Aeon of Strife (map)

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Aeon of Strife is a custom map for StarCraft, created by Gunner_4_ever in 2002. It led in part to the popular Defense of the Ancients map for Warcraft III, which was one of the first true MOBA games and as such the game on which Heroes of the Storm is based.

Overview

In Aeon, a regular player controlled a single hero unit fighting amidst AI-controlled enemies in three lanes. There was very little terrain outside these lanes. It featured an initial roster of 8 hero units, without any particular special abilities. Killing enemy heroes and AI controlled enemies awards players minerals, which functioned as the mod's currency. Newer and different iterations of the map emerged with different lane structures and other perks. The player spent this currency on armor or weapon upgrades, without any concept of levels outside the number of said upgrades a player had bought. This concept became prevalent in later MOBAs, though in later versions of the game, a unit would be dropped from a dropship in a secluded corner of the map, acting as an 'activator' to add some skills to a unit. The objective of the game was to destroy the opposing team's core structure (represented by a xel'naga temple).

Known Heroes

• "Small, Creepy Killer" (a zergling hero)
• Tassadar

Notes

There are also some sources which claim that the creator of the mod was Nicholas Taijeron aka Gunner_4_ever. AoS and AoS2 maps can be found on his website.

Some sources use a picture as the "original AoS", which has a similar layout with dota, and Tassadar as a playable hero, but in fact, this map is not AoS at all, it's just a dota imitation.