29-Jan-2010 - RuneScape Machinima Competition 2

Friday, January 29, 2010

Everyone loves a good YouTube video, right? Well, following the success of our last machinima competition it's fair to say many people love to make them too. To that end, we will be launching the Orb of Oculus camera tool next week to allow even more creativity for RuneScape filmmakers, which should come in handy for those looking to enter the competition!

The first machinima competition was pretty straightforward: make a short machinima using RuneScape. This time, however, we're introducing a theme to spice things up a bit. We want you to make us an advert for something within RuneScape!

It could be anything from a location to a shop, a monster or an item, or even a whole skill. Alternatively, you may want to advertise a RuneScape business (e.g. your restaurant or wrestling federation) or a tournament you have planned. In short, you can advertise just about anything, so long as it exists within RuneScape.

The winner will receive lifetime membership to RuneScape, a tour of the studio to meet the people who make RuneScape happen, and an invitation to a Jagex event to be held later this year. The event is very much in the planning stages at the moment, but we'll be sure to elaborate as the event takes shape. Meanwhile, four runners-up will each receive lifetime RuneScape membership.

If all of this has got your creative juices flowing and you think there’s a place for you in Gielinor's advertising agency, then you should visit this dedicated competition thread for more details, competition rules, J-mod support and an FAQ. Alternatively, you can see the rules and an example advertisement made by last year's winner, Excl, on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/runescape.

We’ll be posting a selection of entries on the channel throughout the course of the competition too, so if you love your machinima, show your support of the RuneScape video-making community by subscribing to the channel and telling them!

The best of luck to you all. May the competition commence!

Mod Hohbein
RuneScape Community Management

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29-Jan-2010 - 12-month Cards on Jagex Store

Due to overwhelming demand, we will be returning the 12-month membership card to the Jagex Online Store. At $60, or £40 each, they are fantastic value, and can be redeemed at any time.

You can also buy our prepaid membership cards for shorter durations of 30 and 60 days in participating stores across the world. See our billing pages for more info.

To visit the Jagex Store, click here.

29-Jan-2010 - Clan Blog and Clan Celebration Month

Today, we’ve published the second Clan Submissions blog, a semi-regular blog post with content driven by the clan community, for the clan community. There are a number of different things included in each one, such as artwork created by clans for forums and websites, interviews with people from the clan community and reports from the field of battle.

The new issue of the Clan Submissions blog includes an interview with the oldest clan in RuneScape (The Sabres), a report from Josh1319 about ‘The’ Clan’s 10th Birthday Party (which some J-Mods attended), and some fantastic artwork. If you missed the first Clan Submissions blog, check it out here, and let’s not forget the new knowledge base article about clans either.

We’re also proud to announce our first in-game clan festival, with the Clan Celebration Month going ahead in February. Each week during February there will be a series of themed events to capture the different areas within the clan community. We couldn’t capture everything in only four weeks, but with skilling, combat and specialist weeks, and an introduction to clans week, we’ve got a lot of fun ahead of us! If you’re interested in clans, want to explore different areas of the community or are looking for some fun, check out our Clan Celebration Month forum thread to see what events are the right ones for you.

Mod Timbo
Community Management

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28-Jan-2010 - RuneScape Q&A – Mark Gerhard

We’ve read through all of the questions and sent them on to the relevant teams here at Jagex. Now it’s time for the first batch of answers from Jagex’s CEO, Mark Gerhard.

The questions answered in this batch deal with matters about RuneScape and Jagex as a whole. We’ve posted the questions and answers on this forum thread, so you can discuss the answers.

Mark Gerhard's (Mod MMG) live Q&A session will be held on this forum thread tonight, running from 8-10pm (GMT).

Remember that this is just the first batch of answers, and that other questions will be covered in different teams’ Q&A sessions.

I’d also like to emphasise how important these sessions are to us. While we’re all busy working on RuneScape and other Jagex games, we know it's important to make time for our players to share their views and ask us questions on a whole range of areas. After all, you are the community, and we want to know what you want to know.

Mod Kelvin
Head of Community Management

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19-Jan-2010 - Barbarian Assault Improvements

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Some time ago, we released the minigame Barbarian Assault. From your feedback (and from playing the game ourselves) it’s become clear that the rewards were not quite up to scratch, so we have devoted some time to improving them. Although our focus has mainly been on the rewards, we also took this opportunity to alter some small aspects of the minigame itself (though we do also have a long list of other ideas for potential future updates).

The list of changes is extensive, but here are some of the main ones to whet your appetite:

• New Penance horn that lets you gain double XP in Agility, Firemaking and Mining (in a similar fashion to the tools from Stealing Creation).
• New colours of abyssal whips.
• New Penance trident weapon.
• Penance armour stat improvement and Prayer restoring set bonus.
• Penance gloves now reduce more weight.
• Gamble points rebalanced (they still include a rare chance for dragon armour).
• Ability to show off your achievements in the roles of attacker, defender, collector and healer.
• High score tables for the attacker, defender, collector and healer roles.
• Waiting rooms increased in size.
• Additional wave room ticket system for saving progress through battles.
• Blue penance eggs now reduce the target Penance’s stats and deal damage.

If you speak with Commander Connad at the Barbarian Outpost (you can teleport directly there with a games necklace) he’ll show you all the new rewards, which are also listed on the Barbarian Assault KB page.

Bring on the Penance!

Mod Tim
RuneScape Lead Content Developer

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