Riot Games has shown off new details about Project L, the studio’s free-to-play fighting game project, led by several veterans of the fighting game community. Set in the League of Legends world of Runeterra, the game features a number of familiar characters from Riot’s universes.
In a short developer diary video, Executive Producer Tom Cannon – known for founding the long-running Evo Championship Series fighting game tournament, as well as the rollback netcode middleware GGPO – and game director and gameplay designer Shaun Rivera detailed some of Project L’s main fighting mechanics.
While the game began as a one-on-one fighting game, in 2020 the game evolved into a tag-team…