The game draws inspiration from RuneScape gold roguelikes including FTL and games for parties like Overcooked It Means Warp sees players control the crew members of the ship, operating various devices, shooting weapons, making repairs, ultimately charting a course through the treacherous void of space.

To learn more about Jagex's publishing of This Means Warp, we called Outlier Games' founders Paul Froggatt and Matt Rathbun and Lead Product Management for Jagex Robert Fox-Galassi about their thoughts on this new partnership.

Like many independent developers, our beginnings in the games business was through tinkering with game concepts and code over several years before we finally came up with something playable!

I've had 10 years' experience at Google before deciding that I wanted to pursue developing games full-time. Matt's career spans building Hollywood computer systems for film sets, and a brief stint in South Korean esports and mobile game development. We're beyond excited to share the progress we've made using This Means Warp.

Many a video game has been a source of inspiration for aspiring developers to develop their own. It's not often that you'll see an original idea taken up by the creator of the original game.

However, this was the case for RS gold Brendan Malcolm, the one-man team at Australian creator Games By Malcs, whose idle RPG Melvor Idle has been published by Jagex the company that developed RuneScape, a game that was core to Malcolm's motivation behind his own project.