Sandy Petersen is a game designer who has been with Microprose, id Software and Ensemble Studios.
Biography[]
His younger brother Eric Petersen also worked in the game industry.
Career[]
Petersen originally worked for Chaosium where he worked on several tabletop roleplaying games. He was the principal author of Call of Cthulhu. Petersen also co-designed the Ghostbusters roleplaying game which was released by West End Games. He also contributed (probably paintings) to an illustrated guide entitled, Guide to Cthulhu Monsters - A field observer's handbook of Preternatural entities (published by Chaosium Inc. 1988). This book contains original paintings for all Cthulhu entities of Lovecraft and is a real collectors item.
Petersen has taught courses on game design at The Guildhall at SMU. In 2015 he returned to Chaosium.