I had been looking forward to a weekend-long test since i began playing glitch and holy groddle pig crap was it amazing. From day 1, i knew that Glitch would be an amazing game. I realized its possibilities and potential. This weekend we witnessed and experienced what makes Glitch shine and why this game will be HUGE.
Community collaboration and contribution. I have never played a game that brought together the community as well as Glitch does. Street creation is the first big feature that allows this. A huge project where all glitchizens come together to create and even vote on a new street. The leaderboard even allows for some competition but for those who only care about the output and making groddle a better place, street creation is a really fun feature.
I woke up on saturday morning to find dozens of people crowded around hechy track and leftmost graze. We came together to make it happen! Here is a screen of the moments before leftmost graze was created:
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You can see hoe-ers, tinkerers fixing peoples broken hoes and people radiating to keep energy up. There were others who shared food and simply words of encouragement. It didnt end there. We worked together through the upgrade as well. BBQ and blending seemed to be the biggest obstacle and i was one of the only ones who had the skills to do it. I ended up with about 30% on the project leaderboard but i could not have done it without the help of everyone there. It wasnt me. It was all of us. It did not end with me powering through it by myself. Everyone offered their assistance and helped any way they could. We split up the tasks and everyone did their job. We had people on meat, people grinding spices, people making grocery runs. I ate a lot of cabbage.
Not only that, but i made tons of new friends! My friend list nearly quadrupled this test as i met so many awesome people. Despite the fact that someone robbed my house and kidnapped my chicks, everyone in glitch is amazing.
Here we are in awe of our creation, moments after we finished the upgrade. i51.tinypic.com/a3jdk8.png
Of course we ran into problems. With all that awesome collaboration, our chat totally bogged up the help channel. We were kicked out but we made a New Streets group to talk in (which i encourage everyone to join). The global help channel will eventually be killed so a possible solution could be hub chats. Meaning public chats for the current hub(neighborhood/area) that you are in. The global chat definitely helps in communicating with others on different streets. We found this useful in getting ingredients and stuff for projects.
Unlike other MMO's, we are not grinding away in dungeons to become stronger to defeat everyone. We do things together, we socialize, communicate, and contribute to make Glitch a better place.
Street creation is a wonderful feature. I'm sure Tiny Speck will create more features that bring together the community and encourage social interaction and collaboration. That is the magic of glitch. We're all looking forward to more of these.
Party at my house (31 middle valley clearing quarter east) on the next weekend test! Free beer for everyone. Bring music.
Anyways, lets hear all your stories from this awesome weekend test.