Anniversary

[elf]

In my tiny home office, I have a page with all the emblems printed, 9 rows tall and 11 wide (because in order to fit 11 on a page, they come out 9 tall, shrug). At work, I have printouts of a couple of snaps in my cubicle: my first Purple Room in my tower snap and, of course, Autumn Day.

There are tiny bright spots on the internet--Startling Fecundity has locations as PNGs to explore; they also have the Calendar and a few other resources. (Right now, it's 11:30 am, Weddingday, 19th of Fever, year 33.)
Revdancatt has a walkable set of locations with chat, which is somewhat buggy but oooh I don't care. (Starts in Marrakesh Meadow by default. Not sure how to get to places that aren't linked directly.)

In process: ElevenGame is currently empty; it's "a project to create an open-source Glitch MMO server."
Children of Ur was building a platform before the resources got released; they should make progress faster now. They have a Google+ Group.
Dopiaza has released Glitch Run for iOS. Makes me wish I had an iThing. (I'm not getting an iThing for the sole purpose of playing a Glitch app. Probably.) I know there are other projects, both directly Glitch-based and Glitch-inspired; I am happy for all of them.

I watch the progress on the Art of Glitch book and Glitch Soundtrack, and I am happy they are both moving along. Yes, they are very slow; I knew the book would be, and didn't expect the soundtrack to be faster. I don't mind the slowness; I'm savoring the wait. Glitch is going to be part of my life for a long time; a few months delay isn't going to make a big difference to me.

I whistle the Groddle Forest Snappy Mix on my way home on the subway, and I look at the flickers of quartz embedded in the sidewalks and think, I'm walking on sparkly rock. It is two streets (with two alternate street exits) from my job to the subway station, and two more (with four) from the subway station to my home, which is nowhere near Groddle Meadow but might, by some accounts, be like Abbasid.

In my working and home life, I...
feed my pet snake and think of Humbaba
send emails to friends and think of Friendly
make a new bookshelf and think of Alph
hear a fragment of poetry, or a bad pun, and think of Lem
balance numbers in spreadsheets and think of Tii
feel the hard (sparkly) stone beneath my feet and think of Zille
fill my cup with cool, clear water and think of Grendaline
pet the trees on my way to work and think of Spriggan
look to the stars in the sky and think of Cosma
try a new meal and think of Pot
collect cans and bottles for recycling and think of Mab.

(Someday, perhaps, when I've much more free time and a faster internet connection so I can link to dozens of image-heavy sites without crashing my browser, I will write something about how much I loved Glitch's polytheism, how delighted I was that it had no "top giant." But that's for later.)

A year later... how is Glitch still in your life? What's faded; what's fresh; what do you miss most and what have you discovered is still present in your life?

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[alias_sqbr]

Weddingday, 19th of Fever, year 33

Ohh.... ;_;

I have been playing a lot of Minecraft and definitely thinking of Glitch as I do so.

[elf]

*note to self: Make 2014 Glitch/Gregorian calendar*

I'll probably just note what day the start of a month falls on, and the holidays; I don't think I can make a calendar with 6 days listed per box.

[jjhunter]

<3

I got one of those customized Glitch zipper pouches just over a year ago with my avatar standing in front of Glitchwidth, and I carry that bag with me everywhere. It reminds me that I am connected to other wonderful people in mysterious ways, and that being open to moments of awe and wonder is powerful & a lot of fun.

[jjhunter]

p.s. I also have a tendency to create on-the-spot whimsical Achievements for myself, especially when I'm going through a rough patch of some kind.

[untonuggan]

YES THIS.

[elf]

I have one of those! With my purple room. It's my current main wallet--has my checkbook (is just barely big enough) and ID & credit cards. I keep hoping someone will recognize it.

I also have dice, which I'm trying to figure out what to do with. And now that the art's available in nice hi-res form, I want to find someone to make Emblem cookie cutters.

[untonuggan]

I really miss Glithwidth.

[elf]

So much, yes. Glitchwidth got started just as I'd reached the point of "so... I can do Stuff. More Stuff than I really need; I've been everywhere and done all the quests and, ah, what's next?" And "next" turned out to be "crank out Earthshakers and Obvious Panini by the double-dozen and harvest grain by the bushel."

I also have very fond memories of the Glitchwidth mining party in the last couple of weeks, where a swarm of us trekked out (well, t'ported out) to Groddle Heights and cleared all the metal and sparkly rocks out of half a dozen streets.

[untonuggan]

I REMEMBER THAT MINING PARTY IT WAS THE AWESOMESAUCE

[j00j]

I listen to the Glitch music sometimes while I'm doing chores. It makes them go faster. Most of my alarm sounds are also Glitch right now.

I talk about Glitch achievements with friends on Twitter sometimes.

[elf]

For a long time, I could only listen to the music in little fragments once in a while; it hurt too much. (But I managed to put a couple of the musicboxes on my phone as ringtones, and quoin sharding is my notice that a new email has come in.) A few weeks ago, during the switch from glitch.com to glitchthegame.com, I tried to go to glitch.com and it wasn't there; it got some kind of error message.

My whole face wobbled. It was gone and I hadn't downloaded my eleventy-seven favorite snaps by other people and all the descriptions of the creatures and the furniture pages and and and... And then I took a deep breath and listened to the Groddle Forest theme all the way through, and thought about how much of it I still have. Now the music is all, "bwahaha, it's still here," rather than "aww, it's all gone away."

[frotz]

How is Glitch still in your life?

Any sadness at the anniversary is currently being more than overshadowed by the ElevenGame development work, which hit an incredibly awesome milestone yesterday.

Really, though, it's threaded in all over my life. The music, the outlook, the whimsy. The world needs more whimsy.

[elf]

ElevenGame is being developed on Facebook, right? With elevengame.org as a placeholder for when there's more sharable progress. Glad to hear it's doing nifty things; I'm hoping that all the "recreate bits of Glitch" projects will take off now that so many of the resources are available.

[frotz]

Eek, no. ElevenGame is nothing to do with Facebook other than that there's apparently a fan group there or something. All of the collaboration is being done on Slack, with git repositories etc. hosted on some private bits of elevengame.org. The immediate goal is to be able to release something that fills in the missing bits of what TS has released so there's a complete open-source Glitch. (...that won't actually be "Glitch" because TS is keeping the name and logo, but otherwise it should be the same give or take any other issues with the usability of other people's work.)