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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Somerville Resident's Video Game Has One Goal: Drinking Soda

In Soda Drinker Pro there's no running, jumping, shooting, killing villains or solving riddles … just drinking soda from a big cup.

Will Brierly, a 32-year-old Somerville resident, has been getting some recent media attention for a video game he created that has one goal, and one goal only: to drink soda. The Boston Herald recently wrote about about Brierly's "Soda Drinker Pro," and the video game has been reviewed on CNET, Mashable and YouTube. Here's how Mashable explain's the game's objective: The mission, should you choose to accept it, is to drink all the soda from your giant cup. Click the left mouse button to hold the straw to your mouth, click the right mouse button to sip soda. If you're really good, you can acquire bonus sodas hidden in each level. And by "hidden," we mean floating in plain sight. It's the kind of realism and verisimilitude that's hard to …

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