An indie developer is teaming up with Jagex to publish his Runescape-inspired idle game under its publishing banner. Currently in Early Access, Melvor Idle takes Runescape's core elements and boils them down into something more accessible for those on the go. According to Jagex, it's been downloaded more than 600,000 times across Steam, App Store, and Google Play.
Melvor Idle creator Brendan Malcolm tells us that he's been playing Runescape since 2006 but slowly struggled to find the time to jump back in as he got older due to life commitments like holding down a full-time job. "I wanted to create something similar to Runescape that was suitable for someone like me who didn't have the time to actively play a game," Malcolm says. "That's where the idea of turning Runescape into an idle game came to life."
There's only so much, though, that you can bring over to an idle game from an MMORPG. When deciding what to keep and what to leave behind, Malcolm tells us that he relied on a personal approach of amplifying the parts of the game he enjoyed. You've still got Runescape's setting, skills, combat, and mechanics, but Malcolm has distilled it into an idle game akin to Clicker Heroes and Egg Inc.
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