Nick's Saturday Morning Games

Collection of small games on Steam
November 1st 2025

This is my retro-style game collection. They are programmed from scratch using the NSMG Engine (see below).

Current games included:

Grapestomper Rescue: A helicopter flying game where you rescue orphaned Grapestompers from rock-throwing, gun-toting worms. Stompers will stomp grapes to make wine at your base, which you can sell to buy upgrades.
Transistor Glow: Electronics puzzle game where you use a few simple components to achieve endless complexity. Make bigger devices in Creative Mode and share them with your friends!
Checkers 2: Finally, the sequel to Checkers! 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.

Available now on Steam early access: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2572310/

NSMG Engine

Free & open source
October 1st 2025
A game engine, programmed from scratch in C for Windows, Linux and MacOS

Used to make the games for Nick's Saturday Morning Games

Source code on Codeberg

Maze95

Free & open source
April 24th 2019
3d mazes

Back in the day I always wanted to play that Windows 95 maze screensaver. 20 years later I have the programming skills and was inspired to make it! This game uses software rendering and was also a research project to learn how rendering works and become a better programmer.

Download on GameJolt or Itch.io
Source code on Gitlab

Bob Ross - Sliding Paintings Museum

Free & open source
October 29th 2018
Sliding puzzles

This is my tribute to the late, great painter Bob Ross. Enjoy 10 of Bob's paintings while you solve sliding puzzles.

Downloadable from its page on GameJolt.

The source code is available on GitLab.

Professor Blobbins and the Music of Love

Free and open source (PICO-8)
January 31st 2017
Platformer

Hop along each of the 7 levels, helping (or annoying) the NPCs who each have a short song to sing. Every level has an additional challenge for more determined players.
Play in-browser or download on GameJolt.

Steal Godot

Free & open source (Godot)
June 28th 2016
Sokoban puzzle game

The Bevy of AAA Developers have shut down every free game development engine. It's up to you to break into their facility, figure out the puzzles and steal the Godot game engine back! A short puzzle game featuring blocks, switches, doors and ice. Play in-browser or download on GameJolt

The source code + assets are available on GitLab.

It All Revolves Around You

Free
September 21st 2015
Gravity game

A giant black hole is hurtling towards Dust Town and you are the only thing in the entire universe that can save them! You'll have to grow from a speck of dust to an asteroid, a planet, a star, to something large enough to defeat the black hole.
Download on GameJolt