Andrew Christopher Gower (born 2 December 1978) is a British games developer and co-founder of Jagex Ltd, the company he founded with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder. He is noted for writing the MMORPG RuneScape with the assistance of his brother Paul Gower, and is also its lead developer.
According to Jagex documents from Companies House, Andrew owns a 38.35% stake in Jagex. During his youth, Gower spent his spare time creating computer programs,...
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Andrew Christopher Gower (born 2 December 1978) is a British games developer and co-founder of Jagex Ltd, the company he founded with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder. He is noted for writing the MMORPG RuneScape with the assistance of his brother Paul Gower, and is also its lead developer.
According to Jagex documents from Companies House, Andrew owns a 38.35% stake in Jagex. During his youth, Gower spent his spare time creating computer programs, and in 1997, he started to work as a freelance Java programmer. From 1995 and 1996 Andrew created Parallax Painter, Battle Zone and Destruction Imminent (published by Goodmans) on the Atari ST under the name Cunning & Devious Games. This group consisted of Andrew, Paul and Ian Gower as well as Peter Oliver. He then began trading as Jagex and created a series of Java games from 1996 to 1999, most of which appeared on the website Games Domain. This included several single player games and a 3D castle with a variety of classic multiplayer games....
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