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. According to developer Paul Gower, Jagex stands for Java Gaming Experts. The company is best-known for its MMORPG, RuneScape.

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.

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

These games can be accessed at the company's website. Jagex previously had multi-player games on its website, but they were removed. Jagex has claimed that the multi-player games will return, but this has yet to happen.

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.