∞ A Flickr Founder’s Gaming Start-Up to Release Glitch
From NYT.com :
Stewart Butterfield helped found Flickr, the popular photo site later acquired by Yahoo, as a backup. Originally, he had set out to build an online video game, but then detoured when he failed to find investors.
Now, six years later, Mr. Butterfield, made wealthy by the sale of Flickr, is back to video games. Tiny Speck, his start-up, is testing its first game, Glitch, with more than 5,000 users.
Glitch is what gamers call a massively multiplayer game, which lets many people play online at once. In Glitch, characters, or avatars, appear onscreen in a fantasy world, inspired by and wood block illustrations, that includes giants, chickens and underground mines.
