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It's the same art. All the graphics, and a bunch of the code, is in the public domain:

http://www.glitchthegame.com/public-domain-game-art/

Screenshot:

https://www.mmobomb.com/file/2012/08/glitch_002.jpg

I was pretty late to the party when it came to getting onto Glitch, but when I did Stewart Butterfield was the person who helped me get around for the first hour or so.

Stewart and Cal Henderson have a history of making a game, and then making a tool out of it later. Flickr came out of a game called Game Neverending, hence the 'gne' extensions on Flickr.

http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Neverending

That's really fascinating. Makes me wonder if they have a) an easter egg already, or b) plans to work on the game any more in the future.

Interesting... Discord had practically the exact same beginning!

I believe Mattermost also had similar beginnings...