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The story of Glitch: Why this odd MMO is shutting down

Glitch, the experimental MMO from Flickr developer Stewart Butterfield and his team Tiny Speck, is closing. Butterfield had been able to attract Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi and Journey producer Robin Hunicke, but what he couldn’t attract was players — at least, he couldn’t attract enough players to keep the game viable from a business perspective, he tells Gamasutra. Just over two weeks ago, Tiny Speck revealed that the game will soon close. Gamasutra spoke …