Nickname, as known as : Ice Frog

Real name: Unknown (he doesnt reveal to public)

Known games developed: Dota (Defend of the Ancients a custom map of Warcraft III game from Blizzard) Lead designer of Dota 2 (the sequence of Dota developed by Valve Corporation and in completely different engine from WCIII)

Ice Frog is known as the developer of Defend of the Ancients since 2005 and is the longest-serving of the game(Dota is not originally created by him). During the time he developed in Dota, he fixed a lots of bugs and mechanics system which effect the gameplays much; also brought lots more characters to the character pool of the game which made it more various and wider. He was considered as the one who well popularized Dota (it was highest number at 15 million people playing this game); later, lots of games what were inspired of Dota such as : League of Legends (LoL), Heroes of Newerth (HoN), DemiGod and the upcoming Blizzards Dota Furthermore, in Dota community, Ice Frog is called God for his effort to make the game well balanced. Gamers prefer games much balanced than gorgeous with bugs and imbalanced characters ones. Until DotA 2 was officially announced on the 13th of October 2010 by Valve Corporation, Ice Frog was hired as the lead to work on Dota 2 (The game is just called Dota 2 because of some privacy affairs with Blizzard).

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 AIcontrolled units called "creeps". As in role-playing games, players level up their hero and use gold to buy equipment during the game.

http://dota.wikia.com/wiki/Defense_of_the_Ancients

As the most common matches (in public and competitive games), the game separate 10 gamers into two teams called The Sentinel and The Scourge. Each human player controls one Hero (a powerful unit with unique abilities most heroes have 4 abilities). The whole terrain is separated certainly into 3 ways (lanes) which are heavily guarded by 3 towers. Each lane, there are computer-controlled units called Creeps are continuously pawned through each 30-second period. Furthermore, each side has two big area called base where are the Ancients placed and guarded by the other two towers(the building need to be destroyed). Heroes can get gold to buy items (make them stronger) and experiences (to level up the abilities) from the Creeps; also kill each others to get as well. There are lots of strategies built from players through the combinations of abilities of heroes. Therefore, the updates on the game will effect the metagame (is a broad term usually used to define any strategy, action or method used in a game) a lot.

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Dota 1 maps : www.getdota.com

Dota 1 community : www.playdota.com www.wodota.com Dota 2 community : www.dota2.com www.joindota.com www.gosugamers.net