Depth Dwellers

Depth Dwellers
Developer(s)TriSoft
Publisher(s)TriSoft
Designer(s)Bradley N. Bell
Elizabeth A. Piegari
Programmer(s)Bradley N. Bell
Platform(s)MS-DOS
Release1994
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Depth Dwellers is a first-person shooter released in 1994 by TriSoft for MS-DOS. The game was designed to work with 3D glasses.[1] It was also included with the Woobo Electronics CyberBoy unit.[2] Being released in June for the first time as a shareware product, it predated Raven Software's Heretic by six months in being possibly the first game to feature a pseudo-3D engine that allowed players to look up and down freely. The game also permitted ducking and jumping, which were still uncommon abilities in most first-person video games of that era.

  1. ^ Miller, Chuck (November 1994). "id The Beginning, WOLFENSTEIN Created A Craze". Computer Gaming World. No. 125. Dennis Publishing. p. 136. It's not Doom and it's not the sequel, but Depth Dwellers has a gentle charm all of its own
  2. ^ "Woobo CyberBoy". WOOBO Electronics Co., Ltd. Archived from the original on June 26, 1997. Retrieved November 28, 2018.