Developer Blogs

Developers' Blogs (formerly Development Diaries) are "diary entries" or blogs from Jagex Moderators that describe the processes behind the development of RuneScape.

Clan Updates

 * 7 July 2011: Clan Citadels
 * 7 April 2011: Wars and Scores
 * 18 March 2011: Evolution of Clans
 * 7 March 2011: The Clan Camp
 * 7 February 2011: Engine Support
 * 7 December 2010: Tools for Clans

Salt in the Wound

 * 6 June 2011: The Beginning of the End

Design Notes

 * 5 June 2011: Loyalty Programme
 * 17 March 2011: Capes of Distinction
 * 21 September 2010: Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?
 * 26 February 2010: What's a Grandmaster Quest?

Developer Blogs

 * 5 June 2011: Development of the Mahjarrat

Community Management

 * 26 May 2011: Clan Submissions Page
 * 21 March 2011: Clan Submissions Page
 * 11 November 2010: Clan Submissions Page
 * 27 October 2010: Emergent Gameplay letter
 * 17 September 2010: Clan Submissions Page
 * 4 August 2010: Clan Submissions Page
 * 3 June 2010: Clan Submissions Page
 * 30 April 2010: Clan Submissions Page
 * 26 March 2010: Clan Submissions Page
 * 25 March 2010: Supporting Clans
 * 5 March 2010: Clan Submissions Page
 * 29 January 2010: Clan Submissions Page
 * 18 January 2010: A 2009 Retrospective
 * 22 December 2009: Clan Submissions Page
 * 13 November 2009: Excl's Visit
 * 2 November 2009: Events Support
 * 7 October 2009: Player Visits
 * 24 July 2009: Volunteer Moderators
 * 24 July 2009: Introduction to CM

History of RuneScape

 * 13 January 2011: The Next Six Years
 * 6 January 2011: History of RuneScape: The First Four Years

Rework

 * 1 December 2010: Dragon Scimitar
 * 28 October 2009: Impetuous Impulses

Website

 * 14 October 2010: The Big Homepage Update
 * 23 October 2009: Postbag and Gallery

Achievement Diary

 * 2 September 2010: Elite Tasks - Development
 * 19 November 2009: Elite Tasks - Design

Court Cases

 * 9 July: Back in Session

Signature Heroes

 * 29 June: Who are the Signature Heroes?

Love Story

 * 12 May 2010: Love Story: Return of the Wise Old Man

Voice Overs

 * 29 April 2010: Look Who's Talking

The Void Knights Series

 * 22 April 2010: Into the Void

Halloween 2010

 * 25 March 2010: Quoth Mod Raven

Hitpoints to Constitution

 * 3 March 2010: What Constitutes the Change?

Bonus XP Weekend

 * 26 February 2010: Save the Date!

Localisation

 * 12 February 2010: A Day in the Life

Shattered Heart

 * 12 February 2010: A History of Non-violence

Machinima

 * 20 January 2010: The Orb of Oculus

Animation Update

 * 18 December 2009: Particles
 * 16 July 2009: Pack 1

Holiday Event

 * 11 December 2009: A Christmas Warble

Fairy Tale III

 * 26 November 2009: Subtitle Yet to Be Approved
 * 5 June 2009: Design Review

Distractions & Diversions

 * 5 November 2009: Court Cases

Updates

 * 16 October 2009: Within the Launch
 * 21 August 2009: Trust Us, We're QA
 * 23 July 2009: Upload Manager

Q&A

 * 24 September 2009: Localisation's Answers
 * 17 September 2009: Community Management's Answers
 * 10 September 2009: RuneScape Content's Answers
 * 3 September 2009: Andrew Gower's Answers
 * 20 August 2009: Player Support's Answers
 * 6 August 2009: Mark Gerhard's Answers

RuneScape Classic

 * 15 September 2009: Retro Revival

New Dwarf Quest

 * 3 September 2009: Within The Next Few Weeks...
 * 30 July 2009: Nearly Finished
 * 23 June 2009: Feedback and Blue Blocks
 * 28 May 2009: Coding and Writing
 * 30 April 2009: Implementation Begins
 * 9 April 2009: A Concept is Approved
 * 26 March 2009: Revisiting an Old Quest Series (originally titled Reviving an Old Quest Series)

Display Names

 * 27 August 2009: Changing Names

Game Engine

 * 26 August 2009: RuneTek 5
 * 11 June 2009: Game Engine Improvements

Infrastructure

 * 10 July 2009: Back-end Upgrades

Fairy Area Improvement

 * 3 July 2009: Animating
 * 14 May 2009: Modelling
 * 17 April 2009: Concept

Mobilising Armies

 * 26 June 2009: Mobilising Armies

Run Energy

 * 21 May 2009: Test'n Musicians
 * 23 April 2009: Rest and Musicians

Tools for Games

 * 7 May 2009: Tools for Games

World Map Update

 * 2 April 2009: Dungeon Maps

Development Diaries

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! Diary ! Date ! Description
 * A New Look RuneScape: Part 2
 * 16 June 2008
 * This diary contains images of new-look lighting effects, water and the first proper full-screen screenshot from the RuneScape High Detail update.
 * A New Look RuneScape: Part 1
 * 28 May 2008
 * The pictures shown in the 'Image of the Future' newsposts were just a taster of what is to come with our graphical improvements. In this Development Diary, we get to go into more detail, as well as show you some new impressive-looking images..
 * Quality Assurance
 * 28 February 2008
 * This diary takes a look at the Quality Assurance (QA) team.
 * Summoning: Part 4 - Release
 * 9 January 2008
 * This diary takes a closer look at the release of the new Summoning skill.
 * Summoning: Part 3 - Testing
 * 20 December 2007
 * This diary takes a closer look at the testing process for the new Summoning skill.
 * RuneScape vs. Real-world Trading
 * 10 December 2007
 * This diary takes a closer look at the Jagex's approach to tackling real world trading.
 * Summoning: Part 2 - Development
 * 6 December 2007
 * This diary takes a closer look at the content development process for the new Summoning skill.
 * Summoning: Part 1 - Concept
 * 22 November 2007
 * This diary introduced the new Summoning skill and discussed the development of the concept.
 * RuneScape Content Team - Game Improvements
 * 1 October 2007
 * This diary focused on the Game Improvement Project. This project is made up of lots of small updates intended to improve the game – updates such as the Trade Window, Warning System (Doomsayer) and the appearance of magic logs.
 * Audio Team - Music, Sound Effects and the Sound Bank
 * 15 August 2007
 * This diary involved the Audio development team. The diary looked at what goes into making Music for the game.
 * Graphics Team - NPC Improvement Project
 * 21 June 2007
 * This diary involved the Graphics team. The diary looked at the graphical updates that were been made to dragons, werewolves, spiders, etc.
 * RuneScape Development Teams - Impetuous Impulses
 * 6 June 2007
 * This diary showed the complete development of the minigame Impetuous Impulses, from concept to release.
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 * Audio Team - Music, Sound Effects and the Sound Bank
 * 15 August 2007
 * This diary involved the Audio development team. The diary looked at what goes into making Music for the game.
 * Graphics Team - NPC Improvement Project
 * 21 June 2007
 * This diary involved the Graphics team. The diary looked at the graphical updates that were been made to dragons, werewolves, spiders, etc.
 * RuneScape Development Teams - Impetuous Impulses
 * 6 June 2007
 * This diary showed the complete development of the minigame Impetuous Impulses, from concept to release.
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 * This diary showed the complete development of the minigame Impetuous Impulses, from concept to release.
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