Hello! I am the new owner of Idlescape and I wanted to say that the game is saved!
Me and @NickMillion worked out a deal where I will be the new owner and handle the business side of things while he can focus on doing what he loves and thats developing and making Idlescape the best it can. With our partnership I hope we can take Idlescape to new heights, the heights it has always deserved. As a player I fell in love with this game and tried to buy it off the old owner Boohi 3 years ago which did not work out. Seeing the state the game is in now makes me sad as there is a lot of lost potential.
A little background about me is I played over 20 years of RS, OSRS, and just loved Idlescape since the day I tried it. I have ran other businesses, games and have experience and my own team I will be onboarding that includes amazing developers, and I will be analyzing all the existing talent that helped make Idlescape what it is today. My expertise is marketing, game design(not developing), and business management.
My biggest hope is to shine a new light onto Idlescape and make its fullest potential come out. This means releasing the V1 Version on Steam. Consistent updates, lots of marketing for 10k+ Player count, getting us on iOS, Android and making Idlescape the top Idle game there is, because this game is amazing and fun
Our plans to launch the steam version are in about January or Febuary and the timeline is unknown as I will have to analyze the full codebase with my team and get to know the existing team better. Once that is done in about a month or so I will have a better timeframe of reference.
The existing server will stay up until November, and we will be testing scalability, stability and stress testing it so we can get all the knowledge we need before we shut down and make the code base be able to handle 10k+ Players
We will also not be able to maintain the Legacy mode as I will be setting up with our team ALL NEW Infrastructure and I do not want anything from the past to come bite us. This will. be a fresh start once V1 comes, a new beginning and a bright future.
I can't wait to see what the future holds. Thank you everyone who helped bring Idlescape to this point, I hope to not let any of the players down, nor the existing team
From Lexi ❤️