A fan remake of Glitch (2009 to 2012)

Groddle Afternoon

Tiny Speck's Glitch was a gentle, funny world made of imagination: you squeezed chickens, petted piggies, talked to trees and found quoins floating over the streets of Ur. It closed in December 2012. Tiny Speck gave its art, music and code to the public domain, and Groddle Afternoon puts them back together in your browser.

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New to Ur? Start fresh on Gentle Island, the original tutorial, map reveal and all. Free. Play solo with no account, saved in this browser, or sign in to play multiplayer with other Glitches. Plays on a computer with a keyboard.

The game on Hechey Track in Groddle Forest: a Glitch with silver hair under a blossoming fruit tree, with a chicken, a piggy, the Groceries Vendor, a sparkly rock and a floating quoin.

How much of Ur is back

Full restoration report
  • 64 of 68game systems playable
  • 196quests you can play
  • 22 of 22private quest rooms rebuilt
  • 689street projects to build
  • 1,368streets of the world map
  • 99 of 105skills to learn
  • 247 of 275imagination upgrade cards
  • 332sounds from the original game

Things to do in Ur

  • A Glitch beside an herb garden on Hechey Track, with a fruit tree and a piggy.

    Grow, harvest and cook

    Plant gardens, water and pet trees, milk butterflies and cook what you grow. Poison a tree and it dies; clear it, and plant a new one.

  • A Glitch at a metal rock on Hechey Track.

    Mine, make and build

    Swing a pick, run Woodworkers and Blockmakers, and help build 689 new streets through the original street projects.

  • Winter Walk: snowy cliffs and icicles.

    Quests and secret rooms

    Story quests from the Magic Rock, all 22 private quest rooms, pilgrimages and the secret rooms of Jethimadh Tower.

  • The Rook swoops low over Hechey Track.

    Fight off the Rook

    When the Rook attacks, prime the shrines, stun it with a Focusing Orb and nurse the street back to life, alone or with everyone on the street.

  • Grab 'Em Good: a night race through giant trees for floating quoins.

    Races and Paradise

    Race rival Glitches or other players in Grab 'Em Good, wrangle piggies in the Great Hog Haul, and fly through Cloud Rings and Radial Heights.

  • A decorated house with wallpaper, furniture and a reading lamp.

    A home of your own

    Paper your rooms wall by wall with Tiny Speck's own 109 wallpapers, floors and ceilings, decorate, and raise a tower.

  • Groddle Ladder in Ix: a starry yellow sky over strange trees.

    Explore Ur

    Jump into the Great Hole to Ix, find the Enchanted Forest hollows, and help the Juju Bandits that come out of the Savanna.

  • The imagination shop: three upgrade cards to choose from.

    Skills and imagination

    Learn 99 skills and spend imagination on 247 of the original upgrade cards, from bigger batches to longer levitation.

Drawn from the original files

Every picture in Groddle Afternoon is Tiny Speck's own art. Glitch was drawn in vectors, so the trees, quoins, Glitches and street scenery are rendered again from their original Flash files: sharp on today's screens, and still exactly the shapes and colours they always were.

A blossoming fruit tree from the 2012 image, enlarged and soft.
The 2012 image, enlarged
The same fruit tree rendered again from Tiny Speck's file, crisp.
Rendered again from Tiny Speck's file

Restored, and reimagined

Seventeen pieces in Tiny Speck's wardrobe files were never finished: they survive only in greyscale and never had colours in the game. On the left, each file just as Tiny Speck left it. On the right, the same piece in colours taken from a matching item in the original wardrobe. The character builder tags every one of them as reimagined.

  • Banana hat, the original greyscale file.
    Original file
    Banana hat, reimagined in colour.
    Reimagined

    Banana hat

    Colours designed in the Glitch palette: nothing in the wardrobe was close enough to borrow from.

  • Real bowler hat, the original greyscale file.
    Original file
    Real bowler hat, reimagined in colour.
    Reimagined

    Real bowler hat

    Colours from the Bowler hat.

  • Plain lace hat, the original greyscale file.
    Original file
    Plain lace hat, reimagined in colour.
    Reimagined

    Plain lace hat

    Colours from the Women’s plain dress, lace and flower included.

  • Cola bottle shirt, the original greyscale file.
    Original file
    Cola bottle shirt, reimagined in colour.
    Reimagined

    Cola bottle shirt

    Colours designed in the Glitch palette.

  • Mushroom shirt, light, the original greyscale file.
    Original file
    Mushroom shirt, light, reimagined in colour.
    Reimagined

    Mushroom shirt, light

    Colours from the Mushroom shirt.

  • Teapot, the original greyscale file.
    Original file
    Teapot, reimagined in colour.
    Reimagined

    Teapot

    Colours designed in the Glitch palette: willow blue and a gold handle.

All seventeen are in the character builder. See how the rest was restored

Follow the development

Every rule comes from Tiny Speck's own server code where it survives. Where it doesn't, the quest rooms and streets are rebuilt from players' recordings, the community wiki and archived pages, and each of those rebuilds says so in the restoration report.

Restoration report Every system, checked off as it lands Walk a street and click anything on it, browse every system by status, and see what can't come back. Compare Other Glitch remakes, side by side Children of Ur, Eleven and Odd Giants, with what each one has brought back and how to play it.
Recently restored
  • The game runs on Pixi 8.22.0

Solo, or together

Glitch was a world you shared, and now you can choose. Solo, Ur is yours alone: races, Game of Crowns, parties and street projects come with rival and helper Glitches, and your game saves in this browser. Make a free character with just an email and a password, and in multiplayer you share the street with other players: chat, form a party, race, trade and fight off the Rook together, and keep a buddy list. Global chat, groups and the auction house aren't back yet, and the restoration report lists each one plainly.

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