Riot MMO Dev Team — Who Is Building the Riot MMO

A tracker of the developers building the Riot MMO: the confirmed core team, Riot R&D members, and alumni who have left the project, with their public social accounts. Not the full team — only those active on public socials.

Core Team

Developers confirmed to be working on the Riot MMO.

• Fabrice Condominas (@Faburisu) — Executive Producer, Riot MMO (since Mar 2024 reset; ex-BioWare Mass Effect lead producer)
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• Marc Merrill (Tryndamere) (@MarcMerrill) — Riot co-founder / Chief Product Officer; executive sponsor of the MMO (announced the Mar 2024 reset; says it is the project he personally spends the most time on)
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• Mark Yetter (Riot Scruffy) (@MarkYetter) — Game Design Director, Riot MMO (per live X bio; joined 2021 from LoL gameplay lead; stayed through the 2024 reboot)
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• Brian Holinka (@holinka) — Principal Game Designer, Riot MMO (started Jun 1 2026; ~11 years WoW PvP/combat design; combat systems specialty)
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• Alex M. "Magnus" Lehmann (@RiotCaptainLx) — Director, Creative Management, MMO R&D at Riot (NOT Sr. Technical Animator — that was a job he was hiring FOR; career: Senior Character Animator, Art Director, Head of Creative)
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• Sarah Tudor (@MuddyMink) — Game Producer, Riot MMO (joined Jun 3 2026; prev. Stages Producer on 2XKO, Palia, Blizzard)
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• Raymond Bartos (GoodGuyRay) (@RaymondBartos) — Senior Game Producer, Riot MMO (joined Jan 15 2026; ex-Lead Producer on WoW at Blizzard)
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• Orlando Salvatore (@KirbyAu) — Senior Engineering Manager, League MMO (joined Oct 2024; ex-WoW lead software engineer)
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• Yekaterina "Katia" Bourykina (@YBourykina) — Principal 3D Character Artist, MMO R&D (moved from LoL Skins team to the MMO in May 2022; ex-Blizzard WoW)
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• Reece Warrender (@WozzerGG) — Sr. Principal QA Engineer, Riot R&D MMO (moved from Valorant Nov 2022; ex-RuneScape QA Lead at Jagex; renamed from @RiotWozzer)
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• Anthony Reynolds Lenné (@_AntReynolds_) — Senior Principal Writer, Riot; Narrative Lead on the Riot MMO (at Riot since 2014; ex-Worldbuilding team lead; USA Today bestselling author)
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Riot R&D

Confirmed at Riot R&D; assignment to the MMO is not officially confirmed.

• Justin Hanson (@Xenogenic) — Senior Game Design Manager, Riot R&D (returned Nov 2024 from Theorycraft; was Riot MMO Principal Game Designer 2021-2023)
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• Adam Jackson (@AZJackson85) — Senior (Design) Manager, Riot R&D (joined Feb 3 2025; ex-Diablo IV lead class designer, Heroes of the Storm, WoW)
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• Samuel "Sam" Loretan (@tynril) — Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead for R&D at Riot (since 2015; ex-ArenaNet — built GW2's MegaServer)
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• Eric Kenna (@RiotSocrates) — Design Director, Riot R&D (LinkedIn: 'Design Director - RnD'; at Riot since 2013)
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Alumni

Former Riot MMO developers, and where they went.

• Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) — MMO Game Director (pre-2024 era) — now: Founded Fantastic Pixel Castle (Ghost MMO)
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• Vijay Thakkar (@nozomiyume) — Technical Director / EP (2023–2024) — now: Founder, stealth startup
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• Shanti Blees (@RiotShantzilla) — Content Director — now: Creative Director, Scopely
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• Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz (@MTomaszkiewicz) — Principal Narrative Designer — now: Creative Director, Rebel Wolves
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• Tom Sayer (@Tomukus) — Visual Designer — now: Riot Games — TFT team
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• Ed Altorfer (@Sapmagic) — Game Designer — now: Freelance (building Kanjimori)
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• Candace Thomas (@candacerthomas) — Encounter / Boss Designer (pre-reboot) — now: Freelance game designer
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