how did Heroes of Might and Magic III½ come about?

WoG Team
(in alphabetical order)

ERM Idea:
Slava Salnikov

Programmers:
Alexander Karpeko
Alexander Trifonov
Slava Salnikov

Lead Artists:
Alexey Pichulin
Alexey Vasiliev (Darkloke)
Bruno
Dieter Averbeck
Mathias Launhardt
Petr Alekseev (Arstahd)

Artists:
Alexander Karpeko
Artem Gagarin
Bianor
Jerry Kowalczyk (Treupp)
Jonas Gustafsson
Konstantin Nochev (Dutch)
Mandi (Kitten Angel)
Sergey Vakhrameev
Slava Salnikov
Victoria Kalinina (Candy)

ERM programming and/or
level designers:
Alexander Karpeko
Alexander Trifonov
Alexandra Balahura
Alexey Pichulin
Alexis Koz
Anders Jonsson
Andrey Adutkevich (Perfecto)
Bruno
COX
Dieter Averbeck
Dmitry Lelikov
Donald X.Vaccarino
Jack Stebaev (AsPiN)
Marc Lasch
Petr Alekseev (Arstahd)
Petyo Georgiev (Petronius)
Qurqirish Dragon
Rich Reed (Space8999)
Robert Bergerfjall (Overlord)
Sir Four
Slava Salnikov
Steven Lynch
Thomas Franz (samot)
Timothy Pulver
Tobyn

WoG & ERM documentation:
Alexey Pichulin
Bruno
Darkloke
George Toganel (Pushtiu')
Jack Stebaev (AsPiN)
Kamil Belau (Acid Dragon)
Marcus the Red
Yura Metelyov (Ennin)
Slava Salnikov
Timothy Pulver

Leading ERM testers:
Donald X.Vaccarino
Gangrail
Jonas Gustafsson
Roland Rollig (Rasputin)
Stefan Pavlov (Ste)
Steve Hanna (ByteBandit)
Timothy Pulver

Webmaster:
Alexey Pichulin

Web artists:
Alexey Pichulin
Dmitry Lelikov

Special thanks:
Alex 2k
Alexander the Artist
Alexander Bass
Alexey Kryuchkov (GreyMage)
Andrew Svietlichnyy
Andrew Yang
Angelspit
Dan Lind
Glover
Paul Lipka (Lipa)
Psycomonkee
Sergey Gorbanyov
Simon Mooncalf
Slaim Master
Theo van Bekkum
Xerobull