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You Have This Guy To Thank For A Game About Jetpacks And Lancing
Of all the games that I played at New York University’s No Quarter exhibition, the one I most wanted to take home and play with a friend was There Shall Be Lancing. Granted, Killer Queen and Bennet Foddy’s Speed Chess are a little too unwieldy to play in my small New York City apartment, But, the combat game by Sophie Houlden operates on a mechanically specific tension that keeps pulling you back. You can grab a version here if you ask nice.
Nobody Makes Awesome Arcade Machines Anymore. But These Guys Did.
Whether it’s a PC monitor or a smartphone display, indie game-makers tend to thrive on smaller screens. But when Josh DeBonis and Nik Mikros worked up the idea for their co-operative strategy/platformer hybrid Killer Queen, they went really big. So big they had to make their own unique stand-up machine for it. But, don’t worry: you don’t need quarters.
The New Way To Play Chess Is Insane
It seems like the ideal game of chess is supposed to take hours, right? I seem to remember hearing stories of matches between grandmasters taking days. But indie game designer Bennett Foddy — best known the fun, impossible-to-play running simulator QWOP — doesn’t time for all of that.
QWOP Creator: What If A Game Remained Free So Long As You Didn’t Suck At It?
Sound crazy? The idea comes from the Game Developers Conference, during an “Indie Soapbox” where developers took the stage to talk about indie game development. Ben Foddy, who is behind the ever-ridiculous QWOP, had some out-there ideas about how people pay for games — but that’s what makes them rad.
Maybe The Phantom Pain Is The Sequel To Something Else
The leading hypothesis as of this weekend is that mystery game The Phantom Pain is really a smokescreen for Metal Gear Solid V. But, over on NeoGAF, a new theory has emerged.
Creator Of QWOP Laments The ‘Watering Down’ Of Video Game Difficulty
It can’t be a coincidence that the games I’ve enjoyed playing most in the past year have been games that consistently punished me. Trials Evolution, Dark Souls — playing these games becomes an interesting process of defeat, struggle, and ultimate reward. Speaking at IndieCade QWOP creator Bennett Foddy claimed that, by watering down the difficulty of your game, you are essentially creating an “easy listening” version of it.
The Erotic Wrestling Game You Play With Two Trampolines
You ever get that feeling that you’ve seen everything? I’ve learned by now what to do when I get that feeling: laugh, and pat it on the head, tell it it’s cute, and send it off to get us all some coffee. Because shortly afterwards, someone always sends a video of something like Get On Top, an erotic physics game by QWOP and CLOP creator Bennett Foddy that uses trampolines to simulate the sexy act of sumo wrestling.
Hardest Video Controls Ever?
Take QWOP, the notoriously difficult running video game, and swap in a horse. You get CLOP.
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