Development Diary: Audio team

by: Jagex

It's time for another Development Diary. This time we're looking at the Audio team and how they create all of the varied music and sound effects for RuneScape. There's also a reproduction of the music notes from the main theme song of the God Wars Dungeon - 'Armageddon'. Those of you with musical leanings might like to play it for yourselves, to get a taste of what's to come...

Themed World changes - 15 August 2007

We have made some slight changes to those worlds that have been designated as themed worlds. This is because themed activities were causing lag on certain servers, while they weren't on others; some servers are simply much more able to cope with hundreds of people all crowded together into one Castle Wars game, for example.

With this in mind, it makes sense to move a few of our server themes onto worlds that can cope with the levels of activity.

Our first choice was always to select worlds that players had unofficially chosen for an activity and, where possible, we have tried to keep these activities on their chosen servers. The reduction of lag on a world, we now realise, is far more important - particularly if that world cannot cope with large numbers playing something server-intensive like Pest Control.

Overall, the recent runescape updates provided by Jagex have been well received by players. The clan chat system has been received especially well within the clan community as it now shows Jagex have officially recognised clans. This has led to more positive thoughts on the future development to help clans within the game with the most desired feature being a war arena. Only time will tell if Jagex can deliver something that meets the expectations of most clan members.

About the Author

Jagex are the creators of the MMORPG Runescape. The article above is quoted directly from Runescape.com and is aimed at all people who play runescape to keep them informed of the news and updates happening to the game.