🏗️Dev Team
NOD Games
The League of Kingdoms game platform and its technical infrastructure for the League of Kingdoms Arena token are developed by the NOD Games team, a pioneering blockchain game studio that has a proven track record of building and shipping quality games and infrastructures.
The NOD Games core team has its headquarters located in Seoul, South Korea but their hearts in the metaverse.
Management team
Chan Lee / CEO
Chan is involved in all key decision-making, leveraging his technical expertise, business acumen, and deep experience across the board.
Chan graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), a leading technology institute in Korea. At graduation, he started his career as a product designer at Samsung Electronics and joined as a founding team of DAYLI financial group, one of the largest financial technology companies in Korea, where he led the DAYLI Marketplace, overseeing the entire product offerings of the group. He also worked for a game, dining start-up, Private Equity, and co-founded NEXTMATCH, one of Asia's fastest-growing dating app companies, servicing the #1 Dating application in Korea.
After the successful exit (NEXTMATCH was acquired by Metalabs, a KOSPI company), Chan founded the NOD Games, fascinated by the massive potential of NFTs and blockchain gaming. In his leisure time, Chan likes to hang out with his friends at El Plato, the first Spanish Tapas restaurant chain in Seoul which he co-founded with his friend a decade ago. He is also leading start-up teams at UNOPND as its inaugural CEO.
Steve Hwang / CTO
Steve is a technology leader who orchestrates all things engineering, technical strategy, and product/project initiatives.
Steve is a game enthusiast by heart and a seasoned game developer with more than 20 years of experience building quality online and mobile games. While he was in the Computer Science and Electronics Engineering program at Seoul National University, Steve was a part of the founding team of Gamevil, now a publicly traded game giant with $120M+ in revenue. He also had stints at Electronics Art, NHN, COM2US, where he led the server architecture and development of game titles including but not limited to FIFA Online, NBA Street Online, Go Online, and many others.
Steve co-founded NOD Games with his good old friend Chan in 2019. He loves to play League of Legends after lunchtime with the team.
Han Yoo / COO
Han leads the game studio's marketing, operation, and business development initiatives.
Han is a game lover who spent most of his childhood playing Pokemon and Diablo. He is also a proponent of web3 innovation and blockchain gaming. Management professional by training, Han has built his career in supply chain and product management at LG Electronics, a global electronics giant where he led numerous product launches and oversaw supply chain operations in the US. Before his stint in the electronics industry, he worked for multiple early-stage ventures in retail/commerce. While at LGE, he encountered blockchain technology and learned about its power to address supply chain inefficiencies. Digging the blockchain rabbit hole, Han was mesmerized by the blockchain NFT gaming and bought into the vision, which led to his joining the NOD Games founding team in early 2019.
Han is a University of Illinois Alum and likes walking his Golden Doodle in his free time.
Core team
Sean Moon - Chief Server Engineer
Software engineer with 20+ years of experience
Lead server platform engineer for Netmarble
Principal engineering consultant for Gravity, OzLab, Neon games
Games: GameTalk, DJ-Max, Han Game Poker, Civilization Online, Winning Eleven, Ragnarok, World Blackjack Tournament, and numerous others.
Belliny Kim - Principal Server Engineer
Software engineer with 20+ years of experience
MS in Information/Telecommunication Engineering
Formerly at SAMSUNG, NAVER, NHN, Smilegates, Netmarble
Edgar Kim - Chief Game Designer
Game designer with 15+ years of experience
Architect of "Crossfire", the world's most-played FPS game
Formerly, NEXON, Smilegates
Degree in Bioscience
A Pantomath & extensive reader
Felix Lee - Chief Blockchain Engineer
Engineer with 15+ years of experience
Proficient in all things web3
Formerly, NEXON
Dual degree (CS & ME) at POSTECH
Hoon Lee - Art Director
Seasoned art director with 20+ years of experience
Formerly, WEMADE, KAKAO Games (Friends Games)
Ollie Lee - UI/UX Lead
15+ Years of Graphic Design experience
Cafe24 and many other projects
Astor Hong - 3D Graphics/ Video Lead
Experienced 3D graphic designer with 15 years of experience
Formerly at multiple 3D animation studios
Some of his works on League of Kingdoms can be found here.
BAE - Game FX Lead
13+ Years of Game FX Design Experience
Projects: Raven / Uncharted Waters: Origins
Whimbak - Lead Game Artist
Hongik University Art School Graduate
Henry - Lead Animation Designer
5+ Years of Game Animation @ 38c
Jerry - Frontend / Web Publishing Lead
Experience at Smilegates, DoubleU Games
Darby Lee - Chief Client Engineer
Experienced game client engineer with 20 years of experience
Formerly, Kakao Games (via Friends Games)
Patrick Hong - Principal Client Engineer
Experienced game client engineer with 10 years of experience
Formerly, CCR
Logan Jang - Head of VR/AR Engineering
Experienced client and VR engineer with 10 years of experience
Formerly, WEMADE
Kyung Park - QA Team leader
Seasoned QA Engineer with 10+ years of experience
Formerly, NC Soft, Smilegates, KAKAO VX
Dan Lee - Director, Business Development
Avid Gamer / Business wizard
Former Consultant at Boston Consulting Group(BCG)
Former Global Brand Manager at Samsung Electro nics
Former Post Merger Finance at Kraft Heinz
Northwestern University (BA Journalism/ Economics - Full scholar)
Harvard Business School (MBA)
Jay Nam - Head of Community & Operation
Former Community Lead at NOD Games
Expert Game reviewer and community evangelist
Georgetown University, SFS (BA International Relations)
Formerly a linguist in the US Armed Forces / United Nations
Sun Lee - Lead Business PM
10+ Years of Experience as a Game PM
PM @ Wonderpeople, Valofe, NS Studio, Zepetto
Yonsei University (BA in International Politics)
Stephanie Kim - Marketing Lead
Former Community Lead at NOD Games
Former Digital Media Operator at Verizon
Avid Gamer and community evangelist
University of Virginia (UVA) (BA in Art & New Media)
Kane Lee - Operation Lead
Avid Gamer and student of new technologies
Former Global Operation Manager for RandomDice, CROWZ (@ Qroad)
Former Twitch Broadcasting Manager
Asia Pacific University (BS in Game Development)
Nina Fajardo - Content Marketing Lead
7+ years of experience in UI/UX/Graphic/Web Design
Former UI/UX/Web Designer at SHAKR
Former Digital & Print Content Designer at Meridian Lawyers
De La Salle University Manilla (BA in Multimedia Arts)
BT Jeong - Partnership Lead
2+ years in Web3 Marketing and Partnership at UNOPND, a Hashed's start-up studio
Sungkyunkwan University (BS in Economics & Culture / Technology)
PhillipJSpy (aka. blak3.eth) - Community Lead (North America)
Crypto/NFT OG and community maximalist
We are always looking for the best talent in the world to build the world's most exciting web3 games!!
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