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IceFrog (born 1983 or 1984) [48] is the pseudonymous lead designer of Defense of the Ancients and Dota 2. [49] His involvement with the series began in 2005, when he inherited the reins of DotA Allstars from "Neichus", who himself inherited it from Steve "Guinsoo" Feak. [50]
[11] [17] The new author, IceFrog, added new features, heroes, and fixes. [12] IceFrog was at one time highly reclusive, refusing to give interviews; the only evidence of his authorship was the map maker's email account on the official website and the name branded on the game's loading screen. [18]
Development of Dota 2 began in 2009 when IceFrog, lead designer of Defense of the Ancients, was hired by Valve to design a modernized remake in the Source game engine. It was released for Windows, OS X, and Linux via the digital distribution platform Steam in July 2013, following a Windows-only open beta phase that began two years prior.
Neon Prime was reportedly helmed by IceFrog (the lead designer of Dota), and would have been a MOBA with a sci-fi aesthetic. [6] Further details were reported in 2023, indicating that it would have been a team-based "third-person 'MOBA-lite'", in which players need to defeat a boss enemy at the opposing team's base. [ 7 ]
The changes conducted by IceFrog were well-received and the number of users on the Dota: Allstars forum is thought to have peaked at over one million. [53] DotA is widely attributed as the most significant inspiration for the MOBA genre in the years to come. [3]
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Valve's logo. Valve is an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington.The company is based in Bellevue, Washington. [1] Valve's first game was Half-Life, a first-person shooter released in 1998. [2]
In 2012, IceFrog, the developer of DotA and Dota 2, honored BurNIng by naming his signature hero Anti-Mage after him in the original Dota game. [2] [3] In September 2018, he founded a new team called "Team Aster".