I had a pleasant surprise recently, so thanks to Serious Rainbow for this pony take on the Heretic title screen art! You might have heard, but a few months back, Nightdive released a remaster of Raven Software's Doom spinoffs, Heretic and Hexen, as, well, Heretic x Hexen on Steam and other game platforms. It was a free upgrade if you already owned the older versions, and I briefly messed around with it, but I didn't delve too deep at the time.
And then I noticed this.
Long ago, back when the wHeretic source port was released, I came up with names for the secret episode and levels contained within the Shadows of the Serpent Riders retail release. These became the fanon titles for the next 25 years, and have ascended to canon, as they are now what you see when you choose to warp to them in the official product.
I can now properly say something I did is in the actual idtech games, even if it's something as small as a few strings of text, but, damn! That was one hell of a lovely thing to see, and vindication as well, since I'd passed these to and gotten the approval of Michael Raymond-Judy for them as well. I'd interviewed him once during my GameSpy days, and still have the HTML for that lying around, and confirmed that the first map of the secret levels was indeed based on Raven's offices at the time.
Normally I don't ask this, but if you'd like to give a little more visibility and leave a comment or like or whatever on that above Steam screenshot, that would be most appreciated! Now I need to just get in contact with somebody at Nightdive to thank 'em for this, since it's not just an acknowledgement of me, but of the community that's built up around these games over the past three decades, and shows they truly do care!
