
RuneScape: 15 Years of Adventure
RuneScape began in 2001 as a browser game built by brothers Andrew and Paul Gower, working out of a family home with no budget and a shared obsession with early online games. This history traces that startup through to 2016, when the game logged its 250 millionth account, using interviews with Jagex staff past and present alongside the players who built the game's reputation from the inside. Zezima, long known as the game's highest-ranked player, talks through what it meant to be a public figure inside a virtual economy years before that was a normal thing to be. The film spends real time on RuneScape's habit of building features around player requests, tracking how combat systems, quests, and whole game modes changed because the community asked for them rather than because a studio dictated it from above. It is a company history told through the people who logged the hours, not a product reel, and it treats a browser game's survival across fifteen years as the actual story worth explaining.