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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.

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Genres
Sports
Platforms
Android
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Everyone

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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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Adobe Flash, HTML5
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Sports
Video game.modes
Single-player

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QWOP - Games By Bennett Foddy

Games, writing, and experiments by Bennett Foddy

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publication date
2008-11-00
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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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