Tiny Speck

Tiny Speck is a computer gaming startup founded in 2009, with personnel located in both Vancouver and San Francisco. The core team is largely drawn from the founders of Ludicorp, the company which created Flickr.^[2]

Tiny Speck received angel funding of $1.5 million in 2009,^[3] followed by Series A funding of $5 million in 2010 from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.^[4]

Tiny Speck's first product was called Glitch, a social MMORPG with highly stylized 2D graphics, in which "players must learn how to find and grow resources, identify and build community and, at the higher levels of the game, proselytize to those around them".^[5] Originally scheduled for release in Spring 2011,^[6] Glitch launched on September 27, 2011,^[7][8] but subsequently "unlaunched" to improve gameplay.^[9] In November, 2012, it was announced that Glitch would be closed, effective December 9, 2012^[10]

External links

• Tiny Speck
• Glitch

References

1. ↑ "Tiny Speck". Tiny Speck. Retrieved 2010-09-17. 
2. ↑ Kara Swisher. "Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game startup, Glitch". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2010-09-17. 
3. ↑ Mathew Ingram. "Q&A with Stewart Butterfield on the launch of Glitch". GigaOM. Retrieved 2010-09-17. 
4. ↑ Om Malik. "Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck Raises 5 Million from VCs". GigaOM. Retrieved 2010-09-17. 
5. ↑ Daniel Terdiman. "In depth with Tiny Speck's Glitch". CNet. Retrieved 2010-09-17. 
6. ↑ "Tiny Speck CrunchBase profile". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2010-09-17. 
7. ↑ "A Flickr Founder's Glitch: Can A Game That Wants You To Play Nice Be A Blockbuster?". Fast Company. 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-09-30. 
8. ↑ "Vancouver’s Tiny Speck puts massively multiplayer game Glitch online". Vancouver Sun. 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-09-30. 
9. ↑ "Glitch 'unlaunches' to add new features - Massively". Retrieved 2011-12-02. 
10. ↑ "A Sad Announcement from Tiny Speck". Retrieved 2012-11-17.