VALORANT Game Director Joe Ziegler is stepping down from his role after spending eight years working on the game, Riot announced today. Ziegler has been with Riot since 2010 and was part of the team that created VALORANT "from the ground up".
Ziegler said he won't be "far away" from the game and the team that will continue to work on VALORANT. But he'll start working on "something new", maybe one of the next Riot Forge games teased during November's Nintendo Showcase or he could move on to the developer's highly anticipated MMO.
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Ziegler has been the game director for VALORNT since the launch of the first-person shooter's closed beta. But he's been so much more than that for Riot's FPS. In a March 2020 interview with Polygon, he is credited as one of the first people to even theorize VALORANT when he was "just chatting" with other game designers about "what other kinds of games" Riot could make.
VALORNT has expanded and exploded around the world since then, with its esports side reaching over one million viewers during VCT Challengers in December, according to EsportsCharts. "Esports is something we should be building with players, developers and organizations in constant discussion, iterating on its future," Ziegler said in April 2020. "That's what we believe. »
Andy Ho, a senior director who has worked in the game direction department with Riot since 2017, will take over Ziegler's position as VALORNT's game director. "Andy is someone who I'm proud to say has dedicated many years to him in VALORANT," Ziegler said. “He has all my faith and confidence that he will continue to grow and evolve VALORAT year after year to become even better than I could imagine. »
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