Ted Peterson (writer)

Peterson joined Bethesda Softworks as a junior writer in the early 1990s after responding to an advertisement in The Washington Post.^[1] His first project at Bethesda was writing for The Terminator 2029, followed by The Terminator: Rampage.^[2] During his time at Bethesda, he worked as a designer and writer on The Elder Scrolls: Arena and lead designer on The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.^[3] He left the company in 1996,^[4] just as Daggerfall was completed. After leaving Bethesda, Peterson joined Activision and worked as a writer on Heavy Gear II, also performing freelance work for Bethesda on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.^[3] As a writer for Bethesda, Peterson wrote almost 200,000 words of prose within in-game books in The Elder Scrolls.^[5]

Peterson worked at Savage Entertainment for ten years, contributing to games such as Star Wars: Battlefront II (PSP; 2005) and WALL-E (2008).^[6] He has also worked for Electronic Arts and Disney.^[7]

In 2019, Peterson co-founded the independent game studio OnceLost Games alongside former Bethesda developers Julian LeFay and Vijay Lakshman.^[7] The studio is developing The Wayward Realms, described as a "spiritual successor to Daggerfall", funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign.^[8]

• Bones season 12, story writer and editor^[7]