dub3 card · www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
QWOP (2008)
Four keys, two legs, a 100-metre race, and almost no chance of finishing.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: -1 to +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2008
Bennett Foddy's browser game in which you run the 100 metres by working an athlete's thighs and calves with the Q, W, O and P keys.
Foddy, then an Oxford philosophy researcher, released it in November 2008. Its awkward controls made it famous: it helped his site reach 30 million hits by August 2011, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed it that July.
In 2008: Released in November on Foddy's own website.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2008 page.
Put it on your site
Run QWOP, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2008, then plays a short scene. Want QWOP in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
