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From Flickr to Facebook

By james_fudge

Stewart Butterfield, one of the men that helped create Flickr, has returned to his roots - video games. Butterfield founded a development studio called Tiny Speck last year and has been working on a new game called Glitch ever since. Butterfield's company is testing Glitch with more than 5,000 users in a closed beta test. Glitch is a multiplayer game for Facebook "inspired by and wood block illustrations, that includes giants, chickens and underground mines," according to a New York Times report.

It's an interesting transition back to video games for Butterfield, who helped found Flickr with his now ex-wife Caterina Fake in 2004. A year and millions of users later, the duo sold the site to Yahoo. Both became fairly rich from the venture.

Source: NYT

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).