[2020] HD Client - Quick gameplay demo for those who asked. (Work in progress)

Originally posted by tottty

I wanted to do a quick write up about this client, and it’s journey.

Hi, I’m Jordan, I had the idea of making an HD client a few years ago, it was a fun project I’d work on after school and whenever I had free time. I was 17, learning to program as a hobby and had no idea the amount of traction it would get.

I was invited to Jagex HQ to meet with MMK about the possibility of implementing it in-house, I stayed for a few days where we discussed the future of the client. Ultimately it didn’t come to fruition, and I stopped developing the client. Later I sold it to a third party, but they didn’t end up finishing it either, and they’ve since given me the rights to make a new one if I so choose.

So here I am in 2020, giving it another shot. After seeing the shift in perception of 3rd party clients in both the community and Jagex’s posts, I figured now would be a good time to realistically be allowed to release this.

I’m now a game developer by profession, and have every intention of releasing this. The timeline is hard to estimate, as this is a unique project in the sense that is has some strange quirks. Such as the game being written in Java, and Unity using C#. I like to think that I’m at the 80% mark, at least for the early access milestone. I will post updates when I have something to share.

Thanks for reading, I will try answer all questions in this post. Cheers!