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28 Nov

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by Gutterbones-

This month is my one year anniversary as a League player, and I just want to say how impressed I am with Riot and their dedication to their players. It's something which sets Riot apart, and I think it's one of the keys to their success. For a company to actively listen to their player base and incorporate their feedback into the game (often promptly!) is a rare thing. Anyways, I'm grateful for you, your team, and a great game that I'm looking forward to playing for a long time! Keep doing what ya'll are doing and best wishes this holiday season. Looking forward to seeing you in the 2021 event/skin video, and I wouldn't be mad if you hinted at the next Morgana skin either! ;D

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27 Nov

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by bz6

But yeah what is the official title for a role like that? Would love to look into something of that nature. I love building guidelines and making sure those values are met <3

Typically our art and design directors are the ones who work with different craft leads to build such guidelines.

Having deep experience either in designing characters or in evaluating art for consistency and clarity are reasonable paths to get to such a role.

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by bz6

I had a random ass question boss.

Is there a position at Riot on skin or gameplay team that provides qualitative feedback on gameplay design choices or like skin clarity? This would include benchmarking the feedback in parallel to the diverse variables in game.

So we actually have a couple of positions that are responsible for building and rolling out clarity guidelines, but we also do expect that all contributing artists and members of our team understand and adhere to them.

This last year we saw a bunch of feedback around clarity so we’ve taken the time to improve our internal guidelines in an effort to have better consistency moving forward.

This means there’s some stuff we’ll have to go back and adjust over time, similar to the VFX clarity updates that have happened over the last couple years.

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Originally posted by ThorusXbabaR

Is it me or are Shiba Inus owners the vegans of dogs? They don't say they have dogs, they have Shibas.

You know over never thought of it that way but now that you say it maybe?

I think it’s because most behavioral expectations you have for a typical dog will not be met with a Shiba. :)

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by bz6

Wow what a great post this is..

I don't think you know how much we ALL want to see League just last forever. Grateful to be part of a community and supporting a company that resembles 'some sort' of humanity.

You and me both. :)

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by GA_Deathstalker

Thank you for getting Events back on track and giving them an interesting twist.

The problem with doing good work is that people will always look forward to the next thing you do and so I am looking forward hoping for the next event and hoping we get some even more graspable Runterran lore-event and get something that outshines even Burning Tides! You are on the right track for it and as someone that doesn't buy battle passes I want to thank you for still providing a great experience.

Thanks Deathstalker. With every big event we do like Spirit Blossom, there’s some amount of nervousness leading up to it. Did we invest in the right things? Is our execution good? Will players love it?

Sure enough once Spirit Blossom landed we experienced a sense of elation, catharsis, and relief. It was clear players enjoyed it as much as we did. That moment is shortly followed by a new looming pressure to deliver something even better.

It can be a lot of pressure at times, but many of us here at Riot signed up for this. :)

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by Missing42

As a player, I don't like the work you guys do, to be frank. I hope you don't take offense to that, because I also recognize your work is (despite my personal judgments) tremendously successful. In fact, you're an inspiration, and I truly hope to end up in a similar position one day. Life usually doesn't work out the way you want it to, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to dream, I guess!

Hard to take offense to an honest take delivered calmly with respect. What you say about life truly resonates with me, as my original plan doesn’t look anything like my reality today. Here’s hoping that your pursuits pan out. Cheers man.

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by aroushthekween

Bellissimoh I love you AND YOUR VOICE! 😍
I am so grateful to you for giving us such amazing skins and events this year and such stunning thematics!
The Spirit Blossom Event was so GOOD and I even bought the pass... I hope the next Summer Event is as grand as this was so I can buy the pass again and spend all summer glued to my laptop! 😅
Thank you for giving my mains Janna, Karma, Nami, Lux, Rakan, Kayle and Morgana gorgeous skins this year and thank you so much for giving so many unpopular champions some of the most beautiful skins after SO LONG! I know it means so much to people who main those champions.
Y'all are literally creating a Battle Queen skin line for the QUEENS OF LEAGUE (r/queensofleague) and I am so grateful for it!
I hope next year is full of gorgeous skins (Lunar Revel Camille?🤞🏻 Immortal Journey's Kayle?🤞🏻 Star Guardian Sona?🤞🏻), amazing thematics and hopefully the comeback of some of my favourite skin lines ...

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The team worked super hard to deliver more skins this year than ever before. (Going from an average of 70-80 a year to almost 140) This has enabled us to have lower play rate champs have releases in some of our newer thematics like Battle Queens. Cheers and thanks for the support. :)

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by jessicavotingacc

I main Teemo have almost 800k mastery on him!

My wife has almost 800k mastery on Teemo as well. :)

The store calls every AP champion a "mage" and that's super weird.

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Originally posted by FizzyDrinksBR

Hey, thanks for the input. Contrary to the flak you guys have been getting I really love the new store and this post is mostly just about my pet peeve with the naming.

I'm a developer and I'm really enthusiastic about UX design as sort of a secondary professional interest, so getting your response is very insteresting to me. I didn't think about user testing and how they recognised the tabs more quickly with this naming - so I learned something today!

Consider my mind changed (but maybe just throw renaming the Mage tab in the air during a meeting because a Gold BR player asked you to :P).

Happy Black Friday to you too and keep up the good work!

If I had one thing to say about design in general it’s this: everything is about trades. You will never have a perfect solution that makes everyone happy. So make the best trades you can, be open to being surprised, and make sure you adhere to your goals.

The store calls every AP champion a "mage" and that's super weird.

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Howdy, I designed the store. Here to give you some store lore.

Once upon a time: The tabs at the top of all items weren’t classes, they were attributes. Things like magical, physical, durability, etc. you could turn on tabs in combinations to get the profile you wanted. Diana for instance would have magical and durability turned on.

My thinking was that league champions don’t fit into neat little molds so players should have the ability to customize their view. Also note that at this point stat filters had not been implemented.

Well, as we continued to test I learned some things: 1. Stat filters did 90%+ of this job these were doing, were more precise, and more familiar to people. 2. Most folks hated futzing with the attribute filters. They wanted to click one thing as see the items they were looking for.

So I went back to the drawing board and reframed the goals of each system.

The top-level tabs should be easy to understand and get it ...

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Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by trauja

Are you italian? Or is your name being italian just a coincidence ?

I’m actually half Filipino and half Swedish-German. The name Bellissimoh is a nickname some of my friends used, so I adopted it as my summoner name when I joined Riot almost 10 years ago.

A 53 year old Mum giving thanks to League of Legends for helping her to reconnect with her son

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What an absolutely incredible woman you are to do so much to get closer to your son. He'll boast to his friends for years about his awesome mum who plays league.

A 53 year old Mum giving thanks to League of Legends for helping her to reconnect with her son

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Originally posted by MommyShortTop

It’s enough to make a man cry...

Honestly this one of the biggest reasons I work at Riot. The community is simply incredible and I love stories like this.

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by twoawe123

Amazing when can i subscribe to this blog?

I try to write a bit on my Twitter @jbelliss.

I also do some hobbyist video editing on my YouTube channel for a variety of different games:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC_kKdTgHtTd1E0gxHhU17cA

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by jessicavotingacc

I also named my dog Teemo! He’s a 4 year old lab, your Shiba Inus are super cute!

EDIT:

His baby picture chewing on some slippers https://i.imgur.com/fcbF4Jo.png

My doggy now!

https://imgur.com/E7icuXX

What prompted you to name him/her Teemo? Is he a champ you play or just a fun name?

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by CMcAwesome

(@second pic) That smile, that damned smile...

Here are a couple more smiles:

https://imgur.com/a/eqguNVT

:)

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by intellextar

Hey Bellissimoh! I remember the video when you talked about the skins and other content your team had in store for 2020. You were very memorable because you had a great narrating voice. This was a great post, thank you for sharing. I hope you and your family have a great one.

I’m privileged to represent the team of amazing developers that I work with. Best to you too intellextar.

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by Raichau

adorable

Yeah they aren’t as affectionate as most other dog breeds, but they have a ton of personality and are super smart. (More like cats really than dogs honestly)

Reflecting on what I’m grateful for

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Originally posted by woodenrat

You guys get a lot of shit, but your team is passionate and you do a good job overall.

Thank you for the effort and excellence.

Truly appreciated.




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