Defense of the Ancients
Defense of the Ancients (DotA Allstars or DotA) is a map for the 
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne...
It heavily changed the gameplay without using many new assets.
Prior work
Herzog Zwei had... [Clarify]
StarCraft had scenario known as "Aeon of Strife"[Clarify] according to Kevin Tok in "Warcraft 3: Defense of the Ancients 101".
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos had a map Defense of the Ancients by Eul...[Clarify]
Confirm:DotA Allstars 0.60 is a modded version of DotA TFT 7.0. DotA TFT 7.0 by I3latant_Abuse [?] was released on 22/10/03.- Confirm:DotA TFT 7.0 is also a modded version of DotA TFT 1.8 by GEO. DotA TFT 2.5 was released on 30/07/03.
- Confirm:DotA TFT 1.8 is also a modded version of Eul Original DotA, Eul's Defense of the Ancients 2.9.
- How popular is this game? What is its background?
- The basic core concept of the game stretches back almost 10 years to the early days of Starcraft with a mod called Aeon of Strife and then afterwards with Valley of Dissent followed by RoC-DotA on Warcraft 3 by Euls. They had a relatively small but loyal playerbase. After the release of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, many more mods of this concept took form. One of these was mods was DotA-Allstars, originally a collection of the most popular heroes from the other mods, initially developed by Meian followed by Guinsoo and then Neichus. Another DotA mod called DotA-Chaos was building up popularity in China at this time.
IceFrog's main focus and goals in the past 5 or so years have been to dramatically redesign and rebalance the original game concept and expand on it in order to make it a more enjoyable and engaging game for both casual and competitive players. In the last 2 years, the mod has seen an explosive increase in new players as well as acceptance into many e-sports organizations, growing from a few tens of thousands of players many years ago to the many millions of players it has right now. It is still growing more and more with each passing day.
I appreciate all the support and feedback that the fans provide, I would not have the motivation to develop this game every day without them.
Latest and stable
- What is the difference between Latest Map and Stable Map
- The Latest Map always has new and experimental features. The Stable Map is the recommended version for tournament use.
Versions
| Date | Ver | Size | D | RN | Sources and notes |
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| 2004-01-09 | 0.60 | The first version according to some sources | |||
| 2004-04-09 | 4.0beta2 | The first version with Roshan and Runes | |||
| 5.78 | The earliest version accessible with the WM | ||||
| 2005-03-01 | 6.0 | Some describe it as the first version comparable to the  Dota 2...
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| 6.27b | 2.3 MB | 1 | The earliest version that can be downloaded from the WM | ||
| 6.83d | 7.8 MB | 1 | The latest version that can be downloaded from the WM | ||
| 6.69c | The latest update according to some sources | ||||
Authors
- Ragn0r
- Meian
- Icefrog
Technical notes
- Files are named like DotA Allstars v5.78.w3x or DotA v6.83d.w3x.