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#### What's the name of the planet that Glitch is set on?

Seriously, what's it called? I heard that the planet is named "Ur," but I think that's just an abbreviation. Anyone know what the planet's full name is?

Posted 23 months ago by Letter Jeigh | Permalink

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- Glitch? I think Ur is a continent.
  Posted 23 months ago by bluto | Permalink
- Just "The World", I thought.
  Posted 23 months ago by Hburger | Permalink
- Is it not called "Mote"? Or am I just stupid - see it says "Mote time:" up there..?
  Posted 23 months ago by Roxon | Permalink
- Glitch is the by-product of the dreaming and musing of 11 giants, so it's not a place so much as an effluvia of ideas. You, the player, are a synaptic charge.
  Posted 23 months ago by Nanookie | Permalink
- as nanookiekins says, it may not even be on a planet.
  i mean, the giants may not even be imagining a planet.
  though i hope they are, because there's a lot of things i'd like to do in zero gravity while in orbit.
  Posted 23 months ago by striatic | Permalink
- then what is Ur
  Posted 23 months ago by Ani Laurel | Permalink
- Ur would be the game world, but not necessarily a planet.
  for example - the giants could be imagining a flat, endlessly expanding plane.
  or Ur might turn out to be merely a larger region with sub-regions .. a continent that we haven't yet left.
  or just imaginary scenes flitting through the giants' unconscious minds only vaguely tethered to a regional geography, let alone a world spanning or planetary one.
  Posted 23 months ago by striatic | Permalink
- There was an incredibly ancient Sumerian city called Ur, and it may also be mentioned in the book of Genesis in the bible. I've always thought of it as a name that evokes an ancient starting point, which makes sense in this context.
  I also thought that in this case Ur was the land mass we're inhabiting, not the planet, but I'm not sure where I've gotten that impression from.
  Posted 23 months ago by Wren Bramble | Permalink
- I thought Ur is the island with Groddle Forest and all that.
  Posted 23 months ago by Tingly Claus | Permalink
- Wren Bramble: Indeed, Ur of the Chaldeans is mentioned in Genesis and Nehemiah.
  Posted 23 months ago by Roxon | Permalink
- Could a dev please come in and help clear things up?
  Posted 23 months ago by Letter Jeigh | Permalink
- "For a really long time
  11 giants walked around
  they thought of funny things
  until their thinking came alive.
  And that's what this game is
  you're inside their thoughts.
  Go and make them bigger
  and we'll play a long while.
  And we call the giants by their names:
  There's Humbaba and Friendly, Alph, Ti, Zille and Lem
  Grendaline and Spriggan
  Cosma, Pot and Maaaaaaaab...
  And that's what this game is
  you're inside their thoughts
  go and make them bigger
  and we'll play a long while.."
  etc etc
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6O...!
  ps: looks like it's Ti like tea, not like tie, : /
  Posted 23 months ago by Nanookie | Permalink
- I'm pretty sure that Ur is Uralia. I'm surprised no one else said this already :P
  Posted 23 months ago by Houdini | Permalink
- My house is not in Uralia
  3229 Estevan Meadows Quarter in Groddle Meadow, Ur
  So it is probably more than Uralia
  Posted 23 months ago by Ani Laurel | Permalink
- I for one can't wait to visit the desert full o' nuclear waste featured in the video Nanookie posted...
  ::wonders if there will be radioactive skills::
  Posted 23 months ago by Thrillho | Permalink
- Thrillho: It's called Palindrone (from the Shilrigg Tiers door) :) i.imgur.com/RpQ09.png
  Posted 23 months ago by Hburger | Permalink
- Just a thought if your in their thoughts then YOU ARE the planet......=.UR?
  You the game player make the streets, which make the world bigger Your thoughts, your world , you are UR!
  Posted 23 months ago by Misha | Permalink
- street distinction is a from a very old (18 months+) way of thinking about how we were going to create the world and probably doesn't apply any more. (It was about whole worlds on specks of dust, swirling around each other in the gentle convection of a ray of sunlight … and that was 9 backstory-versions ago ;)
  Posted 23 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink
- “This,” cried the Mayor, “is your towns darkest hour!
  The time for all Whos who have blood that is red
  To come to the aid of their country!” he said.
  “We’ve GOT to make noises in greater amounts!
  So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”
  Posted 23 months ago by Nanookie | Permalink
- I prefer E-mail. lol
  I was thinking the same thing
  Posted 23 months ago by Ani Laurel | Permalink
- I shall remember this and try not to look stupid ever again!
  Posted 23 months ago by Misha | Permalink
- I will be beaming for DAYS. :D
  Posted 23 months ago by Wren Bramble | Permalink
- Nailed it Wren!
  Posted 23 months ago by en | Permalink
- Ah, I see where Tiny Speck comes from now!
  And I see it now says "Game time" instead of "Mote time"
  Posted 23 months ago by dopiaza | Permalink
- whole worlds on specs of dust... "Horton Hears a Who" anyone?!
  Posted 16 months ago by Dr007 | Permalink
- Going back to "it might not even be a planet."
  It appears, that using Glitchen, the Giants are imagining OUTWARD, not inward. So they've probably not gotten to the "planet" phase yet. Or might never think up "planet" at all.
  Think about it: You've never encountered the idea of "planet." You imagine certain things about the world and come up with a tiny bit of land. You expand that out. You think up "oceans" and try that for bit... but it's hard to put trees on the water (or at least it takes some effort to come up with creative solution). So you start some more land. You keep exploring that outward. Heck, for a big you explore "downward" (see caverns).
  But why would it every occur to you to think that you should wrap all this stuff onto a sphere? Just going "outward" into infinity makes more logical sense.
  NOW... the Giant's did think up oceans... so they may get to the idea of "void" or "ocean of nothing." Extend that for a bit and then make some more land. In which case you have created space.
  As to the name Ur. If the Giants imagined the name "Ur," that seems to indicate that they've name the think they are working on now. That would seem to indicate that either (1) they are planning on imagining something else later or (2) have already imagined something else.
  (Of course, all of this operates on the principle that has Glitchen we are witnessing the world be imagined. But the ancestor lands indicate otherwise. Unless they were already imagined as being ancient. So the Giants are imagining things with the history already there.)
  Posted 16 months ago by Lord Bacon-o | Permalink
- "Erfs", said so in the game. :)
  Posted 16 months ago by Widdershins | Permalink
- I like the specks of dust idea, though. :(
  Posted 16 months ago by Cerulean | Permalink
- Erfs? whazzat?
  "Just going "outward" into infinity makes more logical sense." But not exactly, because there is no infinity beyond the stuff going outward. There is the stuff going outward, and that's it. If the Giants stop musing amongst themselves, then stuff stops going outward. Glitchen muck and tromp around in the stuff, and mix one Giant's stuff in the other Giant's stuff and one or more of the Giants gets inspired and that makes new stuff.
  But I don't think that things like shape or direction or velocity matter. There's either more stuff or less stuff or an equilibrium of stuff from stuff appearing and disappearing. So to me there is a definite pattern of going stuffward. But I am not sure what else.
  Posted 16 months ago by Nanookie | Permalink
- its called Awesomeity
  Posted 16 months ago by Marcm | Permalink
- Like... Planet Earffs?
  Posted 16 months ago by Cerulean | Permalink
- Erfs, like wot youse dig.
  I can dig it...
  Posted 16 months ago by Jennyanydots | Permalink
- Stoot, you're welcome for the re-opening of this thread :)
  Posted 16 months ago by Dr007 | Permalink
- Maybe we are inside the giants' brains. This would parallel a book called 'The Brain Plague' by Joan Slonczewski. In this book, there are sentient microorganisms that live inside the human population. These colonies of microorganisms think of their hosts as gods. One hint for me of a link to the game is that there is a street in Glitch called Elysium; Elysium is one of the worlds in the fictional universe that the cycle of novels including The Brain Plague is based in. Also the themes of the book fit in well in some regards with the hinted backstory I see here.
  Posted 16 months ago by Parrow Gnolle | Permalink
- Ur is also a prefix that means original or primitive... here it could be interpreted as just conveying the archaic notion of "a place" without the additional connotations that another name would bring with it.
  Posted 16 months ago by Squorble | Permalink
- No, planet. Its in the giants brain. try paying attention to what the rock says.
  Posted 16 months ago by Rimashi | Permalink
- It's The Truman Show. You watch and see. We're being set up, I tell you.
  Posted 16 months ago by Hands | Permalink
- Well, our glitches are in the giants' minds. But where are the giants themselves? Theoretically, they're on a planet. Unless someone else is imagining the giants imagining us.
  Posted 16 months ago by Queen Blork | Permalink
- This is a conspiracy! To make my head explode!
  Posted 16 months ago by KitkatCat | Permalink