Max Perlman GAME.DESIGNER

• Designing Augment content; focused on delivering high spectacle, character-fantasy elevating, and novel experiences
• Owned large scale re-design of augment pooling and offering systems
• Design craft mentorship

Some of my augment designs

• Represent product and design teams in publishing events, promotional video for new and upcoming releases, and behind the scenes content
• Represented the champions team in Shanghai, China for the 14th anniversary of League of Legends — participated in talks between Riot and LPL Team Coaches (Chinese Esports) and was filmed for both promotional videos answering player questions, and for an event celebrating the anniversary with Esports professional players and Chinese celebrities
• Mentoring associate designers and members of other disciplines with an interest in learning game design
• Participate in thematic brainstorming for champion concepts and cosmetic thematics
• Work closely with local and remote engineering teams to direct the building of designer facing tools to empower the design team

Plenty of cool things I cannot discuss yet

• Early stage design owner; rapidly prototyped gameplay mechanics to establish a vision for the team
• Collaborated closely with Product, Concept Art, and Narrative teams to drive the development of the character’s personality, themes, aesthetics, story, and combat style
• Handed off design after locking the initial direction of the character

• Design owner from initial discovery through all design and production gates to release
• Closely collaborated with animators, VFX, and SFX artists to deliver on her character fantasy and gameplay feel
• Successfully delivered design within a narrow design space and product constraints

• Design owner from initial discovery through all design and production gates to release
• Closely collaborated with animators, VFX, and SFX artists to deliver on her character fantasy and gameplay feel
• Communicated regularly with partner teams Fortiche (Arcane’s animation studio), Arcane, Wild Rift, TFT, and Legends of Runeterra teams to ensure a shared vision of the character across game and non-game products
• Scripted custom input buffering system in proprietary scripting tools to support novel gameplay pattern
• Created best-practice input buffering framework for use by other designers using the League engine

• Inherited Shyvana’s visual and gameplay update from a senior designer, owning it from kit-lock to release
• Collaborated with product owners and stakeholders to make tactical low-cost high-value adjustments to Shyvana before release
• Worked alongside live balance team and game analysis team to tune Shyvana for release

• Assisted Smolder’s initial game designer to reach design and production milestones, helping to finalize two abilities in the kit
• Took on temporary ownership of the champion while the designer was on PTO
• Assumed design ownership of Smolder’s post-launch balance sustain period to ensure he had the proper tuning levers for long-term game health and would not require significant follow-up work

• Gameplay adjustments to Twisted Fate to expand his viable playstyles and systems interactions
• Gameplay and quality of life adjustments to Bard to help the champion better deliver on their core fantasy and gameplay niche of “roaming support”
• Gameplay and quality of life adjustments to Kassadin to help the kit feel more modern and reduce usability friction of some spells
• Supported the team as needed through the production of Jax’s updated skins through bug fixing and effects hookups
• Championed the expansion of Jax’s fishing mini-game

• Inherited Aurelion Sol’s gameplay update from senior designers, owning it from kit-lock to release
• Worked alongside live balance team and game analysis team to tune Aurelion Sol for release
• Fixed hundreds of scripting bugs that arose from Aurelion Sol’s abilities, many of which broke fundamental game engine rules
• Collaborated closely with VFX artists and sound designers to ensure gameplay clarity and feel
• Update resulted in a multiple order-of-magnitude pick rate increase, increasing both the breadth and depth of Aurelion Sol’s play