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Todd Howard
Born	Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality	American
Occupation	Video game designer/producer
Employer	Bethesda Game Studios
Known for	The Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3

Todd Howard (b. 1971) is an American video game designer, art director, and producer. He is currently game director and executive producer for Bethesda Game Studios, where he has led 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 has also been named one of IGN’s Top Game Creators of All Time.

Early life

Howard was born in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania and developed an interest in computers, particularly video games, at a very young age. He considers Wizardry and Ultima 3 to be inspirations for his future games. 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 despite his desire to create video games, saying "it seemed like the easiest path to get through college". After playing Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3 he requested a job from a Bethesda office he encountered each day on his commute from school to home, but was denied.

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Speaker

He 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."

Notable appearances

Howard spoke before developers at the 2009 D.I.C.E. Summit, sharing his three rules of game development:

Great games are played not made. – "You can have the greatest design document ever made, and you're going to change 90 percent of it as soon as you play the game."
Keep it simple. – Doing something really well takes time, more time than you think it will. Simple systems acting together create complexity that players can appreciate.
Define the experience - "Don't define your game by a list of bullet points... define it by the experience you want people to have."

He also said that developers should ignore demographics and installed base, and follow their passions, saying “if install base really mattered, we'd all make board games, because there are a lot of tables.”

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