Gary's Adventure is a Flash platforming game developed by Ham in the Fridge for the Nickelodeon website. It has you play as Gary the Snail, who's on a mission to save SpongeBob from Plankton's clutches.
Controls[]
- Left/Right: Move
- Space Bar: Jump
- Up/Down: Float (while equipped with Floating Shoes)
Gameplay[]
Gary's Adventure contains three levels where you have to make your way to the exit before time runs out and without running into any enemies. You have no means of attack in this game, so all you can do is carefully navigate the platforms around you to avoid coming into contact with enemies. If you run into an enemy or hazard, or fall into a bottomless pit, you lose a life and respawn near the area where you died. The game is lost if you run out of lives.
Along the way, you can collect pick-ups that have various helpful effects; some merely give you extra points or lives, while others give you temporary powers that make it easier to traverse the levels.
Levels[]
- City Streets: Takes place in the streets outside the Chum Bucket. Contains some simple platforming challenges and plenty of random thugs to avoid.
- Chum Bucket Entrance: Takes place in the Chum Bucket's main dining area. Features tougher platforming challenges, as well as dangerous hazards along with hordes of Plankton's minions.
- Chum Bucket Lab: Takes place in the underground lair beneath the Chum Bucket. Contains more of the enemies and hazards from the second level coupled with even tougher platforming challenges.
Power-Ups[]
- Food Bowl: Gives you extra points.
- Gary Biscuit: Gives you an extra life.
- High-Jump Shoe: Lets you jump higher than normal.
- Floating Shoe: Lets you float in the air.
- Running Shoe: Lets you run faster than normal.
- Invincibility Shoe: Makes you invincible.
Hazards[]
- Enemy: Comes in various forms depending on the level. Moves back and forth, and kills Gary on contact. In Level 1, enemies take the form of various random fish thugs and jellyfish. In Levels 2 and 3, they appear as computers and robotic Krabby Patties.
- Crusher: A metal pillar that rises and falls at regular intervals, requiring you to walk under it at the right time to get past it. Appears in Levels 2 and 3.
- Laser Grid: Blocks off a small area and kills Gary if he touches it. Appears in Level 2.
- Plankton: He appears at the end of Level 3 piloting a giant robot Krabby Patty that sometimes jumps high in the air as it walks back and forth to try to stop you from reaching SpongeBob.
Errors[]
- In Levels 2 and 3, the computer enemies that resemble Karen are always facing the opposite direction of where they're actually going (i.e. they face left when going right, and vice versa), making it look like they're always moving backwards.
Trivia[]
- All of the music in this game was taken directly from the cartoon's production music.
- The fish enemies in Level 1 are all based off of various background characters from the show; there's even a recolored version of the Tattletail Strangler present.