Super Splashdown Challenge

**Super Splashdown Challenge** is sport-type online game. It takes place in the 'Bob the Builder' AU where the machines are humanised. It is the updated/enhanced version of Splashdown Challenge.

## Story

12 children have been chosen to compete in a swimming competition. They are in their competitive moods, all in their swimsuits and are well-prepared to take on the competition in one of the 3 huge water-parks. Who, out of those 12 competitors, will become the swimming champion and take home the prize of their choice?

## Features

### Characters

There are 12 characters to choose from in this online game.

* Dizzy
* Scrambler
* Scratch\*
* Trix
* Shove
* Sweep
* Swirls
* Sky
* Benny
* Snowy
* Quarri\*
* Terri\*

*Characters marked with a "\*" means that the character is shown wearing armbands as well as their swimsuit.*

The NPCs (Non-playable characters) in this online game are Muck 1, Muck 2 and a female offscreen announcer.

### Courses

There are 3 courses in this game.

* **Island course**: A normal swimming-course with a tropical island theme.
* **Forest course**: A large swimming-course with an enchanted forest theme.
* **Space course**: An extra-large swimming-course with a futuristic space theme.

### Gameplay

The player must choose one of the 12 playable characters. Then, the player watches a comic-book like intro cutscene where it shows the character of their choice getting into the waters of the swimming-course's starting point. After that, the gameplay begins as the announcer says "Ready?". After the announcer then says "Set?", the player has to tap the left and right arrow keys rapidly to charge up the character of their choice. Once the gauge is full, the character of their choice is fully charged and the announcer says "Go!". Then, that character starts swimming throughout the chosen course. The player then has to, again, tap the same arrow keys rapidly, as fast as they can this time, to make their character speed up.

For 2 players, the second player has to tap the A and D keys rapidly.

There are 2 modes: **Contest** mode and **Race** mode.

### Modes

#### Contest mode

The contest mode is a single-player mode. To start a new contest mode, the player chooses one of the 3 courses for the 12 characters to paticipate in the competition in. Then, the player has to play as each one of the 12 characters. To set the character's record, the player must get their character to the finishing point of the chosen course. After one character had finished the course, that character becomes unable to use and the player has to choose a different character.

##### Ending

Once they have done the swimming challenge with all 12 characters in the contest mode, the player then has to pick the winner by clicking on any one out of the 12. After the winner has chosen, the game progresses to a comic-book like cutscene showing the chosen character being congratulated by the other 11 characters. The game then progresses to a scene which shows the chosen character winning the prize of their choice, which came out from a prize bag, as the announcer says "Congratulations, [name of character]! You've won [name of prize of the character's choice]!". Then, the game tells the player if they would like to play again from the beginning as there is a button, for the player to either click on, saying "Swim again" to play again on the same course, "Change course" to change the course when starting anew or "Change mode" to go on a different mode.

#### Race mode

The race mode is a multiplayer mode. To start a race mode, the first player has to choose one of the 12 characters and then the second player has to choose another one of the 12 characters. Then, the first player chooses one of the three courses to begin.

The first character to reach the finishing point of the race first before their opponent is the winner.

After the race is done, the game tells the player if they would like to play again from the beginning as there is a button, for the player to either click on, saying "Swim again" to play again on the same course, "Change course" to change the course for another race or "Change mode" to go on a different mode.

### Baby Clay?

This only happens in the game's contest mode.

Among the 12 paticipating characters in the game, there is an additional "13th" character. That character is named Baby Clay and he's a cute baby boy. Unlike the 12 characters, Baby Clay, despite that he's "paticipating", wears a white special swaddle cloth instead of a swimsuit and appears in an adorable mood instead of a competitive mood. He serves as the game's 'trick character' as because he does not effect the game's progess.

This is what happens if the player chooses to play as Baby Clay:

It starts off with a comic-book like intro cutscene showing Baby Clay mysteriously, magically hovering from 'nowhere' and gently glides into the waters of the chosen swimming-course's starting point without anyone, including the announcer, noticing him and meanwhile, 12 paticipating characters were unable to enter as because there was a message saying that "Someone has already entered the swimming-course" and that someone is Baby Clay and his parents (Muck 1 anf Muck 2) are standing by there as they about to watch Baby Clay faff about with his cuteness.

When the "gameplay" begins as the announcer says "Ready?", Baby Clay is at the starting point of the swimming-course. After the announcer says "Set?", the player has to rapidly tap the left and right arrow keys to charge him up. However, Baby Clay, who is still in an adorable mood, was standing there, floating on the water and when the player is at the second half of the gauge, Baby Clay starts to quickly bobble up and down adorably on the spot and make cute high-pitched mumbling noises.

After the gauge is full and the announcer says "Go!", instead of swimming, Baby Clay starts faffing about by doing a lot of adorably cute movements, like jittering and making tiny splashes with his movements of adorableness (as in bouncing on the spot and swinging his swaddled body), and making adorably cute squeals and adorable baby noises.

When Baby Clay starts to faff about with his adorableness, his cute tune begins playing instead of a tune, depending on the course's theme, which began playing when one of the 12 paticipating characters was swimming through the chosen swimming-course.

The announcer also says these lines when Baby Clay faffs about with his cuteness:

* "Hold on.. Baby Clay isn't swimming!"
* "Nobody's laughing at Baby Clay because he is too cute to be laughed at!"
* "I can't believe I nearly died from all his cuteness!"

Towards the very end of his cute tune, Baby Clay silently leaps out of the water and into the then-unseen arms of the 'viewer', which later revealed to be his parents Muck 1 and Muck 2, and shows a close front-view look of his adorable face. The announcer says this line:

* "Baby Clay's so cute that he is way too cute for words!"

The player then clicks to continue on to a long comic-book like cutscene showing Muck 2 giving Baby Clay a "prize", which is the prize of an adorable feed, as she takes out a cloth prize-bag and Baby Clay has won the "prize" for being so adorably cute. She opened up the cloth prize-bag, reveals the "prize" as she takes out a baby-bottle from inside it and says "It's a baby-bottle of [type of baby-feed depending on the course] baby-feed." Muck 2 then says "Oh look! It wants us to give you an adorable feed" and then gives Little Baby Clay an adorable feed.

With his lovable look, Little Baby Clay then cutely grabs the baby-bottle's soft teat with his mouth and happily drinks the first cute milk baby-feed, follow along milk Baby-feed or follow on the cuteness milk baby-feed from the baby-bottle at an adorably, quick speed and makes little tut-tut-tut noises. Then when the baby-feed was all gone from the baby-bottle, Baby Clay bounces adorably and says "Menno paa, menno paa, menno paa!" whilst swaying his swaddled body. Muck 2 then gently pats Little Baby Clay's back to make him burp as his burps sound like adorable squeaks instead of belly burps.

Then, Muck 1 and Muck 2 give Baby Clay a very cute cuddle.

After all this, the player has to go back to the character selection.

The baby-feed Baby Clay drinks, when he was given an adorable feed, differs from the course the player chooses:

 Forest course
 Space course

## Trivia

* The music that's played in this game's background is 'Sound Fashion' by M. Dall-Anese for the character selection, 'Guitars Non-Stop' by J.M. Benais for the charging up and 'Rock For Children' by Falcao for both the game's title screen and the game's ending. For the courses when one or two of the 12 characters was swimming through the chosen swimming-course, 'Bailando' by F. Paz plays for the island course, 'Allegretto Kid' by E. Aron plays for the forest course and 'Actinium' by M. Rozeville and V. Adam plays for the space course. All 6 of these songs are from the Hibou-music.com website.
	+ However, if the player chooses to play as 'trick character' Baby Clay, when he faffs about with his cute movements and adorably makes cute squeaks, cute squeals and cute baby noises, his cute tune plays in the background instead of of the tune depending on the chosen course, either 'Bailando' (island course), 'Allegretto Kid' (forest course) or 'Actinium' (space course), which played when one or two of the 12 characters were swimming.
* This game, and the original Splashdown Challenge, is based on a dream about Little Clay that a female 'Bob the Builder' fan from the UK via Wales had in June 2021.
* Baby Clay, in this game via the contest mode, plays a similar role to a raw steak slice (A.K.A Meat) from a non-Bob the Builder online game 'Moron Marathon' as they're both 'trick characters'. Trick characters do not give players a time record.
* This game takes place in the 'Bob the Builder' AU where the machines are humanised.