QWOP
Sign in to saveQWOP () is a 2008 ragdoll-based browser video game created by Bennett Foddy, formerly the bassist of Cut Copy. Players control an athlete named "Qwop" using only the Q, W, O, and P keys. The game became an internet meme in December 2010. The game helped Foddy's site (Foddy.net) reach 30 million hits.
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QWOP is a 2008 ragdoll-based Flash game created by former Cut Copy bassist Bennett Foddy. Players control an athlete named "Qwop" using only the Q, W, O, and P keys. The game has become a popular meme since it's outbreak in 2010.
- Released
- 2008
- Genres
- Sport, Indie
- Platforms
- Web browser, Android, Legacy Mobile Device
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Developer
- Bennett Foddy
- Publisher
- Noodlecake Studios, Bennett Foddy
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- Single-player
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Developer
- Bennett Foddy
- Platform
- iOS
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Game engine
- HTML5
- Distribution format
- digital distribution
- Sport
- athletics
- Official website
- www.foddy.net/2010/10/qwop
- Image
- QWOP screenshot.jpg
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- publication date
- 2008-11-00
- input device
- touchscreen
- Commons category
- QWOP
- language of work or name
- English language
- copyright license
- proprietary license
- operating system
- iOS
- distributed by
- App Store
- title
- QWOP
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Gameplay
- Breakthrough and popular culture
- Alternative versions
- See also
- References
- External links
QWOP () is a 2008 ragdoll-based browser video game created by Bennett Foddy, formerly the bassist of Cut Copy. Players control an athlete named "Qwop" using only the Q, W, O, and P keys. The game became an internet meme in December 2010. The game helped Foddy's site (Foddy.net) reach 30 million hits.
==Background== thumb|Bennett Foddy, QWOP creator, at Fondation Brocher in October 2009 QWOP was created in November 2008 by Bennett Foddy for his site Foddy.net, when Foddy was a deputy director and senior research fellow of the Programme on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, The Oxford Martin School, part of the University of Oxford. He taught himself to make games while he was procrastinating from finishing his dissertation in philosophy. Foddy had been playing games ever since he got his first computer (a ZX Spectrum 48K) at age 5. Foddy stated:
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