Comments on: Exclusive Andrew Gower interview

By: Srlancelot39

Srlancelot39 — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:18:04 +0000

Awesome interview! I’ve seen soo many fake interviews with Andrew Gower so it’s nice to read a real one! I specifically agree with his statement that he didnt set out to make a massive online game that would make money but rather just built it up as he learned more. I experienced this first hand with my game “Grail Quest” that I made as a project for grade 12. The game is massive now, and if I had tried to make it what it is now from the beginning, it would have been overwhelming. Even today I look back at it wondering how I got it to come together! (you can download Grail Quest from my site if it listed it, if not here it is: http://sites.google.com/site/seanscomputerscience/games/grail-quest/ )
Thanks for this quality interview Bruce!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:59:38 +0000

Is there a way to contact him, or the runescape team? Besides the forums, which i sadly cannot post on, and besides the Jagex website, because i do not belong in any of those categories. Is there a specific e-mail that he will answer to? If there is a way, send me an e-mail at jmpetrotto@gmail.com with a subject of Jagex. Thanks!

By: seth larcomb

seth larcomb — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:18:42 +0000

I need to talk to you Andrew I see something alot of people want runescape to do and i see a way to achieve it but i must talk to you! Its about RT1 if you guy’s still have the engine we can combine the rt5 and rt1 to make rt6 a first/3rd person mmorpg like WoW alot of people would like to see something like this and it would be cool if you would do it unfortunatly yes i know your game is on a grid and we would have to free it from that but the basics of the game are geniouse to say the least!

By: toomas

toomas — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:35:18 +0000

hey man that runescape game is awesome
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeryyyyyyyyyyy cool i play it every day

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:15:15 +0000

Very interesting article, I actually had the pleasure to contact Mr. Gower recently. Pleasant guy.

By: Meili

Meili — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:24:39 +0000

Well this is a very nice interview.

You know, as an old player from when Runescape was still very small (and totally free), I am not entirely sure that Jagex has really learned *that much* from their mistakes.

A lot of their updates often have bugs or not well-thought-out content that later needs to be fixed.

Summoning, for example, was so horrendously impractical and unattractive that players pretty much ignored the new content. They had to update this new skill to make it worthwhile.

I am not a developer, of course, just a player but it seems to me that Jagex is not too in touch with their playerbase.

Currently I play Maplestory and, unlike Jagex, they never have to “fix” new skills or content, apart from your regular bugs, of course.

By: Adam Needum

Adam Needum — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:30:35 +0000

MechScape better be awesome when it is released, after all of this waiting that we’ve done for it…

Great interview Bruce, thanks for sharing!

By: Osaka

Osaka — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:02:01 +0000

JAGEX, STOP ‘IMPROVING’ MechScape, get it out already! You can just Q&A what you have now and do what you have to improve as an update!!! We want to explore that seemingly awesome game NOW, any updates can be done later, but we don’t want to wait till later to play it.
So please Q&A this and leave any improvements content-wise (if there is any tech-wise then DO IT ) as updates to come in future months!

By: Sparhawke

Sparhawke — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:26:35 +0000

I love Runescape and though I dont get to play funorb as much as I want i still remember most of the games on the amiga, I am an oldie too lol

I look forward to Mechscape and cant wait till we can finally “announce” it on Sals lol

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:18:40 +0000

Thanks bk
They aren’t the only ones: http://es.gamernook.com/news/view/post/58245/

Several sites seem to think that it is OK to breach my copyright like this. It happens to most of my articles. Which, I suppose, is quite flattering.