Product Designer @MTGSecretLair // Gamer, Trekkie, Gym Rat, Mom // Prev. @RiotGames @DeviantArt // @ForbesUnder30 2021 // She/Her
Los Angeles, CA
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✨ Career update! ✨
This week, I’m joining Wizards of the Coast as a Principal Product Designer working on Secret Lair for @wizards_magic!!
As a passionate Magic player (and lover of shiny cardboard), I’m beyond excited to get started.
Let’s make some magic. 🪄✨
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If you have a League smurf account — why? To play with friends? To dunk on noobs? Try out a different lane without hurting your rank? An iron to diamond climb challenge? Something else?
(I won’t come after you in any way, just curious about reasoning if you’re willing to share!)
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Tell me your most unhinged League of Legends new player experience stories.
I’m not talking “I died to towers” but “someone once told me to buy a sapphire crystals when I was low on mana, so every game I would fill my inventory with six of them and nothing else”
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Thank you to those who informed me this is NOT a TikTok Original and this is the full video: piped.video/u8ccGjar4Es
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"Maddy, why do you need a photoshop license?"
"So I can make visual aids for my strategy documents."
The visual aid:
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You may notice Wild Rift's Caitlyn still uses her pre-ASU animations and VO — we will be updating her to match PC, but not until 2022. Simultaneously shipping is hard on our team since our patch cadence is quite different, but we do want to see our favorite sheriff at her best!
So many bad guys, so little time. 🎯 Track them all down with Caitlyn, the Sheriff of Piltover—coming to Wild Rift on November 8 PT.
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I ask because I’d love to understand how we can still fulfill player needs that are met by making a Smurf, while still protecting new players from getting stomped on by new accounts with experienced players.
Is it possible to do both of those things at the same time?
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Today marks a full year as the champs lead for Wild Rift! It's been an amazing year, I've learned and grown so much and, most importantly, we've released a ton of SUPER DOPE CHAMPIONS.
Can't wait to see what the future has in store! ❤️
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Seeing a bit of confusion so clearing this up! After you earn your form, you select and transform at base.
This is actually due to buttons — we don’t have a button for passives, and we design with our (eventual) console release in mind (where we can’t just add an extra button).
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✨ Career Update ✨
As of today, I’m the new product owner for champions on Wild Rift! I’m really excited to join this amazing team, and can’t wait to bring more of our favorite champs from League PC to Wild Rift. 🥰
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Wild Rift players — Where do you read about champion abilities?
A) Holding down tooltips
B) Full description on scoreboard
C) Collections Page
Follow up question — how often do you check/read them?
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There’s been a wave of “Wild Rift Devs don’t care” comments recently, and it’s honestly heartbreaking to see that sentiment. I don’t think I’ve ever worked harder or cared more about a product than I do Wild Rift, and that’s true for our whole team. (1/7)
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I'm officially back at work today!! I'm so thankful that Riot has such a wonderful parental leave policy that let me spend almost five months with little Baby Maeve.
With that though, I have some news.
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Hey friends, really excited to hear your thoughts on WASD! I work really closely with the team responsible, and they have been killing it the past year taking on this massive endeavor.
We’re going to be doing a looooot of stat tracking —
(1/??)
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#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
I’m Maddy, and I’m a Senior Product Manager at Riot Games, and the champions lead for @wildrift!
I’ve been on Wild Rift for almost five years, in a bunch of roles.
I’m also a gamer, cat mom, Trekkie, athlete, and currently nine months pregnant!
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The worst part about having a black eye is that everyone assumes you’re in an abusive relationship.
The only abusive relationship in my life is the one with my nine month old 17 pound cat.
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I redownloaded this app thanks to our favorite capybara and I’m here to talk league tutorials!!
My team is working on redoing them soonTM, and I want to know — if you’ve taught someone you love (or just kinda like) to play League, what worked? What did they struggle with?
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Patch Preview time!!!!
Alan, Maddy, and David are here to talk what’s new in Patch 4.1: High Five! 🙌
Coming March 16 UTC:
🤝 New champions
👏 MORE tank items (and item reworks)
🤝 Wild Pass + new skins
👏 In-game events
▶️ WATCH NOW: riot.com/3SH8M5O
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I’m officially on vacation! Slack and work email deleted from my phone for the next 11 days. 😎🌴🏖
I love my job, but sometimes you need a break for a bit. Remember to practice self care, y’all. 💖
ALT Picture of a blonde woman smiling and sticking her tongue out in a silly way.
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To everyone asking “Is _____ coming to Wild Rift??”
You know I can’t answer those questions!!
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My favorite part of shooting the Vex video was walking around campus like this after, and no one questioned it at all.
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I’m n o t O K A Y
ALT Bug from Wild Rift where Rammus’s face is missing and you can only see his eyes
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Recent FAQ:
Q: Is Ahri ASU coming to Wild Rift?
A: Yes! But not sure when.
Q: Is ASol CGU coming to Wild Rift?
A: Probably! But not sure when.
Q: Is [insert champion] coming to Wild Rift?
A: I cannot answer this or @atinyfrogo and @Riot_Beernana will both be v sad.
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For clarification, players level 1 through 30 still get the same level up rewards!
Blue Essence and Account Level earn rates update: leagueoflegends.com/en-us/ne…
TL;DR: We screwed up on this one, and the numbers we shipped are pretty far off from where they should be. We’ll put out fixes over the next few patches.
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If you support or defend someone who abuses women and thinks we don’t deserve rights, I’m going to assume you feel the same way.
Thank you for letting us know now that we aren’t safe around you. ✌🏻
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I’m hearing a lot of the same things, which are issues we are very aware of and working on!
- The community isn’t nice to new players
- SR is overwhelming
- ARAM is good in theory but randomness isn’t good for new players
(1/3)
I don’t chat much about my work on Twitter anymore because people are rarely excited to hear about new player focused things, but I’m curious about your thoughts as League players:
What is the worst/hardest thing about being a new player in League?
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Hey folks, saw the tweets about the FPS drops on Wild Rift — it’s been reported to our live operations team, will keep y’all updated as we learn more! 💖
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When exactly are Ekko, Pyke, and Nautilus coming out?
Ekko will be available on day 1 of the patch, Pyke and Nautilus are coming out together in June.
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I don’t chat much about my work on Twitter anymore because people are rarely excited to hear about new player focused things, but I’m curious about your thoughts as League players:
What is the worst/hardest thing about being a new player in League?
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I love it when a champion feels especially good on Wild Rift. ☺️
Love to see y’all fawning over Lillia! She’s near and deer to my heart. 💖
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Answering some questions I've gotten after yesterday's 3.2 preview:
WHERE IS ALAN?
He's still around and busy with his executive producer life, he just couldn't film this particular patch preview so I filled in. He will be back!
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My sweet baby Maeve was born last week on 4/13!
Due to some complications I had to have a c section, but we’re all home from the hospital and happy and I am head over heels in love with this sweetie. 💖
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Christmas came early this year, check out what’s coming in Patch 4.0!
Patch 4.0 is sure to put some new year’s pep (and portals) in your step, coming January 12 UTC!
@RiotMirross, @maddizzlee, and @PapaSmoothie talk:
✨ New champions
🌟 Tank updates
✨ Wild Pass + new skins
🌟 In-game events
▶️ WATCH NOW: piped.video/watch?v=ZK1q3L5_…
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Some exciting news I’ve been holding close to the chest — can’t wait to meet our little one in a handful of months!
ALT A baby announcement saying “Player 3 Loading… Due April 2023” with pink baby shoes, a pink poro, and a wedding topper featuring Xayah and Rakan.
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We playtested Wild Rift with teenagers who had never played a MOBA before.
They didn’t realize that green was health and blue was mana.
They thought all the champs were the same, they didn’t realize they had different abilities.
They popped honeyfruit to get “points.”
Thread of game design decisions I had to make on things that seemed obvious to me but werent during playtests.
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Officially signing off as I’m getting ready to have a baby next week. 💖
I won’t be around to answer any questions about Wild Rift for the next few months, so please use Player Support or bug @atinyfrogo and @Riot_Beernana!
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I’m Maddy and I’m the growth lead for @LeagueofLegends! Outside of work, I’m a mom to an eleven month old and I love lifting weights, baking tasty treats, and watching old Star Trek episodes.
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
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With the change that @RiotMeddler announced today, I'm actually going to be moving over to a new role on League PC working on features for new players and players returning after spending some time away from League.
Hey folks,
There’s been some chatter recently about the development team for Wild Rift, so I wanted to offer some visibility into how the team’s been evolving behind the scenes.
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Five years ago this week, I started at Riot as an MBA intern!
These five years on Wild Rift have been amazing. I can’t wait to see what adventures await me in the next five years!
Some of my fav Riot pics —2018 Mugshot, 2019 trip to Tencent HQ, then 2033 GRC & Icons
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That’s a true story from my personal learning to play League of Legends experience BTW, I was a huge fucking noob.
I still suck, but at least I buy complete items now!
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Happy to see all the excitement around Nilah and Soulfighter! We moved around her release so she could be a part of this event because we thought she was such a great fit.
I love incorporating a champ release with an exciting moment, especially a Runeterra-wide one like this.
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This was from one of our first Ultimate Spellbook tests when there was no cap on champion size ☺️
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One of my coworkers told me my new hair makes me look like Zeri so I decided to run with it. 💛⚡️
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Monthly reminder I can’t answer when you ask “When is ___ coming to Wild Rift?”
We are dropping more hints than previous years though, so pay attention in future Patch Previews to see if your fav champion is chosen. ☺️
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IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING FPS DROPS: Are you on Android or iOS?
Trying to track down why this update caused this bug!
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Edgelords where??
Pyke isn't edgy enough for you?? 😉
But in all honesty, we still have three more patches coming out this year after 3.2 so there will be more edgy friends for you all coming soonTM.
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I’m going to step away from Twitter for a bit — dealing with baby stuff and its all a little overwhelming!
(Everything is fine, some complications but nothing dangerous.)
See y’all in a bit. 💖
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Hi friends, we know there’s an issue happening with some accounts appearing to have been reset — it’s been reported to our live ops team who is looking into it!
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Hi friendos, getting some reports about a black screen after updating Android devices -- the team is working on tracking this bug down and getting it fixed ASAP!
Uninstalling and reinstalling seems to fix it if you want to get into WR ASAP.
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The 3.2 Patch Preview comes out tomorrow!
piped.video/watch?v=_rkjqAoO…
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Just under two hours until the 3.4 Patch Preview!!
Here is a pixel from one of the champion splash arts. ☺️
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I’m really lucky not to be impacted, but a lot of really amazing people are.
Give love to game devs today. ❤️
Minutes ago, we shared an important update with Rioters about the future of Riot Games. Here’s what these changes mean for our games and what players can expect from us going forward: riot.com/3Odehsi
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My husband just told me that Sion is annoying and I shouldn’t have released him.
This is love. ❤️
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My best friend told me I look like a librarian who is also a witch and that’s the best compliment I could ever ask for???
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Wild Rift has been an amazing team, and I'm so proud of my time there. I was on the team for almost five years, and learned countless lessons and met the most amazing people. While I'll miss the game, I know it's in good hands and am excited to see how it all progresses!
GGWP 💖
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My favorite blonde goth ladies skin line is back, I don’t know who on the skin team heard my prayers but I appreciate you. 🖤✨
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That makes a lot of sense! The first one we’re actually hoping Swiftplay will help with but need to get it into players’s hands to see if it does what we want it to
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20 minutes until the patch preview comes out! 🥳
piped.video/watch?v=_rkjqAoO…
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