Ken Whitman

Ken Whitman is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games and writes and directs films under the name Whit Whitman.

Career Ken Whitman was a graphic designer from Kentucky who formed the company Whit Productions so that he could publish the post-apocalyptic role-playing game Mutazoids (1989) and get started in the role-playing game business. Rick Swan in a review of Mutazoids in his book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games notes that "overall, designer Ken Whitman has done an impressive job of creating an attractively chaotic RPG environment."

Whitman followed that effort by starting a second company, Whit Publications, which published two licensed games: Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1992) by Edward Bolme and WWF Basic Adventure Game (1993) by David Clark. Whitman worked for TSR from 1994 to 1995. Whitman also worked on the Highlander role-playing game from Thunder Castle Games. Marcelo Figueroa of Shadis reviewed Groo and said that Whitman got "a burst of inspiration, and decides to make a card game about" the Groo: The Wanderer comic by Sergio Aragones, which he felt was "one of the coolest cards games I've ever played."

Whitman then ran Dynasties Productions, focusing on the new magazine Games Unplugged. Whitman created and funded six projects on Kickstarter between December 8, 2013, and April 7, 2015, for three short movies and three gaming accessories. Whitman led d20 Entertainment into producing a Web series called "Brothers Barbarian."

Since 2021 Whitman is the CEO of Little Monster Entertainment, a film distributor that aims to connect independent film projects with streaming services. Their first film, Unnatural, was released on multiple streaming platforms on December 18, 2024.