Riot Games Research
Content:
1.Company Research
1.1.Overview
1.2.League of Legends
1.3.Company Development
2.Company Structure
2.1.Leadership
2.2.Corporate Team
2.3.Production Team
2.4.Operations Team
2.5.Engineering Team
2.6.Art Team
2.7.Design Team
2.8.Community Team
2.9.Quality Assurance Team
2.10.Customer Service Team
2.11.User Interface Team
2.12.Business Development Team
2.13.Marketing Team
3.Job Role research
3.1.Job Role Overview
3.2.Recruitments
3.3.Duties
3.4.How to Apply
1.Company Research
1.1.Overview
Riot Games is an American video game publisher that was established in 2006. Their main office is based in Santa Monica,
California. They currently have additional offices located in Saint Louis, Dublin, Seoul, São Paulo, Istanbul, Moscow, Sydney,
and Taipei.
1.2.League of Legends
In 2009 Riot Games released League of Legends (previously known, League of Legends: Clash of Fates), a premium MOBA
title that combines elements of strategy and role-playing games to create a unique and dynamic gaming experience.
1.3.Company Development
Riot Games, Inc. was
founded as an independent
game studio in 2006 by
Brandon "Ryze" Beck, and
Marc "Tryndamere" Merrill
in Los Angeles. The company
announced its first game,
League of Legends: Clash of
Fates, in October 2008, and
released the game in
October of 2009 as simply
League of Legends.
Employees at the company include veterans of Defense of the Ancients, such as the former lead developer Steve
"Guinsoo" Feak, and the former official DotA-Allstars website founder Steve "Pendragon" Mescon. Riot Games also
employs some former Blizzard Entertainment employees, including Greg Street, former Lead Systems Designer for World
of Warcraft.
2.Company structure
Riot Games
Leadership
Corporate Team
Production Team
Operations
Team
Engineering
Team
Design Team
Art Team
Community Team
Business
Development Team
Quality Assurance
Team
User Interface Team
Marketing
Team
Many of Riot Games' developers and publishers are split into various teams in order to improve the quality of their products.
Customer Service
Team
2.1.Leadership
Leadership
Brandon Beck
Marc Merrill
Scott Gelb
Tom Cadwell
Chris Enock
Steve Mescon
All of the company departments are equal except the Leadership. The Leadership Team is responsible for the overall management of
Riot Games, as well as having the final say on the direction the company will take.
• Brandon ‘Ryze’ Beck is co-founder of Riot Games after working as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company where he specialized
in media, entertainment and private equity.
• Prior to co-founding RiotMarc 'Tryndamere' Merrill worked as a corporate marketing executive at the Business-to-Business
media firm Advanstar Communications. Marc also held roles in finance at Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp.
• Tom 'Zileas' Cadwell is design director. Prior to joining Riot, Tom worked at Blizzard as a Designer on World of Warcraft. He also
worked on the Warcraft III The Frozen Throne.
• Steve "Pendragon" Mescon is the creator of DotA-Allstars.com, a community website for DotA players. He is working for Riot
Games as director of Community Relations.
2.2.Corporate Team
Corporate Team
Brandon Beck
Marc Merrill
Liz Quintero
Vikas Jain
The Corporate Team is responsible for looking at what the future of the company's financial
situation and to make sure it is financially successful.
2.3.Production Team
Production Team
Assistant
Producer
Producer
Steven Snow
Misc. Producer
Steve
Mieczkowski
Aaron Smith
Travis George
Associate
Producer
Jason Lenny
MrCrumb
Ryan Laughlin
Gifted Wolf
Status Kwoh
TheGreatHembini
Mark Franz
Karen Wnuk
Jeff Jew
RiotStallion
The Production Team is responsible of making sure that everything is done on schedule. They are also responsible for planning
ahead in areas such as company resources, requirements and probable situations.
• Travis ‘Volibar’ George is currently working at Riot Games as a Producer of League of Legends. He brings over five years of
professional design experience to Riot Games. After finishing a program, Travis started out working for Activision on a few
games, most notably an X-Men game where he designed Nightcrawler's powers and gameplay from start to finish.
• Steve ‘Udyr’ Mieczkowski is currently an Associate Producer of League of Legends. Steve graduated from the University of
Southern California with a joint Business/Cinematic Arts degree, where he discovered that his true passion was video
games.
2.4.Operations Team
Operations Team
Chris Ward
Chris Collier
Nathan Ben-Attar
The Operations Team is responsible for the day-to-day activity of the company, making sure each
department is running smoothly.
Engineering Team
2.5.Engineering Team
The
Engineering
Team is
responsible
for creating
and
maintaining
the systems
needed to run
the company,
as well as
developing
additional
features for
the game.
Andrew Woo
Joel Anderson
Cyriaque
Kouadio
Scott Gelb
Christopher
McArthur
Michael Root
David Banks
Scott Delap
Jonathan
McCaffrey
Root Barry
Livingston
Kevin Borer
Vic Keenan
George
Skleres
VerrDon
Mason
Ray Perez
David Eilering
Jianfei Liao
Mike Matsumura
Luke Rinard
Kirk Black
Art Team
2.6.Art Team
The Art Team is responsible for the creative activities
within and outside the game. These include artworks
for the maps, the champions, and alternative skins.
Michael
Maurino
Edmundo Sanchez
• Michael ‘IronStylus’ Maurino is a Senior Concept
Artist at Riot Games.
Young Chung
Alex M. Lehmann
Jeremy Putnam
Troy Adam
Wes Keil
2.7.Design Team
Design Team
Technical
Design
Game Design
Bradford
Wenban
Tom Cadwell
Richard Hough
Rob Garrett
Steve Feak
Kuo-Yen Lo
Joe Ziegler
Colt Hallam
Kevin O'Brien
Jeffrey Lin
Morello
Gypsylord
David Abecassis
Siyang
Feral Pony
Meddler
Alexander
Brazie
The Design Team is responsible for
creating new content for League of
Legends. This also includes the
"planning" and "design" of content,
that’s why they are more active in the
forums in comparison to most of
other rioters
Design Team:
• Tom 'Zileas' Cadwell is currently Design Director of League of Legends.
• Colt "Ezreal" Hallam is currently working for Riot Games as a Game Designer of League of Legends. He was one of the designers for
the Crystal Scar.
• Joe "Hephastopheles" Ziegler is Lead Champion Designer of League of Legends.
• Meddler is currently working at Riot Games as a Lead Champion Designer of League of Legends.
• Siyang 'Issfire' is currently working at Riot Games as an Associate Game Designer of League of Legends.
• Jeffrey 'Lyte' Lin is Lead Designer of Social Systems of League of Legends.
• Ryan ‘Morello’ Scott works at Riot Games as a Lead Designer of League of Legends. He previously worked
for Microsoft and ArenaNet.
• Rob "rjcombo" Garrett is currently working for Riot Games as a Senior Game Designer of League of Legends, he was musician before
going into game development.
2.8.Community Team
Community Team
Steve
Mescon
Quentin
Chappet
Daniel Klein
Andrew
Beegle
David Turley
Nika Harper
Radoslaw
Pasternicki
The Community Team is responsible for create information resource for their players, keeping
them informed about their services, news, and events.
• Andrew ‘Tamat’ Beegle is working at Riot Games as an Lead Community Manager of League
of Legends.
• David 'Phreak' Turley, alias Phreak is currently working at Riot Games as a Community
Coordinator. He is most well known as a shoutcaster and for producing Champion Spotlights.
2.9.Quality Assurance Team
The Quality Assurance Team is responsible for
making sure the game is working correctly, and
that the players has a service of the high
quality.
2.10.Customer Service Team
The Customer Service Team is responsible for helping customers on a
regular basis. This includes answering their questions and assisting
them with any inquiries they may have.
• Jesse Perring is currently working as the Customer Support Specialist
of Riot Games, and more importantly as the best League of Legends
player in Riot Games.
2.11.User Interface Team
User Interface Team
Jason Cohen
Travis Goetz
The User Interface Team is responsible for
creating a human-machine interaction that
is easy, efficient, and enjoyable to operate in
the way which produces the desired results.
2.12.Business Development Team
Business
Development Team
Jason Yeh
Nicolo Laurent
The Business Development Team is responsible for
identifying ways to make the company grow. This
includes finding new potential areas and opening
channels to distribute the game to those areas.
Marketing Team
2.13.Marketing Team
The Marketing Team is
responsible for
advertising the game
and making it
appealing for
customers to play. This
includes creating ads,
setting up
tournaments, and
speaking directly to
potential players.
Chris Enock
Chris Heintz
Matt Marcou
Jeffrey Pfingsten
Andy Ho
Laura Brown
Kevin Cheug
3.Job Role research
3.1.Job Role Overview
I locked the various jobs that this company offers and the most suitable for me is Senior Concept artist. This
position meet my needs completely because it combines my love to draw traditionally - sketches and concepts of
characters, with 3D modelling visualisation of the idea. I have to develop the champion with other people from the
team. Combine the basic ideas and the sketches to refined character that looks enough confident and realistic on
the screen. Job Location Santa Monica, California, United States.
3.2.Recruitments:
• Artistic and prolific: good eye and
knowledge for lighting, colour, form
and composition; fast making and
visualising of sketches, quickly
generating ideas knowing that
sometimes it takes a hundred good
ones to get to the great one
• An experienced collaborator: your
artistic hand reflects years of
experience refining your craft, but
you’re also a natural collaborator;
allow constructive critic, also ready to
combine ideas and be capable to
defend your own
• Multi-dimensional: experience and knowledge with pad and pencil, same as Photoshop and similar 2D software; you’re also
comfortable to experiment with ZBrush and other 3D programs
• Genre-bending: ready to make experiments and don’t afraid to try something new, undiscovered and never tried; ready to dive in
brainstorm with ideas forgetting about the stereotypes and the boundaries
• Anatomically correct: strong understanding of human and animal anatomy, but not afraid to exaggerated, stylized proportions feel
perfectly balanced in your hands
• A player-focused gamer: as an avid League of Legends player yourself, gaming have to be part of you like your trusty pen and
sketchpad; and together with you art personality never let this gamer spirit to be lost
3.3.Duties
• Sketch, ideate and iterate new champion
concepts in collaboration with fellow concept
artists
• Collaborate closely with writers, animators,
game engineers and splash artists to define
champions that are both narrative and visually
cohesive
• Develop detailed concept art and orthographs
for 3D designers and animators to implement
into working models
• Be an avid researcher and collector of story
tropes, archetypes and narrative devices of all
kind
• Challenge video game conventions and explore
new territory for the League of Legends IP
3.4.How to Apply:
• I have made a research now to apply looked in twitter and LinkedIn accounts but can’t find this one person responsible for
hiring people. I guess the final word would be given by the Leadership team, which is logical. However, to apply you will
need CV, Cover Letter and Striking Portfolio. Also good, well known blog and the portfolio must show your strengths,
talents and make that ‘WOW’ effect. The cover letter could be addressed with ‘Dear Rioters’ or ‘Dear Riot’, which lead me
to the taught that it is not a single man that takes decisions.
Reference:
• Images:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Riot-Games-EI_IE247538.11,21.htm
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Riot_Games_Inc.
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Zed?file=Zed_sculpture.jpg
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/2149470/league_of_legends_lp_demotion_changes_ahead_of_season_4.html
http://www.riotgames.com/
http://games.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/League-of-Legends-Clash-of-Fates-Summoner-Trailer-Screenshot45574.html
http://www.riotgames.com/articles/20110615/233/riot-games-santa-monica
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Vi/Background?file=Vi_NeonStrike_early_design.jpg
• Information:
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Riot_Games_Inc.
http://www.riotgames.com/careers/senior-concept-artist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Games