History VideoGame / Glitch

'''''Glitch''''' was a browser-based MMO game billed as a [[{{Tagline}} "Game of Giant Imagination."]] It was set in the world of Ur, which was imagined into existence by a group of eleven Giants. The Giants, in turn, imagined doll-like beings called Glitches (or Glitchen), who were the player characters. Ur contained a variety of opportunities and challenges. Glitch was conceptualized as 'an online game with no fighting,' and had elaborate crafting, cooking, and creating mechanics. Most of the game was focused on interaction, finding stuff, making stuff out of other stuff, and exploring the world. There were, however, whispered rumors of a threat to imagination itself, and after a certain series of quests Glitchen could educate themselves on that problem and defend Ur from it.

Glitch shut down on December 9, 2012 due to limited audience appeal, but the art, animations and client code have been released by the developers into the public domain, which can be found [[http://www.glitchthegame.com/ here]]. Additionally, in December 2014 fans of Glitch began a project to relaunch Glitch under the name Eleven, retaining many of the original's gameplay features and mechanics.

''Glitch'' was a browser-based MMO game, sometimes called a "Game of Giant Imagination." It was set in the world of Ur, which was imagined into existence by a group of eleven Giants. The Giants, in turn, imagined doll-like beings called Glitches (or Glitchen), who were the player characters. Ur contained a variety of opportunities and challenges. Glitch was conceptualized as 'an online game with no fighting,' and had elaborate crafting, cooking, and creating mechanics. Most of the game was focused on interaction, finding stuff, making stuff out of other stuff, and exploring the world. There were, however, whispered rumors of a threat to imagination itself, and after a certain series of quests Glitchen could educate themselves on that problem and defend Ur from it.

Glitch shut down on December 9, 2012, but the art, animations and client code have been released by the developers into the public domain, which can be found [[http://www.glitchthegame.com/ here]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: On November 15th, after the game was revealed to be on its last legs, the dev team began releasing unfinished and unreleased material. It remains to be seen what could have become of the game has the funding and circumstances been enough to keep it going.
** [[http://www.kukubee.com/Glitch/Actual_World_Map.jpg This]] map on the artist's website shows that the game could have been about ten times larger than it was at shutdown. Who knows what interesting things lurked beyond the borders of the game map.

** There's a region named [[Literature/{{Dune}} Ix, containing spice plants]].

* DrugsAreBad: Mostly averted. Alcoholic beverages, which included home-distilled Hooch, mixed drinks like Cosma-politans, and beer, were universally more helpful than harmful. Herbal mind-altering substances in their natural forms provide gentle benefits - purple flowers, for example, give you small imagination boosts and blur the screen a little. Glitches who had learned about alchemy could concentrate herbs into more potent forms, such as Essence of Purple, which provides an experience sort of like a brief acid trip, and boosts all stats. The riskiest substance in game, "no-no powder," behaved vaguely like a very safe, reliable, and useful equivalent to methamphetamine or cocaine. A packet of no-no provides infinite energy and mood for several minutes, a crash where you feel normal for several minutes, and then death.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Although gameplay is different, many ex-Glitchen have recreated their avatars and in-game communities in the browser-based game ''[[http://www.herebemonstersgame.com Here Be Monsters]]''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Although gameplay is considerably different, many ex-Glitchen have recreated their avatars and in-game communities to the browser-based game ''[[http://www.herebemonstersgame.com Here Be Monsters]]''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Although gameplay is considerably different, the browser-based game ''[[http://www.herebemonstersgame.com Here Be Monsters]]'' is considered this by some ex-Glitchen.

** ContinuingIsPainful: Unless you use the aformentioned "get out of jail free" card, you return to the surface with little energy and zero mood. Unplanned death can be very inconvenient, but since all energy and mood refills at the start of the new day and hell contains valuable resources, many Glitches died on purpose at useful times.

* RavensAndCrows: [[spoiler: The Rook]].

It can be found [[http://www.glitch.com/ here]].

Glitch shut down on December 9, 2012.

* AllJustADream: The world of Ur was powered entirely by the imaginations of the eleven Giants, and the imaginations of the Glitchen who were imagined by the Giants. The Giants imagined the world while they were dreaming. [[spoiler: The game ended with them waking up]].

The game could be played with a mouse and keyboard, and was built in Adobe Flash. The entire world of Ur was persistent and could be changed in a variety of ways. For example, an Egg Plant one Glitch planted in a public place could be harvested, watered, petted, or poisoned by any other player.

* TheAlcoholic: Friendly was the Giant affiliated with partying, beer, and mixed drinks. Mab, Giant of harvests, was responsible for teaching Glitchen the Distilling skill, with which one could turn grain, corn, or potatoes into Hooch. Many Glitches produced and consumed alcoholic beverages in very large quantities.

* DrugsAreBad: Mostly averted (you can go on an ''acid trip'' with no ill effects), but possibly parodied with "no-no powder". When you sniff it, you get infinite energy and mood for a few minutes. Then you die. (Unless you take another dose. Each subsequent sniff of no-no is shorter and death comes quicker.)

* GhibliHills

* GuiltBasedGaming: Don't water trees or feed animals and they die. This includes ones in your house.

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Completing the Tower Quest involves this.

* NoBiologicalSex: Tii.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The reptiles.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The rude bureaucrats who make you wait in the government offices for all Bureaucratic Arts related tasks are all reptilian.
* RoadApples: Piggies and batterflies produce dung, though it's generally useful.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The Kid's Room involves wordplay, and occasional sidequests involve platforming.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: You can raise pigs, chickens, and butterflies from birth. Feeding, singing to, or massaging them helps them live longer.

* WhaleEgg: Chickens come from eggs, but so do pigs and butterflies. In fact, they all come from the ''same'' eggs; it just depends on how they're seasoned. Yes, seasoned. It's exactly what it sounds like, and it's more complicated than it sounds.
* WorldOfPun: The world of Glitch is called 'Ur.' If you haven't already figured it out, Tiny Speck, the developers of Glitch, tend to make a lot of jokes about the players' "Urthly possessions" and the like.

''Glitch'' was a browser-based MMO game. Based in the world of Ur, it centers around eleven Giants who created the world. However, a corruption is spreading, and players, known as Glitches (or Glitchen, depending on who you ask), must help save the world. Although most of the time they just exist and interact with each other, being originally conceptualized as 'an online game with no fighting'.

The game can be played with a mouse and keyboard, and a unique aspect is players creating and enhancing the world in which they live and thrive.

* TheAlcoholic: Friendly.
* AllJustADream: The world of Ur and its inhabitants are dreams the Giants dreamed. [[spoiler: The game ended with them waking up]].
* BoringButPractical: Harvesting from animals and plants, especially at high skill levels, is a cheap way to get energy and food sources.

* CreationMyth: The world was created by eleven giants. Although unless the giants knew a lot about biology, the Ancestral Lands may suggest otherwise, at least in the case of Glitches.
* CreepyGood: The giants. Most of them look like they emerged straight from Lovecraft's fever dreams, and even the most relatively benign-looking of them have eyes in places where eyes shouldn't go and no discernible body shape. They're the beneficent creators of the world. Sure, they might be a little full of themselves and guilt trip you over unsatisfactory donations, but you've got nothing to fear from them.

** ContinuingIsPainful: Unless you use the aformentioned "get out of jail free" card, you return to the surface with little energy and zero mood.

* DrugsAreBad: Mostly averted (you can go on an ''acid trip'' with no ill effects), but possibly parodied with "no-no powder". When you sniff it, you get infinite energy and mood for a few minutes. Then you die. (Unless you take another dose. Each subsequent sniff of no-no is shorter and death comes quicker.)

-->'''Sparkly rock''': Everything should sparkle! Perhaps except [[Literature/{{Twilight}} vampires]].

Glitch will shut down on December 9, 2012.

Glitch shut down on December 9, 2012.

''Glitch'' is a browser-based MMO game. Based in the world of Ur, it centers around eleven Giants who created the world. However, a corruption is spreading, and players, known as Glitches (or Glitchen, depending on who you ask), must help save the world. Although most of the time they just exist and interact with each other, being originally conceptualized as 'an online game with no fighting'.

Glitch shut down on December 9, 2012

* DrugsAreBad: Mostly averted (you can go on an ''acid trip'' with no ill effects), but possibly parodied with "no-no powder". When you sniff it, you get infinite energy and mood for a few minutes. Then you die. (Unless you take another dose.)

* DrugsAreBad: Mostly averted (you can go on an ''acid trip'' with no ill effects), but possibly parodied with "no-no powder". When you sniff it, you get infinite energy and mood for a few minutes. Then you die.