Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and five other former Flickr employees are joined by one Digg alum, one games expert and several freelancers in Tiny Speck, a company that’s working on an online game that has a shot at rebooting the stagnating massively multiplayer online game genre. The 2D game — called Glitch — incorporates beautiful illustrations and cutting edge game mechanics, but its most interesting features are its social aspirations and the lessons it learns from the web that its founders mastered at their previous gigs. The game itself is difficult to pin down; it’s some combination of FarmVille , MapleStory , World of Warcraft , MetaPlace and any number of other online games or virtual worlds, but it doesn’t fall anywhere on a spectrum

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Glitch: Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield Explains His Ambitious Online Game