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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Andrew Christopher Gower : Founder of Jagex Ltd

Andrew Christopher Gower was born in 3 December 1978. He is the most famous for British game developer and has also co-founded Jagex Ltd with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder at the same time. The outstanding efforts of his produced expected results and now every one knows his to have written MMORPG RuneScape with his brother Paul Gower along being the sole developer of the same discipline.

Gower possesses 38.35% shares of Jagex according to the company records. At the tender age he was accustomed to develop computer programs. The flip turned out to be continuous flame and he got himself engaged in freelance java programmer in 1997.

Gower, he developed Prallax Painter, Battle Zone and Destruction Imminetn on Atari ST commonly known as Cunning and Devious Games, from 1995 to 1996 that was published by Goodmans. His team members include Andrew, Paul, Peter Oliver and Ian Gower. Soon he started trading jagex and was deeply absorbed in creating modern, versatile and hightech java games from 1996 to 1999 which earned him a great deal of funds and a certain number of those games continuously sought appearance on the web portal “Games Domain”. The package of games contained various solo player games and 3D castle and an outstanding number of classy multiplayer games. The most famous games that are accessible at Jagex are Vertigo and Flea Circus which has been renovated for the web space “Fun Orb”.

When he was at University of Cambridge, in 1999, he created the world famous Runescape that provided outstanding acceleration to his fortune. The chief reason behinding finding Jagex was to create games easily. When he revised the edition with a rewritten version named as Runescape 2 that has finally secured name RuneScape II; whereas the parent version is specified as RuneScape Classic or RSC.

However, in summer 2008 RuneScape was provided extended features with redefined texture to modify it to RuneScape HD and to accomplish the mission rightfully Jagex piled up useful information for the development of RuneScape HD. Due to its best features and finest access to the gamers RuneScape is included in Guinness Book of World Record in 2008.

The Sunday Times supreme list that manifests top money makers and richest persons had announced Andrew and Paul Gower to be 654th richest men in the United Kingdom who possess £113 million and in 2009 they are considered to be 566th richest men to have wealth of an estimated £99 million. He is the man who could successfully transmit his thought and ideas into games and now he is enjoying life with a remarkable difference.

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