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Tiny Speck was founded in early 2009 by four of the original members of the Ludicorp team - Ludicorp being the people behind social photo-sharing website Flickr - which was later purchased by Yahoo!. 2010 sees the team announce their plans to launch a new game called massively-multiplayer online game 'Glitch'.

Being creators of 'Game Neverending', Ludicorp already had experience making web-based massively multiplayer online games, but Tiny Speck promise something new and fresh for their upcoming release.

Speaking to GigaOm, company co-founder Stewart Butterfield enlightened the world to the story behind 'Glitch':

The 30-second version of the backstory is that it's a billion years in the future and everything worked out perfectly - everyone's enlightened and it's peaceful and and just perfect. And of course, that's a very unlikely future. One day scientists discover that and determine that the solution is to go back to the past and fix it so the future actually happens.

Now, as everyone knows, the world was originally spun out of the imagination of 11 great giants, wandering sacred paths on a barren asteroid, and singing and thinking and humming the whole world into existence. So we have to go back into the past, into the minds of the giants and grow the world - so that the future can actually come to pass.

A private alpha of the game will begin shortly, followed by a more open beta and a full launch later this year. To register your interest, or to view a teaser trailer, head over to glitch.com