Tiny Speck has announced that Glitch will be permanently shutting down on December 9th, with forums available through the end of 2012. According to the official post, Glitch did not attract a large enough audience to become financially viable thus leading to the closure.

Unfortunately, Glitch has not attracted an audience large enough to sustain itself and based on a long period of experimentation and our best estimates, it seems unlikely that it ever would. And, given the prevailing technological trends — the movement towards mobile and especially the continued decline of the Flash platform on which Glitch was built — it was unlikely to do so before its time was up. Glitch was very ambitious and pushed the limits of what could be done in a browser-based game ... and then those limits pushed back.

Read the full announcement and the FAQ on the Glitch site.

Never played this game but it had weird trailers that were very unique and music that got inside in your head ^ - ^ Thats what the game was about though from what I can tell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKVz00Idg1s

well guess a "invite" only system and NEVER sending out keys to a large group that signed on to try the game in the first place does kill youre game .. lol  ..this is the most stupit "dint had to end" of a game ever.

Once initial intrest "but cant join yet"  is checked out people move on to things they Can play and forget aqbout games whitout PR.

Originally posted by spookydom
Real shame, but I can see that the game wasn't for everybody. I have to ask though in a world where games like Rappelz can still stay above water why is there no room for inovative games like Glitch? Begining to apreciate why developers don't take risks on anything a bit diferent.

God, this so much I don't get how so many bad Asian games can run for ages while innovative new and different things like Glitch crash :\

Wow that is incredible!! 

Incredible how much work and effort went into creating something so totally....?Bizarre!!??

I think that is the first trailer for a game that I have watched where I absolutely know there is no way I would ever have played it!  What were they thinking?

Creepy , just creepy! 

I am so sad reading this.  I'm not a programmer, but I do hope they'll consider reprogramming this for mobile.  It's a great game and I do believe it would thrive in the mobile setting.

Glitch is creative and innovative.  I don't understand why it didn't do well while other games seem to do amazingly well (that shouldn't).  

I think the invite system maybe had something to do with it, too... :(

This has upset my Friday.  

Originally posted by Suzie_Ford

Tiny Speck has announced that Glitch will be permanently shutting down on December 9th, with forums available through the end of 2012. According to the official post, Glitch did not attract a large enough audience to become financially viable thus leading to the closure.

Unfortunately, Glitch has not attracted an audience large enough to sustain itself and based on a long period of experimentation and our best estimates, it seems unlikely that it ever would. And, given the prevailing technological trends — the movement towards mobile and especially the continued decline of the Flash platform on which Glitch was built — it was unlikely to do so before its time was up. Glitch was very ambitious and pushed the limits of what could be done in a browser-based game ... and then those limits pushed back.

Read the full announcement and the FAQ on the Glitch site.

I can see why...

Let's have a game in beta and then take it out of beta and sell subs.  Then let's put it back in beta and tell everyone who has misgivings about this they can have full refunds.  Then, let's do nothing with publicity thereafter and be shocked the game fails hard.

Wonderful game.  Too bad.