STEVE PETERS Immersive Experience Designer | Creative Director | Consultant # (818) 422-4898 _ [email protected] > stevepeters.org + Culver City, CA SUMMARY LIFE PHILOSOPHY Emmy-winning Immersive Experience Designer, Creative "If you're really smart, you'll hide a Director, Audio Producer/Director, Storyteller and Game/Puzzle puzzle in your resume!" Designer, with extensive experience in leading creative teams, Alan Turing game design, AR/VR, location-based games, theme park installations, escape rooms, podcast production, Alternate RECENT CLIENTS Reality Games, buzz and viral marketing techniques, production, and physical installations/events. Amazon Studios With a phenomenology-based, user-first philosophy in creative Walt Disney Imagineering R&D direction and experience design, my goal is for the user experience to transcend all aspects of a project’s design and Paramount Pictures execution. Because if it's not fun, then what's the point? Niantic JOB HISTORY Google Co-Founder/Chief Creative Ocer Legendary Entertainment No Mimes Media ~ 2009 - Present + Los Angeles, CA Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Asia Immersive Media Company - Creatively oversee and design all of the immersive experiences for No The GO Game Mimes Media clients. Lone Shark Games Lead Experience Designer Niantic Labs at Google ~ 2015 - 2015 + Venice, CA LANGUAGES The Makers of Pokemon Go, Niantic leads the industry in location-based gaming. - Led a team of immersive and game designers in creating content, video, English Native mobile app integration, narrative design elements, puzzles and live player events for the ARG Endgame: Ancient Truth. Japanese Intermediate - Worked alongside the Ingress team, helping to develop content and live- event gameplay. IN MY WHEELHOUSE VP of Experience Design Fourth Wall Studios ~ 2011 - 2014 + Culver City, CA TV Theme Songs Interactive Video platform and content production - Taking a short leave from No Mimes Media, was Executive in charge of Fourth Wall Studios’ Experience Design team. The Best Tiki Bar Locations - Led team to design, prototype and execute interactive projects for Fourth Wall’s proprietary and Emmy-winning interactive video platform, RIDES. The Perfect Pancake Experience Designer 42Entertainment ~ 2005 - 2008 + Pasadena, CA Immersive Marketing Misdirection - Experience Designer on various Alternate Reality Game campaigns. Founder/Executive Audio and Podcast Producer Hiding Puzzles in Résumés Vital Productions/StoryForward Podcast ~ 1990 - 2016 Audio Production Company - Founded and grew Vital Productions over 15 years, working on numerous podcast, music and sound design projects for clients such as Microsoft. RECENT PROJECTS LOVES Nobody's Fool I Coee ~ 2018 + Hollywood, CA Nobody's Fool (Paramount Pictures) - Experience Designer/Programmer % Film Scores An interactive phone/text experience to promote the feature film. The Quest for the Golden Bananas ? Escape Rooms ~ 2018 + Worldwide Edelman/Xbox/Rare - Experience Designer Retro-Futurism A global treasure hunt to promote the game Sea of Thieves, which included live puzzle events in 6 cities around the world. http://bit.ly/BananaQuest Shenanigans Frankenstein200 ~ 2018 - 2019 + Los Angeles, CA Arizona State University / The National Science Foundation CHARACTER STATS (AND SECRET - Creative Director/Experience Designer PUZZLE) A STEM-based ARG for kids, which included online content and live experiences at partner museums around the country. http://bit.ly/f200arg D Back to Earth A ~ 2018 - 2019 + Los Angeles, CA C Blockspace Media - An interactive story experience utilizing an actual cryptocurrency (STRC) that lives both within the fiction and in the real world. http://bit.ly/2R6T1Uy Colony Comic Con Activation B ~ 2017 + San Diego, CA USA Network A C: Charisma (213%) - Creative Director/Experience Designer B A: Agility 306% Fan activation scavenger hunt for the USA Network TV series Colony. C L: Luck 38% Destination Unknown D L: Lunacy 08% ~ 2015 + Los Angeles, CA Imagine Dragons / iHeart Radio FIND ME ONLINE - Creative Director/Experience Designer A real-world scavenger hunt leading to a secret concert in LA featuring the platinum-selling band, Imagine Dragons. http://bit.ly/iddugame 6 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/vpisteve/ Dark Detour ~ + 2015 - 2016 Worldwide W Instagram Co-Creator/Co-writer/Experience Designer vpisteve1 - A horror anthology taking place live on social media. http://bit.ly/DDetour Portfolio Endgame: Ancient Truth stevepeters.org ~ 2015 + Venice, CA Niantic Labs at Google REFERENCES - Lead Experience Designer Led ARG team creating story elements, puzzles, events. http://bit.ly/endarg Hal Hefner Dirty Work (213) 713-1219 [email protected] ~ 2011 - 2012 + Culver City, CA Fourth Wall Studios Alison Norrington - Winner of 2012 Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive +44 7930 692968 Media, Original Interactive Television Programming. http://bit.ly/dwrides [email protected].