Reviewing Geometry Dash's Menus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2022
- You know the part of Geometry Dash where you're not actually playing the game? Let's talk about it for twelve minutes!
🎨 Character art by Loafee! / loafeebuns
🎨 Shrine background by NetBa! / netba_art
🎵 Music:
sans. from Undertale (Toby Fox)
Flower Garden from Yoshi's Island (Koji Kondo)
Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod
Jungle from Terraria (Scott Lloyd Shelly)
Dating Start! from Undertale (Toby Fox)
Jungle Night from Terraria (Scott Lloyd Shelly)
March of the Spoons by Kevin MacLeod
BossaBossa by Kevin MacLeod
Helpy Loves You from Will You Snail (Jonas Tyroller)
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![Stereo Madness Isn't Sightreadable [April Fools]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8hJ6ZtzH5Wc/mqdefault.jpg)
Agreed, but probably not something that will be fixed until after 2.2 :)
hie
yeah, when 2.2 actually *COMES OUT*
Hello robert
hi rubrub
AGIAN!!?!?!??!
12:12 by far the best gui
- simple
- easy to understand
- not overcrowded
- nice minimalistic design
- unique
- memorable
Very true
agreed
yea iz lit
I actually remembered it before seeing it in the video. It's so simplistic it's impossible to forget
yessirrrr
I didn't knew this channel, discovered this after 2.2, and coming back on this video after the update and realizing that some things you suggested were actually implemented is so cool
lol I wanted to say that
i think the real problem with the menus is that pressing escape on the pause menu should unpause, *not quit the level*
*Phobos 90% take a rest screen appears.*
(Accidentally presses Esc 2 times)
You know what happens.
YES
@@perrolocoyoutube_5bloodbath 98% right before the triple
REL
*confirm exit*
another thing i would add in the pause menu or gameplay is a sign showing how many coins you have collected in the level on your current attempt. when you collect a coin it shows briefly along the other 3 coins you can collect, kind of Rayman Legends’ teensie progress bar, and also WHICH coin you collected (whether its the first, second or third coin)
Yeah...
As a person who used to play Rayman Legends on the PS3, i agree with this idea
If robtop does end up adding this, it'd be neat but also kinda cheap if it showed the percentage the coin is at. Only problem is if the coin moves
Memories brought back
wait thats actually a great idea
Honestly Colon is one of my favorite content creators because he is very accurate
in 19 seconds you came up to that conclusion
Edit: ok i meant 19 minutes
Also he's a furry
@@yes-is5wf ye
you know what i love about colon? consistency
honestly colon is one of my favorite content creators because he is very
1:45 To add on here, the icons you dont have will always have the classic grey shown, but the ones you own will have the colors you set, showing a preview with the colors without having to equip it.
The fact that most of these are now in 2.2
i really wish there a dummies version of the editor, because the current menu looks terrifying
Ayyyy crafty, you watch gdcolon?
You get used to it pretty quickly, thankfully :)
@@Archiver_Nova bro played with Tride
mrcrafty is prob watching gd more cuz of the simon vid idk
Yeah, like the Trackmania "simple" editor
I would also like to add that you can add a function to the level search filter that, during operation, will issue levels with EXACTLY the same name that you entered. For example, if you write "blood" in the search, then you will get not bloodbath and bloodlust, but a level called "blood". Still, it would be possible to make a function to search for levels by the creator. This would be more convenient than logging into the person's account and then going to "my levels" . And one last little detail that pissed off my inner perfectionist. In achievements, the "60 demons" achievement comes after "40 demons" and before "50 demons. Aaaarrghhh
rob should just let us search with regular expressions, ^.+ circles$ to find every level that ends with 'circles'
@@GDColon yes yes yes that's what we need
@@InstagramUser2says the person who has “instagram” in their username
would be nice to search levels with only numbers as their title
@@GDColon regex
6:38 Search bar :D
10:17 bro was foreshadowing another video 💀💀💀💀
I like how you're well into your fixing GD arc lmao
Omgg I found a wild tridee
Wow 2nd comment
But who asked
bird
Ok
Hello tride
I really like the ideas you suggested for the icon kit!
Also settings should be accessible from everywhere, you're right!
+ Great video :)
Yeah and he is right on saying that and that might also help the game organizing itself
@@InstagramUser2 nice colon is so popular he's starting to get bots
@@tunaplanto7327 thats... not a good thing... bots arent good...
@@smoothiepop2253 yeah but it means he is popular
The square adventure thing at 0:39 I can resonate with
The mysterious 5th button can be the settings button too!
Personally, I'd like a record trails option in editor levels in play mode that you can then find in edit mode. Sometimes you do a weird jump pattern and you fall somewhere you're not supposed to be, so a feature like this would be quite useful
Ok I pull up
Like bottling, but just for the editor?
100%
1:14 That's actually a great idea,maybe what i would do is,the closer you are to unlocking a new icon the icon becomes more and more visible so for example :
Icon unlocks if you have 2500 stars
If you have 0 stars at the moment you wont see the icon at all
If you have 1000 stars you can see the icon behind the lock a bit more
And so on and so on.
ooh that's clever!
Thats an interesting idea
Nice one
But what about ones like for saying certain things to the black circle guy (don’t know his name)?
@@GDColon fsir
There should be an option for reshaping nearly everything into circles.
Also should be in the settings.
Maybe called “More than Nine Circles”
Just a joke setting. Also it just reverts the icons and buttons, not editor objects, if you’re wondering.
11:43 It's probably so that if you delete your whole level or something, you don't accidentally save it. This happened to Surv when he was verifying Yatagarasu. However, I do agree with the fact that Save and Play/Save and Exit should have confirmation messages
They should be a togglable setting
Colon: *Talks about how this video editing is trash
Also Colon: *Makes the video editing very good
yeah sounds about right
I think colon was that kid who told everyone his drawing is terrible
True man.
It's good to downplay urself 😉
@@chibk Sometimes it's just too noticeable.
10:16 our hero deleted generation retro
W
Foreshadowing
@@Elfilinfanforeshadowing what?
@@Incineration72the new vid he made
(I’m going to get flamed for this) generation retro isn’t that bad tbh
11:31
I would LOVE to have custom easing options such as:
Sine in, Back out
Back in, Bounce out
Instead of in and out all being locked to one type. I think it could be neat.
Also, being able to tie specific options together with it. For example, bounce out, only on the y movement instead of both x and y.
Y does the 2.1 menu look so nostalgic😢
It was 2-3 weeks
Geometrical Menu
Ok
I agree
Very innit indeed
Very symmetrical
True
PowerPoint Quality represents these GD Slides. Unique in one way.
I really love that you used Will You Snail music in this video, heard the motifs and it caught my attention lolol
0:47 possibly the funniest thing I've seen this month
Vent
8:15 stop smashing my name baka >.
10:17 Deleting Generation Retro is the most based thing I've seen all day
6:47 why does this make me laugh
I genuinely think this man inspired A LOT of features in 2.2, the amount of stuff this man predicted is insane, and the few features that haven't been added to the game have been added by the community with mods, like the level thumbnail feature
Great video man! I really, really liked the abbreviated idea with instead of 15000000, it says 15M. Or robtop could have at least added commas so it's 15,000,000
huh? no replys and 3 likes? lemme fix that, also yee true
bro didnt get any fame for 11 months...
HOW DID YOU GET NO FAME
KINGSAMMELOT
Yooo
for the title screen i think it would be cool if you could have a button at the top to remove the buttons so you can just play with the icons on screen. could be similar to the megahack thing where you can press a button to hide the level complete screen to see an endscreen of a level better.
that's kinda cool, but I think it would be better if the menu hides itself if no buttons were pressed for too long but the icons won't count, kinda like a screensaver or smth.
4:29 got me *dying* especially watching this video after the collab with Lemoncak3 💀💀💀
I used to watch your videos from like 2 years ago then stopped but started watching again and your still the best!
Huge respect for the Will you Snail ost included. I see you're truly the man.
Yo!
@@Jdrocco Yo
Very cool ideas, fr now, we need such things in the future updates.
I like those ones from 1:16, 3:20, 3:25, 3:35, 5:28, 5:33, 6:07, 6:14 and 6:40
Also Robtop, give some credits to Kelvin MacLeod for the shop themes, because i didn't even know that he is the one responsible for them =)))
And good job once again Colon (fox boy) with ur video.
Idk if i'm the only one who noticed, but :
- 0:18 Fumo Patchouli?
- Jungle Surface Day and Jungle Surface Night themes from Terraria?
- 3:35 Nice tags: "Mechanical" , "Fire" , "Fast" and "Boss Fight" (idk why, but i imagine Mechanical Bosses from Terraria)
- 4:18 Nice Touhou Fumos images (i can name them if u wanna know their names: Alice Margatroid, Reimu Hakurei, Patchouli Knowledge, Cirno, Marisa Kirisame and Satori Komeiji), and the text files name, even though idk what it means, but i see them.
and uh also at 0:09 the background is dv saws (if you even care lmao)
4:18 it's one of the rhythm doctor levels!
2-1 lofi hip-hop beats to treat patients to (i think)
Robrob added a ton of these things in 2.2!
Colon : idk if this feature will get added but I'll just say cuz it's cool to mention.
Me when colon mentions any feature : "YESSS WE NEED 'EM"
Great video! I genuinely don't get how you so consistently make these videos interesting, and I never disagree with anything you say because your takes are simply too based.
I always thought it was odd that the most often used button is not the big play button in the middle, but the creator button. I mean, when you think about gd, you don't think about the main levels, you think about the other tabs
well, it makes sense from a game design standpoint that the main levels would be the main focus of the menu, but yeah the fact that 99.9999998% of all levels in the game are in one tab is kinda strange
Idea: Stuff like the “tap lock for more info” and if added, an icon showing the level stats (downloads, likes, etc) should appear, then disappear after it’s tapped, showing that the player understands and shouldn’t be bothered by it anymore.
I would honestly add a select all type button that selects all of a specific item because to do this right now, you have to select the object, go into the delete tab and select only, and then pause the game and click select all. Very complicated
11:43 Because saving causes your level to be unverified and you have to beat the level again.
then, why is there no confirmation for the save and exit and save and play
OMG. the buttons are square 9:03
Its incredible that robtop actualy added somethings from this video xd
10:14and just like that, therapists were losing their jobs.
Many of them made it into 2.2
You are Amazing Colon
i think the idea of only icons you've unlocked showing up in the menu is a great suggestion! but on the other hand, i do think it is nice that newer players may discover an icon through the menu and go like "wow that looks so cool i want that!", although, your change to locked icons in the icon kit showing up partially would remedy that, but still, i think it could be a more interesting way to see new icons in the menu that way, it's nicer to see them in color and moving, as opposed to a grayscale thingy behind a lock symbol! maybe if you click on an icon you haven't unlocked in the menu it can show up in the icon kit telling you how to unlock it? e.g. i click on the "beat ToE2" icon in the menu, and then the lock that says "beat ToE2" now has that icon behind it! i think that'd be even cooler!!
my gd menu would not change at all from this until more icons came out
10:57 when Craig gets angry you already know what happens
Well, Rob actually did some of this. keep it up, Colon, especially in the editor tabs.
9:28 Honestly this should just be available as an option for the WHOLE game, just a UI Scale option like Minecraft where u can set it to like 0.5x for every single interface in the game. Can't begin to explain how much i would love that.
a thing that i think could be useful, is if Rob adds a ‘recent’ section in editor, where u have the recent blocks, portals, triggers, etc you used in that level, instead of looking one by one in the whole objects thing
Ok
Ok
3:39 He should do something like Mario maker by making the preview a picture of the level from the level editor
Yo Colon! Your almost at 400k subscribers and I've just wanted to say congrats!
I loved the idea of hovering over a chest in the treasure room and seeing what you got from it, for some reason I would love to see that in 2.2 or maybe 2.3.
Editing a comment right after posting it because I immediately noticed an error. Why do I always do that?
Happens quite often with me too
9:51 This menu is already "organized", for example, the 1.0 grid blocks and the 1.6 brick blocks are all near eachother which makes it very easy to build with them
ACTUALLY the bricks were added in 1.5 get it right guys...... :/
@@20TrillionTrees my bad
@@superprobablyuser it's fine, I didn't seriously mean it lol
2:46 this is a great idea! however the gotta catch em all cube would be broken and if it could always spawn it wouldnt be rewarding because when your a beginner it would be very common
Or robtop could have a "sort button" that organizes all icons by how to unlock them.
Stars:
100 stars: unlocked
200 stars: unlocked
300 stars: locked
400 stars: locked
500 stars: locked
1000 stars: locked
Main levels
Stereo madness: completed
Back on track: completed
Base after base: completed
Dry out: uncompleted
Etc.
Demons
1 demon: completed
2 demons: completed
3 demons: completed
4 demons: completed
5 demons: completed
10 demons: uncompleted
15 demons: uncompleted
This would allow to see yourself make progress so much better
And for icons that have random achievements for you to do, could be in its own section too
1000 jumps: completed
Rate 1000 levels: uncompleted
Destroy 1000 icons in the menu: uncompleted
Open 25 chests: completed
Click the settings button 10000000 times: completed
*I did not know you played btd6 and now I want an entire video of it.*
Same
6:59 Dang, never knew you were colorblind, Colon! Learn something new every day!
he’s probably not colorblind he just probably likes the design with the orb/portal lables
@@DaniAnimationAlt he is, he confirmed it on Twitter and everything
@@20TrillionTreesAlternative comment: He confirmed it on X
@@EddieWelch-hk8vs sad but true
@@DaniAnimationAltnah he was being sarcastic, Colin always points it out
I think something cool to add to the editor would be to allow users to favorite certain items like blocks and triggers and put it in a favorites tab so we don't have to constantly switch tabs between items we know we'll be using
3:22 I actually think this could be a good setting so you could toggle between abbreviated and normal but i would also separate the 'normal' ones with dots so you dont have to count each one of the numbers to distinguish between millions, thousands, etc.
The account registration menu is the best website design I've ever seen.
I have one more idea for trigger boxes: So you know how if you select multiple types of triggers and try to edit them, another box pops up where you can only edit touch, spawn, or multi triggered. What if, a box for “target group id” is added there, so you can change the group that the trigger targets for multiple triggers at once? I’ve run into this problem a lot, and I think it would be quite helpful!
Colon: "I won't show the 2.2 icons, so there aren't any spoilers."
Colon 5 seconds after: **opens his icons, consisting of 90% 2.2 icons**
10:54 imo the touch trigger should also have a multi trigger option. It can be useful and all for the platformer levels feature in 2.2
Wow these are wonderful ideas!!! I hope Rob sees this video and implements them someday! Really good work in this video ;)
3:51 maybe the thumbnail can only be a screenshot of the level so people can see a little preview to know what kind of level they’re gonna play
but how would they know its actually from the level you made
@@ozzienemomaybe make it so that you can only put a screenshot of when your playing the level, and it’s not like you take an actual screenshot but in game, so that the game actually knows it’s from the level
@@TheMasterBee that could work
@@ozzienemoYou verify the level, it records your replay, and from there you watch it and click a button to screenshot the current display of the level for the thumbnail.
because its a screenshot of the darn level dummy @@ozzienemo
Colon literally preticted half of the 2.2 update
I think the menu having only skins and colors your unlocked is amazing cause then it will give you ideas how to make your very own beautiful icon set :)
4:18 i appreciate the rhythm doctor reference
i have memorized the lyrics to wish i could care less and am able to recite them at any time and this even caught me off guard
Haha funny song of the svt ward guy
stare at nothing.jpeg
A seizure warning option needs to be in the game, accessibility is really important
these are fantastic ideas! great video
3:26 when robtop did that in 2.2 gd colon didn't like it, on his stream
0:09 if you look closely in the background you can see the devil vortex saws lmao
Hah
9:36 gotta love how colon used a gray background to make that easier to edit
(also will you snail ost in the background, nice)
big brain editing strat
0:39 Do you want to release wild sheep into this player's house while they are asleep
Colon: Heck yes
The player at night: 1 sheep, 2 sheep, 3 she- WAIT WHAT THE
for the title screen icons, would be funny if you could mess with them a lot, like spawn a grav portal or whatever, tho would be hard to implement
7:55 to take it further, allow comments to use the percentage you are currently at, and even a “show comments in the level” sort of thing!
Wouldn't that be going towards mm2 features?
Also make it possible to disable them on your own
We're turning gd into youtube comments ☠
Mario Maker 2
Since creating process have been evolved and more advanced from time to time, I feel like we deserved some more Quality of Life features, as a creator like myself it would makes life much easier and saves tons of hours of creating. I'm glad that we have stuff like Autobuild, Keyframe, Random Trigger, Advanced Scaling, etc in 2.2, so I hope this is just a start and we're going to have more useful tools later on.
Colon: I'm not expecting a reply for this
RobTop: You're too good at finding mistakes
colon i like you talking abt information and ur opinions are so cool
0:27 You saved yourself with that one cause since that was my first thought I knew that people would complain about it
11:13 i’d give the ability to change what buttons do what yourself. or even the ability to rearrange editor UI entirely
colon u forgot one thing 1. Rob please add replies so we know who were talking to and yeah 2. Maybe add more daily chests instead of the infamous 2 ones 3. add one more demon section maybe like ultra demon 4. Maybe add.more buttons on our level customisation 5. and lastly please add explorers❤
Colon: doesn't want to demand changes
Also colon: demand changes.
Me: completely flaccid.
12:00 Blåhaj plays Geometry Dash
Gdhaj
didn't think this video would have that much to say, but I actually found it interesting enough for me to stay the whole video, I strongly agreed with all the ideas presented too. great job colon, your content is great :) keep it up
(Kevin macleod will always be the goat)
I haven't seen the old level editor layout in so many years. That brought back some memories.
This video gave me a good idea:
Make a difficulty selecter, so you can pick witch type of level difficulty you want to play.
Love that icon added to menu as you unlock them idea 🙏
version of the game when lvl was created is really good, it shows you some history and how the game and design evolved, like 1.9 and 2.0 have each distinct style of the levels
Colon: “Do you ever look at the interfaces in Geometry Dash?”
Me: “Uh.. Yeeaaahh! 🤥“
Bro predicted the future 1:14
I've been playing gd for like 4 years and I just now figured out from your video what those badges mean at 5:23
Amazing video, you always put a lot of effort into making them accurate and keeping the audience intrigued. I LOVEEE all of your creations like RoboTop, GD Browser, and comment/text generator. I use them in all of my videos. It's so useful, and I couldn't do it without you. So thank you so much!! ♥
At 7:45 the actual YT like button got highlighted when he said that and I jumped a little lmao
0:09 @Sikky when he realizes what is behind the UI 😂👀👀😭☠️
I mean yes, I love the idea because it can start with a Basic Cube and Ship and as you move on and unlock more things the stuff you unlocked can be on the start menu and eventually you can start getting Wave,UFO,Ball,Robot,And Spider if you complete the levels that have those game modes. Like For Example: if you beat cycles Ball icons that you have (It will start with basic) will start popping up.