#AND THEN THERE'S THIS HERETIC SOFTWARE#

We recorded voice actors to portray Corvus and the tome. Traditionally, fantasy games have a strong following in Europe, so building a game to meet European considerations was important for us.Дevelopment progressed over the year in spurts - as development does.

#AND THEN THERE'S THIS HERETIC SOFTWARE#

At this point, the marketing department at Activision got involved and informed us that a software renderer was a requirement because Europe is traditionally about two years behind the States in hardware, so most Europeans would not have 3D acceleration. We had many discussions about the wisdom of attempting to implement a software renderer. Pat Lipo decided on the critical systems we would need to address, and development commenced. Brian Pelletier took over as project lead, and the team drew up the project design document. Once we showed our demo to Activision, the publisher gave us the green light, and we hammered out a delivery date so that we could be done by Christmas. The camera was actually one of the easiest things to build. Next, the company commissioned a technology demo to ascertain whether or not it was possible to use the Quake II engine to build a third-person game with an intuitive camera. This art helped shape the direction and flavor of the worlds and the creatures that would inhabit them.

WeвЂ™d always intended for it to be an action game - we wanted cool worlds, cool monsters, and exciting ways to hand out death.ДЄfter the company decided to go ahead with the project, we quickly commissioned the fantasy artist Brom to create some conceptual art. After seeing what Core had done with Tomb Raider, we decided to see what we could do with that original idea and idвЂ™s Quake II engine. So we shelved the idea until it could be done right. It had actually been proposed a while back here at Raven, but at the time, the technology to do it convincingly just wasnвЂ™t there. We designed Heretic II as a third-person action game from the word go.

And then there's this heretic