Splashdown Challenge

**Splashdown Challenge** is sport-type online game. It takes place in the 'Bob the Builder' AU where the machines are humanised.

## Story

It is Summertime and 8 children have been chosen to paticipate. Dizzy, Scrambler, Scratch, Trix, Shove, Sweep, Swirls and Sky, who are in their competitive moods, are all in their swimsuits and are well-prepared to take on swimming challenge competition at a huge water-park. Of those 8 competitors, who will become the swimming champion?

## Features

### Gameplay

There are 8 characters to play in this game: Dizzy, Scrambler, Scratch, Trix, Shove, Sweep, Swirls and Sky. The player must choose one of those 8 playable characters. Then, after the announcer says "Set?", the player has to tap the space bar 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 course. The player then has to, again, tap the space bar rapidly, as fast as they can this time, to make their character speed up. To set the character's record, the player must get their character to the finish of the course.

There are 2 courses to choose from:

* **Normal course**: An ordinary swimming-crash-course.
* **Mega course**: A much longer swimming-crash-course.

### Characters

#### Dizzy

Dizzy is a young girl with orange hair and an orange girls' single-piece swimsuit. She's an energetic swimmer who gets cheered on by her 2 adult friends Muck 1 and Muck 2.

#### Scrambler

Scrambler is a young boy with dark-blue hair and dark-blue swimming pants. He's the fastest of the 8 swimmers

#### Scratch

Scratch is a young boy with light-blue hair and a pair of light-blue swimming trunks. Of all 8 swimmers, he is the only one who wears inflatable armbands.

#### Trix

Trix is a young girl with black hair an a light-purple two-piece swimsuit. She's capable of swimming with her aqua-aerobic skills.

#### Shove

Shove is a young boy with light-red hair and a pair of light-red swimming trunks. He is one daring competitor when it comes to swimming.

#### Sweep

Sweep is a young boy with yellow hair and yellow swimming pants. He swims very well.

#### Swirls

Swirls is a young girl with pink hair and a pink two-piece swimsuit. She can swim like a mermaid.

#### Sky

Sky is a young girl with sky-blue hair and a sky-blue girls' single piece swimsuit. Her swimming skills seem normal.

### Ending

Once they have done the swimming challenge with all 8 swimmers, the player then has to pick the winner by clicking on any one out of the following 8: Dizzy, Scrambler, Scratch, Trix, Shove, Sweep, Swirls and Sky. After the winner has chosen, the game progresses to a scene which shows the chosen character with a golden trophy. 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 click on, saying "Swim again".

### Baby Clay?

Among the 8 paticipating characters in the game, there is an additional "9th" character. That character is named Baby Clay and he's a cute baby boy. Unlike the 8 swimmers, 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:

Baby Clay is at the starting point of the swimming-course. After the announcer says "Set?", the player has to rapidly tap the space bar 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, and making adorably cute squeals and adorable baby noises. Towards the very end of his cute tune, Baby Clay silently leaps out of the water and into the unseen arms of the 'viewer' and shows a close front-view look of his adorable face.

When Baby Clay starts to faff about with his adorableness, his cute tune begins playing instead of a daring rock tune which began playing when one of the 8 swimmers (Dizzy, Scrambler, Scratch, Trix, Shove, Sweep, Swirls and Sky) was swimming through the swimming-crash-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!"

And after Baby Clay silently leaps out of the water, into the arms of the 'viewer' and shows a close front-view look of his adorable face, when the tune ends, the announcer says this line:

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

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

## 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, 'Guitar Warrior' by Falcao for when the one of the 8 swimmers swims through the swimming-course and 'Rock For Children' by Falcao for both the game's title screen and the game's ending. All 4 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 'Guitar Warrior'.
* The announcer in this game is a woman.
* This game 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, plays a similar role to a 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.
* There is an updated/enhanced version of this game called Super Splashdown Challenge.