New Mind the Gap

2008-06-03T20:24:54

We're on schedule now with weekly Mind the Gap updates. This week's puzzle: lion to The Joker. Remember that the sooner you submit your play, the ...

Mind the Gap

2008-05-16T01:39:36

We've got a new casual mini-game called Mind the Gap. We show a game play, and you suggest the best linkage possible for the beads in question. After a week, we ...

Next Tourney: Iron Bead!

2008-04-29T14:16:25

The next Glass Bead Network tournament will take place Thursday May 8th. The winner of this tournament will be awarded the first ever Iron Bead of their choice. Sign up today!

Tournament Results

2008-04-14T21:49:32

Thanks to all who participated in our second tournament. Results are posted here. Congratulations to GeniusSteve, who won the $50 Amazon gift ...

Next Tournament: Monday April 14th

2008-04-01T14:02:13

Thanks again to all who participated in the $25 tournament. Today rcall blogged a bit about it. Results are here

Tournaments

2008-03-22T13:09:44

Garron blogged today regarding tournaments. Prizes?

Version 1.1 Updates

2008-03-15T12:18:57

The new client includes a load of bug fixes. But more important is the in-game tutorial we've added, which includes instructions for new players, tips, and more. We realized early on that most new pla ...

Blogs

2008-03-03T19:13:02

Blogs are a feature we plan to offer to subscribers, but for now it's a "beta" feature being used by the core group. Check out rcall's blog, which include ...

1.0, Open.

2008-02-28T13:02:26

The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played ...

Welcome back beta testers

2008-02-25T13:26:49

Thanks for coming back.

We're glad to see you again and missed having you all around to play games with. More than that, we're grateful for your help during the first beta test. The feedbac ...

The New Site is Here!

2008-02-19T23:59:09

The new site, with all of its enhancements to the client and new functionality all over the place, is finally here.

For this first week there is likely to be only a small group of people aro ...

Tuesday, Rather

2008-02-18T22:14:17

Our apologies, but the final beta will be up tomorrow evening. Please check back then!

Final Beta: Monday

2008-02-13T13:13:39

We're pleased to announced that the "final beta" will begin Monday, February 18th. We will be posting here and sending out an email when the final beta opens.

Our formal launch (Glass Be ...

Flash player incompatibilities

2007-12-28T11:32:54

Our new improved game client and web site will launch in January. In the mean time, there are incompatibilities with the game and the newest Flash player, version 9.0.115, released December 3rd. We re ...

Public Beta

2007-08-29T12:07:17

Our beta group 1 launch was a success by all measures. This launch was tiny, intended to help us work out some bugs and get a feel for our scalability. Thanks to all who have played games, and giv ...

Game of the Week

2007-08-14T09:40:01

This game was not last week, but it was from a sufficiently interesting to deserve mention in this first "game of the week" post. Four players — mattekelly,

Play of the Week

2007-08-08T12:59:48

This week's play comes from a game between danny

Play of the Week

2007-07-27T17:08:26

Granted, until we actually launch, finding a "play of the week" is not easy, ...

New to the Game?

2007-07-14T09:41:20
For those new to the Glass Bead Network, we've created some videos and written documents to help you get around and start playing.

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