[taurath]

Interesting - will they only work with the latest patch (1.12 I think?) as custom maps did? There were some breaking changes that meant you couldn’t use older versions of maps.

I’m very excited for this - so much creativity flowed out of that map maker - it created (or rather, popularized) multi billion dollar genres in MOBAs and tower defense. Hope wintermaul wars gets popular - that was one of my favorites.

[foobaw]

Island Troll Tribes was one of my favorites. I wonder if this will also create a DotA 1 scene (though IceFrog will not work on it).

[Moopy]

Hi! I am the original author of Island Troll Tribes and I’m glad you like my map! Fun fact: I started making that map in 9th grade and eventually handed it over to another dev during my freshman year of college. Now I’m a lead software engineer; its amazing how time flies. Maybe I will pick it back up again, who knows :)

[taurath]

we used to bot the hell out of battle net so we could do private leagues or private lobbies with ban lists for people who left early or trolled or were abusive. It was a better random player experience than they currently have in dota2 and league of legends