They're designed to make a big splash, with the knowledge they will be removed shortly thereafter. The main design concern (which is personally the most important as it = less fun) is that Featured Gameplay Modes are not designed to be long term engagement experiences. Trying to build a long-term sustainable game mode would actually constrain us from doing things like Doom Bots, URF, Legend of the Poro King, Ascension, etc. This transience is what gives us the creative space try new things and see what works, listen to your feedback, then improve a mode before re-releasing it. Why are Featured Gameplay Modes temporary?įeatured Game Modes are designed from the ground up to be short-term engagement experiences. So healthy champion pick diversity is also good, but is it something we should weigh the success of a mode on? These are all just some of the things we consider when both designing and then weighing an individual mode's success. There's always a few sleeper champions that appear who we could NEVER forecast.
Anything goes initially and you guys theory craft cool ideas about the most OP comps and champions for each mode, and surprise us every time.
How do you measure fun? Or cool streams, videos, comics, fanart (the list goes on)? Sometimes it's even nice for the mode to help you train in skills (team fights, skill shots) that are transferable over to SR, but should that be a core pillar? We've said before how we like that each Featured Gameplay Mode feels like a wild west of meta for their duration. Then there are modes which produce amazingly cool stuff from you guys in the community that we can't even measure with numbers. We undoubtedly also want you to have FUN! :D As we've mentioned before, we have a few design pillars that help guide the creation of each mode, but we'd like you to discover new or interesting ways to engage with your favourite champions in League of Legends. What does “the most” even mean? Is it the highest single spike of concurrent players? The game you played for the longest? Modes also need to be unique in some way and not just replace or overwrite themselves and other permanent modes. We want to learn from previous modes to help us make even cooler new things, but it's not as simple as just which mode was played the most. "This is something we're continuously defining for ourselves as Featured Gameplay Modes evolve. What makes a successful Featured Gameplay Mode?
This feels like a good time to look back at 2014's Featured Game Modes, what we learned from some of them, and how we arrived at a variety of design decisions along the way. "2014 has come and gone, taking with it the creation of seven new featured game modes for League of Legends! Looking back, we had fun making each and every mode, tackling the unique challenges each one presented, and hope you guys had just as much fun playing them.
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