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A Story of Fog and War
In late 2013, Riot’s map team started to work full-tilt on updating Summoner’s Rift, the flagship map for League of Legends. It was an enormous task: not only did the team need to upgrade the map’s...
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Elementalist Lux: 10 Skins in 30 Megabytes
With the current scale of a game like League of Legends, it can be hard to remember the humble beginnings: a small group of developers too busy shipping a game and putting out fires to think about fine...
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A Trip Down The LoL Graphics Pipeline
Hi, I’m Tony Albrecht and I’m one of the engineers on the new Render Strike Team under the Sustainability Initiative in League of Legends. The team has been tasked with making improvements to the...
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Better Living Through Materials
Hi, I’m Paul Geerts and I’m one of the engineers on League’s Render Strike Team. A while back my buddy Tony posted an article about how League of Legends currently builds a single frame of the action....
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Reducing Rendering Complexity with Gun Goddess Miss Fortune
Hi, my name is Eric Friedman, and I’m a Software Engineer who has been working on League of Legends for 8 years, focusing mainly on gameplay systems. For the last several years, I’ve been working in...
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VALORANT Shaders and Gameplay Clarity
Hi, I’m Brandon “mochi” Wang, a software engineer on VALORANT’s Content Support team. We’re responsible for taking requests from artists and designers when they require deep game engine changes. I’ll...
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