Woooohoooo! At midnight last night, the press embargo was lifted and we announced that Tiny Speck is building a web-based game called Glitch. The short of it: it's a web-based massively multiplayer game mostly in Flash — think World of Warcraft meets Super Mario Bros crossed with a mishmash of online social games and a splash of Dr. Seuss. Check out the teaser trailer and stick your name into the form to get in for early access to the game. I can't wait to let players in to kick the tires.
Daniel Terdiman, a CNET journalist, has written a series of articles explaining the backstory to the game's development. He had great access to Stewart during the past months and the articles give an insightful look behind the scenes.
I'm super excited that we've launched two new sites with two new logos at the same time last night. The Tiny Speck corporate site has been updated and Glitch is now live. For now, both sites are nice, concise one-pagers. It's a lovely challenge to create something unique and concise in the one-page format. I love designing with constraints and that's what one-page-sites are all about.
This was also one of the first times I've started using more CSS3 in public. I've been warming up to RGBA, rounded corners, minor transforms, and advanced selectors more and more. Hopefully we'll have time for a solid practical discussion of these techniques at my workshop next week in Wellington, New Zealand, at Webstock!
Comments
martina - February 9, 2010 4:05 PM
cool! Count me in as an early tester.
Johan Bakken - February 9, 2010 4:46 PM
Hey, Daniel. Great work! I hope Tiny Speck and Glitch are both great successes.
(Posted a short writeup on Styleboost. Hopefully it will drive some traffic.)
Commander Tim - February 9, 2010 7:34 PM
I noticed that the rounded corner hovers made it onto the Glitch site. I love the look (and feel) of both sites. Very much carrying on your signature style.
Nick - February 10, 2010 7:40 AM
Both sites look awesome. Looking forward to trying out the game.
Bastien - February 12, 2010 11:47 AM
I haven't noticed that the TinySpeck website has changed. It's gorgeous!
Joanne - March 13, 2010 6:47 PM
both websites are beautiful. can't wait to play with it...
Diligent One - July 13, 2011 10:01 PM
I see the game is still in development and due to be released sometime this year, can't wait to try it out as it looks pretty unique in terms of the MMO genre and it also looks like a heap of fun!
Matt Horn - July 13, 2011 10:09 PM
Looks like a heap of work has gone into this one mate, best of luck with the launch - count me in :D