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Glitch Is Closing

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Re: Glitch Is Closing

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Post by 89a »

vostrocity wrote: post #64
siaukia wrote: post #2

This saddens me on some aspects: 1. As a fellow game developer that published a game (and didn’t hit the jackpot). (We’re a small startup at the time launching our little game and it didn’t go well at all after a 2 hard-working year, about the same time when Glitch launched). 2. It’s the Flickr’s founding dream to create this, and if you read the backstory of Flickr, you’ll notice that the founder initially wanted to…

Perhaps this paragraph from a 2010 CNET article says something: Because Glitch is a thinking-person's social game, Tiny Speck is not aimed at the entire world, at least not at first, especially not teens eager for the next World of Warcraft. Instead, Butterfield admitted, "There's not a better way to say [who we're targeting] than people with above average intelligence and sophisticated tastes, in their 20s or early…

Said he was targeting that, but anyone who played it would tell you how utterly mindless the game was.

Literally was just wander about clicking and waiting for progress bars.

Re: Glitch Is Closing

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Post by 89a »

pdknsk wrote: post #46

I'm not familiar with Glitch, other than knowing that the creator of Katamari Damacy worked there. He made a post introducing the Vancouver staff on his blog. http://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_fh_diary&... They should put this on their resume. Picture taken, and drawn, by Keita Takahashi.

I was disappointed to hear when he joined there, knew it would end like this and would rather he build his own things.

Re: Glitch Is Closing

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Post by toyg »

atomical wrote: post #43
sirclueless wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's one. Even though it is more varied and complex than your average Zynga pump-and-dump, at a fundamental level it is still the same kind of get-on-a-treadmill-and-keep-walking sort of game, where the primary form of achievement is watching numbers increase linearly as rewards start getting exponentially farther away. You feel almost as used while playing it as playing farmville, which kills enjoyment. That is, y…

Your comment reminds me of this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089049/ "In a bleak,automated future Britain Bing is one of millions who pedal exercise bikes to create energy as a living. Their currency is merits,tokens with which to buy food from vending machines and which can be increased or decreased according to which shows one watches on giant television screens. A popular choice is 'Botherguts',which humiliates o…

thanks, I never heard of this movie but it sounds interesting.

Re: Glitch Is Closing

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Post by marknutter »

I played the beta. My impression was that it was beautiful, but painfully boring. I gave it roughly 15 minutes before leaving and never coming back. I really think they could have found out it wasn't actually fun to play before investing so much time and money into it.
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