Since I’ve been making a bunch of two-player games, I decided to adapt QWOP for a two player race.

Give it a try here, for free.

Modern computer keyboards don’t do well with pressing a lot of keys at once. So I recommend you either use a gamer keyboard (NKRO) or else . . . → Read More: 2QWOP]]>

Since I’ve been making a bunch of two-player games, I decided to adapt QWOP for a two player race.

Give it a try here, for free.

Modern computer keyboards don’t do well with pressing a lot of keys at once. So I recommend you either use a gamer keyboard (NKRO) or else plug in a second USB keyboard for player 2.

It’s a bit silly, this game, but then again so are all of my games, so that’s ok.

Play it online for free.

Coming soon!

Come and try out the polo mode (featured above) at Babycastles, 7 September 2011.

Kickstarter’s Fred Benenson wrote a profile of me for this month’s Wired magazine.

You can read it here.

I’ve finished work on my new game, GIRP. It’s very loosely a spiritual successor to QWOP.

Press and hold the letter keys to reach for the rings, and use either SHIFT, CONTROL or the mouse button to haul yourself up. Your goal is a bird’s nest at the top of the cliff, that . . . → Read More: GIRP]]>

I’ve finished work on my new game, GIRP. It’s very loosely a spiritual successor to QWOP.

Press and hold the letter keys to reach for the rings, and use either SHIFT, CONTROL or the mouse button to haul yourself up. Your goal is a bird’s nest at the top of the cliff, that has an awesome, amazing treasure hidden inside. But you have to contend with a territorial bird and the slowly rising tide. It’s not as hard as QWOP but I think you will find it… hard enough.

Play it now online for free.

Note: There is a bug in Firefox 4 for OSX which prevents SHIFT and CONTROL from working, until they fix it use the mouse button or Safari or Chrome. On Windows, there is a ‘feature’ where StickyKeys gets turned on if you hit shift too many times, so use Control or the mouse button. And on a number of cheaper, newer keyboards, there are combinations of letters that won’t register if you’re pressing SHIFT or CONTROL. If you’re having trouble, try using the mouse button instead.

A couple of my favourites:

QWOP for iOS is now available! You can play it on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. And it’s only $0.99.

Already seeing some great scores on the Openfeint leaderboards, with 100m times of under 26 seconds and long jumps of over 4.5 metres. Give these players another week, and QWOP will start to . . . → Read More: QWOP for iOS is out! Play QWOP on your iPhone]]>

QWOP for iOS is now available! You can play it on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. And it’s only $0.99.

Already seeing some great scores on the Openfeint leaderboards, with 100m times of under 26 seconds and long jumps of over 4.5 metres. Give these players another week, and QWOP will start to look like a real athlete…

Getting close to being feature-complete on my new iPhone/iPod version of QWOP! With any luck, I’ll have it ready for release by Christmas.

QWOP’s learnt a few new tricks. Pictured here, he can now jump.

This one was going to be something like Tetris in reverse, . . . → Read More: Some unfinished designs]]> Like everyone, I have made a lot of designs that never became finished games, usually because the prototype wasn’t fun or was too hard to make. Sometimes I come back to these designs and finish them (Winner vs. Loser is one example).

This one was going to be something like Tetris in reverse, where the computer would play tetris in an incompetent manner, and you would try to fill in the holes using the gun at the bottom so the computer could succeed. It works better in theory than reality. Plus, steampunk is over.

This was an attempt to remake Sente’s ‘Off The Wall‘, one of the best, least-known multiplayer games of all time. I still want to make it work sometime but my first prototype was a mess. If anyone wants to handle the code, drop me a line. Or if you just want to hang out and play Off The Wall.

An idea for a chess-like game where you strike your opponent by jumping two squares past him. I implemented it and it was… not quite right. It needs a fundamental rethink. Maybe it would work better as a content-oriented adventure game, but I don’t do content, not even in two colours.

I’ve tried to implement this idea twice: It’s a game about using the wind and gravity to build up speed. The physics need to be just right, and so far I’ve been forced to put it in the ‘too hard’ basket. One day I’ll work out how to get it right, though.