Andrew Gower

Co-creator of RuneScape, which he wrote with his brother Paul from their parents' house in Nottingham and grew into the most successful browser MMORPG ever made, co-founding Jagex to run it. He left Jagex in 2010, founded the small Cambridge studio Fen Research, and spent the better part of a decade quietly building Brighter Shores — a new MMORPG in the unmistakable shape of his first one, sold with a premium pass and no microtransactions.

Programmed RuneScape into a phenomenon that made the MMORPG accessible to anyone with a school computer and a browser — twice, counting the player-restored Old School era.— MMOlist Hall of Fame citation