Reviewing Geometry Dash's Menus
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 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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If you're reading this, don't ever trust me to make an interface I have no idea what I'm doing - Hry
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 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*
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
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
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
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.
6:38 Search bar :D
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
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
The fact that most of these are now in 2.2
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
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
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
The square adventure thing at 0:39 I can resonate with
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.
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
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%
10:14and just like that, therapists were losing their jobs.
6:47 why does this make me laugh
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
Geometrical Menu
Ok
I agree
Very innit indeed
Very symmetrical
True
10:17 bro was foreshadowing another video 💀💀💀💀
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.
PowerPoint Quality represents these GD Slides. Unique in one way.
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
Y does the 2.1 menu look so nostalgic😢
It was 2-3 weeks
8:15 stop smashing my name baka >.
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
0:47 possibly the funniest thing I've seen this month
Vent
Well, Rob actually did some of this. keep it up, Colon, especially in the editor tabs.
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.
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
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.
3:39 He should do something like Mario maker by making the preview a picture of the level from the level editor
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.
OMG. the buttons are square 9:03
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
I really love that you used Will You Snail music in this video, heard the motifs and it caught my attention lolol
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)
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
3:22 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.
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
Huge respect for the Will you Snail ost included. I see you're truly the man.
Yo!
@@Jdrocco Yo
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
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 :)
I used to watch your videos from like 2 years ago then stopped but started watching again and your still the best!
10:17 Deleting Generation Retro is the most based thing I've seen all day
10:57 when Craig gets angry you already know what happens
5:55 what level did he censor
he just said it. its collab level by mindcap
The account registration menu is the best website design I've ever seen.
12:00 Blåhaj plays Geometry Dash
Gdhaj
2:45 if that would be added. Some icons would be impossible to unlock. like that icon that has stripes both vertically and horizontally
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
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
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
08:27 featured is 2 points and epic is 3 points🤓🤓
Wrong
That extra point is from it being rated
NOOT NOOT
make good videos
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
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.
these are fantastic ideas! great video
Many of them made it into 2.2
You are Amazing Colon
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
A seizure warning option needs to be in the game, accessibility is really important
Robrob added a ton of these things in 2.2!
BTW, for the 3 extra buttons, 1st would be select menu, 2nd wil be extras in 2.2 and 3rd will be info and properties (only works when you select an object)
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
*I did not know you played btd6 and now I want an entire video of it.*
Same
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
Yo Colon! Your almost at 400k subscribers and I've just wanted to say congrats!
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
Its incredible that robtop actualy added somethings from this video xd
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
Speaking of the editor blocks tab, one way to help clean up the menus is to put hitboxes in a separate menu or something. That'd be really helpful too when e.g. wanting to make a block passable.
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
0:09 if you look closely in the background you can see the devil vortex saws lmao
Hah
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 like you talking abt information and ur opinions are so cool
8:52 Will you Snail OST Pog
9:43 damn it goes of the screen
Wow these are wonderful ideas!!! I hope Rob sees this video and implements them someday! Really good work in this video ;)
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"
I haven't seen the old level editor layout in so many years. That brought back some memories.
11:13 i’d give the ability to change what buttons do what yourself. or even the ability to rearrange editor UI entirely
Love that icon added to menu as you unlock them idea 🙏
I have another one: make 2 pages, one for the shops and one for vaults to make it easier for new players to find these locations. This would be especially helpful, since I remember seeing a cool icon when i first started, but it took literally 5 minutes to find the shop it was in. another neat feature would be to add the ability to sell icons that you have purchased from a shop for like 75% of what you bought it for
Colon literally preticted half of the 2.2 update
7:45 I think if setting and info button were swapped it'll be better
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.
At 7:45 the actual YT like button got highlighted when he said that and I jumped a little lmao
4:29 got me *dying* especially watching this video after the collab with Lemoncak3 💀💀💀
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
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)
3:26 when robtop did that in 2.2 gd colon didn't like it, on his stream
This video gave me a good idea:
Make a difficulty selecter, so you can pick witch type of level difficulty you want to play.
0:27 You saved yourself with that one cause since that was my first thought I knew that people would complain about it
this did *not* feel like a 12 minute video LOL. the long awaited yearly colon upload did not disappoint! i really enjoy watching you ramble about GD stuff, it’s probably what makes you one of my favourite GD content creators
also, on the topic of info boxes, rob *really* needs to update the ones that just say “help text”. i feel like crying in a corner whenever i encounter one of those in the editor.
also i’m glad the test went really well :)
3:52 i have like an idea like when you have to put an image on the thumbnail add a camera button. then when you click it, you can go through your level and choose a place to take a photo.
Now that 2.2 is out, so many of these things that he gave ideas on were actually added in the update
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