Glitch desert
On Tuesday, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and three partners, as well as a small staff of full-time employees and contract illustrators and writers, are publicly announcing the online social game, Glitch, that they've been developing since last March. Their start-up, Tiny Speck, has been largely under the radar since its founding last March.
Since May, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman has been visiting with the team for a behind-the-scenes story about the project.
This gallery contains a series of concept images from the game's development, as well as screen shots from the latest versions of Glitch, which is scheduled to go into private alpha testing starting Tuesday.
The game takes place inside the memories of 11 giants, far in the past, and players must try to grow a bright future through a series of puzzles, quests and social interactions.
A very important element of the game is its many aesthetic styles, each of which was created by a different illustrator.
This image, like several others in this collection, is one of several illustrations compositions in development that Tiny Speck is considering or is in the process of building out as location styles in the game.
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