Riot Games Central Player Dynamics | Sammy Gerolaga
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RIOT GAMES

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**Unable to display work due to my NDAs

As a Game Design Intern on the Central Player Dynamics team at Riot, a lot of my work dealt with player dynamics and social system designs, focusing in on redesigning Riot's text penalty systems.

CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Own the redesign of Riot's Game-Agnostic Text Evaluation and Detection Systems

  • Creating Design Documentation for Metagame Penalty Systems

  • Provide Design support for Prosocial Behavior Frameworks and Real-Time Intervention Systems

Role

Tenure

Game Design Intern

05/2023 - 08/2023

Tools

Miro, Figma, Proprietary Tools

Systems Design

Systems Design

Text Penalty Systems

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My main projects during my time on Riot's Central Player Dynamics Team was to update and redesign their text penalty systems with the goal of more accurately determining various types of behaviors input into game chat for League and Valorant.  

DESIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Owned the redesign of Riot's Game-Agnostic Text Evaluation and Detection Systems

  • Created all design documentation for the Metagame Text Penalty Systems Redesign 

  • Work closely with Engineering Captains and provide implementation input for penalty systems

  • Partially own the design of Riot's Real-Time Text Intervention Systems

Prosocial Play

Player Dynamics Design

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While on the CPD team, outside of owning the designs of Riot's text penalty systems, I also gave input and support on the design research for Prosocial Behavioral frameworks, analyzing Riot's player space to determine factors that foster prosocial / positive player interactions and behavior. 

DESIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Provide Design support for Prosocial Behavior Frameworks

  • Worked closely with other designers and brainstormed research for Prosocial Behavior

Player Dynamics Design

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