Both games draw inspiration from the fantasy world of RuneScape

"Luckily the excitement that drove these early days remains with me over the years of development Buy OSRS Gold. And being able to work in conjunction with Jagex personally on this is an incredible opportunity to fulfill a dream," he says. "I would never have imagined that I'd eventually get the support of the very studio which inspired me in the first place.

Making the transition from hobby to fan project was definitely scary, but looking at where I've ended up as well as the support I've received when I established Games by Malcs as an new studio, it's certainly worked out for the most successful."

Despite the strong connection to Melvor Idle and RuneScape, and the direct involvement of Jagex in the game, the publisher decided to keep the game as an original IP and not to make it the official RuneScape spin-off. In part, this was an acknowledgement of the fact that Malcolm had achieved in a place that Jagex did not.

"We considered making some kind of idle RuneScape game a number of years ago when we released RuneScape: Idle Adventures," Pfeiffer shares. "In Alpha, we stopped development in order to concentrate our efforts to the core RuneScape games.

We have always believed that RuneScape has a lot of potential in the idle game, and Melvor Idle is a great proof that RuneScape can inspire a brilliant idle game. But Melvor Idle stands up on its own merits too rs gold 2007, and we wanted to stay loyal to the ideals for Melvor Idle that Brendan initially had when he began developing this game."