glitch: a wacky new mmorpg played in browser

ok, jumped the queue. i'll let you know when i'm in.

OMG, you have to learn how to write in the game and then buy paper and then you can leave notes everywhere

i am currently learning the skill of Bureaucratic Arts Level 1 so that I can get the papers necessary to get papers from the lizards.

it kinda looks from the preview like next gen kingdom of loathing?

do you think it'll still be up tomorrow? i don't think i can stay awake to get my email invite tnite...

but i do really want to try it!

it's open through Friday PST this time.
I got my papers from the lizard and bought a really crappy apartment

this just popped up on my chat log from an admin:
GOD Al Gore invented the internet JUST FOR THIS! Transistors? Number theory? Integrated circuits? LED screens? High level programming languages? All so you could collect poo for each other. So yeah ... have "fun".

was just awarded the "amateur bean tree fondler" badge.

ok, so don't spoil the whole thing :P

dude, the game is INFINITE; every fifteen seconds something new and fun happens

holy crap

queue jumped, WANT

i'm squeezing chickens to get grain to chop up on my board and make flour. i don't know why yet.
i've been on a quest to get a nicer backpack for hours now.

anxiously awaiting my invite!

and i am IN

aw, how'd you beat me to it?

got in too! a bit too tired tonight to enjoy it though

oops, i got it an hour ago but it never showed up in my mailbox!

there is a "drink 12 beer challenge (shotgun optional)"

i really wanna hear more opinions here

i am like 8 minutes in so

i swear the whistling in the tutorial is straight out of deadly premonition tho

anxiously awaiting my invite!

I'm learning to cook and hunting around for a patch.

done 2 totally bizarre random sidequests so far.

this is really really odd

agreed. what are both your names so I can send you guys mail? mine is my ilx name...

i saw you in there a couple of times! once in the ice section - my name is deceased ilx superstar kantlips

uh just the last word there obv

Lol I saw u too

i got an invite, i don't actually recall requesting one but i guess i did it when this thread got started

now to see if it will run on .. anything

forksclovetofu, of course.
currently working my skills

I've just signed up and tried to queue jump but I suspect I won't get on until the next go around. This looks really good, though.

can you friend people without linking to facebook? i was trying to figure it out

i've been doing this sence ethe last go round. just bought my first proper house

trying to put my finger on why i like this so much. first and foremost, the writing is spectacular; very crisp and clever. The art design is effortlessly gorgeous and really unique. And the constant flow of new stuff makes grinding not feel grindy. The vibe in the space is astonishingly chill; everyone is talkative and friendly. I ran into a few staff people and they were quite nice.

yeah, they're crazy friendly. i reported a bug and got a really kind 2 paragraph email back w/in 24 hours

any tips on how to friend someone in the game w/o linking to fb? I want to send mails! Also I want a knife & board b/c I want to cook sammiches.

knife and board is cheap, i think?

i can't figure out where to get buns yet, but board and knife are very cheap
i figured out how to set destinations last night and finally started open exploration. The world is actually pretty big!
i just bought a year membership; perfectly happy to support this.
a little worried cuz it looks like they're gonna reset everything once the beta ends and that makes me not wanna learn new skills?

make your own buns! spice from spice plants and flour from grain.

has anyone figured out the hairball miniaturization thing?

ah, i haven't learned that recipe yet. found the allspice last night
i found a useless shiny thing BEFORE i went to hairball land and gave him the one i already had. worked fine.

express entry is still open and i HIGHLY recommend ilxors get on board
http://glitch.com/fans/

Where can I buy the knife and board? I am up on top of the mtn which is mining country.

I got the teddy from miniaturization---got the shiny thing off the table.

I'm in - just did the shiny thing quest. Called myself 'Cindy Electronium' as I was thinking about Raymond Scott at the time, though I'm not so keen on that name now.

i'm involved in a new street project at patchi preech, but i'm too lameo to actually contribute anything

loving the whole skills thing. it reminds me of an old MOO-type game called Avalon where you had to learn all these different skills and they all had different proficiency levels

i don't know how you guys are completing this miniaturization thing. whenever i go i just walk around and there's nothing to interact with. just a sleeping cat to climb on top of, a shoe, and a table.

lol nevermind, i just found the hairball underneath the table!

what skill sets are you guys pursuing? i did the first two learning skills and am working on all the basic cooking stuff (saucery at the moment)

I've just had a bureaucratic nightmare getting my papers. Fun!

same here... sad to see it go too, even if I never went back to it.

i'm not surprised but RIP glitch, you were a weird game + fun until i got bored

Awww, that is a shame. I think the post-game game really depended on immersing yourself in the community, and while I don't mind a dalliance with such things, I'm definitely more of a solo player, so it wasn't likely to work out for me without further non-sandbox things to get up to.

Their reasons seem pretty sound for closing, but I hope the developers find something more sustainable to work on, I'd love to see more from them.

aw, i really liked this thing awhile back
that's the saddest corporate statement I've ever seen

That is a real pity. i went back to my glitch account after a year, having got the new-features email, and it was still super cute but there was still that feeling, as reddening says, that none of the skill or object acquisitions resulted in anything fruitful. I'm sad for the developers, who seem to have put so much love and thought into it.

just logged in now and started dicking around... there's loads of interesting new stuff immediately. Worth giving a last kick.

yeah, there's a lot more space to explore and a bunch of quests - it'd be nice to play the game out until it's shuttered.

A world where I can't play musicboxes to crabs any more suddenly seems a bit bleak. If there was some way to download just that part of the game as an offline copy and hoard it forever I would.

Just thinking of how I can currently download and play 99% of the beloved games of my 80s childhood to feel that nostalgic glow (there are only 1 or 2 games I remember which I totally can't find online) but the online multiplayer games of now will stay dead, not revisitable. Sad!

well, too little too late, but i just jumped back into this and they did a really great job fixing the intro and working on stuff. sad stuff.

if your business plan hinges on people wanting to play your video game for longer than a month, you might want to reconsider.

just reread the thread; so sad. It really hit a wall, huh?
also the answer to this being no is probably what killed it:

Does this work ON IPAD?
― Euler, Friday, August 5, 2011 1:23 AM (1 year ago)

in the goodbye note they even mention that going with Flash was a big mistake

I played last night and while there wasn't a whole lot of ~new stuff~ that I kept tripping over or anything (some new regions, new "memories", sloths + foxes are cute) I definitely felt like I was going to miss it, but unfortunately for Glitch I miss it as an abstract thing that existed for occasional dipping into, rather than a thing I wanted to pay premium subscription rates to play every day. and someone said on chat that it costs like 300-500k in server costs per month to run so yeah, those two things don't match up.

it does look really nice and sound really nice and stuff, though. RIP

(too bad re Flash, doesn't seem like there was any way they could have gone non-Flash at the point they started, and yet a year or two later...)

Kinda sad, kinda bitter post-portem interview (don't think I've seen so much swearing in any of Butterfield's others)

The time it took to iterate the game to the point where it was fun was a challenge hampered by production problems, says Butterfield.

By the time the shutdown was announced, "there were more things that were fun in an immediate and obvious way," he says. "It's not like we weren't looking for them, but sometimes, shit that you build, it turns out, it's not so fun."

I meant to follow "kinda bitter" with "kinda funny" but maybe that's inappropriate

kinda both

I don't want to pile on something that's already sad, but when he says people didn't get what the game was...I mean, I played a bunch and subscribed for a few months and I don't think I could answer that question, either. I had maxed out a lot of skills that didn't seem to lead to anything and had run out of freshly whimsical situations to encounter, so...where was my continued "in" supposed to be?

maybe it was "community and friendship" but I am terrible at those.

it just wasn't fully baked... but it was delicious cookie dough nonetheless

When you see people complain a game is boring because it's 'just clicking', there's usually something else the matter, because Civilization is just clicking, and Diablo is just clicking

Someone who has never played Civilization ^

Keita Takahashi's unfulfilled ideas for Glitch; some of these are amazing or at the very least fun to explore:

http://www.glitch.com/oddsandends/qis/page1

When baby is close to other players, players smile by compulsion.

Nice to see that a least a couple of these ideas were used (like making the progress bar less boring), I'm only about halfway through the list

Pouring one out for u boo

Someone at work today happened to sigh like a just-petted (or do I mean just-watered?) tree and I thought of this, RIP

http://www.glitchthegame.com/public-domain-game-art/
hopefully in five to ten years, this will be something you can play on your integrated google eYe

cool

http://revdancatt.com/2013/11/26/slowly-bringing-glitch-back-to-life/

The news that investors think stoot's new enterprise collaborative chat platform is worth a billion dollars (!) got me digging around:

These guys seem to be making some progress on resurrecting Glitch-as-was: http://elevengiants.com/

and I haven't played it yet (can't quite justify buying a new game when I've got so many unplayed) but kukubee did the art on this and I love the look of it: Road Not Taken (website / Steam)

didn't know there was a connection there!

kukubee did the art on this and I love the look of it: Road Not Taken

Aaand thanks to The Yellow Kid on the Humble Bundle/GOG/Steam bargains thread for alerting me to this being available on the Humble Weekly Bundle for $4.44 (at time of typing)

still haven't played it, will fix that in 5 minutes if it runs on my laptop, otherwise hopefully at the weekend

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

http://meowza.itch.io/the-art-of-glitch

thinking about this game gives me a slightly sad feeling
also, how much of my life did i give to this thing...

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/Slacks-error-actually-interactive-scene-defunct-game

god bless em

would've wept tears of joy if it had included a music-listening crab

http://pagesix.com/2015/11/05/robert-de-niro-drops-f-bomb-on-condescending-tech-mogul/

hah!

from the FT’s “six businesses finding an upside in the pandemic”

Discord is the kind of app that would normally drive teachers crazy. A gaming-focused way to chat using text, voice and video, it already had 300m registered users and tens of millions of daily users before the pandemic hit.

Then in March, just as Zoom was taking over the corporate videoconferencing world, Discord found an unlikely new role as a home schooling aid.

In France, state-provided online education tools struggled as traffic surged in the early days of the lockdown. Discord was able to handle the influx of users much better, making it a de facto alternative for many teachers.

According to App Annie, which tracks app stores, Discord jumped into the top 10 most downloaded iPhone apps in France during March, with similar growth in Spain and Germany.

By mid-May, it remains in the top 50 mobile apps overall in the US and several European countries, in many cases ranking above more established rivals such as Skype, Twitch and Google Meet.

That is no mean feat for a five-year-old start-up. Like Slack, the business messaging app that began as a side project of a video game called Glitch, Discord’s founders Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy started out building a games development studio, Hammer & Chisel, before moving into messaging.

The business has raised about $280m in private financing so far and is said to be in talks to raise new funds at a valuation that could exceed $3bn.

It is also racing to update its product to capitalise on the new demand beyond its core audience. In March, it increased the number of people who could watch a “Go Live” broadcast from 10 to 50, making it more useful for teachers.

GUYS
https://oddgiants.com/

haha no way!