Heretic

Licensed Doom engine adding look up/down and usable inventory items, proving engine licensing worked.

Released 1994 Developer Raven Software Publisher id Software Platform DOS Genre FPS Era The 3D rupture Website ravensoft.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Heretic inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Raycast Corridor 3D ~~1992~~Networked Deathmatch ~~1993~~Open Data Formats and Mod SDK ~~1993~~Selectable Difficulty ~~1993~~

Descends from

Doom ~~1993~~

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