{"id":3799,"date":"2010-03-02T07:13:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2010-03-01T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:26:38","slug":"glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3799","title":{"rendered":"Glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/glitch-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"Glitch Artwork\" title=\"Glitch Artwork\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Despite severe misgivings over playing any computer game called <a href=\"http:\/\/glitch.com\/\">Glitch<\/a>, I have to admit that it sounds intriguing.  It&#8217;s a browser-based massively-multiplayer game scheduled to launch late this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>What makes it different?<\/b><br \/>\nFor starters, it&#8217;s all one big world. Which means everyone is playing the same game and anyone&#8217;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. Also: we have egg plants. Egg plants make it very different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;plot&#8221; (such as it is) sounds quirkily entertaining:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Why is it called &#8220;Glitch&#8221;?<\/b><br \/>\nIt&#8217;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 &#8220;glitch&#8221; \u2014 a grave danger of disemprobablization.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8230; you know what? You&#8217;ll probably just have to wait and play the game :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently it&#8217;s also less of a kill-the-orcs sort of a game and more of a collaborative worldbuilding effort.  A private alpha test is scheduled to begin shortly, and they&#8217;ll have a public beta this summer.  You can enter your email address at the site to &#8220;get early access,&#8221; presumably for the beta.<\/p>\n<p>They promise to have a blog shortly, and you can follow the game&#8217;s progress on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/playglitch\">@playglitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdumbobject.co.uk\/\">Big Dumb Object<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite severe misgivings over playing any computer game called Glitch, I have to admit that it sounds intriguing. It&#8217;s a browser-based massively-multiplayer game scheduled to launch late this year. What makes it different? For starters, it&#8217;s all one big world. Which means everyone is playing the same game and anyone&#8217;s actions have the ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}