Plan for J Lesko

GID17 - Sim Beverage (and more)

I had most of last week off, so I decided I'd use it to wrap up as many of my side projects as possible. Past GIDs have left me with a few small, unfinished games that I wanted to at least polish up and show to the world.

With that in mind, the idea for this GID was to create something real quick that I would have no desire to finish in the future. =)

What Sim Beverage lacks in graphics, it makes up for in realism. Because it IS real. It's essentially a client that connects to my research lab -- yes, believe it or not, my day job is at a facility that, among other things, studies the effect of different consumable beverages on human behavior. If you're familiar with UNIX, you can probably figure out how it works. I just ask that you don't mess with my local account (especially the secret 'pr0n' stash ;).

Download Sim Beverage (449 KB)

With that out of the way, I began re-working a past GID, previously titled 1-2-3 Robot, which was a game I made for my 2-year-old nephew. I realized that it was rather dry, so I changed the mouse cursor to an animated bumble bee, added some colorful shapes, and a little musical ending (which I still need to clean up and animate). There are a lot of parents of small children here at the lab, so I figure it might be nice to send out for Christmas.

Download 1-2-3 Bumble Bee (1 MB)




Earlier this week, I finished up and published Dead Man's 31, which was my most recent GID. I've added some new artwork, optimized some stuff, and added a bit of a metagame in the form of matches (first to 2 games is the winner). It's still confusing to most people. =)

Download Dead Man's 31 (3.45 MB)





Finally, this isn't GID-related, but there seemed to be interest Barbarian Roller Rally after I posted a WIP screenshot. It's now finished and available for download:

Download Barbarian Roller Rally (709 KB)