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Some of the modifications Raven made to the [[Doom engine]] for Heretic were flight, sectors that can push the player, an inventory system, ambient sounds, translucency, looking up and down and pushable objects.
 
On [[Timeline#1999|January 11, 1999]], the [[source code]] for both ''Heretic'' and ''[[Hexen]]'' was released by Raven Software under a restrictive [[Wikipedia:Software license agreement#End-user license agreement|EULA]] [http://www.doomworld.com/eternity/activision_eula.txt] which [[Raven source code licensing|prohibited many uses of the code]], and was incompatible with the [[Wikipedia:GNU General Public License|GNU GPL]]. This rendered it impossible to create a properly [[Wikipedia:Open source|open source]] [[source port]] (under the [[Wikipedia:Open Source Definition|Open Source Definition]]) for either game. On September 4, 2008, the source code for both games was rereleased under the GPL [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=238655].
==Story==
These three levels, seemingly built for Deathmatch are untitled in the game itself and can only be accessed via the "engage##" cheat or the command line (they don't appear on the episode select screen). The first two names resulted from suggestions by designer [[Michael Raymond-Judy]] in an [http://www.ravengames.com/heretic/heretic-shadow/insider.php interview]; whilst the name of the third map and the "episode name" were unofficially made up by fans and are widely accepted among the community.
Note that E6M3 E6M1 appears as E4M1 in the original registered version of Heretic, hidden in the same way as the above details for Shadow of the Serpent Riders. ==Source Code Release== On [[Timeline#1999|January 11, 1999]], the [[source code]] for both ''Heretic'' and ''[[Hexen]]'' was released by Raven Software under a restrictive [[Wikipedia:Software license agreement#End-user license agreement|EULA]] [http://www.doomworld.com/eternity/activision_eula.txt] which [[Raven source code licensing|prohibited many uses of the code]], and was incompatible with the [[Wikipedia:GNU General Public License|GNU GPL]]. This rendered it impossible to create a properly [[Wikipedia:Open source|open source]] [[source port]] (under the [[Wikipedia:Open Source Definition|Open Source Definition]]) for either game. On September 4, 2008, the source code for both games was rereleased under the GPL [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=238655].
==Trivia==
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