Career
He was a co-creator of Meridian 59, the first 3D massively-multiplayer online game. While an engineer at, he co-created Now, a predictive search engine. Meridian was the first online game to include 3D graphics.
After a beta period, it was published by The 3DO Company in 1996, where it ran until 2000.
Meridian"s code was open-sourced in 2012, and it continues to run for free today. While at LucasArts, Andrew served as graphics programmer on the PlayStation 2 game Star Wars: Starfighter.
Andrew contributed to the first four volumes of the Game Programming Gems series of books about video game development. He was the editor of Game Programming Gems 4.
Andrew began working at in 2003, where he managed the Earth team
He gave an invited talk on Now at the 2014 World Wide Web Conference.
