Game Jam
Game Jams are developer events hosted by Jagex, where Jagex Moderators showcase potential game content in a hackathon-style setting. While early events were full-weekend hackathons, more recent ones typically last one to two weeks, with the final day reserved for project presentations to the rest of the team.[1] Ideally, Game Jams would coincide with Double XP events, allowing the entire team to focus on the Game Jam while pausing regular updates.[2] Since the November 2024 event, the plan has been to hold Game Jams as biannual two-week-long events.[3]
None of the content showcased during a Game Jam is guaranteed to be on track to release, although some of the ideas end up being developed further and ultimately enter the game.
Game Jam has largely superseded TAPP, a previous initiative that allowed developers to focus on exploring their ideas.
Game Jams
edit- ^ Main focus was on "dailyscape", increasing combat diversity, and tidying up various game areas.
References
edit- ^ Jagex. Mod Stu on Discord. . 13 December 2023. Archived from the original on 8 March 2026. Mod Stu: "It's a full week from a production standpoint where you include tomorrow's 5th day, which is dedicated to showcasing what we developed in the first 4 days."
- ^ Jagex. Mod Stu on Discord. . 13 February 2024. Archived from the original on 8 March 2026. Mod Stu: "I think the idea henceforth is to ideally sync gamejam weeks with DXP weeks, because the release candidate testing team also gamejam."
- ^ Jagex. "Roadmap Check In: November - January." 8 November 2024. RuneScape News.
- ^ RuneScape YouTube channel. "RuneScape Winter Reveals (RuneFest 2018)." (10:26), YouTube video. 6 October 2018. (Archived from the original on 8 June 2021.)
- ^ Mod Timbo. "RuneScape Dev Q&A - Deep Sea Fishing, Pieces of Hate, Unspeakable Horrors, Solak." (1:03:45), YouTube video. 9 March 2018. "We're doing the RuneScape Game Jam again this year but we're doing it in April"
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