Steve Peters (born 1961) is an American independent game designer and experience designer specializing in alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling.

Steve was Chief Creative Officer at No Mimes Media,[1] an Alternate Reality Game company which he co-founded with Maureen McHugh and Behnam Karbassi in March 2009.

From 2012 through 2017, he hosted the StoryForward Podcast,[4] a show that explored the future of storytelling and entertainment.

Projects on which he worked while at 42 Entertainment included Why So Serious (for the film The Dark Knight),[8][9][10] Year Zero (for the Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero),[11][12] The Vanishing Point (Microsoft's Vista Release),[13] Dead Man's Tale (for the film Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest),[14] and Last Call Poker (Activision's Game Gun).

[15] In 2003, Steve was a designer for Metacortechs[16] (an independent alternate reality game based in the Matrix universe), and founded the Alternate Reality Gaming Network[17] (now ARGNet) in 2002.