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Directors
View all 23 Riot MMO employees below. Keep this page bookmarked as the Riot MMO team list is updated frequently.
Vijay Thakkar
Executive Producer
Vijay Thakkar is the Executive Producer for the Riot MMO. The previous Executive Producer was Greg Street, whom Vijay has succeeded. Vijay was promoted to Executive Producer in January 2023. Before then, he was the Technical Director for the Riot MMO.
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Mark Yetter
Game Director
Mark Yetter is the Game Director for the Riot MMO. He became the Game Director in May 2021. Prior to this role, he’s spent roughly seven years as the Lead Game Designer for League of Legends.
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Greg Faillace
Art Director
Greg Faillace is the Art Director for the Riot MMO. He took on this role back in April 2021. Prior the this project he spent almost eight years as the Art Director on Legends of Runeterra. Interestingly, during an interview he mentions he worked on Sims for many years.
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Eric Kenna
Design Director
An important Riot MMO employee is Eric Kenna, the Design Director. He has been working for Riot Games since February 2013. During his lengthy tenure he has overseeing the metagame systems on League of Legends. Some of these systems included the competitive, monetization, social systems.
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Erik Eidukas
Associate Technical Art Director
Erik Eidukas is the Associate Technical Art Director for the League of Legends MMO. Has has been with Riot Games since December 2015 and joined the MMO team in early 2023.
The Riot MMO new director has spent most of his career as a technical animator and artist. Erik’s skills include pipeline development, character setup, rigging, deformation, leadership and more.
He will likely be leading the team that is responsible for skeletal animations for our characters. As well, he’ll be reporting to the Art Director.
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Lead Roles
Joshua Parker
Gameplay Engineering Lead
Joshua Parker is the Gameplay Engineering Lead for the Riot MMO project. He has been leading teams since October 2020 and has been working on the League IP since July 2017. Joshua is a strong advocate of diversity. For example, through Riot Noir, a Riot identity group, he helped create some of our favorite champions like Senna, and Pyke.
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Steven M Nelson
Lead VFX Artist
Steven Nelson is the Lead VFX (Visual Effects) Artist on the Riot MMO. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry with a high proficiency in character animation.
We can expect to see Steven leading the VFX team who are responsible for:
- Visual effects
- Character animation
- Destruction physics
- Cinematics
Principal Roles
Anthony Reynolds
Principal Writer
Anthony Reynolds is the principal writer for the Riot MMO. Reynolds has garnered much respect from the Riot community from his extensive work developing the Runeterra lore. Anthony has contributed to worldbuilding through conceptualizing, writing, managing the creative development team.
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Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz
Principal Narrative Designer
Another incredible Riot MMO employee is none other than Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz. He is is the Principal Narrative Designer for the game.
Mateusz is highly respected among video game fans. His storytelling on Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher have been received incredibly well.
We are excited to see Matt’s contributions to storytelling within the Riot MMO.
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Yekaterina Bourykina
Principal 3D Character Artist
Yekaterina Bourykina is the Principal 3D Character Artist for the Riot MMORPG. She has likely been working on the Riot MMO since May 2022.
Before then, she has been praised by the League of Legends community for her work on favorite champion skins and ASUs. For example, Ahri Base ASU, Arcane Caitlyn, Cosmic Lux, and more.
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Michael Wyatt
Principal Game Designer
Michael Wyatt (Tsudanosh) is the Principal Game Designer on the Riot MMO project. He has been at Riot Games since April 2022. According to Michael Wyatt, his skills include
- Building creative game experiences
- Developing game systems
- Team leadership
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Samuel Loretan
Principal Software Engineer
R&D Tech Lead
Samuel Loretan is a Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead on the Riot MMO. He is the only Riot MMO employee on our staff list without explicitly stating he in on the Riot MMO team. So, he is not official a Riot MMO employee from a public perspective.
Nonetheless, Vijay Thakkar stated in an interview, the team has an engineer who worked on the megaserver for Guild Wars 2. Now, according to Samuel’s LinkedIn, he did in fact work on the MegaServer system.
Sam joined Riot Games in October of 2015. We are excited to see what Samuel and his team can accomplish for the Riot MMO servers and positive player interactions.
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Christian Eisenacher
Principal Software Engineer
Christian Eisenacher is one of the Riot MMO employees. Specifically, he’s the Principal Software Engineer. He transition from Legends of Runeterra to the Riot MMO in July 2022. According to his LinkedIn, Christian is working on rendering and performance on the upcoming game. Overall he has been at Riot since 2016.
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Tom Sayer
Principal Visual Designer
Another one of the Riot MMO employees is Tom Sayer. He is the Principal Visual Designer for the upcoming MMO. Tom is passionate about branding, web, and UI/UX design.
Tom has been working on the Riot MMO since June 2022. Prior to the project, he was working as a Senior Visual Designer on Legends of Runeterra for about 4 years.
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Dave Hale
Senior Principal Tech Artist
Dave Hale is the Senior Principal Tech Artist for the Riot MMO game. He’s been working for Riot Games since February 2022 where he began working on the R&D MMO project. Originally he was the Principal Tech Artist and was promoted to his senior position after a roughly 15 months. Therefore Dave is likely familiar with the project and his team.
We imagine Dave solves and make suggestions relating to technical issues surrounding art and content creation. For example, Dave might test 3rd party tools and pitch them to management. Moreover, he will probably be training other artists on the team and steer complex decision making.
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Junior and Senior Roles
Karl Gluck
Staff Software Engineer
Karl Gluck is a staff software engineer for the Riot MMORPG. He has held this position since March 2021.
Interestingly, when Karl Gluck came to Riot Games in September 2016, he began working with a team, prototyping an R&D project.
Years later, in a 2023 interview, Vijay Thakkar stated that R&D project was a Riot MMO prototype. We reckon Karl Gluck is working on gameplay engineering and design based on his prior role during the Riot MMO prototype.
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Camille Sanford
Game Producer
Another Riot Producer, Camille Sanford is working on the Riot MMO. She has a long history at Blizzard Entertainment. Camille has spent roughly 9 years at Blizzard. Almost four of those years was working as a game producer between Hearthstone and Blizzard’s untitled survival game.
Camille began working on the League MMO in November 2022 as a game producer.
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