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Remembering Glitch - Preserving memories and snaps of Glitch
tl;dr: Complete the sentence "I'll always remember Glitch for..." in 140 characters or less (longer contributions welcome too! See below), and see what others have posted
I've bashed together a site that tries to capture our memories of Glitch. You can find it here: http://resources.grelca.com/memorial/. There's no limit to how many you can post.
I've mentioned in an IM to someone once that this game doesn't have a collective memory. Sure, we record our thoughts in status messages, forum posts, snaps, blogs outside of the game and so on, but they're scattered around the internet and not easily accessible. I never offered a solution at that time, since, well, history is history, and I expected us to "play a really long time". Anyway, before I start tearing up again, this is my hacked-together-in-12-hours solution to that problem. No, it's not perfect, but in the circumstances it'll have to do.
Important: Before you log in to post, please dress up in your best costume. A copy of your avatar will be saved to the server to ensure that we still have your face after Glitch goes under, and this will only be done once.
If you've got a story, poem, or anything longer than 140 characters to share, hit the "I need 140 character!" button. This will also allow you to format your post using Markdown. If you're going to use this, please read the syntax first. In particular, paragraphs need to be separated by two carriage returns, and if you need line breaks (for poems, for instance), add two spaces to the end of the line. Many Markdown editors with preview are available online. If you're writing something with a lot of formatting it'll be a good idea to compose in one of those first.
I've already shared this with some of my friends, and the contributions so far have been awesome. There are some that are heartwarming, funny, silly inside jokes and more. I'm looking forward to see what you share!
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- damn...i just read this is i have no idea how the saved copy of my face looks.
- damn it's my train look.
- I'll always remember Glitch for ...the bacon riots, and everyone who has ever played this game. :D - OMG BACON!! 12:51 am Twoday, 23rd of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for Ajaya Bliss - Otune 10:09 am Fabday, 12nd of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for The community and the beauty, the little jokes and giggles. - Ferus 3:39 am Standday, 11st of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for not having to kill stuff to progress--and so gorgeous a world! - Supershero 3:28 am Hairday, 13rd of Widdershins Year 25
- I really, really love this site. I sit there forever hitting Refresh and grinning at all the lovely things that make Glitch what it is. This is going to be a totally awesome testament to the wackiness and beauty that was Glitch. Thanks so much for putting it together!
- The personal memories are amazing and I will be contributing a couple of my own, but I must confess that my faves are the everyday quotes and memories of everyday things. This is a wonderful way to immortalise all the little things.
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Thank you Boomy for setting this up for us!
The memories are amazing. - 370 players have added 828 memories! Keep 'em coming!
- This is So Good. Well done.
- Fantastic. Once again, B&B, you rock. <3
- I've made the site automatically tweet out new memorials that come in - @RememberGlitch Follow it if you want to receive these automatically
- I'll always remember Glitch for Prisencolinensinainciusol - DiddilyPuff 7:39 pm Fryday, 10th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for letting us know exactly how much Stoot loves rhubarb pie. - Liathea 5:47 pm Standday, 27th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for "I can't nibble a piggy, it just seems rude." - My sister, upon first playing. "Noo, they like it! :)" - Me - Sisterly 11:51 am Twoday, 15th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for Psst...I don't mind, really. - Griselda 7:49 am Fabday, 28th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for all the crazy, wild antics in the Glitchadome Clinic. - GreyGoose 0:20 am Hairday, 29th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for An open API and support for player developers. - Syruss 5:08 pm Twoday, 23rd of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for Wait! You were about to win the game! :( - Lady Door 11:36 pm Fryday, 10th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for Level-up kazoos! - Voluptua Sneezelips 4:27 pm Moonday, 30th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for Seeing not one, but THREE of my major suggestions implemented in the game world. - Carl Projectorinski 7:39 am Twoday, 15th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for the joy I had, no matter what time I played, how I felt before or what I was worrying about... - Dragonflyz 1:06 pm Fabday, 12nd of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for the heli kittys! - Mal'akh12:41 am Hairday, 37th of Widdershins Year 25
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I'll always remember Glitch for the raunchy, raunchy wood trees. Okay, and maybe the art, music, whimsy, and fun, too. But mostly the wood trees.
- Liathea 2:55 pm Weddingday, 24th of Widdershins Year 25 - I'll always remember Glitch for showing me how wonderful the world can be. - caley dunn 8:37 am Fryday, 10th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for Fuck you Piggy/Chick Cubies. 500k on cubimals and you were like half of them damnit. <3 - Trucker Dave 10:37 pm Moonday, 38th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for The nice and sharing people, the innovative gameplay, and the lack of killing. - Bata La 11:56 pm Moonday, 6th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for The amazing effort put forth by the independent dev community--you also made this game better. - Caesura 1:52 pm Standday, 11st of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for all the QQs! - Dragonflyz 12:04 am Fabday, 12nd of Widdershins Year 25
- We've got a flurry of new memories after being mentioned on the official Twitter feed. stoot posted a memory himself, and we've just got #1000! Keep them coming, people!
- more memories, pretty please?
- I'll always remember Glitch for its selection of goofy, fun (the Meadows, the parties…) and calming (Esquibeth, Nottis) music. - Asthner 0:16 am Twoday, 39th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for trusting the other players. - Relsqui 3:54 am Standday, 27th of Widdershins Year 25
- You can now get a list of all memories, with newest entries first here: resources.grelca.com/memori.... It's also linked to on the home page. You can now look at all memories posted by a player by clicking on their name, like stoot's
- I'll always remember Glitch for The awesome community. The constant...'which should I do first' question when I logged in everyday. - Robin Beeswax 11:21 am Fabday, 12nd of Widdershins Year 25
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Quick question? Is it one memory per person?
(Just want to check before I post mine. :) ) - As many as you want! I've posted, like, fifteen. :D
- I'll always remember Glitch for me, a vegetarian pig nibbler - Slippy (Throb) 7:33 am Weddingday, 16th of Widdershins Year 25
- I'll always remember Glitch for the niceness of the other glitchen - Kame Rider 1:38 pm Moonday, 38th of Widdershins Year 25
- Remembering Glitch is now open source - I've put the files up on GitHub at github.com/ZhangYiJiang/rem.... If you have any patches to submit, features to add, well, now you know where to go.
- I'll always remember Glitch for HURRY UP IT'S TIME - Saraphim 5:12 am Hairday, 21st of Widdershins Year 25
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I'll always remember Glitch for The joy of playing. The whimsy. The fun. Laughing at puns and believing in bean trees. The Lovecraftian giants.
All the things. I will remember all of the things.
- Booksomewench 5:11 pm Moonday, 38th of Widdershins Year 25 -
You can now add snaps to your memories. Here's an example of how it'll look like: resources.grelca.com/memori...
If you want to add a snap to an existing memory, you'll need to log into the site using the login button found on every page, then click on your name and find the memory you need to add a snap to. Next, follow the same instructions for new memories.
If you're posting a new memory, after posting the memory you'll see a box for you to enter the long snap URL into. These are the URL of the snap pages - for example, www.glitch.com/snaps/PUVVLI.... lem.to links currently do not work (though patches welcome!).
Currently you can only add one snap per memory. The snap is downloaded onto the server like avatars, so that they will still be available after the game goes down. - This is so great.
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O hai. Just a reminder that if you've previously added memories to the site, now you can now add snaps to them too. If there are enough snaps (currently there are only 24, including 5 I've added myself to test the system), I'll build a photowall (snapwall?) to show them off.
Actually, I'll probably build it anyway, seeing I'm spending most of these days watching My Little Pony and sulking at the fact that Glitch will soon be gone.
Oh, and another reminder, the site can't accept new memories after the API goes down. So smoke it while you've got it. - Gah. Just added my first memory and forgot I was dressed as a chicken
- oooh, now I need to go consider which snaps to immortalize! :)
- Bumping this because we totally need more memories. Only three more days!