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A variety of video games have inspired an aspiring developer to develop their own. It's not often that you'll see the work of Buy RS Gold a different creator picked up by the same company that created the original title.

This, however, was the case for Brendan Malcolm, the one-man team of Australian game developer Games By Malcs, whose idle RPG Melvor Idle has been published by Jagex, the creator of RuneScape (a title which was the primary inspiration behind his own initiative.

Melvor Idle strips away the visuals and 3D environments of RuneScape and similar MMOs and distills it down to a menu-based idle that lets players control their inventory, skills and quests. Combat encounters are fought with a winning streak earns players XP as well as loot which can later be put into the specific level of skill tree or upgrade players select, while resuming things like crafting or cutting wood yields benefits.

Malcolm has played RuneScape since his youth and has also dabbled with a number of popular idle games like Clicker Heroes, Cookie Clicker and NGU Idle. While he enjoyed them, he felt the genre could be doing more to make it enjoyable in a manner similar to Jagex's top RPG.

"So I decided to challenge myself to create my own, never really imagining it would end up being released, or even become an instant hit," he tells GamesIndustry.biz. "I was trying to make something completely different from the existing idle game mold, something that was feature-rich and allowed players a real choice in rs gold for sale how they wanted to progress instead of just increasing numbers continuously.