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Steve Peters

Experience Designer,
No Mimes Media

Portrait photo: Steve Peters

Steve Peters is a game designer, experience designer and podcast host specializing in alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling. Steve is currently Founder and 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. He currently hosts the Story Forward Podcast, a show that explores the future of storytelling and entertainment.

Steve uses technology and cross platform techniques and tools to tell stories in interesting ways - in everything from immersive entertainment, to alternate reality games, to whatever. His work involves a little dash of game design, a little dash of production, a little dash of storytelling, and experience design.

How do you motivate people to do things without them realizing they are being asked to do it?

“People, themselves, are the next big data. Wearables and AR technology are going to play a big part in that in the next like 10 years or so, if society deems it acceptable (and that's a big if).”

“What does society look like when, all of a sudden, people don't need to own cars anymore?”

“People, themselves, are the next big data. Wearables and AR technology are going to play a big part in that in the next like 10 years or so, if society deems it acceptable (and that's a big if).”