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Teleportation in Glitch always seemed painful to
me. There were little jokes about not reappearing in the right order or winding
up somewhere completely different than you meant to, but I know there was never
any real danger. I kind of wish there was some inherent risk to teleporting,
like in the Harry Potter universe. Transporting your molecules across vast
distances and then rebuilding yourself is a tricky business with lots of ways
it might go wrong. Plus, have you considered that if you break yourself apart
into individual particles and then rebuild them somewhere else are you even
still the same person? Think about it. None of this every stopped me from
teleporting, mind you, but it’s something to consider.
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This home street was completely invented for
this story. There are a million home streets in this style, but I didn’t base
the one Wonder visits on any particular person’s home street.
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I also considered putting a tower on this home
street and letting Wonder explore that, but I had to decide whether I wanted to
write a story about a Glitch and their quest using references from the game, or I wanted to cram as many game references in as possible and then
try to fit a story around that. I chose to focus on the story and leave out the
extras. We all remember towers anyway.
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From the beginning when I was piecing together
the parts of this story I knew that I wanted to include Magic Rock and my
butler, Mr. Trinkets, in Wonder’s party. Everyone needs a Magic Rock, he knows
just about everything! The problem was that opinion on Magic Rock was split.
Despite being incredibly helpful he is still a bit of a mystery so I invented
some aspects of his history to fit the story.
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Honestly I couldn’t tell you where I got the
name Maurice. I just thought it would be funny to give Magic Rock a normal
name, and while “Maurice” isn’t an especially normal name it is a lot more
normal than “Magic Rock.” As soon as I wrote it I decided I would never refer
to him as Maurice again in the story.
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I loved the idea of the butlers being these
weird golem-like creatures made from bits and pieces of things. Mr. Trinkets is
100% based on my butler from the game. Fun Fact: The name Mr. Trinkets comes
from an expansive D&D campaign my wife and I played with some friends. It
was the first time we had ever played and Mr. Trinkets was our pack-mule and
party mascot. He even killed a goblin once when he got startled in a cave. We
all still remember him fondly.
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One of the saddest things about Glitch closing
was all of the players describing saying goodbye to their butlers. A lot of
players became incredibly attached to these things that were basically just
there to make managing the social aspects easier. It’s a testament to the
amount of emotional investment opportunities Tiny Speck created when they
designed different aspects of the game. It’s one of the reasons people were so
attached in the first place. I’m glad in the end I stayed on my home street
with the real Mr. Trinkets to keep him company.
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The whole Purple Flower thing was a
running joke that kind of got left by the way-side. I just loved the subtle
(and not-so subtle) drug and alcohol references in Glitch. It looked and felt
at most times like a family friendly game, but there was such an undercurrent
of degenerate behavior that it always made me laugh when it popped up in-game.
I never messed around with No-No Powder, but I was well acquainted
with Purple. I kept several plots of it on my own home street. Incidentally, if
you want to relive your wild days of Purple use without the consequences just
click this link to give your web browser a little Purple flavor. I
bookmarked the URL and keep it as its own button on my browser. Now you can
always feel like you’re high on Purple wherever you go on the web!
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The use of “ma’amsir” was suggested by
Kshandra during the whole “gender neutral” discussion on the
forums. It’s a funny word that stuck in my mind so I worked it in.
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I sort of loved the idea of an “Odd Couple”-like
pairing of Magic Rock and Mr. Trinkets. You might even consider it a bromance,
if there were such a thing in Ur.
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I heard about people leaving notes similar to
this one for their own butlers. It broke my heart a little bit so I wanted to
include the same sentiment in my story.
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The Glitch, Sebastian, was also entirely made up
by me. I pulled the name out of thin air and I didn’t find a single actual
Glitch named Sebastian so I made him the owner of the house Wonder was
visiting.
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