Jagex

The Jagex Ltd.. (also Jagex Games Studio) is an online game company, which has its headquarters in Cambridge, England. Their best-known publications are the MMORPG RuneScape and FunOrb game portal.

Jagex specializes in games that can be played without downloading additional programs in the browser, so preferably the Java programming language is used. The name Jagex formerly stood for Java Gaming Experts, today calls itself the company Just About the Game Experience

History

In 1999 the name appeared first on as the name of a made by Andrew Gower engine, the acronym stood for Java Audio Graphics Extension. Quick but Gower began to trade under the name, where he Jagex " produces small, English software company that quality games for homepages " as a designated .. Today Jagex was formed in 2001 when Andrew and his brother Paul Gower published the game RuneScape. First commercial success could acquire the company, as 2002 saw the paid version of RuneScape. From there to the number of players grew up in RuneScape. Jagex began their game to be translated into German, French and Brazilian. In March 2008 they released the games portal FunOrb, which also has a paid version.

Jagex was working on a RuneScape successor named Mechscape. The development was canceled in August 2009, shortly before the completion of the game and started again from scratch, as it did not reach the desired quality standards. The development costs of the game were by then, according to CEO Mark Gerhard well into the double -digit million range ( "tens of millions of pounds "). Many components of the project, including the game engine will be reused in a new project.