Fancy Pants Adventures is a series of free side-scrolling flash games created by Brad Borne. Two worlds have been released so far, World 1 on 14 March 2006 and World 2 on 9 January 2008. Borne has announced that after the upcoming Comic Con, he will officially start working on World 3.

Fancy Pants Adventures features Fancy Pants Man as the playable character of the series. He is a two dimensional stick figure with spiky hair, wearing only a pair of triangular-shaped pants which can change color. Players guide Fancy Pants Man through open levels which feature obstacles to overcome and enemies to avoid or defeat.

These enemies include spiders, snails, dragons, and rats armed with guns. Enemies can be defeated by being jumped on and crushed by Fancy Pants Man, who can also launch off them to reach greater heights. World 2 introduced the snail enemy, which retracts into its shell when jumped on, after which it can be kicked to stun other enemies.

Originally this was merely a novelty feature in the World 2 demo, and when the shell hit spiders it stunned them. During development, BETA testers made a game out of getting the snail shell to hard-to-reach spots. Brad used this as inspiration to incorporate "Snail Shell Golf" which adds replayability to World 2 by allowing the player to gain access to different colored pants for the playable character.

It is possible to earn a combo by keeping the snail shell in the air. As Fancy Pants Man runs through the different levels, there are many "squiggles" floating in mid-air. They serve two important functions.

Firstly, they refill Fancy Pants Man's life meter by 5% after he has been hit by an enemy, and they give the player an extra life for every hundred collected. In the source code, these "squiggles" are referred to as "coins"; possibly as a reference to Nintendo's Mario video games series. Both Worlds of Fancy Pants Adventures contain small trophies that can be collected while playing the game.

At the end of each world of Fancy Pants Adventures players fight a boss. In World 1 the boss is an angry penguin, who Fancy Pants Man accidentally falls upon and wakes from sleeping. This is the extent of the story in World 1, while World 2 has a more significant plotline.

In World 2 an angry rabbit steals Fancy Pants Man's ice cream. Players must pursue and ultimately defeat the rabbit in a confrontation at the end of the game in order to reclaim the ice cream.

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