Teamfight Tactics
Riot Games’ Teamfight Tactics has regular tournaments that are streamed live on Twitch. Teamfight Tactics is a strategy game with a lot of relevant data produced during matches and it can be difficult to display large amounts of data with a limited amount of space that doesn’t detract from the game itself and is relatively readable even on mobile devices - as TFT is popular on iOS.
As a Designer at Wisdom Gaming, I was tasked with the Creative Direction for the first 3 cups in the Dragonlands tournaments, as well as designing the broadcast graphics for the first 2 - the Astral and Jade Cups. Some new additions to the competitive format and how the game was displayed on the broadcast required some creative problem solving to get just right. The tournaments saw nearly 200k total viewership and received positive feedback from both viewers and Riot. Changes made in the designs for these cups were used in future tournaments.
Visual Direction
Astral Cup
As a new addition to the Astral Cup, our production team wanted to include graphics for the standings and point totals for all 64 participants. In addition, we wanted to include a graphic showing how points were being distributed, as well as showing that those in top 12, top 8, and top 4 got extra points depending on where they had placed.
I color coded the top 12, top 8, and top 4 players and added a very thin label that didn’t disrupt the flow of the rest of the players too much to save space. We also added a title on the top 32 screen specifying that those players got to advance to the last day of the tournament.
Jade Cup
