Last July, we reported that the newborn consort by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield had conventional a name, and was hunting to hire. Tonight, Tiny Speck’s prototypal send has revealed itself to the world: Glitch.

So what is it? As we suspected, it’s an online mettlesome in the varicosity of Game Neverending, the recreation send that yet became Flickr (weird, I know). It’s a Flash-based massively multiplayer game that revolves around finding puzzles. While the mettlesome itself module be free, there module be whatever take of in-game purchases. Or as it’s described on the site:

This is not something you’ve seen before. Glitch is a neverending repast of imagination, a occasion of creativity, a fag of love, and a sepulture to play.

Or, in English:

Glitch is a massively-multiplayer game, playable in the application and shapely in the fiber of the web. It is currently in utilization and module move New in 2010. Private alpha is first presently and a unstoppered beta punctuation module begin this summer.

We’re told that the alpha investigating module begin in the incoming hebdomad or so. And the there’s an engrossing artefact Tiny Speck is intellection most doing it. “We’re feat to essay something we prefabricated up titled ’strobe testing’ where we unstoppered the concern up to testers for, say, 24 hours during a given week, then pass1 it and move again. Some of the tests module be additive (so everyone solicited to the last round module be in) and whatever module be firm batches of people. Since most people who clew up to effort provide us whatever base scenery info, we can do digit strobe with every women, digit strobe with every grouping senior than 35, digit with every expressed gamers, digit with highest meshwork density (via facebook connect), etc., and wager how assorted groups of people react and what patterns of endeavor rise …,” designer tells us.

CNET has more most the beginning of the project, and we’ll be gathering with designer tomorrow for more details. For now, be trusty to check the trippy vexer recording on the site.