Meridian 59 was the first 3D Internet Role Playing Game,
launched in beta in 1995 and commercially in 1996.
For the first summer that my brother Andrew and I worked on it, however, it was 2D. Perhaps worse, we created the bitmaps ourselves--we're talking programmer art. Check out our creations below. My personal favorite is user.bmp... it started out as a stick figure, but somehow I screwed up the head and it became known as "snoopy head". |