编辑“︁History”︁（章节）

== Year 1999 ==
I have not been able to find this initial webpage, seems the hosting went down and I have no copy of it on my HD. All I have from that time is a short declaration of what Arianne should be:

  <pre>
  What is Arianne? 
  Arianne is an RPG project that will have the next set of features:
  * Infinite World
  * Online gameplay
  * Permanent world
  * Non hardcoded RPG engine
  * Open development model of items
  * Portable
  * The most important part of the game is the offline one.

  Ideas to add to project:
  Depending on the path of the player or NPC, it will do or be able to
  do some actions insteads of others, and as a result there will never 
  be two similar games.
  Every NPC will have a story, a ascendants, a set of goals and a 
  personality, so there is no two exact NPC.
  Items are added to the program using a interpreted language that ease 
  it load and that makes it independent of the operating system where 
  the server runs.
  Game will is ruled by laws, economical relations between states, 
  politic relations, weather, geography and so.
  To advance on experience points you don't need to kill, but to role play.
  </pre>

Sounds fun, doesn't it? Keep in mind that at the time when this was written, Java was a stupid language featuring version 1.0, no one knew about Python and XML was the name of a football team. Now that I re-read these ideas, I think most of the goals are clearly very hard, even with today's technology.

The official start day of the project is September 8, 1999. We will use this as the birthday date.
The first webpage of this new era featured a much more interesting webpage

[[Image:webpage_1999.jpg]]

And the very first version of Arianne: a 2D Client.

[[Image:screenshot_1999.jpg]]

During that year, Arianne evolved anarchily and fast to a small working offline game where the player was able to move around a piece of terrain of around the size of 3 screens. The great achievement at this stage was the portability, as the game was runable on Windows, Linux and BeOS thanks to SDL which at that period an awesome 0.10 version