Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom
A downloadable game for Windows
Squidward's earned his chance to wow a crowd during the Symphony Orchestral performance in Glove World. As Squidward is warming up, he receives a call from Mr. Krabs, warning him about a smelly-smell, the kind of smelly-smell that smells... smelly. All at once, a massive swarm of jellyfish overrun Bikini Bottom, and begin attacking Bikini Bottomites! Oh, the horror!
It's up to SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs to eradicate the Jellien invasion, and the resulting clones that follow. They'll have to stay one step ahead of the Overlord's advances in order to survive these weird, and rather horrifying, monstrosities that are on the prowl. They've fought robots, bucketheads, and more... surely they can take down some scary Jelliens, right? ...Right?
Sigh, better grab some mayo and get to it! I have a feeling tonight's going to be a very long night.
- Play as SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs- each with their own unique quirks.
- Explore over 16 locations from the show, recreated with the classic Dave Microwaves Games aesthetic.
- Experience an original story with the resurging wrath of the Jelliens from the episode, "Planet of the Jellyfish."
- Prepare for an invasion of unique enemies, as well as some familiar faces!
- Go toe-to-toe with threatening bosses and dastardly scenarios.
- Use the firepower of the Mayo Minigun, or the brute strength of Starfishman, to defeat your foes.
- Unlock a treasure trove of extras, minigames, and more by revealing secrets.
- Learn about the inner machinations of the game by using an official digital manual, located in the game's executable folder.
- Read up on the prologue for Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom, a short narrative following the Overlord's misadventures leading up to the invasion. This PDF can be located in the game's executable folder.
Main Contributors: MXXN, Jam, Nicole Marie T, Hybridkoala, NagolBOT, HarveyB, Uncle Al
This is a SpongeBob fan-game, thus featuring a lot of spoofs and parodies to honor the life of Stephen Hillenburg. SpongeBob SquarePants and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. Created by Stephen Hillenburg. Exclusively published by Dave Microwaves Games. Developed by Dave Microwaves Games and Snowmizzle Studio. Uses Unreal Engine 4. All other trademarks, logos, and copyrights are properties of their respective owners.
Want to continue to support me as a developer? Consider checking out my Patreon. Different tiers can grant you access to behind the scenes content, early access to my games and patron exclusive games as well! Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/DaveMicrowavesGames
The developers describe the content like this:
This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages: Cartoon violence, animated bloodshed, suggestive themes, language and crass humor.
System Requirements:
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Operating System
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4170 or AMD FX-8120
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 460 1GB or AMD HD 6850 1GB
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 15 GB available space
- Sound Card: DX10 compatible
- Additional Notes: With these requirements, it is recommended that the game is played on Low quality settings.
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Operating System
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4170 or AMD FX-8300 or higher
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX11 Compatible GeForce 760 or AMD HD 8800 or higher with 4GB of RAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 15 GB available space
- Sound Card: DX11 compatible
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Install instructions
Lookin' to snag Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom, are ye? Awesome; here's how you can download, extract, and play the game!
STEP 1:
Before you download the game, we'd highly recommend downloading the latest version of WinRAR, a very important piece of software that will allow you to extract the game. Ensure that you can open .rar files! You can ignore any requests to donate or buy the full version of WinRAR, if you wish.
STEP 2:
When you've successfully installed WinRAR to your PC, you can download Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom. Give it some time, and when it's fully downloaded, WinRAR should open the .rar file automatically. If not, open the file through your browser, or in your File Explorer.
STEP 3:
Once the .rar file has been opened in WinRAR, you'll want to select, "Extract." From here, you'll be given a location to save the extracted contents; select, "Browse," and choose a folder location that can hold the file size of the game.
STEP 4:
When you've found a location, create a new folder in that location; name it whatever you'd like, as long as you can find it shortly after! Select this new folder, and then confirm that folder as your extraction location.
STEP 5:
Once that's done, begin extraction! It may take some time, but once it's finished, you can close WinRAR. From here, go to the extraction folder, go through an extra folder or two, and you should see a .exe called, "AtC_BB." Open it, and presto! You've claimed the booty all for yourself. Enjoy your experience!
Development log
- Crash Fix (Relating to newer generation CPUs)Mar 20, 2024
- The Feedback Survey Has Been RemovedAug 24, 2022
- V1.1.0 Around the Clock's Anniversary Update Is Now Live!Feb 28, 2022
- Update V1.0.1b Is Now Live!Mar 13, 2021
- Feedback/Bug Report Form UpdateMar 06, 2021
- 32 Bit version has been removed! Sorry folks. D:Mar 04, 2021
- Update V1.0.1 Is Now Live!Mar 04, 2021
- Download Instruction Tweak + Balance Changes Incoming!Mar 01, 2021
Comments
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Hi Dave! I have another question *after last year*. Can this be added to other languages, or does it stay as is?
Example: Spanish
Can I download this game on Imac and what is the process on it?
Dave i just wanna point out that your game is actually peak and I hope it gets more recognition!
pls dose anyone no???????
what do i do to download this game?
recomended if you want to download:
hope this helps..
Hit the download button and it'll download the game. Then use an unzipping program such as Winrar or 7zip to unzip the .rar folder. You should then be able to open up the game folder and play.
muchisimas gracias a todos los creadres por darnos este maravilloso juego ojala que pudiesemos ver mas
This game was peak. i remember youtubers play it and whatnot, its a beautiful underrated masterpiece. i even played the scooby doo one too, very unique gameplay. NEXT GAME WHEN????
The screen is out of bounds! My screen ratio is 16:10, your game is 16:9. This will cause part of the screen to be invisible!!!
Daveyy, how ya doin. anyway i've been meaning to ask you something.
so every time when i boot up the game, it sets the game on high graphics. lagging my pc to the point that i can make a sandwich in the meantime.
Could you perhaps make an apply button so we don't have to change it everytime?
for people having troubles opening the game here’s how I solved it
1. Type env in windows
2. Click on the environment variables
3. Click new on system variables
4. Variable name is OPENSSL_ia32cap
5. Valuables is ~0x20000000
6. Then click done then it should work
If this helped you like this comment if it did not dislike
when i open the game i just see the cutseen and after that it just closes
It's an issue with older versions of Unreal Engine having compatibility issues with newer hardware. The quickest and easiest solution is to disable your internet before launching the game. I believe someone in the comments posted a more permanent solution, though I've never tested it before.
can you rate my games I'm a beginner
I want to play this but for some reason every time I try to play it there is a crdownload file. Is there anyway to fix this? It's happening to all downloads i try for his games
I love this Game, and i was playing on a low end pc and it's was running fine, even on high resolutions, the problem is that no matter what i do, prowler patrick lags my screen and when i fight the prowler happens too no matter what i do, i cant beat the Game. :(
got the soution,same happened to me,you just have to go to the file of the game,go to file"AtC_BB"go to file called"movies"and delete all the movie.hope y helped you
Hello Dave!,
I have a weird bug on my pc. At first the game wouldnt properly load, but then I saw a comment saying that turning off my wifi might help and it worked. However, I also have a resolution bug I think? A part of the right side of the game is just out of my screen, and it's really frustrating to try to play with that. Is there any way to fix this?
Unfortunately that seems to just be an issue with the game handling certain square like resolutions. The only real fix would be to play in windowed mode I believe or manually changing the PC's display resolution. Really sorry about this! Lot of my older games had these sort of problems.
The thing is, this isnt my usual resolution. My usual one is 2560 x 1600. Since it didnt work there, I also tried other ones. Those didnt work either :(
But thank you for telling me about the window mode. That seemed to work. Thank you again, I am so glad I can experience such a fun game without any issues now. <3
Hey Dave,
would it be possible to release the demo again for free? I feel like it would be fun to look through the demo and see what is different! Thank you
I've considered the idea in the past. I may release it some day to the public, but we shall see!
thanks :D
how do i fix the crash bug idk where i can stop the ssl from going to the crash path
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If you are wondering why your game is crashing on newer hardware its due to an old bug in Unreal engine
Check this out for more info from a trusted source
it would be better if Dave microwaves games added streaming mode button and soundalert button to alert monsters and if you dont know what that is take a good look: https://soundalerts.com/ and access your microphone to make the monsters hear you button so would that be a crazy update? this guy right here can enable some memes to alert the monster and his name is bushwhack 18 on youtube twitch tiktok and discord so would you make a update for bushwhack 18 and for everyone? and happy 2025!
hey can you help me make a fan game of this
i got it working please make a number 2 of this game i love it 5 stars
i need a fully beaten save file because it wont show the 3 last sections levels
this is one of my favorite games but when a beat the whole end thing it doesn't show the three sections when i want to play a certain one so does someone have a beaten save file after the end part please let me know.
That's odd? If you beat the final level then you should be able to click on the final level from the map screen, click play, and it should open the menu that shows all four playable sections from the level.
can you send me a save file beaten that end because I cant see them
I did a bingo of this game on Bingothon earlier, and maybe some new people are coming to download the game. If you don't know what Bingothon is, you should check it out on Twitch or Youtube.
I wanted to repost something I left here a few year back on how to permanently fix the crashing issue on newer Intel CPUs. I saw on Dave's most recent post (a year ago) that he couldn't find where he saw it, so here it is again. I can confirm that this works, my game has never crashed since I implemented the fix.
Here's a source for the fix as well: https://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/278604-game-wont-start-fix-for-10th-gen-and-la...
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How to fix the game crash after about a minute of playtime
There's a bug with the version of OpenSSL in the build of UE4 used to make the game. If you are using a computer with a 10th, 11th, 12th, or newer gen Intel CPU you will have to do the following steps in order to play the game.
Alternatively, you can completely remove internet connection to also prevent the crash
The game keeps crashing still for me
when I turn on the game and click continue nothing happens and when I clicked new game it did the same thing so it basically wont let me play the game. oh and by the way you are very talented.
Ah that sounds like your save file got corrupted. Go to Appdata\Local\AtC_BB\Saved\SaveGames folder and delete the .sav file. Next time you boot up the game, it should create a fresh save file and solve the issue. If you don't know how to get to your appdata folder, type %appdata% in your search bar and it should pop it up.
When I went to the SaveGames folder there was no .sav file?
Oh dang, that's very odd. When you would click newgame, would nothing happen and the continue button would take you to the map screen but nothing there would work, correct? Or was it the game just wasn't working or crashing? I can only suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the game and if that doesn't work, I'm not quite sure what else could be causing your issue besides a corrupted save file. I'm so sorry I can't be of much help!
Yes basically when I pressed new game nothing happened but when I clicked continue it took me to the map but I could not click anything on the map. and also it is okay if you cant do anything.
how to play it
hey dave ty for trying to help get the game
i have beaten glove world twice and the game is acting like i never beaten it. I collected both the golden and the token on both runs, i got the patty and the shell on the first run, it never counted it.
i cant even play the game ;-;
real
Dave can you make a remastered version of 6am at the chum bucket
mr krabbs robot softlocks the game if you grab the knife in the kitchen
i haveing a prople and i am on windows 11
Hay dave can you please make a mobile port and maybe put it on google play or download
My game keeps crashing no matter what I do and the game focus seems off set this game was very important to me and I want to try to play it again and finally beat it without hacks but I can't because of the problem.
it's very hard and I have been trying to see what is wrong with the winddowns 11 with a non-clicking also with no also no in game save and extras or hints and it's sad I have played the game when I was on winddowns 10 and I been trying to find out what has happed I am getting a new pc so I want to see what wrong and I will keep you update
how to fix?