"We considered developing some kind of idle RuneScape game some years ago in the form of RuneScape: Idle Adventures," Pfeiffer shares. "In Alpha, we stopped development and focused attention on main RuneScape games.
We've always believed in that RuneScape's game has potential in the area of idle games and Melvor Idle proves that RuneScape can provide a thrilling idle game. However, Melvor Idle stands up on its own merits as well, and we wanted to remain as true to the original vision of it that Brendan did when he first started developing his game."
He also highlights the popularity of Melvor Idle to show that talent can be found in the community of any game which is something Jagex has already discovered. "We've always been able to find it to be the RuneScape game community an excellent resource of potential talent to Jagex not only in terms of game developers , but any of the various roles within a games studio," Pfeiffer claims. "RuneScape has over 300 million accounts created over the course of more than 20 years, so the amount of highly skilled people that have been a part of the game is immense."