1. Bennett Foddy is an Australian video game designer based in New York.
19 Facts About Bennett Foddy
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Bennett Foddy later became an instructor at the NYU Game Center.
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Bennett Foddy studied philosophy in college and was working as a research assistant in the field when his childhood friend, Dan Whitford, started the Australian electronic group Cut Copy.
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Bennett Foddy enrolled in a doctoral degree in philosophy in late 2003 at the University of Melbourne with an interest in cognitive science and human addiction and left Cut Copy in 2004.
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Bennett Foddy has said that his best design work happened while procrastinating on other work.
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Bennett Foddy taught himself to program and design games starting in 2006 from online tutorials while working on his philosophy dissertation.
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Still, Bennett Foddy hid this hobby from his colleagues to avoid the philosophy field's stigma against philosophers who do not wholly dedicate themselves to their philosophy work.
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Bennett Foddy moved to the United States as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University from 2007 to 2010.
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Bennett Foddy wrote philosophy papers and lectured on topics of drug addiction.
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Bennett Foddy did not intend for QWOP to connect with his philosophy work,.
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Bennett Foddy worked on ascertaining the existence of game addiction and considered the intrinsic values of in-game rewards.
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Bennett Foddy later came to describe his game design aspirations as "literary", building atop a lineage of predecessors.
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Bennett Foddy sought to recreate the vexing difficulty of games from his youth and the range of emotions they pique.
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Bennett Foddy wanted to create the "immediacy" of direct-to-TV video game appliances, which lacked the software load times characteristic of console games.
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Bennett Foddy's next game, GIRP, is a rock climbing simulator in which the player presses keyboard keys assigned to rocks on a wall to flex and ascend its surface.
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Bennett Foddy expressed an interest in games history, particularly the English and European games not widely known in the United States.
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In 2016, Bennett Foddy co-developed Multibowl, a competitive minigame compilation of scenes from 1980s and 1990s video games.
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Bennett Foddy was spurred by his interest in video game history and the accessibility of video game emulators.
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Bennett Foddy is married and lives in New York City as of 2018.