Odd Jobs

Odd Jobs is a fictional video game made for the SICK Jam!

Description: A short puzzle-narrative experience where it's your first day on the job using the amazing crane car! Navigate and puzzle your way through various obstacles to get to your main objective! Thankfully your wonderful, kind boss, Gerry Ooze, will guide you through.

CONTROLS:

Controller (Preferred)
D-Pad: Control Crane
Left Stick: Steer
Right Stick: Camera
A: Skip Dialogue
B: Attach/Release Crane Hook **(IN-GAME DIALOGUE LIES TO YOU ABOUT THIS BUTTON)**
X/Y: Lower/Raise Crane Hook
LT/RT: Accelerate/Reverse
LB/RB: Telescope Crane

Mouse and Keyboard
Arrow Keys: Control Crane 
Enter/Right Shift: Lower/Raise Crane Hook
WASD: Drive
Q/E: Telescope Crane
Mouse: Camera
Left-Click: Skip Dialogue
Space: Attach/Release Crane Hook

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envirowafer - Programmer/Level Design

bte0601 - Artist/3D Modeler

Cyber Eagle - Artist/3D Modeler

Julius D. Johnson/PsychoSolider - Sound/Music/Level Design

Juice_Baby - Game Designer/Writer

LORE of Odd Jobs

Odd Jobs began life as a realistic crane simulator, made in 1995 for the SICK as a training tool by the Chicago based construction company Gerry Construction. In 1996, the software leaked to the public, and by 1998, an unknown programmer (perhaps an enemy of Gerry) made Odd Jobs as a hack of the original training software. Odd Jobs quickly cemented itself as one of the classic SICK homebrew titles, for those who knew how to run it. Please enjoy this archived version of the original hack.

LORE of the SICK

First released in July 1994, the S.I.C.K. (Super Indie City Konsole) flew largely under the radar of other console giants at the time, despite having a slate of semi-popular launch titles. It would by and large disappear after 2001, when the last known copies of the konsole in a resale store in Chicago were stolen during a break-in (conspicuously, no other items were touched except for a limited edition Indie City James figure). Titles such as Slime Miner remain popular in illegal speedrunning communities. Although the konsole was rumored to have garnered the hostility of Garbin "Ultra Slime" Slime, then CEO of Slime Inc, these rumors remain unsubstantiated.