The PvP Arena operates in the same way with OSRS

For more information about OSRS Gold Jagex's publishing This Means Warp, we spoke to  Outlier Games' founders Paul Froggatt and Matt Rathbun and Lead Product Manager for Jagex Robert Fox-Galassi to get their thoughts about this new collaboration.

Like many independent developers, our initial entry into the games business was spent experimenting with game concepts and codes over a long time, before we finally came up with something that could be played!

I've got 10 years' work experience at Google before deciding to pivot to game development full-time. Matt's experience spans the creation of Hollywood computers on movie sets, as well as a stint on the scene of South Korean esports and mobile game development. We're so excited to share the progress we've made using This Means Warp.

A variety of video games have inspired an aspiring developer to make their own. However, it's rare to see an original work picked up by the same company that created the original title.

Thiswas, however, the case with Brendan Malcolm, the one-man team from Australian developers Games By Malcs, whose idle RPG Melvor Idle is being published by Jagex the company that developed RuneScape -- a game which was the primary motive behind his own venture.

Melvor Idle strips away the graphics and 3D environments of RuneScape and similar MMOs and reduces it into a game with a menu-based interface, where players manage their abilities, inventory and quests. In combat, completing battles with a winning streak earns players XP and loot, which can be invested in any improvement tree or skill tree players select, while performing repetitive tasks like crafting or woodcutting yields its own rewards.

Malcolm has been playing RuneScape since childhood He has also played in a variety of popular idle games like Clicker Heroes, Cookie Clicker and NGU Idle. While he enjoyed them however, he believed that the genre could be doing more to make it fulfilling in a way similar as Jagex's most popular RPG.

"So I set out to develop my own in the dark, not knowing it would even be published, let alone be the kind of game that is so well-liked," he tells GamesIndustry.biz. "I was trying to make something that was not in the traditional idle game mold and something that had a lot of features and allowed players to have a actual choice about how they wanted to go about their lives rather than just increasing numbers continuously.

After thinking about this idea few minutes in a closed room, I started meshing concepts and mechanics of classic MMOs and the popular idle game design, making something that can be played at leisure, in the car and fit into the player's hectic life."

The author adds: "While the numbers and stats aren't the things that all players are most interested in when playing MMOs It is the one that people who are devoted fans tend to be drawn to once the exploration is finished. As it's often so central to what long-term players' minds are on it makes sense to make this the primary element of buy gold runescape Melvor's game's gameplay design.