Hieta was born in 1956 in
Mänttä in
Finland. Hieta has designed several role-playing games himself, and he is also known by columns written in game-related magazines. Hieta published his first
Finnish-language role playing game,
Miekka ja magia, in 1987. Other games by Hieta include
Elhendi and
Astra. He has made the largest number of games produced by
Arctic Ranger Production. Hieta has said that he originally found role playing games via a computer game set in the
Dungeons & Dragons world. According to Nordic, his designation "the incurable" refers to his feelings about
dragons. Hieta had originally contacted the magazine claiming to write better
reviews than the magazine had at the time. The contact led to him becoming an assistant in the magazine. Nordic had a very personal touch in his column, and he often wrote very freely about his own and his friends' activities with computer and role playing games. "Peliluola" published gameplay hints, viewers' high scores and short reviews. Letters sent by readers played an important part in the column. The column usually started with a
story about Nordic's current adventures in his role playing games. The best known figure in the stories was Petrell, a games character created by Pete, a friend of Nordic. Nordic's long-time favourite computer game in the 1980s was
Boulder Dash. The first "Peliluola" column was published in
MikroBitti issue 3/1985 and the last in 1998. Especially at the early times of the column, when very little was written about gaming in Finnish magazines, "Peliluola" was an important resource to Finnish computer and role playing games culture. ==Publications==