Ted Peterson is a writer and video game designer best known for his work on The Elder Scrolls series. He co-founded the independent game studio OnceLost Games with Julian LeFay and Vijay Lakshman in 2019.
Peterson joined Bethesda Softworks as a junior writer in the early 1990s after responding to an advertisement in The Washington Post. His first project at Bethesda was writing for The Terminator 2029, followed by '. During his time at Bethesda, he worked as a designer and writer on ' and lead designer on '. He left the company in 1996, 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 ' and '. As a writer for Bethesda, Peterson wrote almost 200,000 words of prose within in-game books in The Elder Scrolls.
Peterson worked at Savage Entertainment for ten years, contributing to games such as ' (PSP; 2005) and WALL-E (2008). He has also worked for Electronic Arts and Disney.
In 2019, Peterson co-founded the independent game studio OnceLost Games alongside former Bethesda developers Julian LeFay and Vijay Lakshman. The studio is developing The Wayward Realms, described as a "spiritual successor to Daggerfall", funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign.