Where is Icefrog from?

Icefrog, male, Chinese name: Ice Frog, American. Currently Icefrog is the one leading the development team to continue maintaining and developing the DOTA map. Icefrog is the direction sign in the DOTA world.

[Edit this paragraph] Icefrog’s specific personal information

[1] As the author of the current version of DotA, Icefrog has tens of thousands of loyal fans but has always kept a low profile. The little information about him (her) found on the Internet is mostly conjecture. IF's hard work in updating the map is obvious to everyone, as well as the decisions IF made in some historical events, leaving players with the impression that they are serious about their responsibilities and not interested in fame and fortune.

If you enter IceFrog’s personal email address on Facebook to search, a person named David Him will appear. This is IceFrog’s real name. If you search on Google again, you will find more information. In the second Google article, there are personal details of IceFrog's past. First, he is a QA Engineer at Varolii, a company that provides voice, email, SMS, web and fax alerts for flight cancellations, credit card fraud, service calls, late payments, and more. QA Engineer means software engineer, which is directly linked to IceFrog’s current job.

In addition, the university and school he attended are also listed in detail.

David Him's Education

David Him's Education

University of Washington Bachelor, Information Systems, 2002 — 2006

Washington Bachelor's degree in school from 2002 to 2006

I heard that Varolii laid off 8% of its employees during the financial crisis, and it happened that IceFrog entered Valve (the parent company of CS) at that time, so the news is credible Very high

[Edit this paragraph] Deeds

1. The original authors of dota are Elus and Guinsoo. As there are more and more DOTA players, the map update workload has also become huge. Eventually Guinsoo began to seek help from other map makers (Icefrog was one of them).

2. Icefrog took over from 6.10 until now. Icefrog is by far the best DOTA map maker. Unlike Guinsoo, who left a lot of bugs unaddressed, with Icefrog's improvement, the current map has significantly fewer bugs. Icefrog is also more receptive to other people's opinions. Many new things (heroes, props, systems) are now created due to suggestions from people on the discussion board.

3. So far, the latest version of Icefrog updated to DOTA is 6.67c (March 31, 2010). Icefrog strives for the balance of DOTA through constant updates, while adding different heroes to make the game more colorful.

4. About the Chinese version. In the 6.53 era, Icefrog formed a specialized translation team for various languages. The traditional Chinese version was led by Taiwanese player Sprite93. However, due to various reasons, it took a long time and there was still no prototype translation. After 6.54, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan players mainly played The traditional Chinese version of Dota translated by zxcv9992, his version is based on the six-winged wind chime, and the language is basically unchanged. Later in 6.60, Icefrog re-established the Traditional Chinese Interoperability and Chineseization Team, with Aegis serving as the independent team leader to this day. On December 25, 2009, DOTA6.65 landed in China as a Christmas gift!