Ken Levine, president, co-founder and creative director for Irrational Games is among the candidates being considered for TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people alongside other notable entries including Brad Pitt, Tim Tebow, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeremy Lin and Barack Obama.
Levine, originally a drama major, began his game design career at Looking Glass Studios working on Thief: The Dark Project. Two years later in 1997 he co-founded Irrational Games alongside fellow Looking Glass alumni Jonathan Chey and Robert Fermier. The company’s first title was the critically acclaimed System Shock 2 of which Levine was lead writer and designer. He has since served in a creative capacity on nearly all of Irrational’s titles to date, most notably as the main creative force behind Irrational’s 2007 masterpiece BioShock. That year 1UP Network named Levine their Person of the Year and he was named one of Game Informer’s “Storytellers of the Decade.”
If you love BioShock or any of Irrational’s games and the work Mr. Levine put into them, go ahead and cast your vote for him at his TIME.com page here. Currently, he’s been serving as Creative Director for the highly anticipated BioShock Infinite. Voting ends April 6, so be sure to cast your vote while there’s still time!
