JagexBreezy

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! :D

Internally we've had this exact conversation constantly. The overall objective is to make the icons more easily recognisable at a glance vs. the blobs you see now which can get visually muddled and are straight up unreadable.

It's ok that the icons don't specifically show what the aura does, and truth be told it's actually quite hard to do that for most auras. But, the example i've been using is ability icons. If you randomly showed any of those to a random person on the street, they probably couldn't guess what 80% of them do... but with some use you eventually learn to associate the imagery to the ability and that's exactly what we're going for here.

With that being said, like you can see with the new aura icons above, we've tried incorporating things like the skill icons or imagery of the resources (like div wisps) where we could, just to help make them more unique and identifiable (less blobby).

If you do have...

Thanks for sharing these, have noted this stuff down!

• Colour: Something we can definitely explore. So far it's been an artistic choice to stick with a similar colour scheme as well as feedback from players to stay true to the original style when we tested out reworked ones. Personally, i think detailed icon colours would make the interface too busy so i lean toward keeping them uniform, but i'm all for experimenting with it next time round :)

• Aura tier: I think you're right and it's something i've been pondering this gamejam. I think where it does matter is for things like aura refreshes or knowing what you have that can be upgraded and so on, but i agree overall it's less important than most the other things we're trying to achieve here

• Aura ordering: Also with you on this, when we come to the interface portion of this it's definitely something i've been keeping in mind. Other things include tier ordering, alphabetical ordering and ...

Right but that's out of my control and a much bigger conversation than for a gamejam, unfortunately.

Right this very moment, the most productive thing for me is to get feedback on what I'm presenting here. The alternative is i just don't engage with players - but i don't like that. I want to be here and engage with the community and get your feedback on the UI/UX work we're doing.

Main issue or not, there's so much to gain from improving an interface players use on a regular basis, especially when it's something i can control vs. something i can't.

RE: Polls - they're good for getting data on binary style questions - yes/no, option 1,2,3,4 etc. but they're not good for discussion and conversation. I'm not asking if you want this or not, I'm asking what you like/dislike about it, could something be a different colour or a style of icon be better? what improvements you think could be made to the work we're showing? what QoL or additions you want to the UI? etc.

I can't get that form of feedback from a poll which only tells me how many people voted for option 1 or 2.

And also, we as game devs are required to balance and assess all feedback. It's not a case of cherry-picking from certain communities or a twitch streamer. It's about ingesting everything and then balancing it out based on what our needs and requirements are, what the player...

This is just straight up wrong, there's a lot that can be improved and making the overall experience of using such a system better on a daily or regular basis is such an improvement.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, appreciate the feedback!

(and believe me i know, it's just not within my hands atm to do more with auras)

Hey everyone! Gamejam has come to an end and I've been working on several things with various Jmods.

First up is continuing work on the Aura UI and UX refresh.

This gamejam we've been exploring sketches for refreshed icons that are clearer and more readable, and can be more easily identified with use over time.

Check out my tweet here and let us know what you think!

As a reminder from earlier this gamejam, this is now the direction we've decided to go for with the aura borders and backgrounds: https://x.com/JagexBreezy/status/1856279062139764741

Continuin...

The update is actually basically finished. After these two weeks of gamejam, we have a final week of development then it's RC the next week and then release that next Monday (9th Dec).

You've seen the other comments but i've been very active on discord throughout all of development asking questions on basically everything, seeking suggestions, even put out a few tweets asking for suggestions on various things. All this while also keeping an eye on other socials and just absorbing discussion and using learnings from 110M&S to feed into this one.

Someone else here posted a good summary of what the update includes but there's also my comment here https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/1g19a6c/if_woodcutting_fletchings_110_exp...

Incredible work throughout!!

Thanks for making each day in October that much better :D Going to miss seeing these on a regular basis

That's precisely what i'm referring to with the tweaked mechanics part - "Fletching will have an upgrading system for the Eternal shortbow and crossbow" :D

She's dead now

More than happy to! Ragnarok's valkyrie queen was whooping my ass so i needed to take a break :P

and yeah it's the "not just a simple patch" part :)

I have been summoned, hello and good evening!

This week's stream was just a little something I hit up Yuey about cause I wanted to show some behind-the-scenes of development of 110 Mining & Smithing because i like sharing the inner workings and showing off concepts and ideas and how they evolved, which players (including myself) always love seeing from games.

At the end of the stream i wanted to tease some 110 WC & Fletching details because why not build a little hype and tease folk. Now, i'm cautious of sharing too many details in tid-bits in different times and places because ideally most of the info would come in a more consistent manner e.g. an RCE blog (coming soon™!) but i thought it's worth addressing some of the things mentioned in this thread :)

I'll start by saying it's very important NOT to underestimate the amount of time full skill reworks take and what you're actually asking for in reality. M&S rework took ~18 months to develop (but actually lo...

Thanks for the summary!

Will share much more info on the update as a whole soon :D

It's Earth and Song yeah!

Also witchwood will be required for the L&D hatchet

Awesome write up, super interesting!

I had a fun time researching how swords were made when i was designing the creation process of the MW sword. Albeit i didn't do the graphics, this was a fun read :D

Fun fact - ex-Mod Bernie, the character artist responsible for (iirc) Solak and the M&S rework armours (and a bunch of other stuff) made us the Masterwork Sword as his leaving gift. It was never planned, just something he surprised us with

Congrats!!

Don't play down such an achievement, everyone has to start somewhere and your RuneScape journey is about YOU! and honestly if i could re-live my days of climbing up the PvM ladder i absolutely would, it feels so good.

Keep at it and best of luck on the rest of the bossing adventures ;)

I hope i didn't come across as ignoring your comment, just wanted to provide some context. Generally if you're expressing that you'd like the T100 tools to be more exciting in some way that's very valid feedback :D

Do you mind passing me on your RSN please? Stu has taken a look but can't see any reason you shouldn't be getting strange/golden rocks, but would like to see what your setup is :)

The new pickaxes follow the same structure where both pickaxes(+x) of a tier are the same stats but the 'special' one is augmentable which is its benefit and so we want to generally be consistent where possible