Bennett Foddy makes deliberately hard-to-control browser games such as QWOP, CLOP and GIRP, and publishes them on this site.
HN commenters point to QWOP and CLOP whenever a game or story involves clumsy, frustrating controls, and treat him as an expert at it.
Many great games were/are being made in Haxe.
- Papers, Please [0] by Lucas Pope.
- Dead Cells [1] by Motion Twin, a collective linked to the creator of Haxe.
- Evoland [2], Evoland 2 [3], Northgard [4] made by Shiro Games (studio of the creator of Haxe).
- rymdkapsel [5] and twofold inc. [6] by grapefrukt games.
- Topsoil [7] by Nico Prins.
- The Westport Independent [8] by Double Zero One Zero.
- Defender's Quest series [9] by Level Up Labs.
- Fidel Dungeon Rescue by [10] Daniel Benmergui.
Other popular games such as Threes [11] and QWOP [12] were ported to HTML5 with Luxe Engine [13]. Popular game development frameworks and engines include OpenFL [14], HaxeFlixel [15] and Heaps [16].
[0] http://papersplea.se
[1] https://dead-cells.com
[2] http://evoland.shirogames.com
[3] http://www.evoland2.com
[4] http://northgard.net
[5] https://rymdkapsel.com
[6] https://twofoldinc.com
[7] https://www.topsoilgame.com
[8] http://www.doublezeroonezero.com/westport.html
[9] http://www.defendersquest.com/index.html
[10] http://store.steampowered.com/app/573170/Fidel_Dungeon_Rescue/
[11] http://play.threesgame.com
[12] http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html?webgl=true
[13] https://luxeengine.com
[14] http://www.openfl.org
[15] http://haxeflixel.com
[16] https://github.com/HeapsIO/heaps
This is great! Thankfully enough Let's Play videos are out there to give me an idea how much I would hate this, at least alone. OTOH I could see this being a fun (and hopefully short) party game with friends in-between more "serious" games, just to laugh our asses off for a few minutes ;)
This also reminds me of QWOP[0] and Petris/Bastet/Bastard Tetris[1].
[0] https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
[1] https://libregamewiki.org/Bastet
... not sure it's that simple. Angry Birds became popular in part because it's a fun game to play. The gameplay probably doesn't live up to the hype, but it's at least capable of living up to some amount of hype.
Flappy bird is just incredibly awful. It's like QWOP[1], but much simpler.
[1] http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
The moment I saw "foddy.net" next to the title I knew what I was in for. This is the same guy behind games like QWOP (http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html), GIRP (http://www.foddy.net/GIRP.html) and CLOP (http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html). He's an expert on making games that troll the player.
Given that background, the odds you've never seen this are exceedingly low.
Nonetheless, and for the benefit of the Lucky 10,000, I must present: QWOP.
https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
This article reminds of me of this game that demonstrates how difficult it is to operate a horse:
http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html (enabling flash required)