QWOP

QWOP
Type of site
Flash game
Available inEnglish
OwnerBennett Foddy
URLhttp://foddy.net/Athletics.html
CommercialNo
RegistrationNone
LaunchedNovember 2008
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. 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. In early December 2010, the game had a viral popularity outbreak after video blogger Ray William Johnson reviewed a YouTube video that annotates the game, becoming the subject of an Internet meme. Despite this, the game helped Foddy’s site reach 30 million views. After the success of the game, Foddy created another flash game called "GIRP", which was released on his site in 2011.

References

  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 (6 December 2010). "GOOFY RUN". 3: RayWilliamJohnson's Channel. YouTube. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  5. ↑ Cr1TiKaL (penguinz0) (2 December 2010). "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. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
  9. 1 2 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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