JAGeX Software, Ltd
Type	Private
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Cambridge, United Kingdom
Key people	Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, and Constant Tedder, Founders
Industry	Interactive entertainment, MMORPG
Products	RuneScape RuneScape Classic
Employees	303 (January, 2007)[1]
Website	http://www.jagex.com/

Jagex Ltd. (or Jagex Software) is a United Kingdom-based producer of Java-based online computer games. According to developer Paul Gower, Jagex stands for Java Gaming Experts.^[2] The company is best-known for their MMORPG, RuneScape. Image File history File links Jagexgif. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Shown within Cambridgeshire Geography Status: City (1951) Region: East of England Admin. ... This article is being considered for deletion for the 2nd time in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... World of Warcraft, the worlds most popular MMORPG EverQuest II, a slightly less popular MMORPG A Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG or MMO) is a computer game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously, and is played on the Internet. ... RuneScape is a Java-based MMORPG operated by Jagex Ltd. ... Person fighting a highwayman in Runescape Classic Screenshot of the Runescape 2 RuneScape is 3D Java based massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), launched by Jagex Ltd. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... January is the first month of the year and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... – 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... An image from World of Warcraft, one of the largest commercial MMORPGs as of 2007, based on active subscriptions. ... RuneScape is a Java-based MMORPG operated by Jagex Ltd. ...

History

Jagex Software was founded in November 2001 by Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, and Constant Tedder.^[3] The aim of this company was to create and license Java games for websites. In December 2001, the company focused on their primary game, the MMORPG RuneScape. The company then became Jagex Ltd. At the time of the company's formation, RuneScape had already been created and more than one million accounts had been registered the very first year. The first tasks of the company were to create a version of the game with extra features that required a £3.20 ($5.00 USD) monthly fee, while still offering the free version, and to develop partnerships with advertisers. Both tasks were achieved, and the pay-to-play version of RuneScape was released on February 27, 2002, gaining 5,000 subscriptions in the first week making Runescape one of the largest java pay to play games in the world. Currently, RuneScape has over 9,000,000 free players and approximately 850,000 pay-to-play subscribers as of July 17, 2006.^[4] In 2006, founders Andrew Gower and Paul Gower were calculated to be worth £32 million ($60 million USD). Andrew Gower is also known for his varieties of java games.^[5] Jagex recieved an investment from Insight Venture Partners in October of 2005. ^[6] The company had been self funded before this investment. They have since translated Runescape to the German language in a BETA form. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is being considered for deletion for the 2nd time in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An image from World of Warcraft, one of the largest commercial MMORPGs as of 2007, based on active subscriptions. ... RuneScape is a Java-based MMORPG operated by Jagex Ltd. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... ISO 4217 Code GBP User(s) United Kingdom Inflation 2. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory[1], the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Insight Venture Partners is an expansion-stage venture capital firm in the United States, operating offices in New York City and Boston, specializing exclusively in software companies. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Future Development

Jagex have stated on their website that they "intend to become a significant online operator in all the major gaming markets worldwide"^[7] by developing new games using their own technologies.

Operation

Jagex has grown since the founding of the company in 2001. They currently have offices in Cambridge and London. The company have been recruiting heavily in 2006 and has over 300 employees, grouped into the Development, Publishing, Web Content, Minigame, and Customer Relations teams. Shown within Cambridgeshire Geography Status: City (1951) Region: East of England Admin. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

They maintain over 130 servers for RuneScape in various locations all over the United States, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom. The most recent addition to the servers was the relocation of six servers to Finland to increase the spread of European play. Their current focus is on adding servers in Asia, and setting Runescape into non-English markets, primarily working on a recently released German translation of the game.^[8] They also have a large staff to point out copyright violations on Ebay. World map showing the location of Asia. ...

Beyond RuneScape

While most of the work by Jagex staff now deals with RuneScape, they still maintain a few other games that one can play online at their website. These games are:

• Meltdown
• Vertigo
• Flea Circus
• Gold Mine
• Monkey Puzzle
• Fuel Critical Stage 1-3(under construction for editing of the main game stucture)

These games can be accessed at the company's website.

For a time it was stated on the Jagex Corporate site that a new MMORPG unrelated to RuneScape was in planning as far back as mid-2005, as well as a goal to gain over 1,000,000 paying members. This has since been taken down at the start of 2006, with a new goal of reaching over 900,000 subscribers and to take RuneScape into other non-English languages.

Currently many games are under construction and will be released soon, currently only the following games are in operation:

• Flea Circus
• Gold Mine
• Monkey Puzzle
• Vertigo
• Meltdown
• RuneScape

Jagex are working on a new undisclosed game. Although no official information has been released about this, it is thought to be another RPG, possibly more Sci-Fi than fantasy, due to the roles described in the job descriptions in the recruitment advertisements:^[9] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

"Your role will primarily be to build creatures, shape virtual worlds, design quests and storylines for our new, undisclosed game."

An interest in sci-fi is a bonus.

Furthermore, they appear to be intending to develop further games for the browser and mobile market, as their jobs' page is advertising many software and content development positions unrelated to any specific game.

Other games

Jagex removed access to several games from their website during mid-2004, as follows:

• Backgammon
• Checkers
• Tetralink
• Cyber Wars
• Warship
• Chess
• Reversi
• Go-mad
• Crypt
• The Bottomless Pit (This was not actually a game, but a humorous animation depicting the viewer falling down a bottomless pit for an extended period of time. After ten minutes, some cheats were revealed to the user; however, none of them worked for RuneScape.)

Jagex has stated on their games index website that their multiplayer board games will soon be returning in a new suite with many updates and improvements. This more than likely means that they'll be added to RuneScape's Burthope Games Room mini-game, although so far only Checkers, Tetralink, and reversi have been added. Backgammon is a board game for two players in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice and the winner is the first to remove all his pieces from the board. ... starting position on a 10×10 draughts board Draughts, also known as checkers, is a group of mental sport board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemys pieces. ... A Connect Four game in progress. ... Cyber Wars is a massively multiplayer online game, originally created by Jagex in 1999 and hosted at the Games Domain Castle. It was written in Java and heavily influenced by the cult game Chaos. ... pencil and paper game version The game Battleship is a guessing game played by two people. ... Chess is a recreational and competitive sport for two players. ... Reversi and Othello are names for a strategic boardgame which involves play by two parties on an eight-by-eight square grid with pieces that have two distinct sides. ... RuneScape is a Java-based MMORPG operated by Jagex Ltd. ...

References

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External links

• Jagex's games index site
• Jagex corporate homepage
• Members of the Jagex Team
• RuneScape homepage