A freelance writer and game designer, Ken Eklund's passion is to help games realize their potential to affect people artistically and to promote the public good. He has helped develop the design and narrative of games as commercial entertainment, for universities and foundations, and for clients in the private sector. In early 2007 Ken created and produced the groundbreaking online collaboration World Without Oil. A vivid, realistic "pre-enactment" of the next global oil crisis, World Without Oil is the first alternate reality game to focus the world's collective intelligence and imagination on a real world problem : dependence on oil. Stefanie Olsen of CNET summarized the game's unique approach this way: "If you want to change the future, play with it first."

Ken's career spans over two dozen commercial game titles plus over a dozen educational Internet projects . He feels fortunate that freelancing has enabled him to work on such a wide range of games and activities. Notable past endeavors include Harbinger , an award-winning Star Trek adventure game; the cell phone game Getting Up ; the Eagle Eye Mysteries educational series for kids; many roleplaying games; the Science Mystery interactive stories; Move It! , a fitness challenge; and Squeezils , a squirrel simulator. He is currently working on a big urban game, Spy School , and some other games he can't talk about. A graduate of Santa Clara University, Ken lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of the USA with his wife Debbie.