"League of Legends"'s first animated series "Battle of Two Cities" has officially ended. Although Riot Games is developing subsequent film and television projects, with their attitude of working slowly and carefully, we may not see it in the short term. But Christian Linke, the co-producer of "Battle of Two Cities", promised that if they get the exact direction, they will inform the players, and Riot executives also put great trust in him. Christian, 37, was a member of the German metal rock band Panik. He wrote some songs and toured everywhere, but he lost interest in this boring life and decided to leave Europe for the United States in 2010 to start a new career.
In September 2010, Christian officially joined Riot Games, a small workshop in the entrepreneurial stage, but his initial position was "data analysis". The job is to monitor and maintain the data of "League of Legends", provide useful data to the design, development and content teams, and assist the operations and engineering departments to ensure the normal operation of the game. In a nutshell, he is a logistics handyman who does everything, and he also serves as German customer service. In addition to work, Christian also used his musical talents. He suggested to the founder of Riot Games to add more musical elements to the game. In the end, the founder of Riot Games agreed, and Christian returned to his favorite music field in 2011.
He turned into a composer for Riot Games, responsible for the music of "League of Legends", establishing and guiding the Riot music team, including login interface music, music videos, music mv, music albums, in-game background music, and e-sports event openings style, artist collaboration, etc. Christian has made Riot Games pay more attention to music and MV elements, both from games to events. He started to show off his skills at the opening ceremony of the S3 Global Finals. The MVs of Jinx and Amumu are his bold attempts to show heroes through image effects. Finally, in 2015, he decided to start the "Battle of Two Cities" project with narrative writer Alex Yee, and chose the small French studio Fortiche as the partner, which was also the producer of "Get Jinxed".
"Battle of Two Cities" began formal production in 2016. Christian became the creative director of the project, and he gradually put down his work in the music department. But he still brings a lot of good music to "League of Legends" because he cares about music. For example, after the "Battle of Two Cities" animation studio fortiche expanded its recruitment in 2017, it urgently needed some projects to allow new employees to accumulate skills and determine their style. He facilitated the cooperation between the studio and Riot Music, bringing k/da's first single "pop/stars" and the music video of the World Championship theme song "rise", both of which were loved by players.
Before deciding to make "Battle of Two Cities", Christian released the first album "Punishment and Burning" for the Pentakill rock band in 2014. This is the first music album of "League of Legends". In 2017, he released the second album "Grasp of Immortality" for the Pentakill rock band. The album maintained its consistent standards and was well received by metal rock fans. The music video was also well-produced. He launched his third album "Lost Chapters" in 2021 and even presented a live show through virtual technology. Pentakill Rock Band allowed Riot to connect music and games, inspiring them to launch various music-themed skins in the future.
In an interview this week, when Christian was asked whether he would produce a fourth album for the Pentakill rock band, he said that there was no progress on the project for the time being. Because this is very much a passion project, but if players are really hungry for it, it could ignite a spark. After all, music creation requires creativity and inspiration. Christian has been wearing many hats in recent years. He has to prepare for the second season of "Battle of Two Cities". He is one of the writers of the second season, and he also has to develop new games for "League of Legends". Film and television projects, he really does not have that much time to devote to music.
But he has always maintained great enthusiasm for music. He personally controlled the music of "Battle of Two Cities" and communicated with artists from all over the world. At that time, many people did not think this project would be successful and rejected his music request, but Christian still brought a variety of classic songs to the first season of the series.The overall quality of the second season episode of "Battle of Two Cities" three years later is higher than that of the first season, and it perfectly fits the content of the series. It can only be said that he really put a lot of thought into it. Fans also expect Christian to bring more good songs in the future and continue to build the reputation of Riot Music.
"League of Legends"'s first animated series "Battle of Two Cities" has officially ended. Although Riot Games is developing subsequent film and television projects, with their attitude of working slowly and carefully, we may not see it in the short term. But Christian Linke, the co-producer of "Battle of Two Cities", promised that if they get the exact direction, they will inform the players, and Riot executives also put great trust in him. Christian, 37, was a member of the German metal rock band Panik. He wrote some songs and toured everywhere, but he lost interest in this boring life and decided to leave Europe for the United States in 2010 to start a new career.
In September 2010, Christian officially joined Riot Games, a small workshop in the entrepreneurial stage, but his initial position was "data analysis". The job is to monitor and maintain the data of "League of Legends", provide useful data to the design, development and content teams, and assist the operations and engineering departments to ensure the normal operation of the game. In a nutshell, he is a logistics handyman who does everything, and he also serves as German customer service. In addition to work, Christian also used his musical talents. He suggested to the founder of Riot Games to add more musical elements to the game. In the end, the founder of Riot Games agreed, and Christian returned to his favorite music field in 2011.
He turned into a composer for Riot Games, responsible for the music of "League of Legends", establishing and guiding the Riot music team, including login interface music, music videos, music mv, music albums, in-game background music, and e-sports event openings style, artist collaboration, etc. Christian has made Riot Games pay more attention to music and MV elements, both from games to events. He started to show off his skills at the opening ceremony of the S3 Global Finals. The MVs of Jinx and Amumu are his bold attempts to show heroes through image effects. Finally, in 2015, he decided to start the "Battle of Two Cities" project with narrative writer Alex Yee, and chose the small French studio Fortiche as the partner, which was also the producer of "Get Jinxed".
"Battle of Two Cities" began formal production in 2016. Christian became the creative director of the project, and he gradually put down his work in the music department. But he still brings a lot of good music to "League of Legends" because he cares about music. For example, after the "Battle of Two Cities" animation studio fortiche expanded its recruitment in 2017, it urgently needed some projects to allow new employees to accumulate skills and determine their style. He facilitated the cooperation between the studio and Riot Music, bringing k/da's first single "pop/stars" and the music video of the World Championship theme song "rise", both of which were loved by players.
Before deciding to make "Battle of Two Cities", Christian released the first album "Punishment and Burning" for the Pentakill rock band in 2014. This is the first music album of "League of Legends". In 2017, he released the second album "Grasp of Immortality" for the Pentakill rock band. The album maintained its consistent standards and was well received by metal rock fans. The music video was also well-produced. He launched his third album "Lost Chapters" in 2021 and even presented a live show through virtual technology. Pentakill Rock Band allowed Riot to connect music and games, inspiring them to launch various music-themed skins in the future.
In an interview this week, when Christian was asked whether he would produce a fourth album for the Pentakill rock band, he said that there was no progress on the project for the time being. Because this is very much a passion project, but if players are really hungry for it, it could ignite a spark. After all, music creation requires creativity and inspiration. Christian has been wearing many hats in recent years. He has to prepare for the second season of "Battle of Two Cities". He is one of the writers of the second season, and he also has to develop new games for "League of Legends". Film and television projects, he really does not have that much time to devote to music.
But he has always maintained great enthusiasm for music. He personally controlled the music of "Battle of Two Cities" and communicated with artists from all over the world. At that time, many people did not think this project would be successful and rejected his music request, but Christian still brought a variety of classic songs to the first season of the series.The overall quality of the second season episode of "Battle of Two Cities" three years later is higher than that of the first season, and it perfectly fits the content of the series. It can only be said that he really put a lot of thought into it. Fans also expect Christian to bring more good songs in the future and continue to build the reputation of Riot Music.