"First of all, forget about the chess thing - the only real point of comparison is they they both have pieces and boards. Many of you at this point may be asking "Dota Auto What?" It's a mod for Valve's free-to-play MOBA, available on the Steam Workshop, which young Matt described as " like Football Manager with wizards." "In the meantime, with Valve's support, Drodo will continue updating the DAC mod, and attempt to design new modes and adaptations in our standalone game." "Being a fan of Dota 2, we have great confidence in Valve's new game, and expect the next world-class game," Drodo say. It's so similar that Valve are helping Drodo import account progress from the mod to the mobile game. "We ended up agreeing that we'll each build our own stand-alone version of the game, and support each other to the fullest."ĭrodo's standalone is the mobile game Auto Chess, which replaces the Dota heroes with off-brand lookalikes. "We had great conversations, but we both came to the conclusion that Valve and Drodo could not work directly with each other for a variety of reasons," Valve say. Valve explain in last night's blog post that, as they have with other teams and studios before, they flew Drodo Studio out from China to chat about collaborating in some capacity. So that's a game based on a mod for a game based on a Warcraft 3 mod based on a StarCraft mod. Presumably some money is changing hands too? So Valve are now making a standalone Dota Auto Chess while Drodo are continuing to work on the mod as well as their own mobile game that basically just replaces the characters. Valve say they talked with mod creators Drodo Studio about working together and, while dreams of collaboration fell flat, they did agree to each work on their own versions of it. I had not predicted that this would be Valve's next game. Dota Auto Chess, the most popular mod in Dota 2 these days (and which has nothing to do with chess), is becoming a standalone game made by Valve themselves.
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