Fearless Design

Always more stuff to do :) Throw in any questions and I’ll try to get to a few more tomorrow! Thanks friends!

My favorite part of league is the whole thing. No individual element particularly fascinates me more than others. The interconnections are the exciting bits to me, where small changes to a system here dramatically changes how certain champions experience the game, or how multiple parts of the game can be revitalized and improved by adding new foundational tools or content. 

That doesn’t mean that there haven’t been lots of smaller problems, but I’m very proud that the team build good stuff and a system that allows us to constantly fix the problems and make it better. 

I’ve trained in martial arts for a few years, and even taught for quite a while, and one of my proudest contributions to games was that I got to do mocap for the attack animations of Alpha Protocol. 

Convenient reminder opportunity: I don’t work on champions, and won’t every intentionally spoil another team’s work. 

Honestly, I just want to run around with a scuttle crab or ride on the back of Elder Dragon. I haven’t been really attached to a particular champion in quite a long time. 

Twitter is about to hit a bit of a milestone. How should we celebrate?

I’m not able to talk about Nexus Blitz really, right now. We’re still getting results back and evaluating. I’m very happy that so many folks enjoyed it though and we’ll definitely let everyone know if and when it will be back. 

We’ve basically done this with champions like Pyke and Jhin, although in very dramatic ways, but those champions make clear that having differentiated ways to look at items is a pretty rich way to make a champion or class feel very different and exciting to certain players. 

Office Hours are open! I’ve been off of Summoner’s Rift work for a bit, but let’s talk league of legends, game design, or whatever. Let’s chat!

If you have more to sneak in, throw them at me and I’ll see what I can get to. :)

We are doing random surveys, but you can’t really opt into those. If you have feedback, we are watching boards, we are watching social media, and we’re especially watching how folks play. 

At this point, we have no idea how well those things worked, but fingers crossed?!?

We needed a code name, and Zenon came up with the “Split Lane Interactive Multiplayer Experience.” It was originally “Single Lane” but the prototype changed a bit. 

Nexus Blitz started with the premise of adding a bunch of excitement and wackiness to a much shorter, but still very familiar version of SR. Future modes will likely target spaces a fair bit more differentiated or unique. No idea what that stuff might look like at this point, though. 

Right now, we’re working on changes that should speed it up, make it feel a lot better, and hopefully get it on par or better with our other events. If we can’t make it better, it’s likely to be removed in the future. 

...Or even better, tell us what would make you excited to play thousands of games.