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Todd Howard
BornLower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania, USA
NationalityAmerican
OccupationVideo game designer/Producer
EmployerBethesda Game Studios
Known forThe Elder Scrolls/Fallout 3

Todd Howard (born 1970) is an American designer, director, and producer. He has created some of the industry’s most successful games by pioneering open world gameplay. He is currently Game Director and Executive Producer for Bethesda Game Studios, where he has lead the creation of Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls video game series. GamePro magazine named him to the Top 20 Most Influential People in Gaming over the last 20 years. He is also one of IGN’s Top Game Creators of All Time .

Early life

Howard was born in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania. He is a 1989 graduate of Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. In 1993, he graduated from The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he majored in finance.

Bethesda Softworks

Todd Howard joined Bethesda in 1994. Most recently he was Game Director and Executive Producer of Fallout 3, the 2008 winner of E3’s Best of Show, and Game of the Year from the Game Developers Choice Awards, The Associated Press, Yahoo, Gamespy, IGN, PC Gamer, and more. Prior to that he lead the creation of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the 2006 Game of the Year winner from the VGAs, The Associated Press, G4, Computer Gaming World, AIAS, and more .

His other major credits include Project Leader and Designer of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002), Producer and Designer of The Terminator: Future Shock (1995) and SkyNET (1996), and Project Leader and Designer of The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard (1998).

Todd is a frequent speaker at industry events and his games have been featured in everything from Newsweek, CNN, USA Today, and The Today Show, to magazine covers worldwide. Howard has stated that Bethesda's philosophy for the Elder Scrolls games is to allow people to "live another life, in another world."

External links

References

  1. http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/05/07/around-the-web-interviews-edition-2/
  2. http://games.ign.com/top-100-game-creators/index.html
  3. http://www.gamecriticsawards.com/2008winners.html
  4. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22920
  5. http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/links/fallout3-awards.php
  6. http://elderscrolls.com/news/news_06.htm
  7. http://www.elderscrolls.com/codex/team_rpgnextgen.htm
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