QWOP

QWOP
Type of site
Flash game
Available inEnglish
OwnerBennett Foddy
URLhttp://foddy.net/Athletics.html
CommercialNo
RegistrationNone
LaunchedNovember 2008 [1]
Current statusOnline

QWOP is a Flash game created by Bennett Foddy and released on the Internet in 2008 to his website called "Foddy.net". Players play as an athlete named "Qwop", who is participating in a 100-meter sprint event at the Olympic Games. Using only the Q, W, O and P keys, players must control the movement of the legs to make the character move forward.[2] When the player has successfully reached 50 meters they must jump a hurdle, and at 100 meters the player is encouraged to perform a long jump, although simply passing the finish line is sufficient to complete the game.

The game has been criticized for being too hard to get good at.[3] In early December 2010, the game had a viral popularity outbreak after video blogger Ray William Johnson reviewed[4] a YouTube video[5] that annotates the game, becoming the subject of an Internet meme.[6][7][8] Despite this, the game helped Foddy’s site reach 30 million views.[9] After the success of the game, Foddy created another flash game called "GIRP", which was released on his site in 2011.[9]

References

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  1. ↑ "QWOP". The Games List. Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2010-12-26.
  2. ↑ "Browser Game Pick: QWOP (Benzido)". 2008-11-07. Archived from the original on 2010-12-11. Retrieved 2010-12-25.
  3. ↑ Biado, Ed (2010-12-14). "What's so hard about QWOP?". Manila Standard Today. Retrieved 2010-12-25.[permanent dead link]
  4. ↑ Johnson, Ray William. "GOOFY RUN". 3: RayWilliamJohnson's Channel. YouTube. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  5. ↑ Cr1TiKaL (penguinz0). "The Most Difficult Game Ever Created Gameplay and Commentary". Cr1TiKaL's Channel. YouTube. Retrieved 28 December 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Web Search Interest: qwop". Google Insights for Search. Retrieved 2010-12-25.
  7. ↑ "Current Google Insights trends: Elizabeth Edwards, QWOP and Chrome OS". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
  8. ↑ "QWOP Flash Game". Know Your Meme. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Benenson, Fred. "Meet Bennett Foddy: The man behind QWOP and GIRP". Wired UK. Wired Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-10-05. Retrieved 2011-08-14.

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