QWOP is a web-based Flash game created in 2008 by programmer Bennett Foddy. In this game you control a track athlete named QWOP -- who is competing against nobody -- by individually moving his thigh ...

If you've never played QWOP, it's safe to say you've never experienced peak human frustration. The game has players use four keys to control the movements of a sprinter's thighs and calves under ...

You can play QWOP right here, if you’d like. If you’re much like me, you’ll spent 45 seconds mashing the Q, W, O and P keys -- which control Mr. QWOP’s calves and thighs -- before writing off the game ...

Kill Screen and Pitchfork have teamed up to create playable music videos, and the latest game in the series has been designed by QWOP creator Bennett Foddy for Cut Copy’s song “Sun God.” Kill Screen ...

The enduring popularity of Bennett Foddy’s torturous athletics classic QWOP shows no sign of letting up, and the game is now available to a whole new audience with today’s release on Android. It’s ...

A two-player version of Bennett Foddy's QWOP, the toughest track-and-field game ever made, is now available to people who backed the Sportsfriends Kickstarter at the $60 level or above. Foddy ...

This QWOP cosplay video is likely the best thing you'll watch today. It perfectly captures the games awkward simulation of a runner with only a rudimentary understanding of running. Clearly, someone ...

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Bennett Foddy, deputy director of the Institute for Science and Ethics at Oxford University, makes games about embodiment, and the "neurological magic" in gaming ...

Given the popularity for weird (and wonky) sims covering a plethora of professions, I'd be amazed if something like Surgeon Simulator 2013 didn't already exist in some dark corner of Eastern Europe.

Involuntary Runner is a neat spin on the the free-running genre crossed with a rhythm game and adorned with a good old heap of science... sort of. Developed by DePaul University's Team Dads, ...