The Hangzhou Asian Games e-sports DOTA2 competition will begin on September 29. As a game that has been in official public beta for ten years, this article will introduce the development process of this game.
The history of DOTA begins with the era of "StarCraft". The full name of DotA is Defense of the Ancients. DOTA's map is based on the StarCraft map - Eternal Catastrophe. The first version was created by the map maker in 2003. EUL was produced and released on the map editor of "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos".
Initially, the hero skills in DOTA were no different from those in regular Warcraft, but the innovative 5v5 game mode was still loved by players. At this time, DOTA only has 32 heroes and 39 items.
After the release of the Frozen Throne expansion pack for Warcraft 3, the map editor can customize items, skills, models and textures in more detail. After that, eul made the Frozen Throne version of DOTA (defense of the ancients: thirst for Gamma) and never updated the map.
At this time, different authors added different new heroes, items, and characteristics to their respective versions. Some players brought together the heroes from these derived maps and the original maps at that time to create DOTA Allstars.
At this time Steve (GUINSOO) appeared and became the main programmer of the multiplayer version of Dota allstars. He added an item combination system to help players obtain more powerful hero abilities, and also added a powerful boss. , "Roshan" was named after his bowling ball, and he later added sound effects for killing enemies.
During this period, GUINSOO also sought help from other people, including icefrog. When the map version was about 6.00, due to community conflicts, guinsoo, neichus, terrorblaze and others produced versions 6.00 and 6.01 and then stopped developing dota allstars. , there are already 69 heroes in DOTAAllstars at this time.
icefrog started accepting version 6.02 and has been updated to 6.77. During this period, more than 100 versions were modified. It added new features, heroes and fixed a large number of bugs (more than 50,000 bugs according to statistics).
On October 5, 2009, icefrog joined Valve and started the development of Dota 2. On October 13, 2010, Dota 2 officially announced on the official website of Game Informer magazine that the game is currently in a closed beta stage.
From August 17th to 21st, 2011, the first International Dota 2 International Invitational Tournament kicked off in Cologne, Germany. The competition shocked the entire e-sports world with a total prize of 1.5 million US dollars. At that time, the game reproduced all the items of the original Dota, but there were only 46 heroes. , in the end the Ukrainian team Navi won the championship and received 1 million US dollars.
On September 23, 2011, Dota2 internal testing officially began. In November, various large-scale events began to be held in China. Dota2 became rapidly popular, and countless Dota2 teams were announced.
DOTA2 officially began public beta testing on July 9, 2013, and has been in operation ever since.
In the past twelve international invitational tournaments, the Chinese team has achieved three championships and five runner-up results. The Chinese team players participating in the Asian Games this time are:
No. 1 Wang Chunyu
Mid laner Lu Yao
Position 3 Yang Chenyi
No. 4 Xiong Jiahan
No. 4 Zhao Zixing
No. 5 Yu Yajun