Best Proto MOBA
DotA Allstars was a custom multiplayer map for Warcraft III that consolidated heroes and concepts from earlier Defense of the Ancients variants. Steve Feak, known as Guinsoo, maintained an influential version before development passed to IceFrog, who continued expanding and balancing it. Two teams d...
Released in 1989 for the Sega Mega Drive by the Japanese developer Technosoft, Herzog Zwei is a real-time strategy game that pioneered several mechanics now standard in the genre. Players control a transforming mech that functions as both a combat unit and a mobile command center to deploy and direc...
Aeon of Strife is a custom map created for the 1998 real-time strategy game StarCraft, widely recognized as the first major prototype for the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre. Designed by a modder known as Aeon64, the map introduced mechanics that deviated from standard strategy gameplay...
