as the publisher of horror magazine ''Arcane: Penny Dreadfuls for the 21st Century''.〔(Arcane: Penny Dreadfuls for the 21st Century ).〕 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.〔(The Guildhall at SMU Faculty ), Guildhall @ SMU Faculty Biographies.〕 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 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!".〔http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-wars?ref=home_popular〕 Green Eye Games also produced the unsuccessful kickstarter ''Cthulhu World Combat'' (iOS, Android, Windows, PSN, Xbox Live).〔(Barking Lizards Management Team ).〕〔http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-world-combat〕〔http://www.cthulhuworldcombat.com〕 In June 2015, it was announced that Petersen and Greg Stafford had returned to Chaosium Inc. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sandy Petersen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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