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found in someone's tower (aka, Etsy)

Hello, Glitchen diaspora!

Some Glitch mementos available over on Etsy. Giants emblems and tinctures! I got myself a full set of the mini tinctures. Sure could use some essence of yellow crumb right about now.

Glitch-style Achievements in other contexts

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this: What might 'Achievements' look like on Dreamwidth?

On a related note, back in December I wrote up some possible Glitch-style achievements for love meme participation; slightly revised versions are as follows:

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Does anyone have any suggestions for names / descriptions in the same vein for other types of participation? For example: a.) self-nomination; b.) leaving a pride comment on one's own thread; ( i.e. ) c.) signal-boosting the meme as a whole; d.) pointing people to one's own thread; e.) ????????,

Also, if any of you have any ideas re: potential visuals / symbols for any of these (perhaps recycling/revising some of the badges from Glitch with credit?), I'd be grateful for that too.

The more apt question

Does anyone not want their Glitch username associated with their love meme index line (present or possible)?

Priorities: I Haz Dem

I have 4 paralegal homeworks due by Saturday evening, a cluster of tabs on the love meme that I want to reply to, a dozen projects at work that I need to track down billing info for... so what have I accomplished today?

A rough outline for a solitary board-and-dice game using the glitch dice and regional maps.

It involves traveling the lands and collecting resources and rolling dice to try to match the shrines. It wins by clearing all the resources on the ancestral lands. I haven't begun to figure out how to make it into a two- or multiplayer game, but it needs that, because as a solo thing it's kinda nostalgic but also kinda pointless.

I need a set of regional maps with the symbols of the giants in place of the generic shrine symbols. (Well, for some values of "need.") I'll probably have to make them. (AFTER I get the paralegal homework done. After. I'm gonna keep repeating that part in my head.)

Anyone got a handy list of all the "quoin regions" that didn't have shrines?

HTML workaround for displaying Glitch usernames on Dreamwidth

By the way, if you want grabbable HTML for displaying Glitch usernames like

jjhunter, check out this post at my journal.

prettyyy

Did any of you get dice from the indiegogo thing?

They're SO ADORABLE. Now I just need a game to play with them.

Words and Deeds Appreciation Glitch-Style

As I wrote in a similar post over on

glitchwidth, a comment on the current words and deeds love meme this morning reminded me how much I've appreciated the Glitch-related words and deeds of various DW folks.

I'd love to leave comments to that effect on people's threads, but I'm not very good at keeping track of who's who's when people's Glitch usernames differ from their DW usernames, and I bet I'm not the only one. Comment on this post with your Glitch username, and I'll add you to the informal alphabetical-by-Glitch-username index below.

( Index of who's who's from Glitch behind the cut )

Let's find each other on the meme and remember all the awesome stuff we did and said and shared in Glitch.

p.s. if you want your Glitch username added to your love meme index line, just ask in the comments here or at the meme admin post. ETA: Please include a link to your Glitch profile in your request.

Glitchy guild in TUG

TUG got its Kickstarter funding (has a few hours left, if anyone wants to join, and apparently there'll be paypal options soon), and despite a few dust-ups in the forums, a few of us are content that the devs are listening to the options some of us want: agendered characters, in-game disabilities, characters of color, and the ability to pick settings to opt out of player-vs-player combats.

I've started a Glitchy guild. I have no idea what a "guild" really does in MMORPGs, but I at least want the option of distributing appropriate emblems to former glitchen so we can recognize each other.

( Arborum Mulceatorem: Petter of Trees )

Feel free to correct my Latin, which was done with the help of Google Translate; I know how accurate that's likely to be.

Notes from WisCon Glitch Memorial panel

Is it OK to link to an LJ post here in DW? I hope so...

http://wiscon.livejournal.com/389621.html

Current Music: 1322689572-Also_Sprach_Zarathustra_Loop_3.2_fades.mp3

Wiscon 2014: party?

We had what I thought was a fun (if sometimes somewhat disjointed) panel about Glitch at Wiscon last night. (Writeup separately forthcoming!) The idea I was left with, though, after we spent at least as long talking in the lobby afterwards: how about having a party?

Anyone else interested? If you have experience at hosting con parties, do you think it'll fly? Cooking and Cocktail Crafting anyone?

This, though, leads to the really important quesiton: WHICH PARTY PACK?

Studio Tour // Interview with Danny Simmons re: the Music of Ur

From the Glitch Soundtrack blog: Voluptua Sneezelip’s Studio Tour

Q: How did Danny come up with the tunes?

A: Much of the music was developed from looking at images of the street backgrounds/landscapes for each area, though he also took his cues from the geography of Ur as a whole (more on that in a minute). He’d use different landscape elements as inspiration for elements in the music. In the firebogs, he even factored in the campfires and firepots and developed sounds for those. Every piece of music is built out of many, many individual sound files that are repeated or faded in and out. Some of them are so subtle that you almost don’t hear them until he turns them up and you become more aware of them.

Danny thought of the music of Ur as being its folk music, complete with regional variations tied to geography [...]

Spry, makers of Triple Town, hire Kukubee for Road Not Taken art

Road Not Taken is a rogue-like puzzle game. You can see art previews!

Kickstarter for TUG: a game with Glitchy aspects

The blurb says "TUG is a multiplayer open-world sandbox-RPG using new technology and social sciences to directly involve players in the game’s design." It's by NerdKingdom, about which I know absolutely nothing other than "I like their art style."

TUG looks heavy on world-building, heavy on stories to discover rather than having them fed to you, heavy on "your choices affect both you and the world around you," light on combat. (There is combat. It's not mentioned in the ad-trailer, and it's not one of the pitch points.) The art is a simplified high-fantasy style.

( If that sounds interesting, there's more. )

Glitch, the text adventure

Rev Dan Catt has taken the region of Alakol and made it into a text adventure: Text Glitch. Not much you can do yet, but you can travel around the map and examine stuff.

Also, I just want to say that I'm surprised at how much I'm missing Glitch, as towards the end I had been becoming a bit bored with it. I realise now just how unique Glitch was. I mostly miss how colorful and cute it was. I really wish I could play it again.

Zilloween!!

Year 28 Zilloween: April 14th, 2013/Remember 25th to April 16th, 2013/Remember 37th

This is Zilloween, this is Zilloween, a holiday (which, for some reason, people tend to repeat) in honor of Zille. A time for costumes, seasonal foods, for gifting candy, and the only time when pumpkins can be grown and carved into lanterns: Zilloween Zilloween, Zilloween Zilloween!

Several nations of the region of Glitch are celebrating the holiday, frantically planting and harvesting pumpkins and wandering far from home to distribute candy to strangers. (Well, not so much actually doing these things, as writing dispatches about them. Nationstates.net is a text-based politics RPG.)

( What some of us are doing )

Glitch Memorial Panel @ Wiscon 2013

Anyone planning on attending? I can't go to Wiscon this year myself, but I'd be interested in hearing about what gets discussed. Panel description¹ behind the cut;

ellen_fremedon will be one of the panelists.² ETA: as will

j00j!

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oyceter: Wiscon 2013 programming, first look!
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ellen_fremedon: My WisCon schedule

Today's the day, pick your outfit and say your last!

If you've been hiding in denial, you may not have noticed the notice on glitch.com, but they've announced the date for the shutdown of much of the remaining site, and it's the 25th. (Today, more or less, though I haven't seen an exact time anyplace.)

Everything interactive is going away, but the encyclopedia, the snaps, and the profiles will be there for the long haul.

If you have any last words or snaps to publish, now's the time!

[cross-posted to glitchwidth]

Unreleased Stuff

Little Poundcake has been posting snaps of unreleased/unfinished. locations: click here if you wanna see them.

Edit: also lots of nifty stuff from devs in this forum thread. How much do I miss the temples we never had a chance to build? A whole freaking lot!

A song by Theremina Lute

I had a sudden need to find this song to hear it again & while I was there I figured I should post it here, just in case anyone hadn't had a chance to listen..

Giant Lullabye by Theremina Lute (can leave feedback here!) She has a lot of Glitch songs. Soundcloud does not appear to be loading well at the moment, but I'm sure it'll be back later.

Glitch music and wallpaper downloads

In case folks didn't know: Tiny Spark made a lot of the game music available for download. You can find it at their downloads page. There's some fabulous wallpaper available on that page as well.