Emil Pagliarulo has been in the video game industry for twenty years, working briefly as a reviewer before moving into development. He got his start at Looking Glass Studios in Massachusetts as a designer on the Thief series, but has spent the majority of his career at Bethesda Game Studios, where he’s served as senior designer and writer of Skyrim, lead designer and Writer of Fallout 3 and 4, Writer of Fallout Shelter, and now design director. He spends his free time playing video games, watching his four kids play video games, or thinking about writing a novel (while actually writing stuff for video games).