In final night time’s flurry of bulletins, League Of Legends builders Riot Games revealed one other two games: some type of action-RPG-lookin’ factor codenamed Project F, and a digital sports activities administration sim named League Of Legends Esports Manager. They targeted consideration on the opposite bulletins (their new FPS, card game, and combating game) so that you would possibly’ve missed these two in there. Project F or Esports Manager are constructing upon the game that made Riot’s identify, serving to flip LoL into an omnigenre model.
Project F was the vaguest of Riot’s imprecise bulletins. It’s set within the LoL universe, and a press launch describes the game as “a very early development project that explores the possibilities of traversing the world of Runeterra with your friends.” They confirmed a teensy work-in-progress peek throughout final night time’s stream:
Looks like an action-RPG, in all probability? Ish. Sorta factor.
“I hope that in the same way when you see a Disney movie and then you go to Disneyland, and getting to actually walk around and explore a space that you know really well feels so magical, I hope that’s the kind of experience we can give to players,” one Riot particular person defined, “that feeling of actually seeing something and then going there in-person and wandering around as though it were real.”
How helpful for Riot to make a Disney comparability as they develop their model into a fantastic many new genres and stake a bigger declare on participant time and mindshare. Thanks Riot, saved me from doing it myself.
As for League Of Legends Esports Manager, that seems like a Football Manger-ish workforce administration dealio. Riot say it “will allow fans to assemble a world-class League Of Legends esports teams as a team manager, signing players to contracts, and more.” It’ll characteristic actual professional LoL groups, and can share income with these groups.
It’s resulting from debut in China in 2020 then “eventually expand” to different areas. Accordingly, they solely have this Chinese trailer for now:
