About Kaelon.

I

On June 2, 1989, a nine-year-old in a new city with no friends logged on to Prodigy and declared himself king of a kingdom that did not exist. Within a month, dozens of strangers had taken titles in it. Within a decade, thousands. I took the name Kaelon for that work and never gave it back. On every platform since — the raid, the high seas, the stream, the register of machines — I am Kaelon, and on none of them have I ever needed another name. The origin, in full →

II

Hardcore casual: limited playtime, serious about progression. Archmage Kaelon, a Gnome arcane mage, has stood in Azeroth since 2004; Captain Kaelon has hunted treasure on the high seas since the day they opened. I relish teamwork and competition at the top of the game, celebrate excellence wherever I find it, and now and then I stream. Current titles →

III

I have been a Game Master since that summer in 1989 — producing and directing collaborative storytelling for longer than most studios have existed. The world I made grew through six generations of the web, was featured on television and in the press, and has been played by millions. I use the name Kaelon in game design, and I still answer to it. The world I made →

IV

Raised by two computer programmers at the dawn of personal computing, I became an adult through the birth of the Internet and have spent the years since building machines of terrifying efficiency. I hold that technology is both radically disruptive and incomparably redefining of the human experience, and I write about what it does to us at juan.co. The fleet register →