Jagex

Jagex Ltd. (also known as Jagex Software which means Java Gaming Experts) is a United Kingdom-based producer of Java-based online video games. The company is best-known for its MMORPG, RuneScape. Jagex is a well-received company, ranking 59th on the Sunday Times' 100 Best Companies to Work For list.

History


The name Jagex Software has been in use since at least 1999, and was originally described as a "small software company based in England [who] specialise in producing top-quality Java-games for webpages".

According to Companies House, Meaujo (492) Limited was incorporated on April 28, 2000, and changed its name to Jagex Limited on June 27, 2000. Jagex was ranked 59th on the list of The Best 100 Companies to work for by the Sunday Times.

Future development
Jagex have stated on their website that they "intend to become a significant online operator in all the major gaming markets worldwide" 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 had been recruiting heavily in 2006 and has over 300 employees, grouped into the Development, Publishing, Web Content, Minigame, and Customer Relations teams.

They maintain about 159 servers for RuneScape in various locations around the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom. One of the most recent additions to the servers was the addition of the four German beta servers, which are currently the only servers for a non-English version of the game. Their current major focus is on translating RuneScape into non-English markets, primarily working on a recently-released German translation of the game.

In February 2008 Jagex announced that they would be releasing a casual browser based gaming site called FunOrb within the month. The site would host small games verying in amount of possible playtime from minutes to hours. 40% of the website would be available for free while the other 60% would be available to persons who pay a $4 US sum per month (3 with a RuneScape membership). As of February 27, 2008, Funorb is out. You use your login information for RuneScape on Funorb.Other plans for 2008 include a French version of their star product RuneScape.

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.

Games

 * Meltdown
 * Vertigo
 * Flea Circus
 * Gold Mine
 * Monkey Puzzle

Other creations

 * FunOrb, a gaming site
 * MechScape, which is still in development

These games can be accessed at the company's website. Jagex previously had multi-player games on its website, but they were removed. Jagex had claimed that the multi-player games will return, and they have kept their word on this. All the multi-player games are now available at http://www.funorb.com

Other games have often been hinted at by the company's employees during interviews, however so far there have been no official statements regarding future products.