About Todd Howard
Todd Howard is an American director, producer, and video game designer. He’s best known for being the director and executive producer of Bethesda Game Studios, where he has contributed to the creation of best-selling action role-playing games from The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series.
Todd Howard became famous after he joined Ashley Cheng and began working as an official figure at the video game developer and studio Bethesda Game Studios. Todd Andrew Howard was born on October 6, 1970. He was brought and raised in the small town of Lower Macungie Township in Pennsylvania. He is the second of two sons to Ronald and Regina Howard. He has an older brother named Jeff, who is also associated with video games.
His passion for computers and particularly video games began at a very young age. The two games that he considers to be the inspirations of his own games are the 1980s role-playing video games Ultima III: Exodius and Wizardy. His family moved to Emmaus, Pennsylvania where he attended the Emmaus High School. Following his graduation from the high school in 1989, he moved to Williamsburg, Virginia where he entered the College of Mary and William. Around 1993, he earned his major in business and finance despite his obsession with video games.
The creator of the video game series The Elder Scrolls and Fallout is rich because of the success of his titles. In 1988, after he obtained the ice-hockey sports game Wayne Gretzky Hockey, he spent some time at the game developer Bethesda Softworks where he learned about developing and designing games. In the early 1990s, he applied for jobs with the company but was rejected several times for various reasons, mostly a lack of job opportunities at that time. That led to Howard working on his own project, a game company based in Yorktown, Virginia where he settled.
Throughout the early years of the 1990s, he visited conventions such as the Consumer Electronics Show and continued to pursue job at Bethesda Softworks. He was finally recruited by the company in 1994 as a producer. Starting in the year 1995, he began working on his first video game – The Terminator: Future Shocks. He produced and designed the game, which was released in 1995. By that time, his net worth was already close to $1 million. In the next few years, he continued to design various titles such as Sky NET and the first of The Elder Scrolls series – The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.
His name rose to stardom in the 2000s after he was appointed designer and project leader for The Elders Scrolls III: Morrow. The game was released in 2002 and was a commercial and critical success. The prosperity of that particular title is what led to the creation of many others. As of now, the The Elder Scrolls game series has eleven critically acclaimed video games that helped Todd Howard become both rich and famous.
In the last two decades Todd Howard’s video game development work has helped earn him millions. As of 2023, Howard’s net worth is estimated to be $9 million.
What makes Todd Howard so successful is his highly praised abilities to design and fully develop video games. Apart from these, he is also responsible for the creation of the Fallout series. He is the game developer of all four video games. Presently, he is working on the creation of not one but three video games – The Elder Scrolls VI, Scarfield, and an untitled Indiana Jones project, for which he is working with both Machine Games and Lucasfilm Games. Besides working as a director and producer, he has also starred in most of his video games. Overall, his work has received a lot of praise and attention from the press and media and has been featured in CNN, Newsweek, The Today Show, and USA Today.
Summing-Up
Todd Howard is a multi-talented computer scientist, as well as video game developer and producer that has created more than twenty video games in the past thirty years, with the most notable being The Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series. From his many professions, besides earning a lot of praise and recognition from the generalist media and press, he has also accumulated an estimated net worth of $9 million. He has also won many awards, including that of “Best Game Director” by the high-class Academy of Interactive Sciences and Arts.
