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

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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 wh ...

. 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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's '' Storyteller''. In the game, the player presses keyboard keys assigned to rocks on a wall to flex and ascend its surface. All the while, the water level is rising higher by the second, and if it reaches over the player's head, they will drown and have to start over. ''

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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
{{Bennett Foddy 2011 video games Browser games Climbing and mountaineering video games Flash games Single-player video games Video game sequels Video games developed in Australia