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Jagex Ltd. (a.k.a. Jagex Software), based in the United Kingdom, is a producer of Java-based online games. According to a developer, Jagex stands for Java Games Experts.

History of Jagex

Jagex Software was founded in November 1999 by Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, and Constant Tedder and became Jagex Ltd. in December 2001. The company was made in order to run their prime game, Runescape, a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game), which allowed you to fight monsters, train skills such as mining and fishing to become rich, solve quests, and many more abilities. At the time of the company formation, Runescape had already been created and had over one million accounts created. The first tasks of the company were to create a version of the game with extra features that required a monthly fee, while still offering the free version, and to develop parterships with advertisers. Both tasks were achieved, and the pay to play (or P2P) version of Runescape was released on February 27, 2002, gaining 5000 subscriptions in the first week.

The Operation of Jagex

Jagex has grown since the founding of the company. Jagex has two offices; one in Cambridge and one in London. Jagex currently has over 35 staff members who work on different aspects of Runescape, and on June 14, 2004, "player moderators" (regular Runescape players who earned the respect of Jagex) were introduced into the game.

List of Jagex Staff

The current moderators of Runescape (listed with their name in Runescape and excluding player moderators), are:

  • Andrew
  • Ian
  • Mod Adam
  • Mod Alex
  • Mod Ash
  • Mod Bennett
  • Mod Brian
  • Mod Chris
  • Mod Chris E
  • Mod Cloughie
  • Mod Constant
  • Mod Daniel
  • Mod David
  • Mod Dylan
  • Mod Fib
  • Mod Gavin
  • Mod Halford
  • Mod Ian
  • Mod James
  • Mod Jay
  • Mod Joe
  • Mod John
  • Mod Jon
  • Mod Liz
  • Mod Lm
  • Mod Mark
  • Mod Noldor
  • Mod Phil
  • Mod Rob
  • Mod Simon
  • Mod Slake
  • Mod Steven
  • Mod Tom
  • Mod Tomd
  • Mod Tomr
  • Mod Tytn
  • Mod Zak
  • Paul

Beyond Runescape

While almost all work by Jagex staff is now towards Runescape, they still maintain a few other games that you can play online with other people. While nowhere near as popular as Runescape, you can still find people to play with.

List of Other Jagex Games

The current games Jagex offers are (besides Runescape):

See Also

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