Monday I walk up to my wife, “riot is doing layoffs wish me luck…” Thursday my wife walks up to me “Activision is doing layoffs wish me luck”. Sometimes game dev is rough :(
@mrfunhaver
Hello! some context : with new weapons in the shop our silhouettes started to encroach on text. We made this change to make room in those instances but it applies everywhere (so as to be consistent in the shop). We could have commed this better though, that’s on me
I’m safe. Many of my friends and colleagues aren’t. For many of us, this is the dream, this is part of who we are. I appreciate people checking on me, but I’m gonna go quiet so you can hear from those who need to be heard right now
Minutes ago, we shared an important update with Rioters about the future of Riot Games. Here’s what these changes mean for our games and what players can expect from us going forward:
I don't know how to do one of those fancy videos editing my profile, but I was promoted to Principal UX designer this week :D Been working at this one a while and couldn't be more excited for what is to come on VAL
@ejmarchini
I hold the flank. For very long and sometimes confusing amounts of time. This is Usually because I’m in lobbies filled with demons who are so much better than me my only hope is to confuse them and catch them by surprise. But still, people on live hate this.
Howdy friends; I would love to crowdsource some research. When it comes to VALORANT players who embody "i want to play with that person, they seem awesome to play with", who do you think of? Not just skill level, but behavior, attitude, etc. For example, my mind goes to
@ShahZaMk
I don’t know how to repost a whole thread but hopefully this does this trick. This is an incredible read, refreshingly aware of how actual players actually experience the game and dives meaningfully deep in how I’ve felt about mmos for a while. Worth the read, worth the bookmark
Innovation in MMOs, a thread/rant
To start with, we want to make a game that is loved by people who love MMOs. I understand the appeal of a studio making some crazy new genre that is maybe an MMO or maybe something new. I hope there are studios that take that shot. It won't be
This to be honest : we spend lots of time planning cool ways to announce stuff and surprise and delight the community, leaks really suck. For players and for us.
Just throwing it out there to make it official, in case there was somehow still doubt about this insane conspiracy theory.
GAME DEVS ARE NEVER INTENTIONALLY LEAKING THINGS NOR ARE THEY HAPPY WHEN THEY DO LEAK.
If this is still confusing to you…seek help.
The
#VALORANTChampions
skins just keep getting better! 🔥
Snag the limited edition 2023 Champions bundle for your VALORANT collection, featuring a gilded Vandal and melee! Available starting Friday, August 4th.
I've been getting a lot of DM's around this topic and I think Anna nails this response so I'll repost this here. I know words ring hollow but I promise this is something we take incredibly seriously.
I'm sorry for not posting sooner, but please know I haven't missed a word. This has been the top thing on my mind (a lot of our minds) since yesterday. It's important to me that we lead with action first, so until we'd actually pressed the right buttons and made some necessary
@joiechii
Congrats :D I don’t think enough people realize this. Video games can change your life in ways you don’t expect. Random life changing friendships, or entire careers. Good for you :)
@jdotb
I’ll be honest - I kinda love the lack of a script here. I think it’s obviously sub optimal for those looking to min max but the community discovery and sense of “oh shit look what I found” has been missing from the game for a long time. I’m pretty positive on it.
I know it will deter no one, but I don’t give out gun buddies for messaging me on Twitter. I almost exclusively give them out to students when I give talks at schools and to awesome players in game. Want a buddy? Queue up and be a cool person.
Super pumped to see this go out in the world. We got to do some incredible work here. Incredibly proud of the whole team for this one, excited to get some of the coolest UI to date into the game.
Thank you to everyone out there playing 7.0, much love went into this and it took Herculean efforts across many teams. So proud of what we shipped this act. Catch me in TDM :D
I was fortunate to attend a design presentation by the incredibly talented
@kchironis
who recommend this book. I acquired and read it over the weekend and 10/10 would recommend.
What does it take to create a new Agent in the ever-growing world of
@playVALORANT
? Character Producer
@RiotMEMEMEMEME
and Game Designer
@rycoux
walk through the process of creating Neon.
@ShahZaMk
@ShahZaMk
tough result but you played insanely well this tourney. Legit so hype to see the future of sentinels after watching you on Sova and Skye. Gg man
Hey friends? Ever wondered about being a UX Designer in the games industry? I partnered up with
@mattagnello
and Alex Vejnoska to write a short guide, from the Riot perspective, on what being a UX designer in the games industry can look like :
What a wild weekend. Thanks to all the awesome players who came out or tuned into the event. It’s super emotional to see this thing you work on resonate with so many people. And of course, big congrats to
@EvilGeniuses
, what a showing.
Getting
@arcaneshow
into the world was a monumental, and at times trying, effort by countless brilliant humans. It was worth every bit. The first three episodes were incredible
Hopped on to play some
@PlayOmega
today for the first time because
@penguinVALORANT
and
@DreamerxVal
had said good things - was a blast, played for like 5 hours. Excited for the future of this game
100% this is going to be the best year yet to be a VALORANT fan. So many awesome things coming out. We’ve been and continue to work hard to make cool stuff. SOON TM
How do you design a scalable & immersive game platform for a global audience of more than 200M+ players that’s easy to maintain for internal teams? That’s what we set out to do for
@riotgames
.
Check the full case study , or read a few pointers below!
I swear we don’t write scripts - that I know of. Couldn’t have asked for a better series. Congrats to both teams who played incredibly.
@FNATIC
@LOUDgg
Want to be an intern at Riot Games? Applications open on September 1!
To prepare you, we have a week of tips and study guides for new applicants and testimonials from Rioters who are ready to welcome the new class.
Take a look at the schedule below!
This week has been a whirlwind of events but i wanted to take a quick pause to congratulate all my friends over
@FortniteGame
for their incredible announcement yesterday. World class UX work went into that and you should all feel incredible
Oh my, what a year. We got to travel all over the year and I’m grateful for all the awesome players I got to meet and interact with. Genuinely excited for 2024 as a dev and a player
In design “squinting” through prototype is a learned skill, and a fun one at that. Getting to see the magic come together is my favorite part. Excited to see more :D
As promised, we're going to share more about our game, code named Ghost, and I need y'all to not freak out about what a game in prototype looks like
We are trying to strike the right balance between saying we are early, without sending the message sry it's going to be 10 yrs
@Myth_
👋 I work on VALORANT but don’t tweet a ton, mostly use Twitter to engage with players and devs. Also you killed me 11 times in a single match during friends and family, not still salty.
I get questions all the time about "being a UX designer at Riot", and unfortunately there's no one simple answer. We've written great articles on our Medium page which help address it but I've also been obsessed with this video from
@EntropicDev
.
This! If you’re running into disruptive players please keep reporting them. We’re always working on new features and technology to improve the game and reports help a ton
Hey all, we want you to know that the reports you make in game really do matter, so we made a thing that’ll tell you if we penalized someone based off a report you made :) you’ll start getting notified nowww!
We finished the story for Diablo last night, incredible! The cutscenes towards the end were some of the best I’ve ever seen from
@Blizzard_Ent
. Well done. Time to grind out WT3 :D
I was sadly impacted today by the Layoffs at
@riotgames
. It was truly an honor to serve our players alongside so many exceptionally talented and passionate individuals. I can honestly say that I got to live my dream every single day for nearly 4 straight years. Thank you 👊💔
As a known sometimes-regular-user of chamber let me say that while yes, these changes hit the feels, he still *feels* awesome to play. Aspirationally as we make changes up or down, that should always remain true. Though losing power always hurts.
Chamber's remained a dominant pick and we need to strike the right balance between preserving his identity and maintaining VALORANT’s game health. So we're making changes to most of his abilities in Patch 5.12. See our breakdown:
:O it's that time of the year. I'm going to be at Blizzcon in a couple weeks and I'm pumped. Ill be hanging out in the Hilton Lobby Thursday night chatting about games, come say hi!
Filing taxes is so frustrating as an experience. Especially when you go through hundreds of pages to get to the “this is how much, down to the cent, the IRS says you owe, this is how much you’ve withheld..”. …. If you know already why are we playing this game!!
Filters, favorites, and random favorites is just the first step in this area. There’s a lot more we can and want to do here and there are talented people working to make it happen. Hit us with that feedback!
Why stop with Pearl? Patch 5.07 remodels Fracture, brings balance to the flash, and gives you more ways to curate your collection. Read the notes here:
I think the reason this view counter feels so weird is the dichotomy between likes a views. Having 5000 views with 5 likes feels bad - almost like 99% of people didn’t like what you said - but in reality they’re not disliking, people just don’t stop scrolling on Twitter.
i'm getting pinged about this so: hi, hiring manager here who has been part of hundreds of interview loops. this is just... not how the hiring process works at all. it's a complete fabrication. this person also doesn't work at riot.
Working with
@alexanderzone7
@rycoux
and
@penguinVALORANT
has been a huge learning journey for me as a UX human. Often times the balance, design, and perception of an agent has a large impact on the player(s) experience in our game.
@EchoGuild
i gotta be honest - professions. They went from being mostly irrelevant, incredibly shallow to partake in, and seemingly just "there"...to being incredibly deep, meaningful, and actually fun to participate in. I do agree there are some improvements needed but mostly big fan.
@pugstormgames
@CoreKeeperGame
We just played Core Keeper for our monthly games book club (loved it btw <3 ) but for some reason our buddy became obsessed with destroying nature.
He broke every wall on the whole map inside the ring. And filled all the canyons with water.
@Slootbag
I’ve seen a lot of new-to-arpg folks diving into Diablo to give it a try and the while resets are core to the concept of seasons, for them a full reset seems intimidating. Hoping once the seasons drop a lot of those people will learn through experience
@Jazzyk1ns
Howdy friend! We did recently do a pass across all our mouse indicator icons. We very rarely make changes like this (specifically to avoid this type of disruption). There should be a few lineups that need adjustments but if you’re noticing a significant disruption DM me!
Hey all! Wanted to clear up any confusion re: the patch 7.04 preview for VAL:
This patch won't go live until next week, AFTER Champions. There are a lot of changes here that we've been testing for awhile, and I want to give some more context around how we're thinking about them: