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Probably Archery mixes QWOP-style controls with a deadly weapon
Move over, William Tell and Robin Hood, there's a new legendary archer in town. Or there will be, when you master the QWOP-like controls of Probably Archery, which require you to independently manipulate your avatar's wrists, elbows, shoulders, and of course, their bow and arrows. Originally an entry for the 7 Day FPS Game Jam, Probably Archery is aiming for a Steam release, and is up for voting on Greenlight. A free demo available for PC, Mac and Linux features eight scenarios to experience, including shooting an arrow to cut a hangman's rope, shooting arrows in zero gravity, and shooting arrows at apple-headed berserkers. Because archery. The game features native support for the Oculus Rift and multiplayer modes as well. If you pre-order Probably Archery through the game's official site, you'll get instant access to new demo versions as they become available, and will receive a Steam key should the Greenlight campaign be successful.
Get your QWOP on with Humble Mobile Bundle's bonus games
Humble Bundle organizers added a trio of bonus games to the ongoing Humble Mobile Bundle 2, expanding the pay-what-you-want app compilation with Android versions of Bennett Foddy's QWOP and Jordan Mechner's Karateka. Buyers who beat the bundle's average purchase price (currently $4.50) will receive the awkward Olympics sim QWOP, White Whale Games' side-scrolling brawler God of Blades, and a reworked port of the 1984 fighting game Karateka Classic, in addition to the collection's previously announced six-game lineup. Humble Mobile Bundle 2 has entered its final week, and will remain available through October 9.
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."
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.
Poleriders: The new browser game from QWOP creator
If you've just finished Dark Souls and are looking for an entirely new method of torturing yourself through video games, this new project from QWOP developer Bennet Foddy should suit your needs quite well. It's called Poleriders, and it's a competitive, two-player pole vaulting game. Only, instead of trying to use a pole to clear a raised bar, you're trying to either kick a ball through your opponent's goal, or kick your opponent's head, which is also tantalizingly ball-shaped. Truth be told, we didn't find it nearly as difficult as QWOP -- though, we suppose difficulty will change based on the relative pole vaulting skill of your adversary. Vaulting against your roommate? No problem. Vaulting against four-time US Nation Outdoor Champion vaulter Jeff Hartwig? Well then, buster, you're in for a world of hurt.
Best of the Rest: Justin's Picks of 2009
Time Gentlemen, Please This was hands-down the funniest game released in 2009, and 2009 was a year in which we got a new Tim Schafer game and the return of the Monkey Island series, so that's saying something. If you missed out, please go buy it, it's cheap as can be and a true delight.
