glitch: a wacky new mmorpg played in browser

http://glitch.com/
sold after watching the promo video

i'm in on the demo now. it's offline at the moment. will report back.

it's finally working. it's amazing based on ten minutes. i wish i didn't have a lot of work to do because this is all achievement unlocked with great music and visuals and natural gameplay and depth out the wazoo.
Seriously, everyone on here should try to get into the beta; it's feeling like this is going to be a wonderful fun game.

http://kotaku.com/5819504/glitchs-new-god/

Keita Takahashi, famed Japanese game designer and creator of surreal games like Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, has signed on to help the co-founder of Flickr create a new sort of massively multiplayer game.

... you can use alchemy in the game to create something called "No No Powder." The powder allows its user to get around needing to harvest energy to do things. The character can do anything he wants free of the constraints of energy, until the powder runs out. Then the character needs to find more powder... or he or she dies.

"Some people think we modeled it after coke," Butterfield says. "But it's more modeled after crystal meth."

this is up and running again. so addictive.

u got invites?

i don't think so?
oh fuck you have a part of the game where you have to go to an office of bureaucracy and a bunch of reptiles in bad wigs actually make you wait in lines for like five minutes!

https://twitter.com/#!/playglitch/status/90885683463462912
queue jump avail now!

seriously, everyone on this board needs to try this.
the reptiles in bad wigs are playing farmville instead of helping you.

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!

So where are these bureaucratic halls?

I think it was Gregarious Grange in Groddle Meadow. I'm having trouble finding any weedy patches to hoe for my achievement.

buy a house. they come with weedy patches.

I'm not sure I can afford that, even if I knew how. I can barely scrape together the cash for a bigger bag.

the cheapest houses are 1,000

［Glitch］ You're invited!

w00t!

tree hugger badge proves that goatse is still funny to me

the cheapest houses are 1,000

Oh cool. I'll see if I can find out how to get one, then.

I am Doctor Barf, and I'm green and level 16

gregarious grove (i think) has 1000 currant apartments. I'm on the 7th floor, stop by.

and i'm only level 6. i would play this all day every day if i could.

this sounds soooo much better than tiny towers right now (*adds 9th floor and restocks smoothies*)

ok i'm in, what do i do except pet pigs?

i have no papers, barely feel like a citizen :(

get some papers. really, the skills you choose determine what you're doing in the game. each skill creates a new quest to fulfill, and the further down the skillline you get, the more complicated/complex the quests.

on a related note: Mordy's Pot Brownies + Eggs Restaurant will soon be open for business. I'm pretty sure I decided to become a cook entirely because of the name of the giant associated with it.

This game is dangerous.

I am willing to expand my black market paper business fyi

do it mang

thanks but i got papers and some hooch now so i'm all good

gregarious grove (i think) has 1000 currant apartments. I'm on the 7th floor, stop by.

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:26 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

i'm in 730

er, 720

i'm at hummock meadow no. 1515, u can all come hang out w/ my pigs

I'm in 730. Ilx running this block.

i am the king of the common crudite

so this game is really fun but i can't imagine i'll be willing to hunt down a 100 eggs to make the recipe to finish the quest for Master Chef I ever again.

as you level up your skills, your efficiency collecting levels up as well. i harvest 12 eggs each turn, atm

So can you level every skill or are you at some point "committed" to a given profession a la wow

740 kids

you can level up every skill as far as i know but at some point it becomes impractical, and your time is better spent in the pursuit of one or another, i.e. alchemy or making crudites or tending your wanton flock of porcine wonders, all of whom are named Chad.

Just moved into 710!

So, how much of a timesuck is this? I don't have much free time or (probably) the willpower not to spend time which shouldn't be free on it if I sign up, but it sounds pretty intriguing.

it is much of a timesuck

damn you guys are really playing the shit out of this huh? i've only logged a few hours; wish i had more time or the capability to play htis at work.

i started two ... three test groups ago?

oh. i am jealous. y u no post here?

i didn't really know there was an ilx connection? it's been down except for a few weekends, which is good b/c it prevents me from burning out

remy, what did you mean about it not being worth it to try to get all the skills? Presumably by the time you're level 40 you've clocked enough hours to learn everything, no?

I haven't decided what to do with my character at all yet, so I'm just learning bits of everything and still wandering about cuddling pigs constantly. But the time to learn skills doesn't seem too daunting yet. I think I just don't want to go the easy path and learn the farming skills as I'm afraid I'll just end up playing an advanced version of Farmville if I do that.

Also, I noticed that there's a group feature - does anyone fancy setting up an ilx0r group and playing about with that? Or, if someone already has, inviting me to it too?

y'all I'm trying to actually finish Dragon Age 1 and I don't need another WoWesque time sink, stop making this sound fun

I fed bacon to a pig.

mordy, some of the higher level skills take 7 - 12 days to learn, and for a not-very-appreciable gain (say in jellisac handling, you get 3-5 more pieces/harest) it's a lot of commitment for a skill you're not going to use often/at all. i mean, the skill learning happens in the background so presumably given enough time you will learn everything but at least in early stages of the game specialization is key

i'm trying to become an alchemist but other than that i've mostly been running around squeezing chickens and drinking hooch. feel like i don't want to do all the advanced stuff now if they're just about to shut it down again. i'm in g towers 780 btw!

i am trying to become a king of bureaucrats but to get level 3 i have to get an emblem of lem which seems like a pain in the ass

also considering that level 2 got me a general building permit that i have no idea how to use its a little why bother tbh

Yeah, I liked the idea of becoming a bureaucrat but I have no clue as what to do with level 2. I found an emblem of something else but it seems like if I keep it I can get mood and XP bonuses every day, and it only unlocks Refining II, which I don't really need yet.

so this is an obv realization but you can dramatically increase learning speeds by donating high-value items to the god of w/e skill yr learning. i just halved the learning time for light green thumb 2 by giving over an emotional bear

Ohhhhhhhhh.

i think each god's emblem coincides with a skill unlock? i'm just now starting to get the hang of making butterfly cheese

pls lord someone send me an invite! I think my email via ilx is good .. st✧✧✧.bev✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ if not..

so apparently you learn/things grow even when yr offline. which sorta makes the whole onerous learning process kinda w/e

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

mayor jingleberries, does this thing still work? it sent invite pretty much immediately a few days ago.

it appears to be shutdown right now

I'm still in. Also just died for the first time and had to squish grapes to get out of hell.

I feel like I burnt out on this already. Like, first session I loved it and played until 3am. Then I started it up again the next day and I dunno, I suddenly found I didn't care at all about levelling up any further or learning anything new, or even exploring anywhere (because all those areas are pretty similar anyway). I guess the fact I know it's going to get a reboot before the game proper starts might be what killed it for me, cos the early stuff's all fun, but probably not fun enough to warrant a second play through.

I'm going to wait until it launches to give it a lengthy trial. I played for about two hours but it was fun enough.

Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm going to want to relearn everything from scratch once it gets wiped. Am having fun with it now, though.

By the way, the voice of God is currently telling me there's only an hour left in this test run, so if you want to get in there and fiddle with anything, do it now.

so apparently you learn/things grow even when yr offline. which sorta makes the whole onerous learning process kinda w/e

― g++ (gbx), den 15 juli 2011 20:07 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

some skills take like 12 hours to learn so the game would be unplayable if this wasn't the case tho

aw my first total day off in months and this is off is a big sadface

this was pretty cool - great writing and atmosphere as said, but essentially it is still a time and soul-sucking MMO. i don't know if I'll come back

Sadface that queue-jumping is closed now my big work project is more or less done and dusted. I tried to be virtuous and look where it got me! If anyone hears of it opening back up please let me know.

i'll post here if it reopens and i see it

the game is working again! Queue jump is working again!
http://www.glitch.com/fans/

they are allowing facebook friend invites and i just sent one out to a mr. c0b0

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/12/backpain-1292835351.jpg

i got two left if anyone's a facebook buddy and wants in, you need to register facebook friends thru glitch, etc.

hey noodle vague, just sent you an invite via facebook. i can also send 2 more out so hit me up

oh hi dere

go here dan: http://glitch.com/fb/

y r u no facebook friend

hmm have to do that at home, the Facebook is blocked at work for me

I have invited you via the facebook. one left!

I poked around for 15 minutes and suddenly realized I'd been playing for 2 hours

i am 'doctor barf' -- add me, ilx friends, and i'll send u some tasty pasta

so if i start an ilx group will anyone join/care?

yah

yes!

http://beta.glitch.com/groups/RHVB4RC7DO72G2D/

invite me
i am so hooked on this game, am frightened what will happen when it's outta beta

whats yer name again forks

blarggh there is no way to invite someone you arent glitch friends with or some such bullshit so i guess just search poxy and apply maybe?

thats kind of a dumb implementation tbh

invite me?

my name in game is the same as my ilx name

i joined

i can't apply to the group apparently?

friend me in game jjjusten

i have! also invited ho snap, gbx, cindy elect, and dr barf. cant remember who else of these people is ilx, so shittake? others? lemme know

xpost yeah we must not be connected, maybe mordy or somebody will be able to invite you then?

yeh, i'm friends with mordy

hah there seems to be no way to friend people right now since the game isnt running? thats dumb

yeah, the beta state still has some real frustration points.
it's amazing how DEEP this game is; i just found out about group projects wherein glitchers work to expand the glitch universe using their skills
and i've yet to even get alchemy. About fourteen hours in.

"According to their Facebook post, looks like the next test is scheduled to start Friday 7/29"
Well, that's my plans for friday then.

Yeah, just before the last test ended I was sort of getting bored with the farming/crafting aspect of it, and then next thing I knew I'd found myself in a tower where some spooky girl ghost sent me on a vision quest. Completely reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the game.

Is there any word on when this starts for real? Cause this sounds amazing, but I don't think I want to get into it and then have to start all over after the beta ends.

there's at least one more reset - but hell, it's worth it just to try out

invite me to the group dudes

My understanding is that the beta ends around the star of fall.
Inevitable reset is a little worrisome but honestly this game has so much depth and is so compulsively playable that I won't mind retracing my footsteps at all.

I was getting kinda bored too - granted it probably didn't help that my main skill line is meditation and teleporting - but then I decided what the hell, I'll take the subway somewhere, and realized the game world is LIKE HUGE

I played this for a few hours and yeah it is FUN. Never really played games like this before so am sorta just running around doing everything inefficiently. I like doing cheffy tasks. And I need to get my damn papers. Anyway can I get a group invite too pls. Same username as ilx.

who is cindy electronium?

she friended me too. i assumed she wasn't anyone from ilx...

That's me. Raymond Scott reference, due in part to the '50s poll running at the same time I signed up.

ahh, got it. i was secretly wondering if it wasjbr

it's funny, i was listening to the track on the spotify '50s playlist when you ran across my screen in bortola and i was all ...... whoa

^^^ none of that sentence is tangible, or cd exist 3 weeks ago

wtf signed up for the queue jump four days ago and still nothing

it's closed until the weekend

Back open...

so i think the beta is over as of this weekend? which means fresh start but open 24/7?

maybe i'm wrong

yeah i just did some forum reading, i'm wrong. nevermind. go back to spice tree harvesting

really want to play this but i'm not eager to play for a week (or whatever) and then have my stats wiped.

The way I see it, there are enough different skill trees that I can enjoy focusing on one branch now, and after the reset I'll start on something else. By the time I get round to learning cooking again I won't resent having to go through the same tasks. Plus it's just fun to play. It's definitely worth getting in now imo.

agreed. there's no downside. maybe you even get to skip an addiction!

if someone happens to have an invite, could they send me one? through facebook i guess?

are we fb friends? if so i can do it

just sent a request to you on fb

oh wait duh i prob cant do that until the game is live?

haha, no problem. if you ever get a chance when the game's back up, though, that'd be cool!

http://twitter.com/#!/isglitchopen

i requested a go. hmm this looks like a horrid facebook go-nowhere endless endless gayness to me. I'm open minded enough not to judge it just yet though. la la

this game is pretty much the opposite of horrid facebook go-nowhere endless gayness. it's surreal weird go-nowhere endless awesomeness instead.

tbf a lot of its appeal depends on how willing you are to be charmed by it... i eventually gave in, mostly because of the sheer amount of funny writing in the game

it reminds me of psychonauts, a little

this looks amazing

the writing really makes the game come to life

how quickly do they turn the requests around?

as soon as the game's live, you'll be in.

thx for the twitter link - rss'd

Up!

*tries to get in*

if anyone wants to hit me up on facebook, i will give you a spinach cupcake or something when i finally get in (i have no idea what actually happens in this game but i'm assuming i can make a spinach cupcake)

zs, are we facebook friends? hit me up via ilx mail and i'll friend you and get you in

cool, thanks! *sends message*

oh man, i've never made a spinach cupcake but there's spinach in the game and there are cupcakes so i don't see why not!!!

wait a minute, i just logged in and my character is at level 8. i thought you had to start all over?

friend me back and i'll getcha in

beta isn't over yet.

wtf, today is your birthday!? happy b-day forks!

happy birthday forks! i left a present outside your door

gross

Interesting that some offensive spells are showing up - martial imagination etc

I think that's to fight in the oncoming Rook war.

hey forks, sorry to bug you on your birthday (and when you're doing me a favor!) but were you able to send an invite? i get the feeling everyone is making spinach cupcakes and i want to provide!

zs, you have to connect through facebook on the signup page
then i can see you and add you

i have you as a friend now, but it doesn't see you as wanting to join

and thanks for birthday wishes!

zs, you have to connect through facebook on the signup page
then i can see you and add you

oh, duh! that makes sense. alright, i'll try to get on later tonight then. thanks!

reconsidering my decision to try out a million different skills when the next reset happens - it's cool to try out stuff, but you end up having to carry so many different objects, and it's hard to get very far unless you really focus on stuff

like maybe next time i'll just do animal husbandry OR plants/soil, but not both. the cooking stuff spirals crazy out of control

the crops and animal stuff seems more suited to solo play than mining/bog harvesting/etc., it seems

once you get like eight or nine bigger bags and toolboxes, that problem goes away.

i like being a cook

i also like just giving stuff away to random people. It's a good game for good karma.
Has anyone died yet? I'm tempted to do it just to see what happens but I'm a little nervous about it. I hear you have to get out of hell?

I hear you have to get out of hell?

not until you give satan a beelzebub BLT!

this game is so built up in my mind that i'm confident i can make a beelzebub BLT

i almost died thanks to not paying any attention one day

Beelzebub BLT quest SOUNDS like something you'd find in this quest.
ZS, go to the glitch page and "share on facebook" or whatever so i can add you already.

i'm at work and the glitch page is blocked.

i've died a bunch of times, usually crafting something and not watching my energy meter. you end up in hell and have to squish grapes to get out. yup

apparently someone tagged the page as "potentially not tedious and bureaucratic", so it's automatically blocked

bummer. probably one of the lizard people from the office of bureaucracy.

again, if peeps go to visit http://glitch.com/fb/ and are friends with me on fb i have 3 additional invites to hand out

i just did the facebook thing, hopefully i'm showing up now

wow do you have good timing! chk yer email or whatever

good lord this is addicting

welcome to our world

ugh this game sounds horrible, sorry.

ur forgiven. now go in peace.

mining and smelting and grinding and making elements holy crap this game

btw i am about to learn the teleport level where i can summon you against your will, but i promise to only do this to yall if i think it will be really funny it is essential to the game.

i have like a million quests to do but i just wanna mine and mine and mine

i'm learning levitation
and just got that attack thing

I dunno if this is useful to any of you, but I've found wandering around the ancestral lands you get much better quality quoins (for instance, ~60xp over the usual ~6), so it's worth doing that at least once a day to stock up. Though the bandits can be annoying.

I'm still uncertain as to whether I'll be prepared to start over again come reset, but I've definitely been enjoying taking part so far. I want to start learning the engineering stuff but I'm too tempted by the attack skill.

wait what there are bandits

i haven't even cooked anything yet! i'm gonna water the fuck out of a bunch of trees before i venture anywhere with bandits.

There are bandits! They are cute little things, but they want your stuff. You can fairly easily outrun them or jump over them but I've been in places where four of them appear at once, and that makes it hard.

Is it possible to hit these bandits with a hoe?

they stole my meditation ball, fuckers. i tried to splank one and it didn't work

BANDITS!
i have not met them yet!

this game does not cease to blow my mind

is the attack skill martial imagination and piety? cause that's the only one i've found yet?

Um, I think I may have just started a meth lab...

i love the word groddle

Oooooh I heard about the meth labs,

Does this work ON IPAD?

man wtf gwendoline

http://www.glitch-strategy.com/wiki/User:Victoria#Energy_from_consumables

i haven't earned the recipe for awesome stew yet, but man oh man do i have a hankerin

yeah, as soon as i get one or two short ones out of the way, it's time for that master chef one.
awesome stew is cheap ingredients and major boost; i could make a gazillion of those, start auctioning them and have a tidy cook business.

oh man, do it!! i'd be your biggest customer

how do i get the recipe for awesome stew? do i have to make 3 billion of something else first?

how are you guys making money? i'm trying to auction off minerals and copper ingots and whatnot but still i spend more than i earn on salmon alone

It's painful, basically all I can do is keep trying to quest and get the money rewards from them. Otherwise selling my random drops to shops.

yeah, i feel like most things drain a lot of energy and energy costs a lot to keep up. anyway test closes in 20 minutes if you wanna queue a new skill or somesuch

oh crap, thanks for the update

OH NO i was a minute too late, dammit

aw goddammit
why do they keep closing this on the weekend!

what dya expect from a bunch of dirty hippies

yay for once i timed stuff right and just started teleportation V!

fucker! that's exactly what i meant to do lol

we're back

reset?

no. still not yet.

Oh man grinding elements eats energy like a motherfucker

I refuse to do grinding or mining or anything like that. I am strictly a making food and queuing for papers guy.

I am finally on this thing! And I've already died once, cz my phone rang just as I'd gone in into somewhere cold, and I didn't realise that even though I was only on the welcome screen the cold was draining my energy and mood. Bummer, cz I had an almost full set of both before that.

you'll have a full set when you get back; everybody refills daily.

Oh, that's good to know. Thanks!

Do I need a patch I can call my own to plant things, or can I plant things in public areas? I met a seed-seller but didn't know if there was any point buying any.

best thing about this game atm is just figuring all that stuff out. take your time.

Fair enough!

but on the pragmatic tip to answer your question: yes to all your questions.

little bored atm - started learning Teleportation V, won't be done until Monday, and I finished all my outstanding quests

stop playing at work forks

called in sick today. am sick. am glitching.

Learned how to make awesome stew!

Gonna give up my 740 Gregarious Towers apt. soon - if anyone wants it, let me know, we can set up a thing where I sell it and you can snatch it up right away.

Nhex, have you worked on any of the street-building projects? They're kind of fun, but you've gotta be fairly high level to make an impact.

Yeah, actually did one last night! yeah, its tough, you need level IV/level V skills of everything. The key it seems to is to prepare beforehand, getting lots of raw materials and food ready. Of course, I didn't come anywhere near the the Top 5, but it was still fun to see so many people come together and work on the same project at once.

i'm about to try to buy one of those 50k aptmts.
got a long way to go before i'm level iv/v skills on everything

well, not everything at once - there are plenty of things you can do at low level - but the bulk of it, you need a specific level V skill to help, like Gardening V, Medition V, etc. if you have even one of those skills, it's worth getting in on it

meditation V? there's a meditation V?

nope, just buggin

you got me excited!

dudes i really love all the alchemy stuff in this game, making elements and compounds etc, def going to be my focus when it resets

history of the rook museum sequence gives some perspective on where the game is headed i think - everybody else already do that quest?

yeah it was pretty cool

my favorite is still a split between the firefly whistling and the gwendoline quest

The Rook thing blew my gourd, excited for when this gets aggro
have not done gwendoline yet.
I gather that the beta has content basically out to the point where you've maxed out all extant skills?
I really want that big mcmansion.

can I get in on this poxy fule group? my username is 'turd burglar'

i think you have to friend one of us first in-game, then someone can invite you in

xp there do seem to be a bunch of skills arbitrarily stopped (the ones which require "The Impossible Achievement"

yeah, i was gonna go for a 30K house, but thought, wtf - might as well go for it all - 5 PATCHES, baby

Is it incredibly sad that I've named all the animals in my back garden after favourite musicians?

nah, that's pretty awesome. tbh just the fact that you have animals and a garden is pretty cool, all i have is some crappy rubies no one will buy.

Donate them to the giants. You get a fair amount of XP and favour for the gems found while mining.

Current test ends today - queue up that skill!

when does the test end?

(like how much time is left?)

don't know, but last time it was noon PST

Someone in the forums says about 5pm PDT, which seems to be based on this tweet:

playglitch Glitch, the game
Only ~24 hours left in this test! We close Thursday afternoon-ish PST - there will be in-game notifications for the exact closing time.
17 hours ago

so basically I dunno

I am away this weekend so I guess this is good timing (as long as I can get my current short skill learnt in time to queue up a long skill next)

thanks for the heads up. just queued animal kinship vii

ah crap, all of my skill trees are blocked by needing to spend emblems of whoever and i am at work and should be doing stuff :(

there's a greasemonkey script somewhere that'll allow you to cue-up 5-10 skills in advance

oooooo dangerous

i'm done playing this until it reopens. i don't want to exhaust everything fun to do.

learned ez cooking 1 just because it was there

idk maybe i have too much faith in these dudes but i am pretty optimistic that they are going to roll out some fairly awesome stuff on the regular, so im going to keep cracking away - also this beta has def focused my ideas about what i would concentrate on in the next go around - def didnt need quite so much teleportation, def should have gone deep earlier on mining/refining/etc. i dont think cooking or gardening are ever going to really grab me tbh

see i'm exactly the opposite; obsessing over food and harvesting is what this game is about to me.

yeah having just discovered alchemy and contrasting that with the sheer amount of bag space taken up by cooking, I would definitely go that route first next time

although the ability to quickly reset my mood by grabbing a few ingredients and whipping up something fast is awesome

see this is why we need to coordinate our playstyles better, then we could have make our group into a coalition where ppl only have to concentrate on 1 or 2 skills

the big problem w/a refining focus is that grinding stuff burns energy like its going out of style, so i have to keep buying shittons of food or wasting a bunch of time petting random piggies or whatever.

so yeah what dan said

and thus we take our first steps towards becoming an actual gaming guild

*gulp*

well I'm gonna be the cook for this group.
Learning awesome stew kinda fixes everything? 2 meat, 2 potato, 2 parsnip, 2 onion, 5 beans, 4 potato, 1 saffron. 200 energy. 18 energy to make. I keep 80 of all the above produce and make as many as i can with meat/bean reserves everytime i find a produce seller.

in other words, find and friend me in game so i can mail you two awesome stews and you'll be set for food for two game days

I hereby offer to be the dealer. Making no-no powder is the only thing that's made me any money in this game.

how do I friend someone in game? I'm not on fb with any (?) of you so I can't do it that way.

i think its a pretty good testament to the game that we all are finding totally different things that make it fun

i am also intrigued by the musicblox - i enjoy it when crabs sidle up and want to listen to tunes

xpost i thought they mentioned adding a search function on the last update? havent looked for it yet though

we definitely need a dealer.
the things i'm finding that make good cash oddly enough are stews and cherries... i'm getting 24 cherries per tree, so an average board on parts of the world are good for 100. 250 cherries sell for 2500 on the auction board fairly easy so that's what i've been doing.

HAVE NOT MET CRABS YET
this game is pretty deep

lol I seem to run into a crab like every third zone

jjjjusten, you need to get your hands on some flaming humbabas. makes grinding so much easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZi_cW0bZJk

yeah i know i should use some of the drinks that make mining and grinding not eat up energy but i am too much of a hoarder

I love the crabs. Uh.

Is there anything groups can do besides have a private forum at the moment? It'd be good to have a central repository for food/materials/etc but I haven't noticed anything like that.

we could buy a big house, invite each other to enter and get a group place.
Just have to make sure not to allow other people in or else the safe gets emptied.

haven't gotten to the point of getting a residence yet; can those be used as communal storage?

xp: well I guess that answers that

inventory breakdown for me is one toolbox, one big bag for tools, one big bag for groceries, one big bag for produce/dairy, one big bag for meals, one big bag for cherry/bean/wheat/egg/meat, one big bag for drinks, two big bags for "stuff", one big bag for musicblocks, one big bag for bubbles/earth, one big bag for rocks, one meditation orb

"4PM Vancouver/San Francisco time" according to http://beta.glitch.com/forum/general/6351/

xposts oh man the crabs are awesome, I have been waving my hands around like pinchers and going "hey, man. got any tunes?" randomly at my bf since getting on this thing

i'd chip in, made some cash selling shrine powder. nowhere near the 50k you were talking about earlier though!

xp oh and boxes for spices, compounds and elements of course
why am i not meeting crabs? where are they?

Wish they'd hurry up and reboot this so I can justify getting back into it. I'm worried that by the time it happens, you'll all know the systems inside out and I'll be the irritating newb getting everything wrong.

there doesn't seem to really be any systems? It's all grinding, exploration, surprises and good design/writing.

I think I mainly meet them in Ix? But other places too, can't remember, sorry.

I seem to have fallen into cooking (though I am still pretty low level) because it had the most obvious reward tree, I guess? like, I learnt mining I and II and got myself some rocks and then realised that it was going to take another six billion levels to do anything with them and I didn't know what that "anything" was going to be anyway

whereas with cooking, it's like, here are 3 easy recipes for energy-restoring food, here is a quest to make 10 meals, once you've done that you'll get another 3 recipes and another quest, etc

but I've got to admit I'm getting a bit bored of the cooking, so, uh, hi! tell me what is awesome about your chosen skill paths, what you can make now you are a level whatever, etc (no spoiler-level detail, just a quick introduction to what you like about yr skillz)

Maybe I mean you'll have seen all the surprises then? Dunno. Maybe it'll all be fine and great!

Either way, I'm keen to get back in.

diversify with the cooking and it gets less boring. like with drinks and spicemaking and harvesting and animal kinship.

just started with cooking too and yeah it seems like a lot of work

ok i am literally just learning the shortest stuff i can so i am rocketing up the cooking charts

better learning 5 is a pretty awes skill

i have been procrastinating doing Better Learning, as soon as i finish all the gardening/animal stuff that's my next pathway.
then teleportation. then finally mining/alchemy/tinkering.

i think if i time this right, i might learn everything its possible to learn w/o using an emblem of anybody today

nah wait herdkeeping still takes 1 hr 45 minutes

Okay, there is still brilliant stuff. I just found a big rock formation that looks like a dragon that other glitches have turned into a shrine and left cryptic notes hinting at how to reach the seemingly-inaccessible top. Love these guys.

where the fuck do I get eggs?

the community is just so fucking awesome, it makes the game much more fun to play.

eggs are on egg trees. they tend to be in dark places like caves.

man I have no idea what Im supposed to be doing at the beginning.. Ive been beefing up my animal husbandry stuff but I dont know what it is Im supposed to be striving for..?

it's more like jazz than your average game

a good chunk of the game is focused towards exploring and trying things to see what they can do; the quests also do a decent job of pointing you towards how various things can become more useful later on

biodigital jazz?

*****for yr mind******

I can't wait until launch day when they're all "SURPRISE YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING EVONY"

collect some cherries, my lord?

less meth dealing in evony iirc

career paths as i see them: cook, ebay nerd, dealer, miner, alchemist, teleporter, wandering do-gooder, homesteader, bartender, farmer, gasmaker (maybe?), warrior monk, engineer...

cooking is a crazy amount of work and skills, seems to be the opposite of mining which gives you faster, better rewards and cash but is largely the same drudgery over and over again for grinding... depends which style you'd rather lean towards

also regret putting so much into teleportation so early, though i use it all the time, it's not really as essential as say, gardening I. also the focus orb is kinda useless at higher levels, though i guess you need to go down that tree for the rook attacks which is neat

queueing up mining IV for the break - though mining is boring, the money lets you do a lot more in general

mining 4 is great, but the rewards have been tinkered w/ since the last beta, and it's much less lucrative

gasmaking appears to be the least lucrative, least useful of the trades and skills

despite having more cooking/farming/animal skills than mining, I spent much of yesterday mining, because I needed some emblems and the shrines seem to like rocks and gems much more than anything I can cook

(it is a bit of a bummer to put some new meal which contains a bunch of ingredients and is worth lots of energy in a shrine and have the giant be all "eh... 2 points")

haha yes, the giants don't give a damn about your bbq :/

SOME giants do.

so did all the street spirits disappear? cant find any of them.

maybe there's a Radiohead show in one of the zones

I think all the people at the end of the world party are making my computer run a bit slow. ;_;

http://i.imgur.com/F4U4f.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzclVdVBQDQ

and more pertinent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JomaWE5Vtzk

wait wait, does that first video have a "drag ayn rand doll" moment?

that woman singing the goodnight glitch song was pretty funny at the countdown

http://i.imgur.com/UgsWD.png

more info, SPOILERY if you're waiting to see a rook attack in action in game:
http://glitchaddict.com/blog/2011/08/05/the-birds-are-back-in-town/

i enjoyed the end of the world party. i gave away a hundred lemburgers, i think.

got my invite yesterday and hopped on all excited to join this morning :/

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6233/creating_a_glitch_in_the_industry.php
"One thing that's really obvious is making a good single-player game is really hard. Making a good multiplayer game is like maybe not exponentially harder but much, like an order of magnitude harder. And making a massively multiplayer game is just fucking retardedly hard compared to either of them because it has to be fun in the minute-to-minute thing, and it has to be fun with other people doing stuff that affects the state of the game around you, and it has to scale."

^this is a really good interview btw

pretty interesting - pretty honest about how they're not sure at all if it's going to work or not, seems like he has more ideas about what's existed and failed and what he doesn't want it to be, than having a clear vision of what the game should be

http://glitchaddict.com/blog/

Back up shortly! "in a few hours" to be exact.

oh ffs. i need to get things done.

when this is 24/7 i will likely need to find new ways to balance my life properly

oh ffs. i need to get things done.

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:14 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

cindy electronium is a lady on the go

she tried to push drugs on me!

hot damn! 2 more days before Mining IV is done. gonna have to make me some shrine powder...

^ great resale value

okay, i bought the 50k house. come visit me at 2391 Navran Dissent Quarter in Alakol, Ur.
It's the new ILX glitch clan hideout.
House rules: Do not steal useful stuff that clearly isn't yours if it doesn't have a note saying free for the taking. Don't invite anyone over; I'm the dude with the keys and would rather not have copies I'm unaware of floating around. Leave things in better shape than you found them. You are welcome to any food you find lying around and to harvest trees, butterflies, chicken and pigs. If you take crops, please replant. Mischievous gifting of things around the house is encouraged. Thank you and welcome.

i may not be on much today. don't know how inviting someone to stay works. be patient with me.

yay forks

gonna come over and pillage my ass off help build the community

(actually this is gonna help me figure out these random planting skills I've picked up but haven't used yet, plus there's that annoying "harvest all 8 trees in one day" quest where one of the trees only grows in a private residence I think?)

nope, they all grow everywhere. The wood tree is just a solid gold bitch to find because when harvested it looks like a regular background stump.

cool, i'll stop by and drop off a few eggs or something. kinda just wanna get through this cooking ordeal as soon as possible, got so many different ingredients in my bag already and still it's not enough to cook anything decent.

i'll log back in later tonight so be patient if it takes me awhile to let you in.

I'm here!
come knock and join the house party

i like the building projects!

Oh no, it's going away again already? Was looking forward to a bank holiday weekend of glitching. (4pm PDT which I think is midnight Britisher summertime or 4 and a quarter hours away, says the rumour mill.)

In other news, I thought the 50 onions quest meant plant 50 packets of onion seeds, not harvest 50 onions, which actually took about 6 packets. I have a LOT of onions now.

wait its closing again bah

i have run out of skills i can learn unless i get an emblem of alph pronto

check your mail in the game, jjj

oh jk i don't have a spare one of those

hahaha

dick

somebody just gave me a pair of dice

i got a pair in the mail for some reason. you can roll them, that's about it I think

i also got them in the mail. i'm hoping there's a price is right-style minigame introduced later that lets you insert them into slots try to guess the price of a NEW CAAAAAAAAAR!

goddammit, it closed before i could slot a new skill
apocalypse is coming and i still don't have teleport 3

yeah that happened to me a lot :/ but this time i queued up Better Learning IV just in time

i'm a little afraid that when the full game comes out, and everything has to scale up, they're just going to increase the time required to learn skills. i mean, can they really keep adding enough skills to keep it interesting? it looks like you can get everything in a month in this beta

at the same time, hoping some 50k or 100k houses arrive in Chakra Phool, i wanna be an Herbaliser

is there any evidence they're actually gonna scale up the skill learning?

not at all, just my fear for now. but the game will ultimately be F2P, so they need to keep churning out new material to keep people coming... i think the temptation to extend skill learn time will just be too great, as pretty much happens with every freemium/time-lapse/social game

Maybe. There was a good interview with Stewart, somewhere, where he said that's exactly what he wished wouldn't happen. He's also planning on introducing temples sometime soon.

true... i'm also pretty interested in the upcoming stuff for upgrading streets, like you're going to be able to add individual features through customizable street projects and such

opens early afternoon tomorrow (wednesday) (or likely early evening for us east coasters), runs through saturday

when does this thing actually officially launch?

"soon"

last rumor i heard was end of sept. I think they did say there would only be one last character reset, shortly before launch

still wondering if I will subscribe. almost want to, just to support them, but I don't know if I feel like buying a bunch of clothes... or spending $5 a month for a vote?

i subscribed just to support

up!

teleport 3 queued, playtime queued for tonight

guys i started a "contentious" thread in the main forum. it's like ilx all over again.

hahaha really?

link plz

http://beta.glitch.com /forum/general/6753/

oh my god

i don't even...

there are some stupid people on these internets, huh

for real. what's worse is that i keep feeling compelled to go back and defend myself. i think i'm self-banning from that thread from here on out b/c, i mean, diminishing returns.

trying to decide if KANTLIPS should register how offended he is and how jokes and off color phrases have no place in the world of glitch

there's certainly no room for irony

I just read this whole thread and only have one thing to say:

ho snap
Posted just now by Ho Snap | Permalink | Edit

I am offended by any and all attempts to fill the world of glitch with "jokes" and off color references. This humor of yours will only drag us all down into the gutter.

Your friend,
Kantlips

<3

I feel like I should turn myself into the Magnitude of the Glitch community

pop WHAT? pop WHAT!

My thread got shut down by the devs.

aw, i finally died. It was something of a point of pride that i'd never gone to hell. lost it at level 25.

How do I shot web at this? Does anyone have an invite left to spare?

(don't send through ilx though, as it uses a defunct email address)

looks like its back up. just got an email.

LBI, i have invites but we have to be friends on facebook iirc? feel free to friend me and then go to whatever link there is for the facebook thing upthread. let me know when you do that and i'll send the invite

Ah thanks much JJJ, but I'm not on FB. Nevermind, I'll get on it when it launches. Scared by how addictive it seems tbh

You donated to a Shrine to Zille. You got a super super huge bonus! Your favor with Zille has increased by 30! You gain 7286 xp and gain 3005 mood.

^two fruit tree beans

two hours yo, ish

for a week, ish

(think this is all I post any more)

bah someone added this to my job's block filter

all I wanna do is start some skills, is that so wrong

Yay

yay that it is live, not that yer blocked dan

too late ;_;

yay that dan is blocked!

keep it up, John; you will sequentially meet me and Twin Cities pavement

hahaha

1 hour yo

this game is too addictive.

i just got the "golden shower award"
in the game, to be clear.

cubimals, y'all!

too addictive

i'm gonna be going through some kind of withdrawal when the reset happens, i can't imagine going back to harvesting 1 fruit per day per tree, compared to now with the 24 + bonus

cubimals are pretty sweet, but so expensive... gonna just keep chucking stuff into shrines to get skills learned

I want to go ghost hunting but I just haven't had the time to play this opening.

Ah well: http://www.glitch.com/blog/2011/09/14/the-last-reset/

wow. end of an era

holy shit, there are boards FILLED with discarded stuff
everyone's just throwing their stuff on the ground!

Haha, that's great. Apparently the community has decided on certain streets for certain types of stuff, so there's a street just full of herbs on Doon Way.

in anticipation of the reset, i dumped all my possessions and became a wandering mendicant. it was easy to survive in the populated areas, but once i wandered out into the boonies i was forced to survive on raw meat and eventually died.

i left the game with all my possessions discarded except my complete musicbox collection, released the butterflies and chickens from my house, walked into the hills, did a shit ton of no no powder and played all my music at once.
log out
game finished

i left the game with all my possessions discarded except my complete musicbox collection, released the butterflies and chickens from my house, walked into the hills, did a shit ton of no no powder and played all my music at once.
log out
game finished

^^^^this is like poetry

Reset done. Next text Monday! Come on nature kids!

pushed back to tuesday goddammit

but: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kukubee/6162061546/in/photostream

it's live again, and now they have an app that allows you to set a new skill to learn via yr phone/tooch. i feel like such a dork for getting excited over this.

great time to use this too:
http://glitch.li-ping.com/help_skill_queuer.html
couldn't get the FF version to work, but the Chrome one works like a charm

hm, mine don't work

remember you have to reload the "Home" page after installing the extension

so now that we're back, what are you guys planning on doing? do you have an idea of how you're going to hit the skill progressions this time?

I'm going to go mining/alchemy much earlier on than I did before

also not going to waste any time on teleporting until I have the useful skills

i figured i'd start animal harvesting skills right away, move into cooking which will be a breeze bc i'll now have super easy ways to get tons of ingredients, and then try out other skills (like alchemy/mining) that i didn't really get to before

i think i will start by really meaning to get back into this and then never bothering

Yeah, I regret that I didn't quite manage to try out alchemy or engineering or whatever last time, because I have no idea whether they're worth doing this time round or not. Will probably just play it safe and do things in much the same order as last time tbh.

I also regret that it didn't open yesterday (UK time) when I was on leave and as such I haven't been on since reset yet. Looking forward to getting home and glitching.

So the beta period is over, and this is the game game?

I think this is another beta round?

But once the game is ready, beta testers will keep their stats?

yes, no more resets

going for mining/animal harvesting earlier this time too, i also made the mistake of going into the teleport/meditiation/piety trees last go around

alchemy tree is worth it because a) you should already be doing mining for the money and b) shrine powder is both awesome for donations and straight up selling for cash

OTOH, i know i have to get gardening and in there somewhere

also, did Better Learning I and II, probably gonna try to do the BL tree first, if i can afford it (mostly getting the emblem for III)

gardening/cooking also kinda essential though...

Cooking essential to doing other stuff. Can someone give me the run down on mining/alchemy?

mining is a straight line, and you need Element Handling, Refining, Smelting, then Alchemy, Admixing/Intermed. Admixing (you can skip Alchemy II) to make powders

If I don't want to be a cooking specialist, how far along into the cooking tree should I go before I stop?

What do you do w/ powders tho? (Besides donate them obv)

shrine powder doubles the value of your donation. extremely hallowed shrine powder TRIPLES it

there's some other stuff like fertilidust (grows trees up a level), sneezing powder, sparkly powder, fecundity is nice, but they're more valuable as you're transfering your mineral assets to elements to powders (to money/donation)

IMPORTANT:
http://beta.glitch.com/forum/general/7482/

oh wait, that might not be true

man not liking the new shrine xp donation limit (only 500 favor per day, then no xp for donations)

WAHT

what's the point of the shrine powders, then???

Test ending in 3 hours already? I am a lucky person and only worked 2 days this week. What were the 2 days that glitch was running for? Fehhh. Though I suppose soon it won't turn off, ever, in theory.

(haven't had much time on since reset, kind of sucks the energy out going back to not having tools or ingredients or teleportation or a house, but on the other hand before the reset I was running out of things to do that I was actually interested in doing. Still, can't complain, it is cute and fun and free and I still intend to chuck them a few quid, I guess)

I'm glad I quit when I did bc I started playing when the test came back up and I'm already up to new material that I didn't hit the first time through

half-hour more before closing, time to queue up that 15-hour refining skill...

how are you that far along already?

i ended up getting 2 cubimals from the rube which helped me a lot... i think i got about 14 skills in the 4 days

quick poll: of those of you who subscribed, which option did you go with?

i didn't do any mining before the reset, but everyone said that's where the money is, so i've focused mostly on that skill tree. i've still got a whole bunch of basic skills that i haven't bothered with yet.

i also ended up buying a house pretty early into the new test cycle, and found i could make a nice trickle of money auctioning off "your papers" to people who didn't want to bother learning the bureaucracy skill.

i went for the midrange subscription option

what are subscriber only options and customizations? do i have to buy credits on top of a subscription to take advantage of this?

not really being sucked into this yet, but i'm just popping in and out to see if it'll click

also, are the only things to spend credits on wardrobe + vanity stuff? cause i'd love to throw this game some money but i really don't care about playing dress-up with my glitch at all.

subscriber options are that you get credits primarily so yeah it's mostly vanity
but you also get a ton of transportation tokens, which makes life WAY easier for the first few months of the game
and you also get vouchers to vote on game content.
They're going to ask the community to guide what sort of content they roll out and subscribers get multiple votes.
but mostly i'm just giving them cash because i feel like i've definitely gotten sixty bucks worth of enjoyment out of this already.

not a bad way of looking at it forks. i think i've definitely gotten $30 worth of enjoyment out of it, but I don't know if I would really spend an extra $20-30 on credits ever... kinda torn, but i guess i'm leaning towards option B for the silliness of being able to try a new outfit on every month

mordy, if you want to spend less, you could just toss 'em some money for credits and then transfer those to TP tokens (which you'll probably use at some point)

so i had read somewhere that this thing was reopening monday -- a) anyone know if that's true? and b) if it is, does it open PST at midnight?

I think it is true but I'm not sure what timezone.

The test was short and now it's done, but come back Monday for even more fun!

argh. well at least it'll be back on when i'm done w/ work.

they usually reopen between 12 noon and 2pm PST

OPEN

woo. just started on meditation 1 to get to teleportation bc while i don't care a huge amount about teleportation, i do want the one jump point so i can set it for that locked door cave in the caverns with all the sparkly rocks.

you gotta go all the way to TP IV for that :( as i did in the previous tests

so i got a cubimel box from the rube and now i'm trying to figure out whether to open it or sell it :/ what do u guys think?

i have never found the rube

I got one from the rube and sold it, because I'm trying to go for a 10k house first up.

i got the rube once, i don't remember what i ended up getting but i enjoyed the moans of jealousy from nearby players.

i am playing this now!

i have no idea what i am doing but it is so fun! and somehow every interaction i have with another player is a positive one, what's up with that.

launched!

with an app!

so this is open to the general public now, huh?

ps my name on this is xee, it would be nice to have some friends!

I have friended you - you should join the Poxy Fule group, though it is rather quiet.

just got in, my name is Scare Quotes

How do I join the ILX group? I am "Space Tiles" (game tricked me into unsightly capital letters by putting them on all its example names).

(not on right now but will doubtless be on again at some point this evening)

I can't find you in the player search, n/a. I'm Cindy Electronium if you want to befriend me.

The group should show up on my profile, maybe?

I'm Randolph.

I haven't tried it, but on the Account page it claims you can change your name for 100 monies (hopefully they mean in-game monies and not the for-cash credits).

I'm Doctor Barf

Maybe someone would be willing to compile all the names of ilxors and post them in an easy to read list like they sometimes do on the xbox 360 threads?

I'm Sunset Swirl

I'm forksclovetofu
it's all i am

I don't have time to play this, so instead I'm just learning skills even though I haven't used the prerequisite skills yet.

I've just found the leaderboards and apparently I am the 49th most travelled glitch. And just outside the top 50 for achievements. I really need to stop playing so much.

I'm 91st most travelled. 102nd most achievements and 130rd bigger supporter of Tii somehow.

still deciding if i love it tbh, it's not really tearing me away from Football Manager yet

spent a lot of glitch time squeezing chickens for their grain yesterday, and then a friend rang me up and asked me if i could look after his actual irl bantams on the weekend.

slightly worried that if i keep playing the game someone will ring me up and ask me to do some mining for them.

i've got my character wearing a party dress and sandals, and i'm always amused when i set her to mining or smelting something. it's all so wonderfully clean! i wonder if we're going to find out at some point that we've been polluting the fuck out of the giants' brains.

i got the rube again today! i love the song that plays when he shows up, i feel like a kid hearing the ice cream truck.

new skills!

i kinda got myself stuck re better learning. my learn times are so long for everything, including better learning, that i'm loathe to waste time doing better learning when it will take so long itself to learn. but now mining V is going to take like 9 days and probably 11-12 by the time i do it.

also, snapshotting is ridiculous. my glitch already has that skill. it's command+shift+4.

i am an hour away from finishing BL5, and I'm really glad. next up is teleportation

I made the mistake of not doing the higher-level Better Learnings until too late. Now I'm stuck on waiting a week for BLV. I think it'll be worth it in the end but it sucks not having any new quests.

i am grbchv! by the way

i kinda feel like (probably wrongly) that there's no point to doing BL at this point at all and I should just do all the other skills instead. esp since as far as my brain works, 9 days for a skill and 12 days for a skill might as well be the same amount of time.

I think with the way you're penalised for every new skill once you're past a certain point, BLV is worth it. Plus if they keep adding extra skills it may well be more like the difference between 9 days and three weeks by the end.

i guess i could take the next month off the game or whatever and just run through the BL skills. these new penalties are a little frustrating and i know they're designed to - i guess - prolong enjoyment of the game. but they seem to have miscalculated bc instead of enjoyment being parceled out over a longer period of time instead now you get a lot of skills early and then less and less the more you play until eventually you're waiting a week between skills. it would be much better to have them all take X amount of time and leave them like that. as it's currently designed ppl are going to become less interested the longer they play. (i may have over-explained that, but i'm not totally sure how to articulate what seems to me to be a fundamental design flaw)

God, I'm starting to get to skills that take two days. Can't imagine there are skills that take a week.

I kind of agree with you. I suppose it's a classic RPG bind: as you level and get skills, things are supposed to get easier. Yet to keep the player interested there has to be a challenge, so other things get harder. However, I'm not sure that extending skill learning times has the effect of an increased challenge, rather than an artificial obstacle. Having said that, though, I wouldn't mind so much if they hadn't taken out almost all of the non-skill related quests. I know it's not meant to be just a questing game, but without *any* of that motivation, I will get bored.

(That was to Mordy, by the way)

I made the mistake of not doing the higher-level Better Learnings until too late. Now I'm stuck on waiting a week for BLV.

Yeah, me too. Apparently they stop skills 20-30 incurring cumulative time penalties, which is too bad since I didn't get my first emblem of Lem to spend until I'd learned 40 (no idea how it got so high, the skill table still looks at least half unlearnt). Regretting my decision not to learn Mining: the giants do like their mining donations.

Meanwhile, Glitch got quite the savaging on RPS and I have to admit that even though I like the game I agree with bits of it.

I'm just glitched out atm, I guess, and everything feels a bit grindy to no real reward. Plus the screenshots reminded me how weird and pretty Ix and Uralia seemed the first time I went through and was charmed by Helga and the dancing crabs, and how the new areas are kind of dull and interchangeable in comparison, and got to feeling slightly bummed that apparently the designers would rather add yet more swampy areas and grey trees-on-crags areas with exactly the same wildlife and shops as the rest of the world instead of the quirky colourful stuff I had thought was the selling point. Oh well.

I am still enjoying the game and want to play it right now, and it bugs me that it takes so long to learn new skills. But that has the side effect of not allowing me to WOW out and forget to eat and stuff like that.

There’s a quest early on in the game where you have to go to a bureaucratic office filled with lizards obsessed with paperwork in order to fill out identity papers. To do this, I shit you not, you have to stand in line and wait to be seen. Just stand there, don’t press any controls and wait while yet another fucking progress bar fills up before the lizards call you forth. I don’t know if the developers think this sort of bullshit is funny, or maybe it’s supposed an ironic commentary on something like the sheer inanity of their game design, but it speaks of a sadistic intent that borders on the perverse.

That bullshit WAS funny. This dude is a moron.

yeah, if he doesn't get that (or the kafka reference) he's missing much of the point of the game.

There’s a storyline that takes place in The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman, the third part of the Dark Materials trilogy...

Almost stopped reading at this point...

I read that RPS review, but the reviewer lost any and all credibility with me for not getting the hell and bureaucratic lizard jokes.

In Chapter 22 of EM Forster's Howard's End, Margaret Schlegel exclaims, "Only connect!" But despite claims from Microsoft to the contrary, Kinectimals doesn't.

true re bureaucratic lizards. My other half only plays FPSes and rolls his eyes at me playing Glitch, i.e. possibly RPS target audience, but even he laughed when I showed him the lizards.

I think what I mean is "hey guys, this is a rubbish review, but I've been bored of Glitch this week unrelatedly, make it seem exciting plz".

(I had a few days off work last week and spent most of them on the sofa harvesting virtual cherries, so that might be why I'm burnt out)

My feeling is ... when you get bored, play something else!

I do agree with that, but... have you tried any of the community aspects? I joined the New Streets and Rook Attacks groups and have their chat rooms up in my sidebar so I get alerts when those things are happening (even though all I can do against the Rook currently is revive fallen creatures and add another click to the orbs of those with more skills). If you feel under-skilled for those you could buy tickets for the races or the game of crowns? Though I remember you said you had difficulty with jumping, so that might not be for you either. Or perhaps we could come up with an ilx group goal/activity?

Which reminds me - apparently they tested group area building just before the reset, so that's something to look forward to... hopefully will come soon.

I did some street projects in beta and they were fun, if a money-pit. Need more meditation skillz for rook attacks iirc. Yeah, I should probably investigate my Steam backlog instead of just refreshing ILX and the Glitch forums.

Just read the comments on that RPS interview and got a bit riled at the "there's a difference between people who play games and Gamers, for whom the history, legacy and culture of our passion is equally as important as the games themselves" thing was some bullshit. iirc trying to talk about computer game history with real gamers gets you a "stfu that older-than-last-week shit is ghey, who cares, grandma". Time to turn off the internet.

i don't know how ppl call themselves real gamers if the only game they play is call of duty. real call of dutiers more like it

yeah, RPS crowd can be a little singular, disappointing i must say, but inevitably happens to any growing site community I guess

it takes so long to do these skills - I finished BL V on Monday - but why stop playing? I'm still mining, farming, cooking, doing quests, raising levels, donating to Zille to get Mining IV done more quickly -- sadly you can only take 3 hours off your learning time per game day, but with shrine powders it ain't too bad at all

3 hours off your learning time per game day

D'oh! I was getting frustrated that it seemed to only let me take three hours off a 7 day skill, but I thought that was three hours *in total*. Never occurred to me to try again the next day.

been playing over the last 48 hours. name for better or worse is Mr Spittles, it seemed to suit the avatar... I'm still not sure if I like it , but it is horribly compelling in a WoW-meets-Club Penguin kinda way.

hooray I have an invite from a certain Cindy Electronium to join the POXY FULE group. whatever that means.

it's the ilx group

Yep, that's me inviting you to the ilx0r group.

They seem to be having some internal problems at the moment, just as I was wanting to go back in after not having played for a few days.

yes I know really! it was a roundabout way of saying "ta for the invite" . I'll see you on there if the thing starts working.

Aha, sorry, was being slow.

hello ILx, I was going to join up the group, but I see you need to send me an invite. So... please do! If you'd like. My user name is Big Pecks (after my poor deceased Tailow from a Pokemon Emerald nuzlocke run) - I hadn't quite thought through what it would what it would be like, to be perceived as "Big Pecks" in an MMOPRG - but hey, it makes a change from "twee fvckery", or whatever I'd usually call myself I suppose!

Learning Mining IV at the moment, it is taking the looongest. Final 24 hours of it though! Then it's either onto Better Learning V (argh....) or some of the Refining ones, with the aim of creating better donations for the gods, so Better Learning V can be sped up as much as possible by grinding for Lem.

Did you know, it turns out pigges can die? HORROR :(

invited you!

Did you know, it turns out pigges can die? HORROR :(

You don't know horror until you've heard poisoned trees begging for their lives.

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe. a pig exploding off the shoulder of Mallos Means. I watched a poisoned tree beg for his life in the dark near Kadithima gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like butterfly milk in rain.

POISONED TREES???

http://i31.tinypic.com/ao455g.jpg "dot gif" etc etc...

*rocks back and forth humming to a piglet*

You wouldn't catch that sort of behaviour going on in the mines where everyone is a Good Egg and only after the sparkly (I really feel I should just join a sparkly hunter clan and quit my job - I must never play any pay-for mmorpgs I guess).

so i've stopped playing this completely except that whenever i get an email that i've finished a skill i queue up another skill (the one that takes the longest to learn). i guess soon i'll know all the skills and then maybe i'll feel like playing again?

heh, unfortunately me too.
i think i can see this being something i'll come back to at that point though.

i never really got back into it after the reset

got all the skills. now what?

I've kind of taken a bit of a break - partly because I've barely been at home for the last couple of weeks, but to play it properly it is a bit of a timesink. Basically, there are a few things that people always suggest when you come to a standstill:

a) street building projects/rook attacks - fun, but rare enough to mean that if you concentrate solely on one of these you'll be bored for ages while waiting for them.

b) playing the market - I don't consider this to actually be fun at all, so... meh. Good if you like that sort of thing.

c) collections - cubimals, music boxes, icons. Again, it kind of depends on whether you like that sort of thing: personally I can see the fun side but it's very much the sort of thing I'd only go for once I run out of everything else to do.

d) achievements - there are bloody loads of these, so getting them all can be a good long-term goal.

e) sandboxing - player-generated quests, philanthropy, cubimal racing, dice games, role-play, treasure hunts... and pretty much whatever else you can think of to get up to. This is the direction I was heading in before I took a break, and it can be very fun indeed, but I think it needs some investment in the game and community before you see a point to it.

They haven't implemented group areas yet, have they? I don't know if our little gang of poxy fules will be active enough to really get going with it but I'm still quite excited by the prospect.

group areas don't exist yet, but they just added a key system where you can create keys to grant permanent access to your home to people

i've heard they're making new long term goals

anyone still playing this? i haven't gone on in about a month, since they announced they were going back into beta.

i still login every couple days or so and switch to a new skill to learn

that's it tho... for all i know they've since repossessed my house. (all my piggies blew up a long while ago)

i switch out my skills every time i burn out one.
my ex is now level 54. apparently slocki still plays? Is that right?

she is like my Glitch BFF btw

I've been dipping back in a bit recently. Trying to keep it to a tea-time break level of gaming, though. Since I stored up a bunch of quests related to skills it's been a bit easier to keep a focus, but I dunno...

Nhex! Not slocks. Nhex.

heheh!

whoa, logged in and found like 10 new quests, they finally started to fill in quests for the later skills

http://www.glitch.com/ballot/animals/

How do I get into this, invite?

so this is shutting down:

http://www.glitch.com/closing/

i enjoyed playing it when everyone was into it last year, but i definitely hit a point where there wasn't much "game" left and all the leveling up and skills acquisition didn't result in anything particularly fruitful. i don't know if that improved after i stopped playing, but i guess it doesn't matter now.

Aw, RIP even if I haven't played for a year for much the same reasons as you. They sent me an email a month ago saying they had new features which I meant to come and have a look at... but just haven't had time.

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!