Jagex: The RuneScape Company is working on a multiplayer, survival RPG entry into the RuneScape universe with RuneScape: Dragonwilds
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RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a standalone open-world survival crafting game set in the RuneScape universe, where players gather resources, build settlements, develop skills, and use powerful magic to survive against dragons. Playable solo or in co-op with up to four players, it blends classic RuneScape lore with modern survival gameplay and RPG progression
Our engineers embedded themselves into various Jagex teams, bringing user interface, online, platform, gameplay, and world engineering expertise. We contributed to core game mechanics, delivered user interface, and supported an Epic Game Store release. Code delivery followed a disciplined multi-branch flow, with every change peer-reviewed and validated before submission.
Owned and delivered significant work in the front-end and UI layer, iterating from greybox through to shipped across every major menu surface. We refined existing UI, as well as developing new UI features from design specifications / mockups. With the new decoupled, data-driven approach, we were able to majorly improve performance.
Console UI parity
Internationalization & Localization
Centralized, data-driven HUD and Subsystem
Adopted MVVM, with enforced Dependency Graph
Led technical planning and development by architecting highly modular, designer-facing systems. Engineered core puzzle infrastructure, where players gather charges that power a modular network of pipes, valves, and switches. To unblock designers, a custom Editor Utility was built, allowing visualization and construction of these modular networks.
Custom Editor Utilities
Unreal Engine Gameplay Engineering
Authored and propagated changes across multiple streams, including console certification, ensuring that work was merged cleanly and correctly. Following Jagex’s rigorous early access delivery process, all changes were reviewed by senior engineers and validated prior to submission.
Led the engineering implementation of various gameplay features, including Health Shrines and Wand magic. We extended the existing player save system by versioning and serializing new save data, as well as adding automated migration tests to a custom Python-based save validation framework.
A universal, reusable system enabling players to control world actors, automatically managing actor ownership, network replication, and player input
Implemented push-based replication with tailored owner and distance relevancy to minimize network traffic. Engineered client-side event reconstruction for responsive gameplay, and strictly separated visual logic from dedicated servers to preserve authoritative performance.
Brought our significant EGS experience to bear, handling the implementation from top to bottom, including build support, Achievements, Entitlements, and Crossplay