Thursday, All-Day, Personal Projects

Thursday, All-Day, Personal Projects (TAPP) is Jagex's version of the "20% time" policy initially popularised by Google, where employees are free to spend some of their time on projects not related to their primary job description. It was initially implemented at Jagex in 2015. The policy allows employees to spend every other Thursday on personal projects related to the game, effectively 10% of their time.

"As long as it is vaguely relevant to people's jobs, or the company, they get time - every fortnight - to do their own personal project. Sometimes it is self-training, sometimes it is content or features for the current games that they have a burning desire to do. Or it's pitching new ideas or prototypes. And it is not just games, we have web-development and billing-development departments. We have had cool features like extensions to our forums that have been added, just because it was a personal idea from someone, and they chipped away at it over a few Thursdays."

- Phil Mansell

Updates that originated in TAPP

 * Nex: Angel of Death
 * Back to the Freezer
 * Crystal tinderbox and Crystal hammer

Trivia

 * TAPP originally stood for "Thursday Afternoon Personal Projects".