League of Legends Gameplay Engineering with Iris Zhang

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League of Legends Gameplay Engineering with Iris Zhang

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53 minutes

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Apr 8, 2020

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Iris shares her experience working on backend services and gameplay at Riot Games

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Apr 8, 2020

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