Tiny Speck’s first product – the gigantically-multiplayer, browser-based game ‘Glitch’ - has recently been opened to alpha testers! The Flash-based ‘Glitch’ has been under development by Tiny Speck –a start-up led by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield – ever since the March 2009 launch of the company.

Going by a video preview available at the ‘Glitch’ site, which describes the game as a “never-ending feast of imagination,” the modern and slightly psychedelic-looking game apparently is a take on the 2-D genre, quite like Super Mario Brothers. In fact, Glitch will seemingly walk the line between laid-back social games, and intense multiplayer games.

The Flash platform of ‘Glitch’ hints that not only will the distribution of the game be relatively easy, but it will also expediently embed in other sites or services – with the exception of the iPhone or iPad, which lack Flash support.

The Flash incorporation in Glitch also suggests that Tiny Speck is evidently targeting the kind of casual-gaming market that has proven highly popular for games like the Facebook ‘Farmville’ and web sites like ‘AddictingGames. com.’

Noting that the browser-based Glitch will need no installation of software or any other special computer requirements, Butterfield told CNET that the game is for “people with above average intelligence and sophisticated tastes…the intersection of NRP listeners and game players.”