Developer Blogs

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

Blogs

One Piercing Note

• 2 November 2011: One Piercing Note

Clan Updates

• 27 September 2011: Citadel Theatre
• 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

RuneScape Classic

• 15 September 2011: RuneScape Classic Q&A
• 15 September 2009: Retro Revival

Design Notes

• 23 August 2011: 'Skulling' Changes
• 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?

Salt in the Wound

• 6 June 2011: The Beginning of the End

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

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

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.

See also

• RuneScape - Developers' Blogs
• RuneScape - Development Diaries
• Local list of Developers' Blogs