Warcraft III DotA

Defense of the Ancients (Dota) is widely regarded as one of the most popular game modification in the world. Its popularity is ever increasing and is a very popular game across the world especially South-East Asia. But what is Dota all about?

For starters, Dota as stated is not a game, it’s a modification or more precisely a custom scenario in a real time, multi strategy game War craft III: The Frozen Throne and its predecessor War craft III: Reign of Chaos. The game is available on the web as a freeware here. (another reason accounting for its bulging popularity).

The essence of the game for any team is to destroy one’s opponents’ secured establishments at divergent corners of map at hand. These establishment or structures that need to be destroyed are called as Ancients (hence the name). Three different sets of entities – the dota heroes, dota allied heroes and dota creeps help the players in their task, heroes being the most powerful of the three. Gold acts as the medium for commodity exchange and is used for buying equipment (also called dota items and spells) and other things during the errand.

The scenario has undergone many mutations since inception and continues to do so. Though the most popular of the all aka Dota Allstars has been reigned through time. The same scenario is used in tournaments and multi player competitions. At present, ‘IceFrog’ is the authoritative developer of this scenario per se.