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Among the DotA variants created in the wake of Eul's map was DotA Allstars, originally created and developed by custom map makers Meian and Ragn0r, who took the most popular heroes and compiled them into one map. [11] In March 2004, map maker Steve "Guinsoo" Feak assumed control of Allstars development. [15]
The original version, Defense of the Ancients, is a community-created Warcraft III custom map developed with the Warcraft III World Editor that was first released in 2003. [1] The franchise name, "Dota", is derived from the original map's acronym, DotA. [2] Dota 2, its standalone installment, was released as a free-to-play sequel in July 2013. [3]
Source 2 is a video game engine developed by Valve.The engine was announced in 2015 as the successor to the original Source engine, with the first game to use it, Dota 2, being ported from Source that same year.
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With no clear successor, Warcraft III modders created a variety of maps based on DotA and featuring different heroes. In 2003, after the release of WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, a map creator named Meian [2] created a DotA variant closely modeled on Eul's map, but combining heroes from the many other versions of DotA that
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There, Valve stated that it would be free to use for developers, with support for the Vulkan graphical API, as well as using a new in-house physics engine called Rubikon. [24] [25] In June 2015, Valve announced that Dota 2, originally made in the Source engine, would be ported over to Source 2 in an update called Dota 2 Reborn.
In December 2016, Dota 2 was updated to gameplay version 7.00, also known as "The New Journey" update. [120] [121] [122] Prior to the update, the Dota series had been in version 6.xx for over a decade, marking the first major revision since IceFrog originally took over development of the original mod in the mid-2000s. [122]