''GIRP'' is a 2011 rock-climbing simulator

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n game developer

Bennett Foddy Bennett Foddy is an Australian video game designer based in New York. Raised in Australia and trained as a moral philosopher on topics of drug addiction, Foddy was a bassist in the electronic music group Cut Copy and a hobbyist game designer w ...

. It is a sequel to his 2008 game ''

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''. ''GIRP'' was nominated for the Nuovo award for innovative games at the 2012

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, but lost out to

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's '' Storyteller''. In the game, the player presses keyboard keys assigned to rocks on a wall to flex and ascend its surface. ''

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'' described the game as "masochistically difficult" and "maddeningly compulsive", with the effect of making the player's keyboard similar to the physical skill game of ''

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''. Foddy designed ''GIRP'' to hijack the neurological reward-system by allowing players to set their own achievable goals in the game. A sanctioned multiplayer version of ''GIRP'' intended for festival use was released under the name ''Mega GIRP'' by game developer Douglas Wilson.

References

External links

''GIRP'' on Foddy's official website
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