An incredibly well thought out online multiplayer game. My first experience with it was of the revolutionary sort - finally a game that so closely resembled a MUD, but had a graphical interface. Listen up folks, we're talking drag and drop inventory, incredible adventures, impromptu party battling, and all in all a fantastic game-playing experience to be had online. And then the fateful transition to a monthly fee (Gamestorm)... of which I was more than happy to pay... and then the further transition to a vast and utter emptiness, but for an apologetic note explaining the game had been discontinued. Oh, the angels cried tears of fire that day, I tell you.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who associates music from a certain time period with memories that are made during said period. Well, any song that was in heavy radio rotation at that time period (during my manic button pressing, mouse-swirling epic adventures) elicits nothing but warm fuzzies from me. Another personal project, after I've wrung my millions out of corporate America - restart the LOK server.

Editor's note: Legends of Kesmai came back online in 2004, available here (offsite link).

The offsite link given above will take you to a server that is run by thieves who use the stolen server code developed by the original authors, who can be found here:

http://landsofkes.com/

Don't waste your time with LOKFreedom and their unfinished (early development) version of the project server they run without permission from the original developers.

If you played Legends of Kesmai or Island of Kesmai, go to the link in this writeup and you'll be amazed. The project has not only completely brought back the game you remember, but includes the Advanced Game (AG) that was only a text-based memory to the old IOKers.

Visit the Lands of Kes project, you won't be sorry!

~loklives