Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep)

Game designer. Prev: Summoner's Rift Team @leagueoflegends @riotgames, Systems & Balance @wildrift.

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

When I was interviewing at Riot in 2017, at the end of the process they asked me what change I would make if I could make one change to League. I said I'd make Amp Tome 400g. They thought I was joking. Six years later, I've made it clear I never joke about Amp Tome

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

@Lutzburg those lutzburg champs just make great examples y'know

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

As a bonus parting gift for my final day, I recorded a duo Q&A session with Twin Enso last weekend: here it is! https://t.co/JjsEV3iAZu

[Nathan Lutz @Lutzburg]

In honor of @NickFridgeDev's Riot retirement, I just want to say thank you for helping me push for the existence of Wizard Bear. 🧙‍♂️🐻‍❄️🌩️

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

Bonus: I am taking this opportunity to switch over fully to Nick Fridge rather than Endstep. I've wanted to do this for a long time and now seems like a good time.

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

Some bittersweet news: Tomorrow will be my last day at Riot. I learned a lot, made lots of friends, and had an amazing experience for over 9 years, but it's time for something new.

I very much appreciate all the players and all my coworkers, and maybe I'll be back one day.

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

Coming to a PBE near you: Dark Seal and Mejai's now count their AP on the item itself so you don't have to do math. Hopefully will ship next patch or maybe the one after if there's more bugs that need to be fixed - thanks to live QA @RiotEtlios for helping out

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

Fun bug when I was making Snowbow: I hadn't actually hooked up the missile yet so it was invisible, and this version triggered on any damage, so attacking two targets would just cause invisible missiles to bounce between them until one of them died

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

As you might expect, the original Snowbow was pretty good with Runaan's

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

Not very exciting, but the original version of Fiendhunter Bolts used some kind of mashed up blue vfx I made to display you had the buff. I don't even remember how I made this or why I was testing this item on Vlad but for some reason I saved this clip

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

An early prototype of the item that would eventually become Hexoptics (you can see where the name Snowbow came from). It fired a snowball from the original target when you swapped targets. It was cool, but wasn't really clear why you would want it over other items

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

Was looking through some files from last year, found some nice in-dev clips of the items for this season. I initially used Snowball as the missile for Diadem of Songs because it was easy to hook up and nicely visually distinct

[Wick @wickJKR]

I'm now a Game Designer on League of Legends at Riot!

My three years on the Game Analysis Team were special, and it's bittersweet moving off the team, but I'm beyond excited for the future.

Replay remix.

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

@Aellectris

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

it is absolutely brutal that I once put my laundry in the dryer before I put it in the washer and now I have to remember that every time I do my laundry

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

I haven't been posting up my regular Q&As here on twitter, but I did make a 2 hour video today with @RiotRogueFool (Arena's lead designer) about Arena and I thought some people might want to check it out: https://t.co/BM5K8tWWsb

[Mike Breese @RiotRogueFool]

I chatted with @RiotEndstep about Arena today. If you're in need of 2 hours of Arena dev content, then I am happy to help fulfill your very specific need. https://t.co/H5YcYjdZDW

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

@iTzSTU4RT Not this time!

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

Setting up to cast the T1 Riot Rumble finals an hour from now on https://t.co/pf1eFBFpsu - stop by if you want to see the conclusion to my Rumble streams!

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

@WhatleyLeague @RiotPhroxzon @drewlevin The current functionality is correct/intended - DnD being able to apply additional onhits to turrets was an accidental result of a bugfix which has now been fixed in a different way. It probably could have a callout for this in the extended tooltip though

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

@Manco1lol https://t.co/Q32lRJ9JGM - my bad, kind of just assumed it was there. I'll throw it in there

[Nick Fridge (formerly Riot Endstep) @NickFridgeDev]

Really crazy stats from my youtube channel this month - never thought I'd end up getting thousands of hours of views of people watching me straight up yapping