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League of Legends, Dota 2, and Heroes of Newerth were all directly inspired from a Warcraft III map mod, Defense of the Ancients. Multiplayer Online Battle Aren
by undersuit 3y ago
League of Legends, Dota 2, and Heroes of Newerth were all directly inspired from a Warcraft III map mod, Defense of the Ancients. Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas, MOBAs, are now an entire genre.
- aeyes 3y agoI vaguely remember a mod called tower defense which we played on LAN, I wonder if that was the inspiration.
- undersuit 3y agoI've never played the map, but Aeon of Strife from Starcraft is a custom map that has the origin of Dota mechanics... and the Protoss Photon Cannon brought about some earlier versions of Tower Defense custom maps.
- oliverbennett 3y agoOf the 10 most popular multiplayer games in 2023[0] seven of them owe their core mechanics to mods / flashes of brilliance from a handful of amateurs. A more or less correct history of their origins: - Four of the games on that list are battle royale games, which started life as a somewhat popular Minecraft mod and really took off with "Battle Royale" - a mod of "Dayz" which itself is a mod of "ARMA II". It's mods all the way down. - Two are tactical FPS games, which owe a huge chunk of their mechanics to "Team Fortress" a Quake mod and "Counter Strike" a Half-Life mod. - One is a MOBA, which started life as "DotA", a Warcraft III mod. Of the other three, one is Minecraft. Created by a solo dev, and I expect its moddable nature has helped its multiplayer popularity significantly. One is Roblox. Created by two devs, and is itself a game creation system. The final one is Genshin Impact - something of a an outlier in terms of team size and genre origins. [0] https://twinfinite.net/features/most-played-games https://twinfinite.net/features/most-played-games