Grace Hsieh

Champions

• Led engineering efforts on an interdisciplinary team (animation, design) to develop, ship and maintain 2XKO Champions (Illaoi, Yasuo, Blitzcrank)
• Helped improve our champion pipeline by creating processes for engineers to evaluate risk for a Champion early in Champion development and pushing for technical documentation in the later stages

Tutorials

• Led engineering efforts on an interdisciplinary team (design, UI) for 2XKO First Time User Experience and Tutorials
• Implemented tooling to empower designers to tune and make changes rapidly to Tutorials
• Integrated tutorials with analytics to ensure that we are capturing important data from players

Automated Testing

• Implemented automated testing to help in maintaining Tutorials as we rapidly iterated on new core mechanics
• Implemented Skin Invariance automated testing to ensure that champion skins never have different combat outcomes
• Implemented automated testing for champions to ensure stability once design was locked

• Led engineering efforts on both client and server during a pivotal change for 2XKO (switching our core game from 1v1 to 2v2/Tag).
• Architected and prototyped the changes that would be needed for new Tag features
• Helped transition 2XKO from using GGPO (peer to peer) to Game Server (multiple clients send inputs to a server) to support 2v2
• Helped to align the team and improve on internal playtest stability

• Prototyped and iterated on 2XKO meta game systems (different types of lobbies, tournaments, spectating in world, matchmaking)
• Actively involved in the design and product discussions for evaluating the prototyped work's design strengths and weaknesses