Idlescape

The Idlescape Demo has been live for the last 3 days and the event has been going crazy! We saw over 1000 of you online, the chat box is chatting away, the NPC's are being slain, the mines are going empty. This was so fun to do. We have over 100+ of you playing strictly on Steam as well. As you know as one of the Owners of Idlescape I myself am addicted to Idlescape and it felt so special to play with all of you, our community is one of a kind and I am happy to see you all enjoying it as much as I do. I hope in the future we have more friends, and more players to come and see how fun Idlescape actually is. All our art is hand-drawn and I would also love to thank the artists who have been rushing to meet the demands for Next Fest. I really want you all to explore the game and look at the backgrounds, the NPC's the items you are wearing, and realize everything was made with a purpose. Every step of the game, making it was special and even in a world we are dealing with lots of Slop, we hope the quality shines through. Now onto the main questions!Why Should I Play the Idlescape Demo?The demo is filled with fun, lots of new things to learn and of course major prizes that everyone is racing towards and helping each other reach. At 500 total level, you will receive 500 Platinum on launch.At 1000 total level, you will receive an additional 500 Platinum and the Demo Chat Icon.At 1500 total level, you will receive another 500 Platinum and 15 days of IS+.Anyone who signs up during the Demo will be able to keep their account, and earn platinum through it. All characters will be reset on the V1.0 launch, but there will be so much prizes to earn by launch it will feel rewarding. Plus the most important thing in Idlescape is the friends you make along the way, What Other Events?We are also hosting other Idlescape events on Discord https://discord.com/invite/Idlescape If you wanted to get into content creation, we have an event and prizes for that. Referral, inviting people to dis...

The JourneyWe have been working HARD on getting everything ready for Next fest which is on October 19th, we have a lot of artists creating amazing art and we wanted to show you some of our favorite art pieces coming to Idlescape during Next Fest 1. Thunder King - Late Game Content2. Flesh Golem - For Mid Game Content3. Guard Captain - For Mid Game content4. Shrimp Boss - For End game Dungeon5. Background of Skilling - Living Forest - End Game Foraging ZoneI also wanted to discuss our latest Dev Blog and everything we added in the last 4 months, this isn’t going to be everything as we have A LOT of surprises for next fest and a lot of work is redoing code for optimizations. Dev Blog Here's a not-so-quick TL;DR for what we've done so far:- Optimizations, optimizations, optimizations. I've been basically running a local buff madness league with bots to test lighting the server on fire and we are *literally* 10-100x faster across the board.- Most UI has either been reworked from the ground up or revamped alongside the major client version updates to improve performance significantly as well as functionality (I specifically love the inventory tab system, but hated how much trouble it gave me to optimize because of FUN REACT THINGS AAAAA)- The Group Finder / Matchmaker has finally been fully implemented. You pick your group activities and it searches for it while you're AFK doing whatever else; when it finds you a party, it starts it up automatically then returns you to your previous action. - An in-game Encyclopedia as well as Source/Uses have been implemented; you can basically search ANYTHING in the game (items, abilities, monsters, locations, etc.) and see what it's used in and where it's from.- Promo Code and Referral System got massively updated; for most people their first interaction with it will be claiming their Playtester rewards (IS+, cosmetics, icon)- Action Queue system has been rewritten from scratch in the new engine and renamed to the Action Plan to avoid...