Our technical interns worked with fellow Rioter technologists on everything from game engineering to developer tooling. Before they left, we asked some of them to share projects they contributed to, and to tell their stories of interning at Riot.
Imagine you're a web developer. You have to create an app that leverages five different data sources. The project has 26 different views built in - and don’t forget to make it fast, easy to test, and reliable. I work on creating the tools that make this kind of app as easy as possible for developers to build and manage. My name is Matthew Drake and I’m a member of the Riot Data team.
The League of Legends client UI resembles many traditional web applications, both in its choice of technology (JavaScript/HTML) and its range of functionality. However, the League client (the pre-game experience) is not a traditional web app - at its core it’s a game UI with high-quality visuals, which led to several interesting challenges along the way. I’m Richard Ye, a software engineer on the League of Legends client, and I’m going to talk about one of the major development challenges we encountered in the client UI: animation.
Hi! I’m Jules Glegg, a Software Architect working on the League client update. We’ve been fielding a lot of questions about how the updated client’s Javascript/HTML/CSS works, and there’s a huge amount to cover there. I’m here to give a very broad overview of the most interesting parts of our UI architecture - we won’t get to cover every bolt and weld in this post alone, but we should get a good feel for the general shape of things.
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Greetings! My name is Andrew McVeigh, and I'm a software architect at Riot.
We're in the latter stages of re-engineering the League of Legends client. We're calling this the League client update. In this post, I’ll outline the software architecture of this update and provide some background to the choices we made by pointing out some of the limitations of the current (original) client. The journey to our final architecture has been technically fascinating, and I’m excited to be able to share it with you!
“We want to do what?!” I exclaimed, the first time I heard we wanted to start up our own merchandise store. We’d launch multiple ecommerce sites. With international shipping support. In 13 languages. All at the same time. It sounded crazy.
OF COURSE I WAS IN.