A Suggestion for Riot, To Help Any Champion Designers

Cosmicpanda2·10/7/2015, 7:34:13 AM·6 votes·551 views

I know this might not be as effective as I may think, but riot, why not create a small team of perhaps just simple content makers, and have them browse through all the new posts on the "Skin & Champion Concepts" thread, and I mean NEW, not best I just find that some people out there have marvelous ideas, but often the get sunken to the bottom of the posts because no one wanted to upvote their post because the champion is "Unoriginal" or "OP", but with perhaps just a little guidance, they can refine their works. I would like for this team to explore the "new" section of thread, having brief looks at the posts, and perhaps if it is interesting enough, they could leave a comment on it telling them on how to improve, and perhaps this might be an opportunity for that post to be noticed and noted down by the design teams. Just a thought, but I hope it happens and perhaps we can get a new batch of original and unique champions based of the communities ideas as a whole rather than a lucky few who managed to float to the top of the cream

10 Comments

Faeri Pinkett10/7/2015, 7:46:56 AM2 votes

I like the Idea.

Maybe riot could also release a 'special content' client that allows users to log in and view champions in process in a sense. Like a zoo where a player can read a short 'highly experimental' bio of the current creature inside the cage, rotate them around and stuff.

Then when a creation is moved to the pbe - it is labeled "moved to the testing field!."

This client could also give players notifications about the state of champions in process, along with possibly up voting which champions riot should focus more on. Allowing the community as a hole to have a firm grasp on the champion creation process along with not being left in the dark.

Kalista was sort of out of the left field, we're still waiting for Ao Shin also. With what happend to OMEN things are posing a bit of a questioning process.

Also, if the design team runs into a problem - They could ask the community for help with this 'showcase' client.

lCantPauseltMom10/9/2015, 8:03:43 AM2 votes

Fair enough, and I believe Riot are aware of this as well but are at a loss on how to fix it.

I posted a possible solution before that involves text boxes everytime you up/down vote. If you like, you can see more information on that back on this post somewhere: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/TxVFw3iu-to-the-person-who-has-randomly-downvoted-everyones-posts

lCantPauseltMom10/9/2015, 7:49:19 AM1 votes

See I fully support this and your guys comments. But I think if you made a program like that, it would almost feel like the creators were limiting the use of their imagination.

Don't get me wrong - it's a great idea to have knowledgeable people assist newcomers and people wanting helpful hints and tips, even a review, but having a program that asked you for humanoid/non-humanoid and so on would feel like a restriction on the imagination.

Personally, I like to start a concept based around an ability mechanic or sometimes a lore/theme. The last thing I'm thinking about then is whether the champion is human, or if he has metal armour or 6 hands.

Sorry if that didn't make sense, but that's just my little slice. I like the ideas though.