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Re:Stride Game Engine by bee_rider on Friday June 18, 2021 @04:02PM (#27554343)
Wonder how much of the current gaming ecosystem is originally rooted in the Warcraft 3 map making scene.
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Re:Stride Game Engine by elefanten on Friday June 18, 2021 @05:06PM (#27555062)
If you’re asking, you may know this already, but the whole MOBA genre (eg League of Legends) came from custom war3 maps.
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Re:Stride Game Engine by _manifold on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:28PM (#27583197)
The roots may actually go back further than that. There's a custom map for Starcraft/Brood War which used single hero control and lane pushing mechanics and predates the WC3 DotA maps:

https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Aeon_of_Strife_(map)

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Re:Stride Game Engine by bee_rider on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:58PM (#27623023)
There was also a Warcraft 3 conversion (Dunno if it was done by the same people) that, at least, I saw before DotA took over the custom games channel.
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