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Do you have any more details? If they licensed an engine, a racing game’s engine seems like a bad fit.

All Wikipedia says is: “A demonstration of League of Legends built in the Warcraft III game engine was completed in four months and then shown at the 2007 Game Developers Conference.”

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I wonder if it started life as a DotA fork. Guinsoo was the DotA developer who originally recruited Icefrog, and as far as I know has been working at Riot on League since day 1.

Also wondering if the stack is discussed at all. Have a mild curiosity as to whether LoL is a Java game or C++.

Haven't seen the code but it's almost certainly C++. The next option would be C#, but it's not a Unity game so that's unlikely.

Maybe Java is used in some backend services here and there, but almost certainly not for the game client, and I'd be very surprised if the game server is written in Java.

C++ for sure.

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