The Runemaster's Diary

Devlog

• Devlog September 2023 (FINALE??)
  September 28, 2023 by Tomyatemo

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  Hi everyone! So the game is done. The Runemaster's Diary releases on steam this Saturday September 30!! It's been a long adventure and for everyone who has been reading this devlogs I wanted to say th... Continue reading

  
• Devlog August 2023
  September 01, 2023 by Tomyatemo

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  Hi everybody! Its time for the monthly devlog. This month I started with the closed beta testing and the usability of the game has gone up drastically. Unfortunately, so did my workload, I've been wor... Continue reading

  
• Devlog July 2023
  July 28, 2023 by Tomyatemo

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  Hi everyone, welcome to the first second devlog after my break. This month I've been playtesting the game thoroughly and fixing many many bugs. I decided to take it easy this month and not work on new... Continue reading

  
• Devlog June 2023
  July 10, 2023 by Tomyatemo

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  Hi guys! Would you believe me if I said I took a 1 week break for gamedev and forgot to make this devlog at the end of June? Yeah, I wouldn't believe me either. Anyways. At the end of June I finally i... Continue reading

  
• Devlog May 2023
  May 29, 2023 by Tomyatemo

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  Hi there! Welcome to the May 2023 devlog, I hope you enjoy your stay: What I've worked on this march Implemented Particle System in battle application Final Boss Battle is done Made 31 unique frames o... Continue reading

  
• Hotfixes Demo #2
  May 13, 2023 by Tomyatemo#hotfix

  Hey there! I'm back with a small fix that affects two of the events in the demo. game no longer crashes after battling naranjarina lovers game no longer crashes when going deeper into the cave PD: sor... Continue reading

  
• Hotfixes Demo #1
  May 05, 2023 by Tomyatemo#demo, #bugfix

  Hi! I made some fixes to the demo: Added missing dll to windows executable Fixed typos Fixed a game crash that happened after the fight with the naranjarinas in love Also demo in spanish coming soon... Continue reading

  
• First Devlog of 2023! (Devlog April)
  May 04, 2023 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hi everyone, long time no see! I came to update the demo with some quality of life stuff and content because I'm back working on the game. The new release date is around September this year. I'll try... Continue reading

  
• Devlog June
  July 05, 2022 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hey there! Welcome to June's devlog. I didn't managed to do a lot of things this month so I'll keep it short. What I did some bugfixes and enhancements to the level editor Added a script in the last a... Continue reading

  
• Devlog May
  May 31, 2022 by Tomyatemo

  Hi! Welcome to May's Devlog! This month has been a complete adventure, I completely underestimated the amount of work making a new move for Mac takes. But hey lets get into the bullet points: What's l... Continue reading

  
• Devlog April
  April 30, 2022 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Heya! How are you all doing! Welcome to April's devlog. And I am happy to say I did a LOT of stuff this month, but by the looks of it it seems I will have to pospone the game's launch. We'll see what... Continue reading

  
• Devlog March
  April 02, 2022 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE ORIGINAL MARCH DEVLOG AS I'M WRITTING THIS NOOOOO Well anyways, welcome to March's Devlog! What's left: Implement events for the last area (We are here now!) 7 Areas left 1... Continue reading

  
• Devlog February
  March 15, 2022 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hello! Welcome to the super late February Devlog! It was a slow month but lets go: What's left: Implement events for the last area (We are here now!) Implement every event for the last area Implement... Continue reading

  
• Devlog January
  February 04, 2022 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hi! Welcome to the January 2022 devlog! Join me as we look at the cool progress I made during the month that just passed. What's left: Implement events for the last area (We are here now!) Implement e... Continue reading

  
• Devlog December
  January 11, 2022 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hiya! I have more free time now that I finished a course I was doing during November and December so I'm trying to spend more time developing the game. What's left: Use the editor to create the maps o... Continue reading

  
• Devlog November
  December 06, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hello! Progress is still going slow, but I hope it start going faster soon. I managed to make some mockups of the rooms in the level editor. What's left: Use the editor to create the maps of the final... Continue reading

  
• Devlog October
  November 04, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hello! This month was kinda hard to work in the game because I spent a lot of time patching bugs in the game editor. But progress is being made little by little. What's left: Use the editor to create... Continue reading

  
• Devlog September
  October 11, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hey! I've been feeling a lot better lately so the game is coming around nicely. I managed to complete the objectives from last month and I'm very happy about it. So lets check out the good old roadmap... Continue reading

  
• Devlog August
  September 17, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hello there! It's been a while. I haven't been able to work of the game too much because I was sick all month in august. This last two weeks I started to feel better though, so I want to slowly get ba... Continue reading

  
• Devlog July
  August 16, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hey there! Sorry for disappearing for the first part of August, I have been sick for like 3 weeks and I'm finally feeling better. SO, here's what I've been working on: Roadmap First I want to set up a... Continue reading

  
• Devlog May & June
  July 17, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hey there, I came to give you guys a general update of what's been happening. Roadmap First I want to set up a steam page: Making a trailer Make music for it Collect footage Draw a profesional looking... Continue reading

  
• DevLog April & Hiatus
  May 15, 2021 by Tomyatemo

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  Hey there! So I disappeared for a while. In April I got a job in software development and that has had me very busy all these weeks. On top of that, this weekend we have a very important election in m... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #50
  April 03, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  This week I started working on an application so creating content for the game is easier. I started remaking the level editor in C++ with Qt and I'm like a quarter of the way there. I'm saying this be... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #49
  March 26, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Added scripts for side quest The only thing left for the side quest is the end and the reward Added props to a deep way room Design Department Designed last area of the game Mad... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #48
  March 19, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Overworld App Created script to jump over 1 space tiles Added these scripts to 3 deep way room Refactored player idle and walk animations in code Implemented jump animation reus... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #47
  March 15, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Last week I got sick so development was slow. I'm feeling better this week so I hope to get back in the grind. Also polishing rooms' backgrounds took a lot of time but it was very worth it. Programmin... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #46
  March 05, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  This week was a little slower compared to the weeks before because of job searching stuff. But I did pretty cool things in my opinion, which are: Programming Department Battle App Polished Naranjarina... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #45
  February 26, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Battle App Fixed bug encourage and concentrate actions dont ask for target when using them Added animations for encourage and concentrate actions Fixed sweet berry and sweet ber... Continue reading

  
• Demo Patch 3
  February 22, 2021 by Tomyatemo#demo

  The third patch for the demo is out now! This patch includes: Hitboxes correction Some ilustrations are more polished The correction of some bugs regarding entities that shouldn't be there in some sce... Continue reading
• Weekly Dev Log #44
  February 19, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Battle App Implemented Amber as a playable character in battle app Fixed bug where the game crashed when trying to perform the encourage Fixed bug that made you have more guard... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #43
  February 12, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  I'm not very happy with how this week turned out, I felt like I wasn't very productive. I ended up crunching a lot also. Next week I'll try to respect my schedule more. Programming Department Battle A... Continue reading

  
• Demo Patch 2.1
  February 08, 2021 by Tomyatemo#demo, #patch

  The Patch 2 has reached the spanish version!! Also I fixed a small bug regarding the ending cutscene music. That's all, have a nice day (or night if you are reading this during the night) (or evening... Continue reading
• Weekly Dev Log #42
  February 05, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  This week was a weird one, I was like super productive 2 days and the others I wasn't very productive. But hey, lots of stuff to talk about! Also from now on I'm going to assume the people reading thi... Continue reading

  
• Demo Patch 2
  February 05, 2021 by Tomyatemo#demo, #patch

  This week I fixed some of the not so urgent problems the demo had. I only had time to work on the english version so these changes will come next week for the spanish version. Changes: Fixed a lot of... Continue reading
• Demo Patch 1
  February 01, 2021 by Tomyatemo#demo, #patch

  I fixed the most apparent bugs that messed with the playability of the demo. Changelog Removed mysterious narangarina behind a tree in room A1 (she was not supposed to be there) Translated pause menu... Continue reading
• DEMO OUT NOW
  January 29, 2021 by Tomyatemo#demo

  WE HAVE A DEMO NOW FINALLY WE HAVE A DEMO AAAAAAA Alright, I calmed down now. I uploaded a demo that contains the very first part of the game. It introduces the main mechanics and the main character... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #41
  January 29, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Battle App Refactored some strings so they are easier to edit Fixed time-skip at the beginning Changed victory screen to make it more somilar to turn displayer Cutscene App Fixe... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #40
  January 22, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  WEEKLY DEVLOG #40 BABY!! HERE WE GO: Programming Department Battle App Added numbers that show how much damage is done to an entity Battle Script App Fixed turn order displayer Cutscene App Fixed a cr... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #39
  January 18, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog, #demo

  The objective of this last week was to have a playable demo by the end of it. I tested the game with a friend on the weekend and it turned out pretty well. We discovered some bugs, but none of them ru... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #38
  January 08, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Battle App Fixed bug that made enemy conditions invisible Removed the posibility of running away (doesn't serve any purpose for now) Now when selecting an action to use the icon... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #37
  January 04, 2021 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Overall this was a very productive week! In the next two weeks I'll be working on making the first third of the game playable. That way I can get some friends to test the game to see how it feels so f... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #36
  December 28, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Overworld App Added new obtainable items to old shack Added old shack story script Added mecanism to unlock passage in old shack Refactored Old Shack Second Floor Programmed s... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #35
  December 18, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Overworld App Added 3 new rooms Added path from current rooms to new rooms Added new scene Added more trees to a room Added small towel rent business in the forest Setted secre... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #34
  December 14, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  This week was weird, I somehow broke my Version Control Server so I had to invest some hours reseting everything and recovering the data. Thankfully nothing was lost as I have backups, but because I w... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #33
  December 08, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Overworld App Added a new Room to the game Implemented path to this room Made a simple dialog for each NPC Made the NPCs look at the player when talking to them Implemented NPC'... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #32
  December 02, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Overworld App Made short script event for forest level Battle App Added SFXs to most battle actions Separated all action animations in different files for better organisation... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #31
  November 23, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  This week was bug fixing galore! Half of what I did was fix bugs ugh. Programming Department Battle App Disabled the run away option for story battles Overworld App Added decorations to the second ro... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #30
  November 16, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  A lot happened this week, I finally finished my thesis and started searching for work! I also got sick because my body's defences were destroyed after 5 consecutive days of thesis stress. And finally... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #29
  November 09, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Overworld App Fixed Battle "Swoosh" Effect to start battles Fixed Glitching texture in the first room of the level Editor Fixed bug where transparent pixels would overwrite othe... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #28
  November 02, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Had a very hard week with personal problems, but I managed to advance in the game. Programming Department Overworld Fixed a bug that messed with the camera in overworld cutscenes Battle App Modified b... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #27
  October 27, 2020 by Tomyatemo

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  Design Department Experimented with the battle system Programming Department Battle Application Added new move to enemy Fixed bug where hp is not updated when a battle ended, so you always had maximum... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #26
  October 19, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Design Department Polished the battle system a little Programming Department Overworld App Fixed bug overworld where the move player animation never finished Designed older levels in level editor Adde... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #25
  October 13, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Design Department Implement what happens after tutorial Programming Department Editor Added "new level" functionality Overworld Added animations that do Fade In/Fade Out Added Fade Out animations for... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #24
  October 06, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  I hate that I can't talk in detail about what I'm working on because spoilers Programming Department Demo Implemented base for 2 rooms for the demo Editor Added functionality to automatically compute... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #23
  September 28, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Tools Created a new debug room to test object interactions Overworld Application Added Overworld Interactuable Script Entity that changes script when interacted with Added scrip... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #22 + Demo Plans
  September 22, 2020 by Tomyatemo

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  Had some problems and as a result couldn't work on the game these last two weeks. But these following weeks I should be free, so I decided to get a demo out by the end of November. Programming Departm... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #21
  September 08, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Added a semi transparent player image on top of everything so the player character is visible while behind objects Implemented the structure of the home of the protagonists as l... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #20
  August 29, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Level Editor Stuff Made snap to grid the default mode in editor Made it so no objects can be added in an invisible layer Modified export files so they are closer to the final co... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #18 and #19
  August 24, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  I'm sorry I missed last week's weekly update, thesis stuff got in the way. I hope I can go back to working full time on the game soon but in the meantime I'll try to advance in my free time. Anyways,... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #17
  August 01, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Art Department Polished animation for Ken's starter move Added animation for Ken's finisher move Added animation for Mac's start run Added animation for a scripted battle for ken Added animation for m... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Devlog #16
  July 26, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming department Finished animations for the first attack move in the game Implemented changes in sprites in animations Art Department Added sprites to Ken animations Added sprites to enemy anim... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #15
  July 03, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Hi there, weekly devlogs are back as most of the work for my thesis is done. In this one I'll go briefly on what I've done in the last 3 weeks: Art Department Remade player character's battle idle ani... Continue reading

  
• Slow Weeks Ahead
  June 05, 2020 by Tomyatemo

  Hey there! I wanted to talk a little bit about the situation of development. As you may know the situation of the world right now is complicated, with a pandemic going on and the police brutality exhi... Continue reading
• Weekly Dev Log #14
  June 01, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Implemented natural text scrolling in overworld Fixed bug that displaced icons and stat bars in the battle app when on fullscreen Unhardcoded some variables Implemented transiti... Continue reading

  
• 1 week hiatus
  May 18, 2020 by Tomyatemo

  I'll take a break for a week because I'll be part of a collab for a party game, see you soon!... Continue reading
• Weekly Dev Log #13
  May 18, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Art Department Made 5 simple illustrations for a cutscene Music Department Polished introductory battle music Programming Department Made it so battle encounters can have different music Made obtainin... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #12
  May 11, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Art Department Made 5 illustrations for the intro cutscene Made a poll on twitter to help me with art direction for these illustration... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #11
  May 04, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department When no predefined hp and mp are assigned to an entity in battle, the max hp and max mp are used Added event during Battle Scripts that awards the player with new abilities Dele... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #10
  April 27, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Art Department Created mock up of background for tutorial battle Programming Department Added variable environment backgrounds parameters to battle triggering objects Created in game a mock up of the... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #9
  April 19, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Refactored Battle App camera Added Screen-Shake animations for battle application Added overworld animations with the current sprites Redefined some parameters in "new game" fil... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #8
  April 14, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Programming Department Added order to objects in level editor Finished Intro Scene in the overworld Art Department Created 4 house asset sprites Created house flooring Made concept art of creatures Ma... Continue reading

  
• Unexpected Hiatus Ended
  April 06, 2020 by Tomyatemo#hiatus

  During the last three weeks I ran into problems so I had to make a level editor for the game, for that I made a desktop application. That and some other factors made me feel very unmotivated to conti... Continue reading
• Weekly Dev Log #7
  March 15, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Writting Department Wrote Story for the first adventure of the game Got an idea for how the third adventure is going to play out Music and Sound Department Made account in website with free sound effe... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #6
  March 09, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  From now on I’ll post everything I did in the week as a bullet list because this next weeks I won’t be able to get much done each day separately. Programming Department Refactored json library Art... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #5
  February 28, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Monday This was a thesis day so I didn't worked on the game this day. Tuesday Music Department Hired and got together with a friend who knows about music to teach me some stuff on music composition. T... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #4
  February 22, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  This is the forth dev log and the last one of this length in some time. During the next months I'll be working on my thesis a lot and that means less time working on the game. If everything goes accor... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #3
  February 15, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Welcome to the third weekly dev log where we are going to try something new and report things in chronological order now. Monday Programming Department Fixed a bug in the enemy AI that made them not t... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #2
  February 07, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  Welcome to the second weekly dev log where we are almost finished with the battle application (or finished, I don't know yet, I'm writting this part on monday). Programming Department Battle Applicati... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Dev Log #1
  February 01, 2020 by Tomyatemo#devlog

  In the Programming Department Battle Animations I worked on setting up the animations for the battles of the game. I managed to integrate this feature in the battle flow and used a default animation... Continue reading

  
• The Pause Menu, a nice place to be
  January 28, 2020 by Tomyatemo#pause menu, #menues, #Starting Functionality, #menu

  The Pause Menu is a functionality that I'm specially proud of because every moment I was working on it I was like "wow, this is starting to feel like an actual game :OOOO". This menu has four initial... Continue reading

  
• The Overworld, this is a big one...
  January 28, 2020 by Tomyatemo#overworld, #Starting Functionality

  Ok this is less of a tech talk and more of a showcase of functionality. The overworld was the first big functionality of this game where I spent hours implementing collisions, interactuable objects, e... Continue reading

  
• The Cutscenes so far...
  January 28, 2020 by Tomyatemo#Starting Functionality, #cutscenes

  The cutscenes are by far the simplest functionality I have so this post will be very short compared to the last one. I defined a cutscene as a sequence of scenes. Every scene has an image and some dia... Continue reading

  
• Lets start by the Title Menu
  January 28, 2020 by Tomyatemo#Starting Functionality, #menu

  Ok so first of all lets talk about what I've ready so I can bring y'all up to speed. I'm going to start with the title menu: This is an image of the menu, lots of things need to be improved in the dis... Continue reading

  
• First Dev Log
  January 28, 2020 by Tomyatemo#first post, #devlog info

  Hey there, this is my first post where I'll post about the development of this proyect. I plan on posting here almost daily as a sort of game development diary to keep me organized and motivated. Now... Continue reading