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Game Engine

CatIover·11/20/2015, 8:59:28 PM·1 votes·379 views

Hello, I'm currently in the process of a game development class and was curious as to how you guys decided to developed your game engine. To me it seems like an extension of the Warcraft III and DoTa engine but with less player channeling and more micro movements. But what about the way League is designed made you come up with your own engine? Also what are the benefits of using it instead of other widely used sources (i.e. Unity and Unreal)? Really hope I get to hear back about this because I'm pretty interested in this, and my apologies if these questions are too forward. Thanks!

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Saturok11/21/2015, 7:45:17 AM1 votes

I went through a bit of the interview process with Riot Games awhile ago (obviously didn't get the job) but one of my interviews was with one of the guys from the original staff at Riot Games.

He told me that they basically hired 'some russian guy' a really small sum of money relative to Riot's current success to build a bug ridden crappy engine for the game. Luckily for them the game design was so good it made up for the crappy engine.

I know that doesn't really answer a lot of your questions but a good anecdote none the less!