Allentown creator Matthew Blum turned a disappointing childhood trip to the lake at Beltzville State Park into a video game that pokes fun at all the questionable things that could happen at the popular swimming site.

Look for angry geese, floating diapers and bacteria in “Feeling Beltzville’d,” available for web browsers, Android and PC.

Blum’s inspiration for the game came from a visit to Beltzville State Park taken decades ago. He and his family arrived ready to swim — only to find the beach closed because of bacteria in the water.

“The game itself really came out of brainstorming around the whole Beltzville meme and all the different things that can happen there,” said Blum, founder of Lightly-Salted Productions.

The game’s plot revolves around a food truck that crashes into the lake, scattering roller hot dogs into the water. A dad climbs aboard his motorized duck float, and heads to grab them.

Players, who assume the role of the dad, collect the hot dogs while they dodge algae, bacteria, geese, floating diapers, snapping turtles and other hazards.

Food-based powerups provide a little help, and narrowly skimming danger earns bonus points. But three hits end the run, and Dad gets “Beltzville’d.”

Blum said live leaderboards track the highest scores, most roller dogs collected and furthest distances.

He noted that the idea for the game was one of a few he floated around.

“I kicked around a number of different ideas for what a Beltzville game could actually be, including one where the challenge was simply trying to find parking, but the idea of a disastrous day at the beach, with Dad on a motorized duck float collecting roller dogs while everything around him goes wrong, was the one that won out,” Blum explained.

Since its recent release, Blum said the reaction has been very positive.

“And honestly a lot of fun,” he added. “What I’ve enjoyed most is that people around here immediately get the jokes. That kind of response is really what I was hoping for with the game: something very local that gives people a laugh and makes them say, ‘Yep, that sounds about right.’”

“Feeling Beltzville’d” follows another of Blum’s creations with Lightly-Salted Productions.

“Route 22 Rampage” is based on the experience of driving the road by the same name in the Lehigh Valley.

“I wanted to take something everybody around here complains about and turn it into an old-school video game,” he said.

It was released in November 2025 and was available as a real Atari 2600 cartridge along with a version people could play online.

“The limited run of boxed cartridges sold out, which was a pretty amazing response and definitely encouraged me to keep going with more locally inspired games,” Blum said. “’Feeling Beltzville’d’ grew out of that.”

He also developed “Send Martin Tower to Mars!,” an 8-bit style adventure game where players launch the iconic Martin Tower into space and guide it to a safe landing on the red planet.

The Martin Tower was the headquarters for the former Bethlehem Steel and was demolished in 2019.

Additional games are currently in development, he said.

Gamers can play for free at beltzfilled.lightly-salted.com; download the game through Google Play, or get the game for their PC at shop.lightly-salted.com.