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February 16, 2010

Glitch

Glitch sounds interesting:

Glitch is a massively-multiplayer game, playable in the browser and built in the spirit of the web.

And also:

What makes it different? For starters, it's all one big world. Which means everyone is playing the same game and anyone's actions have the ability to affect every other player in the game. It also involves very little war, moats, spaceships, wizards, mafiosos, or tapestries.

Why is it called "Glitch"? It's called Glitch because in the far-distant and totally-perfect future, the world starts becoming less and less probable, things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and there occurs what comes to be called the "glitch" -- a grave danger of disemprobablization. This results in a time-traveling effort at saving the future, going back into the minds of eleven great giants walking sacred paths on a barren asteroid who sing and think and hum the world into existence and ...

Which made me laugh.

Plus it's from a large chunk of the original Flickr team.