Nick's Saturday Morning Games (NSMG)

This is my collection of small games, the kind which you might casually play when you wake up early on a Saturday morning.

Games included so far:

Grapestomper Rescue - A helicopter flying game where you rescue orphaned Grapestompers from rock-throwing, gun-toting worms. Grapestompers will stomp grapes to make wine at your base, which you can sell to buy upgrades.

Transistor Glow - Electronics puzzle game where you use transistors to build logical solutions. Also includes a free-play mode with expanded grid for making custom electronic creations!

More games to come...

Further details:

Grapestomper Rescue

In Grapestomper Rescue, you fly a helicopter across a procedurally generated terrain, picking up orphaned Grapestompers and grapes to bring back to your base. There, the Stompers will happily stomp your grapes, making barrels of wine which you can sell to buy upgrades for your helicopter and base! Use these upgrades, like enhanced shields and fire rate to take on the worms, who will throw rocks and shoot at your helicopter to take it down. Save up enough for the Grapevine-O-Matic, which generates grapes while you relax and watch the Stompers at work!

Grapestomper Rescue is at times action-packed, when you have low ammo and shields and are trying to rescue a Stomper from amidst several worms, and at times relaxed as you watch them stomp your grapes back at your base.

The goal of Grapestomper Rescue is to save up enough money to purchase a spaceship, so that you can escape this nasty, worm-infested planet and take the poor Stompers to a new homeworld.

Transistor Glow

Across 20 levels, learn to use a few simple principles to create complex logic! In creative mode, build bigger, more complex electronics in a 127x127 grid. Save your creations and share them with friends!

Checkers 2

"If Checkers is so great, why isn't there a Checkers 2?" Well now there is! Resize the board, remove some squares, start with all kings, and even jump over the edge of the board! Play by your rules, or chill out as the computers play against each other.

DRM-Free

These games ship as plain executable files with no online checks or other DRM. Once the games are installed by Steam, you can select the "Browse local files" option and do whatever you want with the game files! Put them on a flash drive and play them on any PC, with or without Steam installed. Yours forever, to play as you want.

Open Source

I program these games from scratch in the C programming language, using only OS platform libraries. The code for my game engine and games will be released at the end of early access under an open source licence.

No AI

I make these games entirely without the use of generative "AI" (statistical content predictors). No AI is used for the code, no AI is used for the art, no AI is used at all.

Cover art by @TheManMadeofToys on Instagram