Sock and Awe
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Sock and Awe is a minimalist 2008
Release
Alex Tew, the author, was a "student entrepreneur" at the time, and previously "Internet famous" for The Million Dollar Homepage, a successful ploy website that helped him pay for his college tuition.[10] On December 18, the day of the shoe throwing incident, Tew was part of a group of people on Twitter trading ideas on what might be a good tabloid headline describing the incident when somebody suggested "Sock and Awe." Already by the following day, Tew had registered the domain sockandawe.com, developed and uploaded the game.[11] Two days later, the game had already been played 1.4 million times.[2] At the end of the week, Tew had managed to sell the site on eBay for £5,215 GBP to a company called Fubra.[12] Tew cheekily commented to a Reuters journalist: "From Monday concept, Tuesday launch, Wednesday growth, we’ve had a Thursday exit."[13] By December 22, 49 million shoes had been thrown in the game.[14]
Copycat games
While the game's crudeness has meant it has remained mostly uncommented on in video gaming academia, the mainstream media attention it received motivated several other game developers to try their hand at similar
References
- ^ "'Sock and awe': Zaidi-inspired game takes swipe at Bush". www.abc.net.au. 16 December 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ a b Perrin, Jean-Pierre. "Le lanceur de chaussures savaté ?". Libération (in French).
- ISBN 9784478008195.
- ^ "Sock and Awe: online schoenen gooien naar Bush". Site-DataNews-NL. 17 December 2008.
- ^ Kiss, Jemima (17 December 2008). "Sock and Awe: Your chance to whack George Bush". the Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-8122-4487-8.
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- ^ "「ブッシュ大統領に靴投げゲーム」、ネット上で大人気". www.afpbb.com. 17 December 2008.
- ISBN 9783868507805.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "Taking a swipe at Bush: Zaidi-inspired shoe game on Internet". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 December 2008.
- ^ Cellan-Jones, Rory. "Five grand for Sock And Awe". BBC News. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ "Le jeu de lancer de chaussures sur George Bush vendu sur eBay". Reuters. 19 December 2008.
- ^ "Alex Tew | Swindon designer of the Million Dollar Homepage | SwindonB2B". www.swindonweb.com.
- ^ a b Koman, Richard. "Online democracy: The People want to throw a shoe". ZDNet.
- ^ "Internet flooded with shoe-throwing games in wake of Bush incident". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 24 December 2008.
- ^ "Images: 'News games' play off today's headlines". CNET.
- ^ "Interview about video games with Marcus Richert, Raitendo". 16 January 2020.
- ^ "Is Alex Tew the most annoying man on the internet?". www.telegraph.co.uk. 23 September 2010.