Blog Only for DotA Lovers....: Heroes of Newerth and hexOr

What is Defense of the Ancients?

Defense of the Ancients (often referred to as DotA) is a custom scenario for Warcraft III The Frozen Throne based on the "Aeon of Strife" map for Starcraft The objective of the scenario is to destroy the opponents' "Ancient". The two teams' ancients are heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. Players use powerful units known as heroes, and are assisted by allied heroes and AI-controlled fighters called "creeps". As in role-playing-game, players level up their hero and use gold to buy equipment during the mission.

The scenario was developed with the World of Editor of Warcraft III Reign of Chaos , and was updated upon the release of the Warcraft expansion The Frozen Throne. There have been many variations of the original concept; currently, the most popular is DotA Allstars, which has been maintained by several authors during development.

Since its release, Allstars has become a feature at several worldwide tournaments, including Blizzard Entertainment’s BlizzCon and the Asian World Cyber Games, as well as the Cyberathlete Amateur and CyberEvolution leagues; Gamasutra declared that DotA was perhaps the most popular "free, non-supported game mod in the world". The variant is cited as an inspiration for the upcoming video game Demigod

Friday, June 26, 2009

Heroes of Newerth and hexOr

Heroes of Newerth - Playing DotA with different engine

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We've already know that several games are being developed based on DotA Allstars. DemiGod and League of Legends are some names that already familiar in this term. While both of them is totally a new game that inspired from DotA, playing Heroes of Newerth is just like playing Dota but with a lot of better graphics. Just see the above picture (click 'here' to enlarge) and watch this video.

That is Krobelus who in the movie, isn't it? And based on the mini-map, the map layout is also the same. At first, IceFrog isn't gonna rage because of it. Below is first public demo for this game and also IceFrog's statement on PlayDota regarding this matters

At least they got IceFrog permission to do that. But this game would have a real trouble if IceFrog stop developing the WC3 version of DotA. Unless they can come out with something original, they won't survive in the long run. Balanced the game and kept the gameplay fun while adding new content is not an easy task. And IceFrog is done it well so far on the current DotA map. Despite all of that, the graphics on the Heroes of Newerth is really tempted.

hexOr the movie

Just found another great DotA video, hex0r the movie. This video is made by the famous video maker Blurpi and hexOr. Those two made a great combination creating this movie. Let's check it out!