John R. Taylor III (born January 13, 1957) is an American computer game designer, serial entrepreneur and massively multiplayer online game pioneer.[1] He is a co-founder (with his University of Virginia classmate Kelton Flinn) of the game company Kesmai, which they founded in 1981.[2] In 2011, Taylor was awarded the Online Game Legend Award by the Computer Game Developers Association.[3][4]