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'Baby Steps' is the 3D 'QWOP' we've all been waiting for
Bennett Foddy is co-creating 'Baby Steps,' a QWOP-like game that's all about putting one foot forward.
Sportsfriends review: With friends like these
It may be difficult for some to imagine now, but once upon a time, a multiplayer video game required that players be gathered in the same physical space. There was no Xbox Live, no PlayStation Network, no online connection whatsoever. Whether you look back on that era with fondness or disdain will ultimately determine how you feel about Sportsfriends. Sportsfriends is a collection of four local-multiplayer-only games: BaraBariBall, Johann Sebastian Joust, Super Pole Riders and Hokra. Each of these games is tied together by the idea that they could, perhaps in some wacky alternate universe, be considered real sports. In fact, Sportsfriends presents them on the main menu as a timeline, placing BaraBariBall as a game from ancient history, Joust as a more recent invention, Super Pole Riders as the sport of 2014, and Hokra as an invention from the future.
QWOP faceplants onto Android
Hapless runner QWOP reached the end of the Android track this week, and is out now on the platform courtesy of Noodlecake. For 99 cents you can take on Bennett Foddy's popular frustra-thon, in which you try to steer an incredibly awkward Olympic sprinter forward and avoid the inevitable plummets to the floor. It's also an unerring snapshot of Joystiq's daily morning run, and by daily we mean that one day it happened.
QWOP to bring awkward shuffling to Android
Popular frustrate-em-up QWOP is making its way to Android, courtesy of Noodlecake Studios. Created by Bennett Foddy, QWOP is a notoriously difficult game tasking players with controlling an Olympic sprinter and trying to get him more than a few inches from the starting line without falling flat on his face.Noodlecake is responsible for the physics-based iOS and Android golf series Super Stickman Golf, just one game among many other contributions. According to a tweet from Noodlecake, the Android port of QWOP will be available in "the coming months."
QWOP creator demystifies unicorns with CLOP
You've taken on the challenge of controlling a human in QWOP. You've most likely failed at that challenge. Now you can humiliate yourself by stepping into the shoes of a completely different, fictional species!Bennett Foddy's newest trying-to-run game is CLOP, a browser game about a lascivious, possibly drunk unicorn trying his damnedest to get across "yon high and pleasant hill." You drum the H, J, K, and L keys to simulate a hearty gallop, or to turn your horsey avatar upside down – mostly the latter.CLOP seems slightly easier to understand than QWOP, but still extremely difficult. However, it's not as frustrating as it could be, as Foddy has mastered the art of making failure not just acceptable, but universally hilarious.
Foddy building 'Qwoperative' portal for indie flash games
During the inaugural speech at this year's Independent Games Summit, QWOP/GIRP creator Bennett Foddy explained his reasons for self-publishing his games on his own website, rather than going with a portal like Adult Swim -- reasons including better compensation, ability to freely change and update your games, and creator identification.Then, to conclude the talk, he invited other indie Flash developers to contact him if they're interested in self-publishing on a portal, and he showed a logo for "Qwoperate."Elsewhere in the talk, Foddy offered a bit of explanation for his style of game. He half-jokingly (?) said that players love being confused, humiliated, and frustrated -- essentially, they enjoy difficulty that surprises them. On the other hand, Foddy promised he would never "inflict" a tutorial, intro movie, or explanation of any kind on the players of his games. That's just too cruel for the guy who made the game about controlling individual leg muscles.
Competitive bumbling now available in two-player QWOP
Yes, it's true. You can share the experience of not being able to walk at all with a friend or bitter rival, in a new two-player version of Bennett Foddy's footrace to the bottom, QWOP. Following last Sunday's showing at Juegos Rancheros, Foddy has released the competitive browser game online.The game suggests a second keyboard "for best results," but both players can actually share a single keyboard. This is a much more awkward situation, and thus seems more appropriate.
Play GIRP on dance pads, two-player QWOP in Austin this weekend
This is going to be really embarrassing, and potentially painful. This Sunday the Austin game collective, Juegos Rancheros, will host the Foddy Winter Olympics, featuring new and bizarre versions of Bennett Foddy's finger-twisting games.You'll be able to face off against a friend in a race to the ground in two-player QWOP. You'll experience the climbing game GIRP turned into a Twister-like experience in Mega GIRP, a new version by Johann Sebastian Joust creator Doug Wilson that uses four dance pads for the controls. You'll also be frustrated by other Foddy creations, including Poleriders and Winner vs. Loser.This is going to be the angriest party.
