A multimedia content delivery apparatus for delivering graphical information across a network to a client device, the apparatus including an environment engine controlling a virtual environment responsive to user commands, an object transformation unit transforming original object data of objects in the environment into compressed object data, a data management unit transmitting compressed data to the client device for decompression to output a sequence of images of the environment on the device, and a handler unit receiving commands from the device and providing the user commands to the environment engine.