Andrew Gower answers questions about Stellardawn at RuneFest

[john wick]

Meraphox and I walked up to Andrew Gower, the creator/founder of RuneScape. Thanks to the small size of RuneFest, Andrew Gower wasn't totally IRL spammed/flooded by people. I caught Andrew again a few minutes later to squeeze some StellarDawn info out of him. He was very tight-lipped about it. I asked him if we'd be able to fly in StellarDawn. He refused to answer. I then said that it'd be very difficult to do decent flying movement on the RuneScape engine (since StellarDawn will be based on RuneScape's engine). Andrew then said that they've had to make some changes in the game engine for the movement. Then he added that he's not totally happy with the StellarDawn game engine and that he'd like to rewrite it again (remember Mechscape?). I then asked some of the Jagex graphics and content team members if they were working on stuff other than RuneScape, such as StellarDawn. They all said that there's a separate team that works on that. They also spoke in the past-tense which perhaps means that most of the graphics and content work has already been done on StellarDawn. I also spoke with the localisation staff and they haven't gotten any translation work for StellarDawn yet either.

Source: http://www.zybez.net/news/873/runefest___andrew_gower_answers_questions/

[Kieran]

Interesting! I sure hope that if Jagex does decide to rewrite the engine that it won't delay Stellar Dawn's release

Just remember to mention the source, which in this case was W13 from Zybez

[john wick]

Yeah i found this when looking at zybez   so andrew isn't happy with the engine either

[Ben]

Interesting! I sure hope that if Jagex does decide to rewrite the engine that it won't delay Stellar Dawn's release

Just remember to mention the source, which in this case was W13 from Zybez

They promised by 2011.

[Roanlo Zolo]

Interesting! I sure hope that if Jagex does decide to rewrite the engine that it won't delay Stellar Dawn's release

Just remember to mention the source, which in this case was W13 from Zybez

They promised by 2011.

They also promised Q1 2010. Plans change.

I do hope they don't completely rewrite the system. I thought most of this would have been done with the actual re-start progress of Mechscape-Stellardawn.

On the Runefest note; there's quite a few interesting things they had for viewing at that thing.

[jcarr88]

so much talk of this game no wonder idc about it all talk and no walk kk