iceworld : Counter-Strike :: aram : MOBAs iceworld was great. Counter-Strike is a big game with lots of mechanics. Multi-round strategy. Sneaking. Shooting. Te

iceworld : Counter-Strike :: aram : MOBAs iceworld was great. Counter-Strike is a big game with lots of mechanics. Multi-round strategy. Sneaking. Shooting. Teamwork. Objectives. Etc. Iceworld takes all that and focuses on basically a single thing: peeking + shooting. It's great. I love the history of MOBAs. Warcraft 3 was a big RTS with hero units. Hero units are cool! What if a game focused on just them? This led to hero arenas and eventually DOTA. In Dota you only control the hero but there are still some automatic AI creeps. Dota is cool. It has lots of mechanics. Hero micro, map control, leveling, gear, solo fights, jungle, team fights, etc. What would be neat? What if there was a mode that focused just on team fights! Forget the first 20 minutes, all team fight all the time. Behold all-random all-mid (ARAM)! Counter-Strike and DOTA have extremely high skill ceilings. They're also very punishing games to poor players. iceworld and aram lower the stakes, increase variability, and decrease downtime. They're all action all the time. And even bad players can get some kills and have some fun. I love seeing how a game can produce a mod that becomes a full fledged game which becomes a bonafide subgenre... which gets its own mod and the cycle continues. Beautiful.