LoL gameplay design director pulled, transferred to Riot’s MMO

Christian Vejvad • Apr 16, 22:52

Riot Video games gameplay design director Mark “Scuffy” Yetter has introduced an enormous profession transfer that entails him leaving the League of Legends design crew to affix a distinct division in Riot as recreation director of the upcoming LoL MMO.  

This marks the tip of eight years of Scuffy engaged on the League of Legends crew. Scuffy has grow to be a forward-facing character for the sport, delivering patch previews that provide a sneak peek of upcoming adjustments to the favored MOBA recreation. 

In his announcement, Scuffy praised the dev crew and stated he’s assured in his former crew’s path and the way forward for the sport. Scuffy harassed that gamers ought to count on the identical transparency, high quality, and openness that has been seen with him in cost. 

Scuffy will now work alongside former LoL recreation designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Road on the MMO undertaking. It’s unknown who will substitute him on the dev crew. Riot has already opened up purposes for the job as lead gameplay designer for League of Legends, suggesting it’s searching for a alternative externally.   

Scuffy leaves the LoL dev crew after rising the transparency between builders and LoL’s participant base. Scuffy has been sharing the dev crew’s ideas concerning champion adjustments, changes, merchandise reworks, and way more. This has primarily been finished via tweets and dev blogs, one of the widespread being Fast Gameplay Ideas the place Scuffy shares ideas on related in-game subjects. These blogs and tweets have offered the lively LoL gamers with lots of perception into what goes on behind the scenes that finally make it onto the dwell servers.  

Scuffy will keep on the crew till the tip of Could, at which level his alternative will take over.