Bennett Foddy
Australian game designer of QWOP and Getting Over It; teaches at the NYU Game Center.
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- Bennett Foddy is an Australian video game designer based in Brooklyn, New York.
- He trained as a moral philosopher working on addiction, with posts at Princeton and Oxford.
- His game QWOP (2008) became an internet sensation in late 2010, and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (2017) was a hit with streamers.
- He teaches game design at the NYU Game Center and released Baby Steps in 2025.
- Before all that he played bass in the band Cut Copy.
Key facts
- Born
- 1978, Australia1
- Games
- Too Many Ninjas (2007); QWOP (2008); GIRP (2011); Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (2017); Baby Steps (2025)1
- Teaches
- Game design, NYU Game Center (first studio class in late 2013)1
- Philosophy
- Doctorate in philosophy, University of Melbourne; postdoctoral researcher, Princeton (2007 to 2010); deputy director, Oxford's Institute for Science and Ethics1
- Music
- Bassist in Cut Copy until 20041
- Based in
- Brooklyn, New York2
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