Michael

Senior Game Designer @leagueoflegends, Progression & Metagames. A guy (he/him) who loves interconnected systems of intricately, humanly crafted parts.

[Michael @Graydiance]

While I don't use Twitter often (broad socials aren't for me, I prefer small communities), and plan on holding on to the ship as long as I can, I'll be setting up a few other places to find me.

For any mutuals who want my discord/linkedin, please feel free to send me a DM.

[Spideraxe @Spideraxe30]

Demacia Rising is now officially playable on the wiki! https://t.co/IOCRH36TV6

Thanks to immense help from @SkinSpotlights and the the @LoLDev team we were able to host the fully game on the wiki.

Some minor differences include:
* Silver Shields are now gained at a rate of 500 + (5 × TurnCount) at the end of each turn, up to a maximum of 1200
* Champions with skins (Veiled Lady Morgana, Requiem Sona, and Pengu Garen) now have a 50% chance to appear each run
* You can reset your run by clearing your cache

[Michael @Graydiance]

@drewlevin @Spideraxe30 something something "the face of league of legends" <3

thank you for tanking this one drew appreciate u

[Sirhaian @Sirhaian]

My kingdom slowly grows~ ✨

[𝗦𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵 @Splash_1v9]

spamming games to get fast challenger ❌

spamming games to have a big ass village ✅

[Michael @Graydiance]

@Gakyoo_ komasan rules yokai watch is awesome and i'm sad we'll never get 4 even if i know it's kinda mid

(it was hard to play in japanese and i gave up trying lmao)

[Michael @Graydiance]

Fun Demacia Rising Dev Fact: the Guards' attack is based on a video of me wielding a broom in my living room after I watched like 45 minutes of historical French and English spear technique videos

[DEN @RiotDenwhat]

Student Lux before she became a champion - my concept for the new Demacia metagame, out now!

[Spideraxe @Spideraxe30]

Here are the Tianna and Lux dialogue portraits, done by @RiotDenwhat

[Michael @Graydiance]

bother me and Tekshi about DR issues and we'll make sure they're reviewed

(or just send us photos of your kingdom for fun we want to see those too)

[Riot Tekshi @Tekshi]

HUZZAH DEMACIA RISING IS HERE. If anyone runs into any issues please message me.

[Michael @Graydiance]

So proud of the team that Demacia Rising's out and working. A lot of people put in a ton of extra effort Thursday and Friday night to make sure everything's functional, and we're reading all the reports and feedback.

Thank you for playing, I hope you have fun <3

[Riot Tekshi @Tekshi]

Need to go to bed but known Demacia Rising issues+workaround:

1. Weird strings/language + can’t destroy buildings. - Change riot client(league) language to eng (us)

2. Soft lock platoon upgrade - restart your client to get the power up to beat krugs.

[Riot KDan @RiotKDan]

So excited for this new season! Also Demacia Rising is the new metagame that our metagames team has been working on for months. Genuinely can't believe how much fun it's going to be for the players.

[Paul Bellezza @RiotPabro]

LFG DEMACIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Welcome to Season One 2026!!!!!

[Riot Tekshi @Tekshi]

Real excited to have worked on Demacia Rising. Will be cool to see the different ways people play this game!

[Spideraxe @Spideraxe30]

With Demacia Rising coming out soon, here is the full credit list for everyone who worked on. It was a massive undertaking by everyone on the metagame team:

Voice Actors:
Lux: Carrie Keranen
Tianna: Claudia Christian

Production
Project Lead, Principal Product Manager: Ryan 'Reav3' Mireles
Production: Laith 'Talumar' Alkarmi
Production, Missions: Nicholas Lee
Localization Production: Dan Moore
Additional Production: Richard 'Act of 1715' Chung
Additional Production: Mike Tekle

Narrative
Lead Writer: Max 'TwoWeevils' Folkman
Writer: Ty 'JustALilGuy' Sheedlo
Writer & Editor: Mayura 'maymurr' Jain

Art
Art Director: @RiotDenwhat
UI Designer: Allison 'FlyingReverie' Hao
UI & Motion Graphics Designer: Tammy 'Aera' Wong
VFX Artist: @Sirhaian
In-Game Art Assets: @EnvarStudio

Design
Game Design Manager: Daniel 'Rovient' Leaver
Game Design Lead: @Graydiance
Technical Game Design: Ryan Shackleford
Game Design: Ari 'Quiet' Goodman
Game Design: Justin Yong
Game Design: Sean Tan
User Experience Design: Helen Ho

Engineering
Software Engineering Director: Richard 'SkiTeacher' Hensley
Lead Software Engineer: Andrew Lumbang
Software Engineer: Kevin Parisapogu
Software Engineer: Michael Ortega
Software Engineer: Jason Han
Software Engineer: Chuen Yee Gan

Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance Manager: @HonestPillow
Quality Assurance Lead: Peter Rambo
Game Analysis Team QA Lead: @Tekshi
Localization QA Release Manager: Megan Davies
Localization QA Release Manager: Jihyun Park
Localization QA Test Lead: Christopher Mason
Localization QA Senior Tester: Filip Piątek

Audio
Composer: Bill Hemstapat
Sound Designer: @RiotKDan
Voice Over Designer: Austin 'Pumapet' Mullen
Music: Riot Music Team
Music Implementation: Michael Sweet

[Michael @Graydiance]

@grkappatau i believe the support article goes live tomorrow at the same time the game is live in the client!

[Michael @Graydiance]

Welcome to Demacia! I'm so excited for everyone to play this labor of love.

Our team has been hard at work this last year on DR, and I hope you all enjoy this unique metagame.

Personally, it's been wonderful to get the chance to design a game starring my favorite champion.

[Paul Bellezza @RiotPabro]

Happy New Year everyone! And to kick it off, here is our 2026 Season Start Cinematic! DEMACIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Necrit 🎩 @Necrit94]

The most fascinating thing about Demon's Hand is that IF this was done by any other indie studio, it would get more and more developed and expanded.
It feels criminal for Riot to just leave this behind forever after the event is over...
This could be someone's game of their life.

[League of Legends @LeagueOfLegends]

getting these tattooed on my palm