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Brand new quest Desperate Measures is now out in the wild and we caught up with some of the developers involved in bringing it to life! Be warned - there are some mild spoilers for this new content, so click away if you haven't finished the story just yet.
Music
Desperate Measures features 11 tracks. Mod Ian created six of these, focusing on big, grand and comedic themes for the character of Thok. Meanwhile Mod Surma was behind the remaining five, primarily writing music for Kerapac.
"All the music was made from home. It's a very different working environment. When you're recording instruments, you might like a booth to keep outside noises out. Fortunately, my guitar was really loud and drowned out all the other sound." ~ Mod Surma
Development
Due to COVID-19, the entire Desperate Measures team continues to work remotely. This presented a number of challenges to overcome, such as adapting to communicating over Slack and Zoom.
"We're not individual people authoring something. More or less everything we create is a group activity in some way. A lot of the process of designing or developing something is about bouncing ideas off people, but that's harder to do when you're not in a shared environment. It was tricky. Video meetings or text chat is not as organic as speaking in real life." ~ Mod raven
The RuneScape Team