Did You Know?

Did You Know? (Runescape)

There's probably alot about the game you never knew. This is a list of different facts and stats about the game in general. You may have heard some of these before, but chances are there's you'll learn something new. If you know anything unique about the game submit your knowledge for credit to beantier@gmail.com.

• There are currently over ten million active free players and nearly one million paying members.
• Runescape is rated among the most popular online games in the world.
• The world in which Runescape exists is not the land of "Runescape" the correct term for "The World of Runescape" is Gielinor.
• Runescape Classic was released on January 4, 2001, and Runescape2 was released March 29, 2004.
• Work on Runescape began with Andrew Gower working on a program in 1998 known as DeviousMUD. With the help of his brother, Paul Gower, the game evolved into Runescape and was released in beta version on Jaunary 4, 2001; running out of their parent's house in Nottingham.
• Jagex mods can create items in their inventory, modify their skills, go to any location in the game, walk through scenery, and onto any terrain.
• You can not trade with or attack Jagex mods.
• JAGEX is actually an acronym for Java Games Experts.
• All of the Runescape songs take up 562.67 MB (590,001,662 Bytes) of space.
• There are a total of 13 Runescape gods, can you name them all, or even more than three?
• Did you know Andrew Gower started programming at age 7? He is currently 27 years old and a self made millionaire.
• Click here to see a picture of Andrew Gower around 1998.
  
• The map of DeviousMUD is a mirror image of the current area of RuneScape.
• Andrew Gower enjoys Karate, Sailing, Programming, Playing the keyboard, reading science-fiction books, playing board games, and kite-flying.
• Jagex is working on a new undisclosed game. Although no official information has been released about this as of yet it is said to be another RPG due to the roles described in the job. Jagex has started rumours indicating that they are to release their new game in February 2008.
• It could be a Sci-Fi based game rather than a fantasy based setting as in RuneScape. This information comes from the job requirements for (Junior) Concept Artist/3D Modeller on the Jagex jobs page.

Some information taken from Wikipedia.