


He noted the appeal may be the simplicity of the game and being able to fit play into whatever time a person is willing to commit.Ĭrusaders of the Lost Idols encourages players to form a group of fighters that will take on a variety of villains, including a giant panda with lobster claws. “The response was pretty good,” Jordan said. It picked up speed when the company released a closed beta version and found players playing long after testing periods. “We thought it might be fun, so we were playing with designs, but it was done off the side of our desks.”
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“We had been looking at this for about a year,” said Jordan, whose studio has three other games in active operation and a series of “legacy” games that no longer receive updates. “There are over 100,000 games on the site and our game is in the top 0.01 per cent,” he said. Jordan said it makes the game the top idle game on the site and the 13th highest-rated game on Kongregate's entire site. “On Kongregate, we have had 162,012 discrete game plays since we launched and this number is increasing by over 25,000 per day,” said Codename chief executive Eric Jordan.Īs of late Wednesday afternoon, the game had been rated more than 6,500 times, with the average rating hitting 4.4 out of five. The games themselves do not require “active play” and players can leave them to idle and basically play themselves. Idle games are a relatively new genre of video game and allow players to put as much time and effort as they wish into a game. The company’s Crusaders of the Lost Idols debuted at top spot this week at, the largest dedicated web-gaming site in the world. 1 on the idle gaming charts with its latest game. Victoria gaming studio Codename Entertainment is No.
