Collaborative Online Gaming with Glitch

When Stewart Butterfield plans a new online game, it’s bound to be interesting.
After all, Butterfield co-founded the photo sharing service Flickr, which now belongs to Yahoo. Butterfield and his wife Caterina Fake invented the Neverending game in 2002. One of the game’s features was the user’s ability to upload pictures. At the end, the feature established itself, the game was discontinued and Flickr was born.

Now, Butterfield wants to roll out a new game. It is called Glitch, is currently being tested and should launch this fall. The scenery is supposed to be a utopian 2D environment in which players can collaborate to solve tasks. ORF Futurezone (german) mentions puzzles and gardening as examples. The latter has been growing in popularity for a long time. The special feature of Glitch is that individual players can influence the development of others.

Sounds interesting and we are anxious to find out which of the Glitch features will start a new project this time. :-)