Dear Kabam, I have a question

LD_Studios97 · May 2019

How do you come up with your next month's new champions? I know that for the MCU Movies, you just do the main people, but in others, how do you know what champions to do and when.
#kabamdabest

LD_Studios97 · May 2019

#kabamdabest

Sundance_2099 · May 2019

from what they've said in the Art of the Battlerealm book, it's largely down to the stories they're trying to tell in the event quest and story mode and who they want to appear in that. Although I think some level of fan-clamour may influence things some times.

Kabam Vydious · May 2019

Sundance_2099 said:
from what they've said in the Art of the Battlerealm book, it's largely down to the stories they're trying to tell in the event quest and story mode and who they want to appear in that. Although I think some level of fan-clamour may influence things some times.

This along with the aid of Marvel is what helps us decide what's coming next to the Contest!

Hamin · May 2019

Kabam Vydious said:

Sundance_2099 said:
from what they've said in the Art of the Battlerealm book, it's largely down to the stories they're trying to tell in the event quest and story mode and who they want to appear in that. Although I think some level of fan-clamour may influence things some times.
This along with the aid of Marvel is what helps us decide what's coming next to the Contest!

How's that Zadkiel possessed Danny Ketch coming? Ready for October yet?

GroundedWisdom · May 2019

Not gonna lie, I had to Google that. Lol.

Hamin · May 2019

GroundedWisdom said:
Not gonna lie, I had to Google that. Lol.

Yeah, I keep trying to slip him in.

LD_Studios97 · May 2019

Kabam Vydious said:

Sundance_2099 said:
from what they've said in the Art of the Battlerealm book, it's largely down to the stories they're trying to tell in the event quest and story mode and who they want to appear in that. Although I think some level of fan-clamour may influence things some times.
This along with the aid of Marvel is what helps us decide what's coming next to the Contest!

Thanks. I want sure if you had a whole year planned or what. Is it hard to program the characters?

DNA3000 · May 2019

LD_Studios97 said:

Kabam Vydious said:

Sundance_2099 said:
from what they've said in the Art of the Battlerealm book, it's largely down to the stories they're trying to tell in the event quest and story mode and who they want to appear in that. Although I think some level of fan-clamour may influence things some times.
This along with the aid of Marvel is what helps us decide what's coming next to the Contest!
Thanks. I want sure if you had a whole year planned or what. Is it hard to program the characters?

Characters in games like this aren't "programmed" per se. The super-simplified version is that programmers and system engineers create game mechanics that are programmed into the game engine, and then content creators take those mechanics and use them to assemble champions. The content creators that design champions probably do not think about how anything is programmed into the game. They take features of the game that already exist (or are created for them) and stick them together like LEGOs to make a champion.

It is analogous to how an Excel spreadsheet works. There exist programmers that create the features within Excel; what does "VDIFF" mean or how "AVERAGE" is calculated. Then someone completely different takes Excel and creates functioning spreadsheets within Excel using numbers and formulas that Excel supports.

I mention Excel in part because for many games, and I suspect MCOC is one of them, a lot of the content is created in something like Excel. A champion might just be rows in a spreadsheet, and that gets turned into text files by special macros and other tool chains that then get injected into the game engine, and the game engine uses that data to create the champions, in a kind of "Mad-libs" fill in the blank manner. I have never dug into the internals of MCOC, but I do know this is how practically all MMOs work.

Duke_Silver · May 2019

I didn’t know analogous was a word

DNA3000 · May 2019

LD_Studios97 said:

Kabam Vydious said:

Sundance_2099 said:
from what they've said in the Art of the Battlerealm book, it's largely down to the stories they're trying to tell in the event quest and story mode and who they want to appear in that. Although I think some level of fan-clamour may influence things some times.
This along with the aid of Marvel is what helps us decide what's coming next to the Contest!
Thanks. I want sure if you had a whole year planned or what. Is it hard to program the characters?

For further information, check this out: https://recruiting.ultipro.ca/KAB5000KABAM/JobBoard/d1db15a4-c513-4950-9596-352bbcadc2d0/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=b697ed14-903c-4d9b-ae02-f7971f8b9f16

That's a job opening at Kabam's Vancouver studios for a "champion designer." This is what they want you do have on your resume:

Bonus if you have raw technical skills including;
Scripting experience
Strong math skills
Spreadsheet wizardry

Whenever I see "scripting, math, spreadsheet" I'm 95% sure that game uses Excel to design their game entities. Compare to "Senior Front-End Engineer" - https://recruiting.ultipro.ca/KAB5000KABAM/JobBoard/d1db15a4-c513-4950-9596-352bbcadc2d0/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=ad7de20f-be0e-472d-990e-4ce5edbf134f

That job is not necessarily for MCOC, but it is basically a game client programmer position. This kind of platform/content separation is basically a given for most games like MCOC.

Dear Kabam, I have a question

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