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Bennett Foddy (born 1978) is an Australian video game designer based in New York. He is known for creating QWOP and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
Foddy was raised in Australia and trained as a moral philosopher on topics of drug addiction. He was a bassist in the electronic music group Cut Copy and a hobbyist game designer while he finished his dissertation. During his postdoctoral research at Princeton University and time on staff at Oxford University, Foddy developed games of very high difficulty, including QWOP (2008), which became an Internet sensation at the end of 2010 with the rise of new online social sharing tools. He later became an instructor at the NYU Game Center. His most famous game aside from QWOP is Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, a philosophical, physics-based platform game released in 2017. He released Baby Steps in 2025.
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Bennett Foddy (né en 1978) est un concepteur de jeux vidéo australien installé à New York. Élevé en Australie et formé à la philosophie morale, notamment sur les questions de toxicomanie, Foddy était bassiste du groupe de musique électronique Cut Copy et concevait des jeux vidéo en amateur pendant ses études doctorales. Durant son postdoctorat à l'Université de Princeton et son passage à l'Université d'Oxford, il a développé des jeux d'une difficulté extrême, dont QWOP (2008), qui a connu un succès fulgurant sur Internet fin 2010 avec l'essor des outils de partage en ligne. Il est ensuite devenu formateur au NYU Game Center. Son jeu le plus connu, outre QWOP, est Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, un jeu de plateforme philosophique basé sur la physique, sorti en 2017.
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