Taking BABY STEPS with Bennett Foddy, creator of QWOP, Getting Over It, and more
622On a beautiful Tuesday in August, we took a walk with Bennett Foddy in Central Park and asked him... what's up with all the walking? Foddy has made a career of creating "choke machines" like QWOP (and GIRP, and CLOP...), and the hit Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. Now he's coming out with Baby Steps at the end of September — his first "open world" walking game.
Read Giovanni's full interview here: https://www.polygon.com/bennett-foddy-baby-steps-qwop-interview/
0:00 Why are we doing this?
0:53 Foddy's early career
5:17 QWOP: Is life a physics experiment?
14:03 Getting Over It: Do video games take walking for granted?
24:54: Peak: Streaming, Steam, and viral success
27:17 Ape Out and what's next
29:43 Dog on a Tree
29:55 Baby Steps: What if QWOP was good?
38:47 Simone's Walking
39:04 Why do games exist?
45:30 The choke machine
47:22 Bloopers and credits
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