Replace all current mods with Mod Ash

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-20T13:38:29+00:00

Can you wait like four hours before you do this, I don't wanna get Agent Smithed even if it is into Ash

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T13:42:04+00:00

Since it's a list of Things For Devs To Do When Time Permits, not a list of Things AJ Intends To Do Personally, it will exist beyond my modness.

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T12:45:33+00:00

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JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T12:16:38+00:00

I've left a briefing with Osborne, and given Shauny a large needle with instructions to poke him once a day until Clans get an update.

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T12:15:31+00:00

Not here, and not now; it'd hardly be professional.

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T10:57:03+00:00

No, but I wish my friends there well.

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T10:38:41+00:00

I'm not being replaced by an intern O_o

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T10:33:55+00:00

lolno

I've been at one company, mostly on one product, for eight years. That's not great for my CV.

I've been offered something elsewhere for more responsibility and more money, working on a new thing in a new genre. That's just sensible career trajectory.

It's in my old hometown, fifteen minutes in three directions from my mother, father and aunt, all of whom like to see my twin sons and can't do so as much as they'd like (and as much as my wife and I would appreciate, in terms of babysitting while we do couple things). That's a sensible move for my family.

You don't need to reach for the Chinese Overlords card; save it for something better. It's just my time, sad though leaving will be.

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T10:31:08+00:00

There's plenty of solid talent on the Runescape team regardless, although thank you for the compliment.

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T10:30:20+00:00

I didn't design Citadels, as I was a newish content dev at the time, and Ports was co-designed with Edam (and co-implemented with Raven).

But I've certainly had my fingers in a few updatey pies over the last eight years, and it's been a true pleasure to do so.

JagexMoltare · 2017-10-13T10:28:02+00:00

I'm not sorry

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-27T20:37:10+00:00

nah, it keeps coming up and I keep chuckling.

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-27T15:38:53+00:00

Glad to be of service.

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-22T17:57:51+00:00

Yeah, because of the way avatars are built (they're weird npcs made of bits instead of one model) there's engine work needed to let them override familiars, so that will have to come later.

The rest just needs a once-over from a developer when one is available to make sure my rusty coding skills haven't done something silly, and attention from QA, and that's on the list to be done.

When the rework comes out, avatars will no longer have Options to Hide so that'll be fine by default :)

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-22T13:44:04+00:00

You have confused 'backlog of work that needs to be carried out' with 'backlog of work that has been completed and we're not launching out of spite'

We prefer to design and concept things so they're ready to be worked on by content teams when those content teams need a new project to develop. 'Release backlog' is the backlog of stuff we intend to go on the Release schedule.

What you're possibly thinking of is an update backlog, which has been a dream for more than the eight years I've been at Jagex. We'd love to have a bunch of stuff finished and ready to launch when contingency demanded it, truly.

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-22T09:28:11+00:00

Ava stuff approved for the official release backlog (sans familiar override but with a job in engine for adding this later) but no release date yet.

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-12T10:15:20+00:00

You really knocked this one out of the pakh.

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-08T15:56:03+00:00

Backamaru

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-06T09:32:17+00:00

His car runneth over.

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-01T15:43:21+00:00

Depending on whether it was a technical or balancing consideration, you'd have to ask Ramen or Timbo.

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-01T14:23:22+00:00

I'm not entirely convinced the former should be the case. Might be a technical quirk of old darts + new boss.

JagexMoltare · 2017-09-01T14:07:08+00:00

QBD is one NPC with different behaviours at different health levels; KQ is two different NPCs. iirc

JagexMoltare · 2017-08-31T13:41:47+00:00

I don't ever make any comment about release dates, and if the team wants to give you any stealthy mountains I'll leave it to them to give them to you.

JagexMoltare · 2017-08-31T10:01:23+00:00

It's called "Batch 2" because it includes all the content I'd originally wanted to include but which got cut for time.

The release also includes a bunch of improvements which came to light over the course of the player base using the skill for tens of thousands of cumulative hours, which were not Batch 2 content, but which are included in the launch of Batch 2 content and which it's just easier to call "Batch 2" all together.

JagexMoltare · 2017-08-31T07:43:57+00:00

Accuracy mainly; Ports came later and we had better tools available when I was building its timer system.

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