RuneScaper

English

Etymology

From RuneScape +‎ -er.

Noun

RuneScaper (plural RuneScapers)

1. A player of the fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape.
   • 2007, Eli Neiburger, “The Gaming World, and How It Can Be Appropriately Appropriated into the Library World”, in Gamers … in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages, Chicago, Ill.: American Library Association, →ISBN, page 38:

     Providing a time and place can be the first step in building some community with and among your players; if you get all your RuneScapers together in the training center once a week for an hour, it’s going to turn into a genuine event before you know it.

   • 2010, Joost Van Loon, “Networked Being: Transactions in On-line Gaming Communities”, in Parallax, volume 16, number 1, →DOI, pages 19–27:

     The interface of creating an account enacts the assemblage; it is the gift that inaugurates the being of a runescaper^[sic] (or run-e-scapist if you like).

   • 2018 October 8, “Making an ass out of u and me”, in Canta, number 13:

     Among us are a diverse populous of Beliebers, photographers, flat earthers, snowboarders, National voters, Armenians, coffee drinkers, Runescapers,^[sic] wheelchair users, Muslims, bloggers and Ultimate players.

   • 2021, “RuneScape, IRL”, in Ian Tucker, Brett Israel, Sanjay Dharawat, editors, RuneScape: The First 20 Years—An Illustrated History, Dark Horse Books, →ISBN, page 095:

     Dutch RuneScaper MarioSonic visited the company for this reason in 2019. RuneScape was a place where MarioSonic felt like himself.

   • 2021 April 22, “Old School RuneScape vs World of Warcraft Classic”, in Nyasa Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 May 2021:

     If we talk about OSRS, it became a major hit and you can just see that from the sheer amount of players the game has, which is more than 70% of the whole RuneScape players combined as the RuneScapers just love the old school vibe.

Translations

RuneScape player

• Finnish: runettaja