She/her. Senior Producer
@nightschoolers
| former Riot, PlayStation & CIG ๐ฎ Ambassador for
@wigj
๐น Dressage, D&D, Cat obsessed & all around Slytherin bastard
So hereโs the promised update! Today Iโm officially joining Night School Studio as their new Senior Producer! Iโm so excited about this opportunity. This position will involve helping lead entire narrative driven game team (alongside many talented others). ๐ฅฐ Iโm blessed.
The day has finally come I get to talk about
@raspbearyart
and his amazing gift to our team. I am still shook. This is my phone background. This is my entire personality. Oscar, it has been a privilege and an honor. You are everything. I can't even tag everyone ๐ฅฒ
I just need the world to know that
@crownsforkings
IS my Star Guardian and we couldnโt have done this without her. She came in and helped save the day. Forever my Star Guardian Zoe ๐ฅน๐ซ๐
Psst, Hey. In terms of positive life updates, this is my first week at
@riotgames
!!! I am joining the League of Legends Narrative team as their Narrative Producer 2. This is an actual dream job for me. LoL was the reason I went into games as a career so to land at Riot is wow๐
Narrative isnโt just any text you see on screen, barks, banter, or VO. Narrative is so much more than that and EVERY game has it. The sooner we as an industry wrap our head around that the sooner we can stop disrespecting an entire craft discipline. โ๏ธ๐ธ
This is mine and
@FerikaBoss
baby ๐ฅน it was really important to me to make sure that we made the lore of this Universe accessible and easy to understand so whether you are returning or a new player you can jump right in with us for 2022! Thank you Erika ๐โจ
I absolutely need someone to cut together the TLOU2 documentary from the point at which they proudly proclaimed Naughty Dog doesn't "do" producers (all while filming leads doing production work) to the end with them all BEGGING for production because they can't crunch and die ๐
Today is my Riot-versary and Iโm one year old! ๐ Iโm so grateful to my amazing team who makes it all worth it and letโs me be the Narrative Producer of my dreams (and hopefully theirs too, occasionally ๐ ). Hereโs to the next one being easier ๐ค๐
The one incident that keeps passing through my head tonight is the time that I vague ranted on Twitter that I was experiencing boys club behavior (being held to a different, unfair standards) and was reported by a wolf in allyโs clothing to HR and told that the problem was me ๐
Spicy opinion (might delete later) but you know what is making me really boil this morning? Iโm not seeing names in the riot layoff coming from the entertainment pillar. ๐ watching the death toll from the ACTUAL games and not there is really eating me up
Hey Star Guardian lore heads! This flew under the radar this morning but you're welcome!โจ๐ซ Universe bios have been updated with the full line up! Thank you to
@carnivalnites
and
@needs4sheeds
for all of the help here as well as Scott N and Ryan R!
Vulnerable on main but the 30u30 lists just make me feel bad & insecure about not doing โenoughโ. It creates in me a really toxic, scarcity mindset that it puts me into feeling like I have to compete and it pulls my focus from all I care about and the success I *do* have.
Hey friend! I can totally help with this! For the event this year we put out which helps explain all of the lore for SG in the past! Additionally, be sure to read the Twin Stars story before jumping in today! This should help ๐
Weโve been putting a lot of love into finding creative ways to serve you up that Narrative over the past year and this is one of them ๐ฅฐ really happy we got to do this for Worlds! Thank you
@needs4sheeds
and
@RiotNaxt
for all the hard work.
"Dear Ma
Sorry this letter's a bit late. I met someone, another spirit. Didn't think I'd ever meet anyone but you who could teach me somethin'. But when I'm with him I feel... peace. It's scary, cause it makes me think about havin' a home, puttin' down roots. Scary, but awesome."
Proud that I got to see another summer campaign through with my team however I do have exciting / sad professional news that my last day at Riot will be next Friday. Iโve been so honored to get to be the League Studios Narrative teamโs first producer โค๏ธ I will miss them terribly.
I just received the best of news~ โจ
The Kanmei (white) badger is named ๐Truffle๐
The Akana (purple) badger is named ๐ธSouthpaw๐ธ
Everyone, thanks
@needs4sheeds
for this. ๐๐
A star-studded music collab, new stellar skins, Nilahโs epic arrival, out-of-this-world event experiences, and more await in
#StarGuardian
2022 beginning July 14! ๐ซ
Absolutely loving the advice that you cannot recreate someoneโs path into or in the industry. You have to get struck by lightning, but you can improve your chance of being struck by lightning! Set up your lightning rods on the top of a hill.
#GDC23
A huge part of production that they don't tell you about is just running around in channels asking, "Who knows how this works?! Who owns this feature?! Who is responsible for setting this up?!?" and just praying someone responds and that it is actually owned by someone.
Just a reminder that all the individual Rioters I know always do everything that is humanly possible to serve players as best as possible, as often as possible. ๐๐
Also got to work on this bad boy before I left and so I am super pumped that you will all get to meet HEARTSTEEL so soon <3 !!! It was awesome to get to be a part of making something for the Riot Records Universe when the other bands mean so much to me.
Iโm officially welcoming in my โจMagical Girl 30s โจ today and even COVID couldnโt keep ya girl from playing dress up ๐๐ฅณ Itโs my birthday, yโall!!!!
And there is the riot news that I was expecting considering the state of this industry. Y'all I am so sorry. If there is anything I can personally do for any of you please reach out. I love you all my former riot besties <3
If we all could collectively agree to stop weaponizing "feedback" delivered to strong women about their "tone" when they refuse to accept bad behavior and aren't overly nice about it that would be cool :) :) :)
We did it bois ๐ thank you to the amazing
@Ququlani
and
@carnivalnites
for all the hard, hard work and the push to get this to players. Nilah is actually cool AF and I canโt wait for yโall to love her.
@RiotEneopa
@zinghar
@RiotTinyBun
Hiya that's me ๐ There are currently no plans to rename our wonderful Guardian Zoe because she is in fact a Guardian and not a Star Nemesis! This is 100% intentional by the team.
Hey do you think maybe we could stop giving folks this advice which continue to lead to the perception that Player Support and QA aren't skilled positions and are in fact just your entry point to then churn through into what you "really" want to do??? I am really tired
Belated talking about this but I am over the moon proud of the Redeemed Xayah & Rakan VO. This was one of my final passion projects as Narrative Producer for League and
@needs4sheeds
and
@maxfolkmax
really knocked this out of the park ๐ฅฐ Thank you for your hard work!!!
I absolutely need someone to cut together the TLOU2 documentary from the point at which they proudly proclaimed Naughty Dog doesn't "do" producers (all while filming leads doing production work) to the end with them all BEGGING for production because they can't crunch and die ๐
Varus VO Update on PBE today and when I tell you I have been waiting since last July for this since I got to tell
@orkidian
that this was going to be their first project as a full time Rioter I am not exaggerating. Thank you for everything you and
@Ququlani
did. This one big๐
me yelling from the tallest tower angrily: GAME DEV IS A TEAM SPORT. YES EVEN NARRATIVE. ESPECIALLY NARRATIVE. KILL THE IDEA OF A SINGLE "AUTHOR" IN GAME DEV. EVERYTHING IS MADE BY MULTIPLE PEOPLE INCLUDING THE WRITING AND STORIES.
The Street Demons are here!!
@RiotTenPaces
did an amazing job and I would be remiss to not also give major props to
@anhdangerous
who brought so much drip to this thematic. proud of my former team!!!
Cool but also donโt JUST hire juniors put a pipeline & people in place to support and mentor and care for them. Just โhiringโ them and leaving them to fail/burn out/be churned out of the industry (esp marginalized devs) ainโt the biz. Also this takes dedicated energy & intention
Just checked in my last p4 submission which means itโs officially holiday break yโall. Iโm off for three weeks and itโs girl lay down season at last. In honor of the break peep the new jacket swag โ๏ธ
Itโs still my birthday so itโs actually homophonic if you donโt hit on me considering how cute I was/am on today the day of my birth ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
The game I am helping lead had it's first big milestone yesterday and the team rocked it & we came in with everything on time and get to transition to our next phase and just wowee. It has been a good, big week and I am just feeling my Senior Producer moment. Maybe I can do this?
Also itโs pronounced Nee-lah cause sheโs the bees knees! ๐ rt to save a life with my shitty mnemonic and the only way I could help people not fuck up her name (including me)
A life update: most of my friends already know but Stefan and I are no longer together. I still love him a lot it just wasnโt serving us anymore. Thanks to everyone who has checked in on me and continues to do so. Ily ๐ซถ
But just hire juniors tho right? That will fix things right? Just hire more juniors???!!!!! ๐ซ ๐ฅฒ๐คThis industry is broken as hell and hiring juniors (very often MARGINALIZED FOLKS) into positions without support is cruel. "Hire Juniors" is not the panacea it's marketed as.
Hey you. You want more lore? You want know what happened with Xayah after Twin Stars and between Everything goes on? You betta read ๐ (everyone who worked on this is fantastic, amazing, talented)
HELLO, the first comics Iโve ever written are out!! Getting to tell a part of the
#StarGuardian
story was SUCH a special experience. SO MANY THANKS to
@carnivalnites
,
@crescentr0ll
, Molly Mahan, and
@phillip_vargas
for letting me play in this world!
I didn't realize the hardest part of the job was going to be watching people express desire for certain champions getting skins and me wanting so badly to be like JUST YOU WAIT BBS WE GOT YOU JUST NOT RIGHT NOW BUT IT IS COMING!
Iโm allowed to be like this about my birthday and yell about my feelings but having ten plus people cancel on showing up for you after planning your own get together for well over a month really just is some sparkling rejection as a fucking treat โจ happy Fucking birthday to me
The team told me it was going to make things worse but against their better judgement I just want y'all to know that Lux and Garen are deffo related (sister / brother) and you should at least *know* that before you are sailing that ship to sea. Thanksssss
I was talking to my father this weekend about the struggle of being a woman in games & my own hard couple of months and bless this man but his response was, "Maybe you should change industries into one that would reward you more for who you are" AND IF THAT DOESN'T JUST SUM IT UP
I think Iโm starting to be jealous of people with best friends. ๐ I no longer speak to my best friend of seven years (our falling out happened in 2021) and Iโm sitting here really missing that kind of companionship. I have friends (a lot in fact) but no one that is a โbestโ
My improving happiness at work over the last two quarters can be best summarized as embracing nihilism and detachment. Nothing matters = fuck it we ball ๐ AND THATโS SO FREEING! Itโs just me at my silly little job where no one actually dies if we make a mistake. Big when true.
Boy I have SUCH a spicy take right now on how non-devs view game development (especially Narrative) and I need to just write it and save to drafts cause that ain't the way to be starting fights on the internet
I beg all of you to remember that when you determine just how much "work" you are doing you are setting precedents that those on your team have to follow after you. You hurt your team when you don't set a healthy balance because then people think that is acceptable or normal.
Women in this industry are taught to silence ourselves if we want to keep being allowed to play. โYou canโt tell the truth because itโll reflect negatively on youโ. Everyone knew who my tormentor was. My tormentor was a serial abuser who drove out more than just me. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
The narrative team worked hard to bring the Chocc Dome to life so we canโt wait for yโall to enjoy this as well as everything on League and WR โค๏ธ๐
CHONCC DOME RULES:
1. Believe in yourself
2. Bring enough snacks to share
3. Fight with everything youโve got. And if you run out of whatever that is, see Rule 1 ๐
Ready to train like a Soul Fighter? The Choncc Dome Event goes live tomorrow, July 19!
My boy
@needs4sheeds
was the heart and soul as our Narrative Creative lead on Soul Fighter for this summer (across all of the games). He was amazing and Iโm so lucky to have gotten to ride into battle at his side as we built this over the last year. Ty you are incredible ๐ฅฐ
And listen, as a former rioter who worked with these people (incl. that pillar) I donโt want anyone laid off !!! But if your leadership is going to publicly claim that itโs โgames at the coreโ (I roll my eyes for how often I was told this while there) the actions donโt match ๐ธโ๏ธ
I love these people so much. Iโve been so honored to get to support such an amazing team of some of the best folks Iโve ever gotten to work with. So long, Riot! Thanks for all the fish. ๐ฅน
I have not stopped screaming since this boi turned up on the scene and Iโm so honored we got to name him and work on the narrative for this set. This might be my choncc replacement ๐
Super excited to announce that I have gotten selected as part of the 2023 Virtual Exchange Program for Next Gen Leaders! I am really thrilled to get to meet and connect with the other folks in this program moving forwards! Please feel free to reach out if that is you ๐