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Nationality | British |
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Role | Senior Content Developer |
Team | Content Development |
Project | RuneScape |
Employed | 2006[1] |
Mod Stu is a senior content developer at Jagex. He was one of the first two content developers externally hired for the MechScape project in September 2006.
From 2006 to 2012, Mod Stu developed content for MechScape and all iterations of Stellar Dawn, and rose to a senior position.
Of the content developers employed by Stellar Dawn at the time of its cancellation, only Mod Stu and Mod Liam retained their roles and moved to the RuneScape content team.
Mod Stu's first significant RuneScape update was the Fish Flingers rework in 2012, followed by a number of well-received quests.
After a restructure of the development team from waterfall methodology to agile/SCRUM teams, Mod Stu was assigned to the Funnel team in 2013-2014 and later joined the Guardians retention team for 2015-2016.
After a brief stint in the Eternals at the dawn of expansions starting January 2017, he moved to the Growth team in March 2017 to assist with the new Achievement System and Achievement Paths.
In July 2017, he joined the Ninja team.[1] In October 2017, the Growth team was again split off from the Ninja team in a team re-structure after the release of the first expansion, Menaphos.
In March 2018, Mod Stu moved to the Four Direction engagement/retention team (including Mod Jack, Mod Tomb, Mod Deg, and Mod Shogun) to assist with the Mining & Smithing rework.[2]
Mod Stu is most known for hosting the six-month-hunt for TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot after the release of The Brink of Extinction.
He is also known for having hosted a fourteen-hour livestream from Jagex HQ, which included (amongst other things) a developer commentary playthrough of The Death of Chivalry.
Mod Stu's curatorships include the TzHaar/TokHaar, a wide variety of quests (including the Camelot, enchanted key and summer quest series), white knights, black knights, fairies, centaurs, and unicorns.
Mod Stu is a member of the Lore Council.
Contributions[]
- Fish Flingers (rework)
- The Brink of Extinction and Fight Cauldron
- TzHaar-Ga'al-Kot
- The Death of Chivalry
- Daemonheim Achievement Diary
- Ashdale tutorial
- Various Path System and new player experience improvements
- Burthorpe town square update
- A Shadow over Ashdale (with Ollie)
- Demon Slayer (third rework)
- Plague's End (with John A)
- Prifddinas (with Raven, Rowley and Wilson)
- Dimension of Disaster (with Rowley and Doctor)
- Adamant and rune dragons
- The Drop: Big Cats Edition
- The Lord of Vampyrium (with Rowley and Ollo)
- Invasion of Falador & city graphical update
- Invention (with Ollo)
- The Lost Toys and In Memory of the Myreque
- River of Blood (with Rowley and Orion)
- Invasion of Port Sarim and graphical update (with Rowley)
- The Arc (with Mod Rowley and others)
- Halloween 2016 (Invention of Disaster)
- Sliske's Endgame (with Raven and Wilson)
- Memorial to Guthix (with Orion and Chaplain)
- Shield of Arrav (rework)
- Heroes' Quest (improvement project)
- Imp Catcher (rework)
- Shattered Worlds (with Tomb and others)
- Achievements (with Asherz)
- Countless ninja fixes, quest and funnel improvements
- Free-to-play improvements, including F2P Fletching, area expansion, drop table off-hands and craftable armour
- Tutorial Island II: Tutorial Harder
- Quest system optimisation
- Lumbridge Combat Academy update
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