Skator Gator (sometimes written as Sk8r G8r) is a series of action/platforming games by Weathered Sweater. After robots invade the swamp where Greenjamin Gator lives, intending to turn it into a mini golf course, he must skate his way to the city to advocate for change.
The original game, released on January 17, 2022, is a side-scrolling action game where players must jump up and down while skating across four oil pipelines to dodge enemies and obstacles, avoid falling into the swamp, and collect eggs along the way. By collecting a certain number of eggs, the player can unlock several of Greenjamin's friends as playable characters.
A sequel, Skator Gator 3D, was released on August 31, 2023. When his skateboard gains sentience as the evil Traitor Gator and steals the deed to the swamp that Greenjamin inherited from his father, Greenjamin must once again skate across several worlds in order to reclaim the deed while also cleaning the trash that litters the swamp. The skateboarding sections are changed to be forward-facing instead, and are alternated with sections where gameplay changes to more traditional 3D platforming. This time around, there are also multiple kinds of items hidden in the worlds, and like in the first game, collecting them allows you to unlock new characters.
Here are the Steam pages for the original
and sequel, and you can also find more information about both games on the developers' official website.
Skator Gator and Skator Gator 3D contain examples of:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Greenjamin and his friends only wear backwards-facing caps.
- Alliterative Name:
- Several of the playable gators have alliterative names: Greenjamin Gator, Goofy Galute, Cherry Cola, and Gilded Gary. You could almost say that they're alli-terative-gators.
- Some of the levels also have alliterative names: Slundgey Swamp and Beetroot Bog in the first game, and Sunset Swamps and Midnight Mire in Skator Gator 3D.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: The gators ride their skateboards on all fours in the original game, but in the sequel, they stand and walk around on their hind legs instead.
- The Cameo: Toree from Toree 3D is one of the unlockable playable characters in Skator Gator 3D.
- Double Jump: The wing power-up allows the player to jump onto a rail that's two spaces away while skating, or, during the traditional platforming segments in the sequel, jump once in midair. It wears off after one use, however.
- Green Gators: Greenjamin is a bright green alligator. His friends go beyond this into Amazing Technicolor Wildlife, coming in colors like red, cyan and gold.
- Springy Spores: Green mushrooms allow Greenjamin to bounce across the gaps between oil pipelines and, in the sequel, reach higher areas.
