“Slime” was changed to “Gooze” as per Nickelodeon’s suggestion. Originally, I had titled this activity “Gary’s Slime Art” since snails, you know, leave a trail of slime behind them. I really like the Gary sprite that is used as your cursor.

Gary’s Gooze Art (named after SpongeBob’s pet snail) is a simple drawing program that turned out to be slightly more difficult to program than originally anticipated. It is, however, official Nickelodeon art, so don’t blame us. See? It’s a game that the whole family can enjoy! Also, one of the available pictures shows Patrick doing some sort of workout (or something) that involves him stretching one of his legs. Not much to say about this one, either, but hey…we do have three levels of difficulty, so that’s something. Luckily, Kevin James (no, not that Kevin James…this Kevin James is far more talented), the artist who worked on this project, was a big SpongeBob fan, so he was eager to suggest all sorts of costumes and props to use for this and the other games. In addition to swapping the parts, you can also drag them around SpongeBob’s face a bit to mix things up even more. You just mix and match SpongeBob’s parts to make him look as goofy as you want. This one gets a bit long, so there’s more after the jump. Nick and Jakks suggested a couple possible activities my first job was to fill out the rest and implement their ideas into the design document. Eventually, we talked them down to a more realistic seven activities. Of course, the original request was for something along the lines of 10-12 different activities, which would have been very difficult to fit on the 1MB ROM with which we had to work, especially if we wanted to use different artwork in each activity (for backgrounds and whatnot) to keep them visually interesting. Both companies were quick to stress that they didn’t wants “games” here. Instead of a collection of mini-games, Dilly Dabbler (their name) was going to be a collection of “activities” that would be aimed at younger kids. Nickelodeon and Jakks wanted something different for this one.

This was a point that was heavily reinforced while working with Nickelodeon on SpongeBob SquarePants Dilly Dabbler.īy the time we started working on this product, there were one or two SpongeBob TV Games out already. In my previous entry about my Spider-Man game, I mentioned that working with licensed properties can be a hassle. It certainly isn’t the highest quality, but it’ll do for this purpose. So I invested in a (very) cheap video capture device. Considering that most of them were intended for very young children, this wasn’t much of a surprise. As I was preparing to write up this piece, I realized that there simply aren’t any screen shots or video online of most of the games on which I worked.

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