Bennett Foddy On Designing Great Streaming Games

In this excerpt from The Game Informer Show podcast, Ben Hanson interviews Bennett Foddy about designing Getting Over It, why certain games are so fun to watch on Twitch, and what's next for the designer of "anti-design" classics like Qwop.
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[@7salad5salad31]

“Theres no feeling more intense than starting over.”

[@hunterdakota5271]

“An orange is a sweet juicy fruit, locked inside a bitter peel. That’s not how I feel about a challenge, I only want the bitterness. It’s coffee, it’s grapefruit, it’s licorice. ”

[@xj-vn4eo]

I can hear the sentence! Oh how I love his commentary in the game!

[@house8895]

@@xj-vn4eo me toooo

[@xj-vn4eo]

@@house8895 I am listening to it right now. I think with enough loops of it I may well be able to memorize most sentences if not all of it.

[@xj-vn4eo]

@@house8895 It's cool in its own right. XD

[@house8895]

@@xj-vn4eo yeah :D

[@asultsucker936]

What a smart guy. This was really interesting and informative, thanks!

[@bowskee]

yb better

[@Chris-zs6fd]

What a great guy and a great interview! The interviewer did a great job in not being too passive but letting Bennett talk. So many interviews I see the interviewer just talks over the guest and it's so frustrating!

[@user-sj3fp2xq2m]

Great great guy.

[@1000Bats]

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was posing as a games designer...

[@GrandPlayer-pv1cn]

You know I hate Bennett Foddy and I will get rid of his game

[@charlesjorgenson9974]

Markiplier's idol.

[@smithallan316]

OMG. Somebody send this video and comment to him lol

[@ahmedaaa8867]

His voice man still in my head

[@ToxicTony15]

You can just tell this man is secretly a sadist

[@jermyhopkisn9654]

I don't think it's really a secret. "I made this game for a certain kind of person to hurt them"

[@TF2Gaming101]

you can only see the end of the game on the deep web.

[@HubrisXD]

There is no felling more intense than starting over..

[@7salad5salad31]

If you deleted your homework the day before it was due

[@house8895]

@@7salad5salad31 as i have, or you left your wallet at home, and you have to go back, after spending an hour in the commute

[@jiminhan4333]

Look, This Face is the most evil face to the gamers. Maybe, He must be a genius about the misery and the pain.

[@GrandPlayer-pv1cn]

Bennett Foddy sucks, Scott Cawthon is a better video game designer than the stupid Bennett Foddy

[@misspurdy27288]

@@GrandPlayer-pv1cn okay I was looking at some old videos and lmfao, isn’t that the FNAF guy? How long were you stuck on the devil’s chimney to get so salty?

[@GrandPlayer-pv1cn]

@@misspurdy27288 I love Fnaf and Scott too

[@misspurdy27288]

@@GrandPlayer-pv1cn Ohh you’re six, got it.

[@GrandPlayer-pv1cn]

@@misspurdy27288 One day, I will make grounded videos out of Bennett Foddy

[@peoplepeople21]

For me Getting Over It is really relaxing

[@r0yce]

Illuminatti wants to know your location. U must be an alien.

[@jacobwingers5206]

Same

[@yassinehadd1835]

Satan Himself

[@morehenfy1316]

shardinhand wtf are you on about

[@BlinJe]

@@morehenfy1316He's on about his lack of sense of humour.

[@xenuk5398]

@@BlinJe now wtf are you on about

[@BlinJe]

@@xenuk5398 dunno guess comments were deleted.

[@xenuk5398]

@@BlinJe haha understandable

[@shardinhand1243]

its nice to finaly know what this guy looks like, i wonder what he gonna make next?

[@jacobwingers5206]

shardinhand check out Ape Out. A new game of his

[@user-le5vg1zt4m]

@@jacobwingers5206 Not only of his. There are two devs more.

[@franzeck8003]

thanks for this

[@pnutdraws]

i wonder if this talk inspired the guy who made golfing over it

[@skullyskaric7779]

i hate to say this tear of grace who plays get over it snapped out in hell like this "FUCK YOU FODDY!" "i will punch you in the dick other then the gut" (or idk what he just said) i mean yea...he better be careful who's he talking to there people who like Bennett is defending against tog

[@behappy1631]

OH MY GOD I CANT ENTER IN THIS SH*T

[@Sclumsy]

Oh my God. Bennett Foddy is referencing his game to The Office. He has my full respect. (edit 1 year later: timestamp 2:40)

[@Robsonski96]

So... that's how Satan looks like.

[@r0yce]

This is the guy..... Whom.... If I ever meet.... Is gonna get punched in the face....

[@ziki3518]

*Satan gaming*