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: 3 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: 3 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
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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 ;-;
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?
Fullbright mode ATCABB
Pls Release In Android!
Game keeps crashing and the fullscreen is not good! There are button left out there! my resoltuion is 1920 x 1200
either unsupported resolution or your computer is not powerful enough, i need your computer specs
or it is because It may be a problem due to this game using an older version of Unreal Engine and having compatibility issues with certain newer graphics cards. Try disconnecting from your internet before launching the game, since that seems to fix the issue for most folks. Hopefully this helps! (giving credit to dave's reply)
Here are my specs! check this website, this is exactly my laptop https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00129225
but here are the specs if you want it:
That's due to the game using a older version of UE engine with having instablity with 30-40 series GPUS.
So will you support it or no??? If not Im just going to walk away!
hello?
also I am using Windows 11
I was gonna make a video about this game but when I go to launch it, it just pops up my file explorer, plz help
it should be ine the second file, the one with the game name
when i try to extract the files, it either talks about it being the same name as something else or it says "to close this wizard, click finish"
Dave, whats the windows NO editor pack
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Is this game false positive, it says unknown publisher when i open the WINRAR file, it say Security Warning
its safe trust
When i downloaded it. it didnt work it just opened up its file
the best game available on itch.io
played it when i was 13, amazing freaking game, 10/10
When I start the game I get the cinematics from the beginning of the game, until the cover of Around the Clock appears and the game freezes and instantly closes.
I would like to know what the problem is, because I have followed the steps correctly and I am on Windows 11
It may be a problem due to this game using an older version of Unreal Engine and having compatibility issues with certain newer graphics cards. Try disconnecting from your internet before launching the game, since that seems to fix the issue for most folks. Hopefully this helps!
Thanks for your response, it helped me, now the game runs fluidly!!!!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEe86i4s10e9renmLgDoyevhpV55fJNNr&si=AC9xwHXT0WSUW7e-
i was in pain doing the first level but amazing game (i havent beat it yet btw nice cheat codes)
i cant make a new game
wait dave are you talking about the save game file or the one in the game
cool game for spongebob even if you dont have laptop but you can watch it on youtube!
can you update the game so it works on windows 11 please
Around the Clock should already work on Windows 11. The co-developer and a few other players have reported it works on their Windows 11 PCs. If you're running into any sort of issue, it may be unrelated to the OS. Please send any error messages or detailed information as to what's happening and I may be able to help!
so when I go into the game I cant make a new game but I can continue game when I do it takes me to the map but I cant play a level or anything it just shows me the map with glove world is the next map this haves been going on for 2 years the only way is to go back to windows 10 I just want to play the game please try to help me
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 up.
sadly it did not work this is what happed please someone help me (youtube.com)
Look at comment I told you
I CANT comfrom but I think when you buy your pc when you got it then you have to stick with you winddows when you buy your pc the winddow the you where first on hast to stay the same for to play this game
dave please help me get back to playing my fav game around the clock it is my fav game but I cant play it I know you say redownloading the game but it dose not work for me the only way I can play this game if I have windows 10 I have 11 please just help me play my fav game please help me also please can you update it please thank you
I WANNA PLAY
but know it wont let me play
all I did was do something with zip fille
ya
what i got it to work