guthrix

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a fast paced, rapidly expanding online games company based in Cambridge and help us achieve our ambitious goals for 2008 and beyond.

You will be working with our expanding Game Content Development department creating (design and script) new quests, skills and monsters for RuneScape.

We are looking for passionate gamers with a methodical approach, strong creative and artistic skills and deep motivation to create games, who can cope with the thrilling challenges of a development environment releasing new game elements almost every week.

Key duties include:
 Create new game element ideas (quests, mini-games, skills, monsters etc.) based on pre-defined expectations for RuneScape.
 Use our internal scripting language to write high quality script running the new game contents.
 Work together with graphic artists, testers and other professionals to produce the best possible content.
 Communicating complex creative ideas in a clear and concise manner;
 Participate in large scale design decisions to establish the future of the game.

Requirements:
 Good programming or game scripting skills (basic C++ or Java or game scripting);
 Good creative writing skills and imaginative storyline ideas;
 Clear understanding of game design terminology and realistic game design ideas;
 Very strong and proven communication skills;
 Experience of working to deadlines and/or in project based environment;
 Keen interest in role playing games.

Also useful:
 Previously written quests (levels) for CRPGs, MUDs or similar.
 Game industry experience preferably in creative, game design or scripting roles.
 A computer science degree is a plus but isn't essential if good programming and/or scripting skills can be demonstrated.
 Having knowledge of any European language skills would be looked upon very favourably.


Salary: £20k+ (highly negotiable depending on experience) Plus excellent benefits including annual bonus, profit share, health care, gym membership and other excellent benefits.

Location: Cambridge. Candidates must be able to work in Cambridge or willing to re-locate.

Application: Please email your CV (as a word document) and covering letter to careers@recruit.jagex.com

About Jagex Ltd and RuneScape

Jagex Ltd was founded in December 2001 as the company behind the game RuneScape. The organisation now has more than 380 employees, making us the largest independent games studios in the UK.

Since its launch, RuneScape has grown to over 6 million active free players, whilst the members’ version has over 1 million paying subscribers. This ranks RuneScape as the third largest MMORPG title in the world. The game is updated with new playable content almost every week, providing a constantly evolving gaming experience for all our players.

Over the next year, we shall release a number more major products, adding to our unrivalled success. Jagex intends to become a significant operator in all the major gaming markets worldwide, developing and commercialising highly compelling character games that appeal to a wide audience.

Jagex provides a positive, challenging and rewarding working environment and in March 2007 achieved 59th place in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For.

firesnowball

1. I really dont trust this post
BUT!
2. The only thing I see wrong with this is that all of jagex's games are in java, there is no C++ in any of jagex's games. Plus, I really dont see how they could use C++

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2swift4steel

jagex DO have developer vacancies but if you want to apply for one go from the official website: http://jagex.com/corporate/Jobs/vacancies.ws

Never trust anything that asks you to send your personal information without stating your privacy rights (duh)

This post is probably some sort of identity scam and if it is legitimate i doubt that Guthrix is employed by Jagex.

lecros

third largest mmo come on!
WoW is larger, Maplestory is larger and in total kartrider is larger too.
there is propably numerous games who have more then 6 mil. players right?

2swift4steel

kart rider larger? umm... no

i would'nt be surprised if it had more registered players than MS aswell.

It's one of the games that EVERYONE has atleast tried. It's the induction into mmo's for alot of people because it's so easy to find.

I don't doubt that it's the 3rd largest at all.

Mustang

RS is free, and has had as much popularity as wow. I would not doubt RS has had more accounts over more years of being free than charging. Seeing as its particularly the most common mmo chosen among new gamers in the world.

RS would be fun, but the dedicated predators, young 10 year olds acting tough over the keyboard, harassment, etc, etc. I would not doubt RS has had the same if not more, or just enough to be considered very close to wow, player wise in its history of existence.

WOW, RS and any game thats played online do not have 9 million players all together, that 9 million is an estimated number in comprehension to how many accounts there have ever been from the start year of the game to the current year. Over 1/3rd of those accounts have been deactivated, banned, etc, etc.

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Darkhell153

I had about 10 accounts on RS so that might explain part of that :P

arieas

Agree rightly.

Those figures are often only used to try promote the game, and since companies wont declare the average number of players they just rely on those figures.
Entropia Universe has a player count on the site, 694265 about, but not that many people stay and play on average with EU, so same goes for other games.

If I could program I could go work for them. This post/job is probaly legit, could be a bot though advertising jobs for jagex, unless guthrix has made any other real posts.
Edit: No.

2swift4steel

this is the one area i liked jagex for, they were honest.

I don't know if they still do this but the used to have the 'currently playing' total on the home page and didn't just release the number of accounts in there database (they will have over 10million because there is over 1million payed accounts that give them money every month) The number of player figure gets screwed up by people having more than one account aswell which happens ALOT in runescape because you're only alowed one charecter per account.

ncyphe

Wow, I'm surprised no one has called "Wrong Section" yet.

A classified ad goes into the "Game Dev Classifieds" not in the section where people are seeking help with game development issues.

whh, glad that I got that off my shoulder.

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