Hieta published his first Finnish-language role playing game, Miekka ja magia, in 1987.
[1] Hieta became famous by the name "Nordic" as the writer of the "Peliluola" ("The Gaming Den") column in MikroBitti.
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.
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.