

Speaking of, what about that sudden fourth character? A genuine surprise to many considering the prior glimpses we've had over recent months / years of Jinx, Katarin, and Illaoi. But Evo has been the reason to move the game forward, not a seperate concept." People seemed to be having a good time with the sudden addition to the Evo show floor. "We also wanted to get four characters pretty close to complete (like, past 90%) to really realize what this game is like at its potential. So when we say we were working on the 'Evo build', we were really working on locking down systems in the game so they're working pretty close to how we want them. "This Evo demo – there are some specific things we built for it like the flow of the build and how you get in and out of the game – but honestly this is the first crystalization of the way we want the game to play. "We've been working on this game for many years, but we started to become aware that we would be working on an Evo demo in the last year or so." states Jaffe, resting his legs while sitting on the carpet of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. To help guide me through these points, I sat down and talked to Alex Jaffe at Evo 2023 to find out more in our third and final Project L interview piece from Evo 2023. I was curious on the decision to suddenly drop a demo on people, and the philosphy behind the surprise fourth addition to the roster: Yasuo. Yes, we were guilty of that too.īut within the course of a week, we went from background information to real hands-on impressions of Riot Games' next big release. For years, those interested on the mysterious goings on within Riot HQ have been left with crumbs, occasionally getting real news but left with little else to do than speculate and create lists of characters we'd like to see in a game we knew very little about. Project L exploded onto Evo this year with a public demo – seemingly out of nowhere.
