![]() “We have to continue doing things the players want, whilst making sure it works on both mobile and PC.” “The key thing is changing our development process to make sure everything we do is mobile-compatible,” Kemp said. For Kemp, a change in technical tact has been necessary to deliver the vision. Old School RuneScape Mobile has seen a successful members-only beta, with the full game set to drop for everyone on October 30, 2018. If I’d have known back then that I could play it on a phone I don’t think I would have worked ever again,” he said. “ I started at Jagex 13 years ago and I was a fan before I was an employee. We were on the ground at Runefest to catch up with Mat Kemp, senior product manager at Jagex, who’s working on Old School RuneScape. Luckily, for those who don’t like the new mod cons, Jagex also released Old School Runescape in 2013, a time capsule of the Java game from 2007 that has since been iterated upon over the past five years, adding new content to the preserved state of the game.Īs of 2017, it has double the players of RuneScape, become something of an esport, and is fast approaching a mobile release. The game has moved to a new C++ client with a host of new features and is visually similar to modern MMORPGs, though set in the same framework that made the game popular many moons ago. If you haven’t played the game in a while, here’s a quick primer: RuneScape as you may have known it (the mostly brown and charming polygonal experience) has been renovated for modern audiences. It was Runefest 2018 over the weekend, Jagex’s annual celebration of all things RuneScape. ![]()
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