Industry Guests
Board Game Industry Guest: Ken Franklin
Ken Franklin is a retired Army Colonel, and a Family Physician with 42 years of experience in medicine. He signed his first game design with Calliope Games at GenCon 2011, and has worked in the game industry ever since as a convention demonstrator, developer, and designer.
For the past 3 years, he has been the Senior Yeoman at Calliope, which he describes as “The Old Guy who gets stuff done for the boss.” Ken’s design credits include “The Mansky Caper” (Nominee for an Origins Award in 2019), as well as collaborating on “Imagineers”, “Tsuro: Phoenix Rising”, “Back to the Future: Dice Through Time”, “Flash Point: Legacy of Flame”, and “Flash Point: Golden State Heroes”.
He has several other games in various stages of development and publication. He is the voice of the Admiral in the Thunderbox video game “The Captain is Dead”.