The Daily Llama

The JMods are asked the question: What made you join Jagex?

Here are their answers, which one is your favorite?

• Mod Poppy – Party Pete sent me an invite.
• Mod Timbo – The awesome work that goes on here, working for a games company and the free fruit!
• Mod Mark H – Two of my personal friends worked here and told me of an open position. I had just finished my college/6th form courses then and thought it would be a good life experience.
• Mod Stevew – They made me an offer I couldn’t refuse!
• Mod Michelle – Who doesn’t want to work for a games company?
• Mod Sarah – Had problems getting into the media industry, so joined Jagex for experience since the two industries can run hand in hand.
• Mod Jon – Working for a computer games company..? Who wouldn’t!
• Mod French – I needed a job that was better paid than the two I had already. That and I enjoy RPGs in general.
• Mod Saitziel – I’m a gamer and it’s a games company!
• Mod Fran – Who could resist?
• Mod Ash – Some guy in a bar, I think he said his name was Andrew Gower, kept on talking about something called RuneScape. This was around 2001/2. His mates told me it was a game where people clicked on rocks all day. I figured I gotta get me some of that, so I started playing, and in 2004, when I was about to graduate from Uni, I applied for a job. I was a forum mod at the time, which may have helped in the interview.
• Mod Gabriel – I had just moved to Cambridge to live with my girlfriend. I had no experience of the gaming industry, but I had previously worked for another Internet company and Jagex seemed a pretty upbeat place to work.
• Mod Raven – The many many fringe benefits, great atmosphere and the promise of untold power. The untold power bit might not be true.
• Mod John A – It got recommended to me by a job agency.
• Mod Chihiro – I’ve known mod_mark for years, we played CCGs and Tabletop RPGs together. I started playing RS and loved it. A year later I wanted a new job and Jagex were hiring. I thought, why not?
• Mod Tim – An interest in games since I can remember. I’d also just left University and felt it time to put some of my random knowledge into practice!
• Mod Monty – The idea of working for a games company far out weighed the desire to loaf!
• Mod Trick – I’d played the game for a few years, and fresh out of uni I though… wouldn’t it be awesome if…
• Mod Hew – They had the job opening, I wasn’t doing anything else: it worked out great. I’d never imagined I might get to work in games.
• Mod Parrott – I had a lot of friends here already and it seemed like a fun place.
• Mod Wessel – To work in the creative industries and to get an insight to how the games industry works.
• Mod Hayley – I was told it’s the best place to work. (yes it is)
• Mod Kerstin – I love games and always wanted to work in the games industry!
• Mod Mark L – I did my industrial placement for my degree with Jagex, at the end they offered me a job when I left Uni and I accepted.
• Mod Bazz – The people i work with and the great benefits.
• Mod Elvis – I always wanted to work in the games industry, so when I saw the advert shortly after leaving Uni I jumped at the chance
• Mod Peter – I was job hunting when Jagex was seeking additional staff. I thought it sounded like a great place to work, I wasn’t disappointed!
• Mod Sparrow – Mainly I joined on a whim.
• Mod Davina – There was nothing to stop me!
• Mod Bradley – They promised to give me a shiny penny every day!
• Mod Zuu – The name mainly, being the UK’s biggest independent games company I don’t think I could of done any better I’d also casually played RS in the past and thought it would be nice to work for the guys who had me play my first MMO.
• Mod Thor – A wizard came to me in a vision and offered me cookies.
• Mod Maz – I needed a job!
• Mod Emilee – I have been playing RuneScape since the Classic days. When I found out that the offices were a mere 45 minute drive away, I applied!
• Mod Lister – The money!
• Mod Patrick – Curiosity
• Mod Craddock – I’ve always wanted to join the games industry and I love roleplay games. Jagex was a natural choice.
• Mod Lorenzo – Well, it seemed a good idea at the time .
• Mod Vicki – I was looking for jobs for my little brother, saw the ad and thought “Hmmmmm…”
• Mod Zappone – I always wanted to work in a castle and it is close to my house.
• Mod Wozz – An Interest In the Gaming Industry
• Mod Bella – Curiosity
• Mod Howes – The fluoride in the water.
• Mod Andy W – The chance to work for a constantly growing games company and the desire to get out of Retail Management
• Mod Ruediger – I wanted to move to Cambridge and to have an interesting job.
• Mod Poekel – A friend of mine worked at Jagex and told me about some vacancies.
• Mod Crow – They’re a games company and I like games. Seemed obvious really!
• Paul – Well after co-founding the company – it’d have been rude not too.
• Mod Liono – An unhealthy interest in computer games coupled with a need for monetary income made it the obvious choice
• Mod Newmatic – I’d had a sensible computer security job for far too long.
• Mod Jon H – I already knew Mod Ash and he told me there were vacancies. It sounded fun, so I applied, and here I am!
• Mod Jack – Someone recommended me and told me it was a great company!
• Mod Dc – I decided I wanted to work in the games industry, so I made it happen!
• Mod Easty – I needed the chance to get inside those darn Jagex Towers; promises of cookies were too tempting to ignore!
• Mod James H – I played RuneScape ages before I worked here (and still do), then saw an advert in the local paper and applied. Everything seemed to fall together nicely.
• Mod Mat K – The nightmares… it was the nightmares and nothing else… the nightmares… gibber gibber gibber…
• Mod Stunt – My bank account had negative monies.
• Mod Dean – Bored of working on console games, and loved the “old skool” feeling of having the two brothers continue to work on the game.
• Mod Zach – Some mystical force pulled me towards the castle.
• Mod Hulme – The Rune Crossbow pointed at my head.
• Mod Chris L – I’d played RuneScape before and saw a position when I was looking for a placement for my university course.
• Mod Mark R – The nice lady told me that I got the job!
• Mod Knox – I applied here during a 2-month long scrabble to find an industrial placement as part of my degree. After visiting the office on the assessment day, I realised I really wanted to be part of Jagex.
• Mod Spax – I had just finished my A-levels and fancied a proper challenge.
• Mod Giuly – Free fruits!
• Mod Luke – Moving to the other side of the world with almost no money and then taking 5 months just to get a job interview anywhere was a pretty convincing argument. (Note to antipodeans: if you intend on moving to the UK, ensure your CV says you’re amazing. My CV did the humble thing, which got me nowhere until I got sick of rejection letters and changed it to point out that I am, in fact, awesome.)
• Mod Murphy – I was broke and living on the dole (which sucks!) and my friend Mod Chris worked here so I thought I’d throw an application this way, and to my surprise got a job.
• Mod Mog – I saw it as my chance to get into the games industry which has pretty much been my dream job since I was 4.
• Mod Mike – I never joined I was assimilated.
• Mod Prescott – After looking around the company when applying for the job I knew I just HAD to join up
• Mod Sophie – My love of computer games.
• Mod Vero – A lucky spell
• Mod Stakins – A stunning browser-based game called RuneScape. It was a love at first sight. *sigh*
• Mod Noldor – I saw the potential of a great company and a QA position was advertised.
• Mod Carlos – I needed a job super bad…i like games