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Music CDs Are the Best

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Yesterday was the last day of Bookstock, a local week-long used book sale that’s held at a nearby mall to raise additional money for Detroit schools. It was rainy and crummy outside so I went that and ended up picking up a lot of cds from the 90s and 00s from artists like Enya, Tori Amos, Zero 7, Midnight Oil, Mazzy Star, and Sarah McLachlan. On top of the cds already being cheap, everything was also half off so they could get rid of as much as possible. Of course I ripped all the cds to my plex server while reading the booklets, something I really enjoy from the cd era. What no one told me though, and I guess why would they, is that Sarah McLachlan’s album Surfacing is a fucking multimedia cd-rom??

screenshot showing merch from lilith fair, a festival from the 90s that sarah organized. It's two posters.
Three posters from the cd that were available for sale.
information on how to join the sarah mclachlan fan club
screenshot listing 3 of sarah's cds that you could buy.

It will probably surprise no one that I absolutely lost my shit when I realized this and it made me so happy with absolutely no irony. You can choose between two applications. There’s the catalogue where you can look up various items to order, like cds, prints, vhs tapes, and jewelry. There’s also an electronic press kit about all of her albums.

a menu screen for the electronic press kit showing a tree and faint links that would show up when you have the mouse over them

I realize that I’m the only person getting excited about this in 2025 but man, those colors and fonts! I wish most cds had done this. I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned that I’ve leaned much more into cd collecting this last year but making a Plex server really pushed me into it. I still get to have a nice little physical piece of art to accompany the music but it’s so much cheaper than having a vinyl record, which is the opposite of how things were when I had started collecting records. I don’t know if I buy that Gen Z is going to bring back the cd format but I have been having fun picking up cds at an incredibly low cost and have even bought a few through Bandcamp as well. Anyway, if you’re a musician reading this, have you considered paying a developer to put together a little program listing all of your works, biography, maybe song clips, video, and all that with your album? Because I will be the first in line to buy your album if you do.

text about the making of the album Surfacing and where it was recorded

By contrast, this is what I get when I put in the Zero 7 album. Boooooooo

a message that thanks you for buying the cd and has a link to a webpage or just to play the cd

Good Stuff Saturday

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It’s Good Stuff Saturday! The day when you post “good stuff” on someone’s Itch (or other art) page!

I did not invent the day. I think I posted one time about how you should post “good stuff” on someone’s Itch page instead of just giving 5 stars and it morphed into that elsewhere. Giving 5 stars/a positive review is also very good and nice but it always makes me happy when I get a nice comment on a game I make too.

You do not literally need to post “good stuff.” It’s probably actually better to post a more thoughtful comment than that, but consider taking the time to say something nice about someone’s game (Itch.io/Steam), music (Bandcamp), or other art. I don’t think comments on Itch and Bandcamp have any algorithm boost, it’s just to make someone feel good about their art.

Social Media Break in May?

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After seeing a few other folks take breaks from social media recently, I think I’m going to do one for the month of May. I just think it would be good for me to take a break for a little bit since the world is…..a lot right now. The timing also works out because I’m going to be starting grad school and having less distractions while I get adjusted to being in school again would be good for me. This really just means not using Mastodon, Blue Sky, and Instagram. I’ll still keep using Discord and forums and I’m going to allow myself to cancel this hiatus if there’s any major life events or emergencies that I need to tell about. Mother’s Day is also in May so I’ll probably make a post about that. My blog posts will automatically go to both Mastodon and Bluesky but I won’t be looking at them so please comment directly on the posts if you have any thoughts.

But that’s it. There’s no moral reason for it, I’m just exhausted by it at the moment. That said, I do hate FOMO and encourage everyone to join me for purely selfish reasons.

This does mean that I will be posting on here a lot more often, because I must still post. But I will avoid junking up your RSS feed with more than one post a day.

Like my About page says, I welcome Discord messages and email, and you’re welcome to message me on Signal at mikeklam.87. Yep, even just saying hi is welcome!

I do wonder how much this will impact my indie game roundups since I find out so much from Bluesky and mastodon, so again, please feel free to message me or comment on posts with your games or other ones that excite you. I’m looking forward to this and seeing how it goes since I spend way too much time on social media.

Michigan Video Game History Link Dump

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I recently came across two things on the Internet Archive that I thought might interest other folks that are local to the area. The first was brought to my attention by streamer BogusMeatFactory. It’s a complete backup of the University of Michigan Atari Archive. Bogus originally sent it to me because it might have contained info on the MUD I keep searching for, HeroMUD. It does not, but it’s still a fascinating snapshot of what the university had for Atari related stuff.

The second thing is an archive of the Michigan Atari Computer Enthusiasts Journal. I’ve only looked at a little bit of it so far but it’s already a fascinating snapshot of a community in a specific region. There’s so many ads for local businesses too. I’m really hoping to come across MUD info in here. This looks like it eventually merged into the Michigan Atari Magazine, which also has at least a partial archive uploaded by Kay Savetz, writer and host of the great Eaten by a Grue podcast.

cover of Michigan Atari Computer Enthusiasts featuring a man and a woman but they have computers for heads

Every MMO I’ve Played

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I’ve decided that 2025 is the year of the MMO for me and have already played a few games that are new to me in addition to always being interested in Myst Online. So even though no one has asked for it, here is a list of every MMO I’ve played in my life with a quick comment or two on each. Eventually I’ll do longer writeups on some of these. I guess it’s April Fool’s Day too so I’m unintentionally doing the Ron Gilbert thing of not doing anything silly today on here.

Asheron’s Call 2 – I believe this is my first MMO. My dad and brother were already playing Everquest but for whatever reason this was the one that interested me. It was divisive at the time but since I didn’t have any experience with Asheron’s Call 1, which this is a big departure from, I thought it was great. Unfortunately it didn’t last too long but I’m glad there’s been an effort in recent years by the fan community to bring it back.

RuneScape – My other possibly first MMO, at this point I can’t really remember if this or AC2 came first. I had played this one extremely early on in its life, back when 2D sprites were used for all the characters and managed to pull a few friends into playing it since it was free. It’s so weird seeing how much nicer it looks now even though, yeah, of course they would upgrade the visuals over 20 years.

Shattered Galaxy – This was a weird one. I had discovered the free beta for this during an IGF awards listing, very early on in the life of the IGF. It’s basically a RTS but everyone controls a single unit? I guess kinda like Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor but uhhhhh better. I had fun with it though even though I never completely got it and my brother ended up getting the retail release, but I didn’t play that one.

Star Wars Galaxies – Also a weird one! I went through the arc of thinking it was a disappointment at first, and then realizing how brilliant it was by not allowing everyone to be a jedi and focus on building playing towns and other neat world interaction by the players. I’m sure other games have done this since then but I haven’t seen it. I eventually fell off around the time they released the first expansion.

World of Warcraft – Everyone has played this game. Nothing new to say about it. I had a great time with it and it’s probably my most played game ever and had the unfortunate and unintentional effect of inspiring MMOs after it to copy it in an attempt to replicate its success.

The Secret World – Underrated MMO that I wish I had put more time into. I thought the adventure game puzzles in it were a really neat idea. FUNCOM at the time were The Longest Journey devs to me so this made a lot of sense. I should see if there’s any fan servers for it.

Myst Online – I’ve written and posted about Myst Online many times, even writing about how the community is still active and the game continues to receive updates. It’s free and wonderful, go play it.

Guild Wars – The selling point for this one was of course that there were no monthly fees. Don’t really remember a lot other than I thought it was fun.

The Elder Scrolls Online – Meh. I plan to give it another shot someday but it felt like it had missed what people enjoy about those games. But what do I know, it’s still going strong.

Guild Wars 2 – Same as the first game. Had a lot of fun playing it but couldn’t tell you a single thing about it.

Eve Online – Just did the trial for this one. I respect the game but I’ll never be able to get into it.

Warhammer Online – Played my brother’s account a bit for this one and thinking it was pretty neat. IIRC the appeal of this was that it was basically a spiritual sequel to Dark Age of Camelot, with a focus on pvp. It still wasn’t the hit it needed to be and shut down after a few years.

Defiance – The gimmick for this was that there was a tv show happening at the same time and they were supposed to intersect at some points. I never watched it but I probably should since I’m a Farscape fan, even though I’m guessing it’s a pretty mid show if no one is talking about it today. The show got 3 seasons though! I remember the game itself being perfectly ok but not too memorable. I think it was on a Steam sale and I knew it had no monthly fee so I picked it up. I didn’t know it had only shut down a few years ago and probably should have revisited it.

EDIT: A week or so after making this post, a revival of it launched! I’m going to pretend I manifested this.

WAKFU – Steam says I’ve played WAKFU in 2015 for a few hours. I have no memory of this.

Asheron’s Call 1 – Played this one for the first time this year and I’m having a great time. There’s plenty of fan servers too. I even wrote a guide if you want to play the game.

Book of Travels – A very underrated game. I’m sad that it hasn’t done as well as expected so it won’t be receiving too many updates in the future, but I think it’s still very much worth checking out. It’s a very relaxed MMO focused on story and light on combat, featuring what I think is great world building. Kinda controls like a point-and-click adventure too.

Sky: Children of Light – By the creators of Journey and really feels like if you took the mechanics of that game and expanded it to a MMO. It’s free to play and I enjoy playing it with my kids occasionally.

Here’s some other games that kinda don’t count as MMORPGs but also kinda sorta do?

Path of Exile – Played it during the beta and had enough fun with Diablo: The MMO but it never really stuck with me.

Age of Empires Online – Weird game! This was launched at the same time as their Microsoft Flight Simulator reboot that was retooled to be more casual too, so everyone was grumpy that Microsoft was bringing everything back as a casual game. I remember it not really coming together mechanically? I guess the fan community has kept this one alive on fan server.

Marvel Heroes – Basically just Diablo with Marvel characters. I thought it was a big hit but I think there was some drama behind it being shut down too?

Kind Words – Was incredibly skeptical of this one when it came out but it was pleasant enough. Shockingly didn’t come across any trolling in it despite it being a huge hit.

Kind Words 2 – What you would expect a sequel to be. More and bigger. I like it more since there’s plenty of side activities you can do and I basically just avoid the letter writing at this point since I’m not really in the mood to try to help people with their problems online. I’m not qualified for it! But the side stuff where people recommend video games, music, and what not are fun. It seems like it’s done alright but definitely not as well as the first game. I’m assuming it’s from the game just costing more, from it having a lot more stuff.

Sea of Thieves – Really enjoyed this one until a friend and I hit a bug that completely made it impossible for us to do more quests and Microsoft put it no effort to fix it. I might reinstall it to see if it’s magically fixed but that sure killed the motivation to play it.

Some that I have in my Steam backlog are:

WEBFISHING – Everyone has played this by now. Seems great. I’ll play it sometime with friends when I need to chill.

Meadow – By the devs of Book of Travels. Seems like it’s part of their Shelter series.

Fallout 76 – Don’t know how I’ll feel about it given my feelings about ESO and how Bethesda writes Fallout but sure, I’ll give it a shot.

Some modern ones I really want to check out are:

ATLYSS – This one is kinda known as the furry mmorpg. I heard great things about it!

Animyst – Don’t know a whole lot about it other than it looks weird and it’s free. It has been around since 2018.

Project: Gorgon – Looks like it’s doing the modern day version of Everquest thing. Seems nice enough

Creating Games for the Ann Arbor District Library

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I mentioned a few times that I helped organize a games anthology for the district library (anthology link on the library’s site here but I prefer you play the updated version of my game here) and even made a point-and-click adventure game for it, but I don’t actually think I actually did a post about it or why it happened? So for the sake of incredibly specific Michigan game dev history, here’s the deal with all that.

the logo for ann arbor 200, showing a map of the city and the years 1824-2024

Back on my birthday last year, in August, I got an email from the Ann Arbor District Library saying that they were interested in commissioning a video game or anthology for the city’s bicentennial celebration. The Ann Arbor District Library had been doing a series of commissioned works such as music, documentaries, interviews, writing, and other works to celebrate the city. They had proposed doing a small anthology of games, 3 in total, about a historical figure in the city named Dr. Alvin Wood Chase. He was basically the city’s version of Dr. Oz in the late 1800s and sold recipes for remedies to ailments that didn’t work and found some success doing so. The printing house he established is still standing today. You can read more about him at the link at the top. Each game would be about a different stage of his life and by a different developer. As an aside, I’m not actually the first person to make a game for the Ann Arbor District Library, that would be the text adventure games that Christopher Becker made for an Interactive Fiction program at the library.

a bearded man standing in front of a house
Dr. Chase’s First Adventure, by me

Originally I was just an organizer because I didn’t think I would be able to create a game since my family just had a baby, but then I got FOMO and asked if I could make a backup game. This got approved and with everyone picking a different era, development commenced. We had about two months to make our games, with each one having the goal of about 10-15 minutes of gameplay. Unfortunately one person had to drop out due to medical issues, but they’re ok now. It was a challenge for me since it was my first game in Adventure Game Studio, but I actually got it done. The other two games are great, one is a puzzle game about running a printing press and the other is an adventure game made in the Game Boy about the end of his life.

stacks of books in different colors
Dr. Chase’s Mean Steam Machine by Flyover Games

The games and anthology page were published on December 30th, right before the end of the year. I am so proud of this project, maybe even more than the Locally Sourced Anthology that I helped with and came out during the summer. Not because I think one is better than the other, but I got to finally check off making a game in AGS, a goal of mine for an incredibly long time. It was a delight to make a game for the Ann Arbor District Library, a place I love visiting. Most importantly, I got to show the game to my kids and one of them immediately found a few bugs that no other tester did, so I got to fix those bugs and add her in the credits as a tester. For whatever reason she wants to grow up and be a video game QA person so it was fun to be able to give her her first video game credit.

top down view of a bearded guy saying "Ah, another new morning."
Chasing Glory by Lilycore Games

Personal Blogs Are Great!

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I follow about a billion different blogs and sites right now through my RSS feed reader and I feel like once in a while, but not too often, I’ll see a post where a person has a comment in their post where they wonder who this is even for or assume no one is going to read it, and I just wanted to say that I think it’s the best. If anything, this site is too focused on video games and technology. It brings me a lot of joy when I see someone post on their site about what they’re up to, art they’ve been enjoying, and also incredibly specific things like their bookshelves or whatever.

There’s also just something about reading it on someone’s personal site, instead of on social media, that makes it feel more personal or real and not focused on brand building, since it can’t really get shared through retweets. That isn’t to say that people are posting about the sandwich they liked on social media to build their brand, they’re clearly excited about that sandwich and posting to social media is the fastest and easiest way to mention it. But if they do that blog post about that sandwich then man, they must have really loved it if they’re putting that much effort into it.

Anyway, just wanted to say that I like reading the personal posts like that if you ever feel self conscious about that stuff or feel like you’re going off topic.

Games I’m Looking Forward To 2025

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Every year I’ve been doing a post on the games I’m looking forward to. It’s a little bit late this year and some of the stuff I was planning to mention, like The Roottrees are Dead, are already out. Oh well, it’s my blog, I can post stuff late if I want. I think all the links on this post are going to Steam page if you want to wishlist. Like every year, it’s usually something I don’t know of that catches me off guard and becomes my favorite thing but maybe you’ll discover something new anyway.

Ron Gilbert put his rpg project on hold but said he has a much smaller game we should be getting soon. I have no idea what that is but it’s….something?

Tony Warriner is working on a game for that modern ZX Spectrum thing. I kinda don’t understand what makes a modern computer a ZX Spectrum but the game itself looks like a fun top down shooter thing.

New Inkle game this year. No idea what it will play like but it’s an Inkle game so I’ll probably like it.

Spirit Swap is a Match 3 game that comes out in a few days. I backed it on kickstarter a while ago so it’s already paid for and I can just enjoy this neat little queer game.

Trails and Traces: The Tomb of Thomas Tew is a point-and-click detective adventure. I liked the dev’s previous game from a few years ago so I’m happy to see them making another.

people sitting in a bar in the future

Old Skies! It’s a new Wadjet Eye game! I’m technically a beta tester on it, but haven’t really found that many bugs so I’m a pretty lousy one, but I am allowed to say that what I’ve played has been fantastic and at the level of quality you would expect from one of their games.

Citizen Sleeper 2 comes out in a couple hours but I published it before it came out so I can still say I’m looking forward to it!

A Chamber of Stars looks like a trippy visual novel or adventure game. I just really like the art and it has a demo.

The Ape Painting is an upcoming interactive fiction by an author I’m a fan of.

Peripeteia is an immersive sim coming out next month. I’ll always take more of those. It has a demo I haven’t played yet.

people fighting in a saloon

Rosewater! This one has been on a list or two before. It’s a western point-and-click adventure that has been in developer for quite a while and looks great. I love the rotoscoped art. We’re definitely getting this one this year since it was just announced that it’s coming out in March.

We’re getting a new Heroes of Might and Magic this year. There’s actually a couple of HOMM-likes floating around or entering early access so this might not even be necessary, but I’m still cautiously interested in it since it’s set in an older M&M world, Erathia, instead of the universe that Ubisoft has been putting their games in since they took control. Ubisoft’s setting has been boring as shit so I’m happy to see them return to this.

Quantum Witch looks like a fun and queer platforming adventure game. This one has a demo too.

Operation Zero just looks like a fun retro-looking arcade top-down shooter.

The Drifter has been on a previous list and I’m hoping we get it this year. I just really like Powerhoof’s shorter adventure games and think a long one would be good too.

We have a new game by the creator of Midnight Scenes. I will keep buying their short horror adventure games as long as they keep making them.

Nivalis is some sort of bar simulation set in a cyberpunk world. It’s by the developer of Cloudpunk, which I thought was very good.

first person view of a gun fight by a staircase

Agent 64 is a FPS inspired by Goldeneye. Really liked the demo of it and hope we get the full game this year.

Super Cucumber is a cute platformer by the creators of Down the Drain. I thought that game was a fun roguelike and this is a dev local to me so I’m looking forward to this game.

pinball set in a dreamy vaporwave setting next to a statue

Vaporwave Pinball is a pinball game with a vaporwave theme. Pretty straightforward! I like the demo so I’ll probably like more of that.

Legends of Castile is a historical point-and-click adventure set in Spain. I just think the art is very nice and reminds me a tiny bit of Curse of Monkey Island. It has a demo too.

Nekomancer of Nowhere looks like a really cute isometric puzzle game.

Soup Rooms is an upcoming anthology game where you explore various rooms. It’s inspired by an old game I’m not familiar with but the opportunity to walk around a variety of weird spaces sounds like a good time to me.

Having a little bookstore is a fun little dream I have so a game about that, Tiny Bookshop, where I can do that without all the actual stress of running a bookstore sounds nice.

Generation Exile is a game about humanity’s only generation ship. I’m sure it will be an emotional experience that will make me feel like crap. Can’t wait.

I don’t know much about Usual June but I like the art and I’m a Finji Fan.

Promise Mascot Agency just looks like a wild adventure game and I’m very excited to see Alpha Chrome Yayo doing the soundtrack.

Sleight of Hand is a stealth game with a really fun looking mechanic where you have cards you draw from and each one has an effect to help you stay hidden and dispose of enemies.

Angeline Era is a new game by the Anodyne devs featuring bump combat!

person on a platform shoot rockets at monsters

Acronia is a platformer inspired by old DOS games. It has a demo on the Itch page that runs in DOS.

I think Roman Sands comes out this year? I was a fan of their previous game Paratopic and really like the Y2K aesthetic this has.

We’re getting a new Halloween Harry this year! By the same dev as the original game.

Perfect Tides: Station to Station is the sequel to one of the best recent adventures, by the creator of the comic Octopus Pie.

Streets of Fortuna looks like a really interesting sandbox rpg.

Heir of the Dog is a new adventure by the creator of Lucy Dreaming. That was a fantastic point-and-click adventure and I’m sure this will be a good one too.

Dream Settler is the sequel to Hypnospace Outlaw, one of my favorite games!

Zid Journey is a sequel to Zniw Adventure and looks like another point-and-click adventure that the whole family can play.

a marble on a platform floating in the sky

I really like the vaporwave aesthetic that the puzzle game Axyz has.

Tiny Garden is a game I backed that looks like a chill gardening game set in tiny Polly Pocket-like containers.

EEK3 2025

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Usually I put all my indie game stuff in the roundups but there was enough here that it deserved its own post.

EEK3, a virtual showcase of horror games inspired by the PSX era, just wrapped up and you can watch it all on YouTube. Overall it was good, I discovered a lot of new upcoming games from it, and we got a new HauntedPS1 demo disc that you can now download on Itch. I thought I would highlight and link to some of the ones I’m most interested just to get some extra eyes on them, but you should just watch the showcase and download the demo disc. This might be a weird list anyway because I like creepy stuff, but not games that are actually scary or have jump scares.

angeline era screenshot of a person with a sword attacking a large person

Angeline Era is a new bump combat game by the developer of games such as Sephonie and Anodyne 1 and 2. Bump combat is back!

Ticky’s Tower of Time just looks like a nice 3D platformer from the PSX era. Sure, I’ll play another one of those. The music in the trailer is pleasant too.

I’m not quite sure what Of Love and Eternity is, maybe an adventure game? But it looked interesting and it has a demo so I should probably go play that.

first person view of a bedroom and hands. one hand is holding a key

Eclipsium looks like a horror adventure game and man, I get so excited about digitized sprites.

Axyz looks like a fun puzzle game with a vaporwave theme.

The art in Juice is so fun and Colorfiction has made plenty of cool games before.

I didn’t know until now that No Players Online was getting a commercial release but I was a fan of the original free game.

Spyrit Walker looks like a fun retro FPS and has a demo too.

Children of Saturn is really exciting to me. I will always be into stories about teens trying to get by while it feels like the world is ending. It’s an interactive fiction game that doesn’t seem to be horror, and it has a demo.

Prison of Husks looks like a combination of the slower, difficult combat in Dark Souls with an aesthetic inspired by ICO.

Scissors in Hell is a first person turn-based dungeon crawler so yes, I will be playing that.

Death in Abyss looks like a Star Fox-type game but horror themed and set under the water.

Morn is another horror retro shooter and it’s got a demo so you can see if being a priest and shooting demons is for you.

Athanasia. Hell yes, a new horror immersive sim.

Shrimp Game is a roguelike where you are a shrimp under the water. Wonderful.

It’s kind of funny seeing something with the Wholesome tag make it into the showcase but VORON does seem like a nice adventure game where you are a raven exploring the world.

MOTORSLICE is a non-horror platformer that actually reminds me of the PS2 era of games and the movement in it seems really well done.

Please Insert Disc is a horror adventure where it seems like you explore a haunted PS2-era disc? It’s by the devs of Home Safety Hotline, which I never played but people seemed to love.

Tamarindos Freaking Dinner looks like a very trippy and silly adventure game and was a nice way to mix things up with all the very serious games in the showcase.

RADIANT ELUSION seems to be a 3D platformer with a vaporwave theme.

And then finally, Soup Rooms sounds fascinating to me. I guess it is inspired by a 2007 game from Japan. It’s 100 rooms that I think you just explore and will be free. That sounds pretty great to me.

Playing Asheron’s Call 1 in 2025

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I’ve decided it now, 2025 is the year of Asheron’s Call. It’s a game I’ve always wanted to play since Asheron’s Call 2 was the first MMO I ever played and I’m taking the time now to revisit it. That might seem a little odd since it was a MMO that started in 1999 and shut down for good in 2017, but fans have managed to keep it alive!

If you would like to play it, the instruction on this website are actually very straightforward and were easy for me to follow. The page has a warning for it at the bottom, but a few folks including myself have run into an issue where the game crashes when you sign in and it’s easily fixed by just playing in Windowed Mode.

Once you have this all setup, you just need to pick a server to play on. A couple of us in the Discord for Twitch streamer BogusMeatFactory (Twitch link) are going to be playing a retail release Asheron’s Call fan server called Levistras that also enforces a strict, no-bot policy. This means we will experiencing the retail game experience around the era of 2004-ish. If you are interested in playing with us, you can download the launcher through the link here.

This is an easy executable that is your hub portal to all of the different servers available now and is incredibly easy to use! The server we will be playing on is the Levistras server, whose information can be found at the link here.

I also highly recommend checking out the manual. The game actually has a solid in-game tutorial but the manual provides all the lore and additional info for playing the game. It’s readable in the browser on the Internet Archive.

You’re more than welcome to join me! I will be on Fridays around 9pm EST, but playing other times as well, with a character named TofuPirate. I’ve only played a tiny bit of the game so far but I’m having a good time and very excited to play more of it.