{"id":118347,"date":"2020-09-21T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370552"},"modified":"2020-09-21T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:59:00","slug":"video-behind-riot-games-player-dynamics-design-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/video-behind-riot-games-player-dynamics-design-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Behind Riot Games&#8217; Player Dynamics design philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In developing <em>League of Legends<\/em>, the talented developers at Riot Games have gone out of their way to invent and reinvent functional philosophies for designing competitive games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At GDC Summer this year, Kimberly Voll &amp; Weszt Hart discussed the concept of &#8220;Player Dynamics,&#8221; a player-focused project at Riot Games to help designers craft products that help people play well together. Literally &#8220;designing for multiple minds.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you too would like to design games that encourage people to play well together, you can watch Voll &amp; Hart&#8217;s talk for free in the video above, or <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/gdconf\">on the GDC YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In developing League of Legends, the talented developers at Riot Games have gone out of their way to invent and reinvent functional philosophies for designing competitive games.&nbsp; At GDC Summer this year, Kimberly Voll &amp; Weszt Hart discussed the concept of &#8220;Player Dynamics,&#8221; a player-focused project at Riot Games to help designers craft products that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}