League of Legends Dev Tracker

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I don't know if this is right but....eh, sounds close enough to be new canon

You are correct. We don't use one of the major commercial engines, we've rolled our own. This allows us to be more flexible - if we need something we can add it. We get to decide what the most important features are and what needs support. We also have had to build all of our tools (the game related ones at least. We still use 3rd party tools like Maya etc for art and audio and whatnot) - so our tools are customised to do what League needs: Creating particle effects, linking them to spells, dealing with game logic to name just a couple.

We are constantly iterating on our engine and tools so that we can more quickly and efficiently add new content. Of course, adding new content and features has a cost in terms of performance and memory, hence this eternal battle for framerate.

We don't test every skin of every champion on every spec machine on every game map or game type. There are just too many combinations there to do in a reasonable time with QA team. Even PBE doesn't catch every combination, which is why we need to keep an eye on live games and player reports for outliers. In this case, the Swain slow down wasn't flagged as an issue with our internal testing, or even on PBE. Either it wasn't noticeable enough (the impact would depend on screen resolution as well as GPU type and even the CPU could mitigate the GPU slowdown if it was slow enough) or it was deemed within the acceptible bounds of perf degradation or it wasn't seen.

So, to your question, it should have showed up in testing. If I was able to test on a min spec machine myself, it would have shown up. But my development machine is not min-spec (I do need to be able to compile the game), its more mid-spec and even on that machine it only showed up when I was running two game clients t...

Introverted men also face many of the same issues (excluding the sexual harassment parts). When training managers there are many call outs specifically for how to help introverted individuals ensure they get a voice in the room. Some of the best leads here are great at doing that.

Some really good questions that I should have hit /u/Trashacc5436

The team that works on this stuff wrote this up a couple months ago to talk about what they've been up to https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/diversity-and-inclusion

Hey everyone, Riot Smileyjoe here. I work in Riot comms and have been working with this journalist for the last few weeks to get Riot’s view into the piece.

We appreciate that the reporter took the time to reach out to us, but since Kotaku didn’t include the full statement, I wanted to make sure this community saw the full response we sent.

Riot Culture

We strive to cultivate a unique culture that positions us to best deliver amazing player experiences: one where we obsessively focus on players; one where every Rioter has equal opportunity to be heard, grow their role, advance in the organization, and fulfill their potential; and one where open feedback helps us all get better.

The key word there is “strive”--our cultural values are aspirational and we’re realistic about the fact that the values and behaviors in our manifesto aren’t always perfectly reflected in the reality of the experiences of Rioters across Riot. Talking over wo...

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EDIT: we're heading back to work! as always, some Rioters will stick around and continue to answer questions. Thanks for joining us, and we'll see you for the next one.

The time for tradition is over, but an AMA is still a worthy challenge. We'll kick it off at 11:00 AM PDT and run until 2:00 PM PDT. Load up the comments with your questions and we'll come out from our shroud in a bit to answer as many as we can.

Here are some of the Kinkou acolytes prepared to answer your questions: u/RiotScruffy - Lead Designer | u/Thermal_Kitten - Narrative Lead | ...

kiwikid actually was never on playtest

The entries are displayed in random order to ensure good coverage of all of them and prevent it from being just the entries on the 1st page that get the most views. If you refresh the voting site you will see that the 1st page is always different. So as an example if 50,000 people vote on the contest, but never go beyond the 1st page we can still guarantee that all entries are being seen by many eyes. We do it this way because we get far too many entries for a single person (or even a small group of people) to reasonably sift through, but a large community can do it in a number of hours. It's also fun to look at and share everyone's awesome work.

I'm on.

Added. More than happy to chat; I really just want to learn. I really appreciate the time and thoughtfulness you've put into your responses thus far, and I'm super interested to continue the conversation. I'll probably try to ping you tomorrow if we can make that work.

I'd love to have this dialogue with you over voice - I kinda hate the Reddit comment back and forth. What you're saying makes a ton of sense. I've typed and re-typed responses multiple times but trying to convey every nuance I want to, making sense, and not writing a novel never all seem to come together in a single iteration. Any chance you want to hop on discord or something? I'd actually love to get deeper into your perspectives. If not that's cool - I can try to respond here.

If I'm understanding what you're saying here correctly, it's that you believe Taliyah mains will largely want Crown's signature on their loading screen card even though they don't give a sh*t about Crown? But they want it because regardless it's a Taliyah thing? I'm happy to continue the dialogue but I want to make sure I'm understanding your perspective correctly.

You're right. This would be better with additional icons and emotes. The reason we don't have those is because we already sold them during Worlds last year, so we figured fans had that opportunity already. But I guess it does feel weird that we don't have those options next to each other. Maybe it was a mistake to test this product without having the additional options at the same time.

Regardless, you should see options more like what you're describing during Worlds this year. Does that help?

Literally hacked tech. The icon actually grants you the signature. Every border since PROJECT 2016 has an exclusive icon with it. We can't sell the icon without the border.

Hey c'mon, there's stuff to do in Montana... we have that ice cream shop and stuff.

Oh sh*t - I'm stoked these made it in. Someone did this during an internal game jam awhile back and it was night and day better. Not sure how this matches the original concept - maybe one of the devs can talk about it.

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