Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Eight years ago, I made a promise.
I often say I ended up so involved with Geometry Dash entirely by a series of happy accidents, and I would say the most critical domino in the chain was my early 2.0 medium demon, Ebb. As much as I take issue nowadays with how I put it together, Ebb holds a very special place in my heart for a few reasons.
For starters, Ebb quite literally put me on the map. There was once a time when you only needed 24 creator points to hit the Top 100 leaderboard, and Ebb is what put me there, and the community paid attention to that at the time. Ebb itself caught people’s eye because of the funky asymmetrical duals; creators at the time had explored that here and there but it was especially strange to see it fitting into a medium demon. I’ve never been a KrmaL or a deffie who could get people talking with every new release; it was uncharacteristically rare for me to get to watch people really sink their teeth into this thing I had worked on and recognize my name in public spaces over it. Before I was Chambers guy, I was Ebb guy.
I owe a great part of that level’s success to long-revered community legend Michigun, who had published a YouTube video of it and showed it to more people at a time when no one had ever really heard of me. I did not have a following, did not promote the level in any way, and had no established connections with the community, so if it weren’t for him, Ebb would’ve likely gone on as just another weirdly named demon that nobody played. It took a few years after that video was published before I actually met Michi and talked to him, and we really didn’t talk that often, but what made his death so crushing for me at the time was that quiet understanding that I'd lost someone who had made such an impact on my life.
In my head it's always been Ebb and Flow since 2017, and when people invited Ebb into their hearts the way they did, I made the perhaps naive and unwise decision to promise that it'd get an official follow-up someday. Much to my surprise (and chagrin), Ebb is the one level from my early years that people tell me they still remember fondly, as it comes up for them in demon roulettes and casual searches. It means a lot to me that people still care about that level, which is why I knew if I ever followed up on that promise to make a sequel, I would really need to do it right.
I have tried to make this level three times. I still have an old Sawdust Angels layout from when I attempted Ebb 2 back in 2019/2020, and I abandoned it because the duals didn't feel good. I started what would be the final draft back in 2021, which means this level took four years to start and four years to finish. It hit me that this was the one when I happened upon that cube and ship dual with the green orbs; even though it's notably harder than the rest of the level, it finally felt like Ebb.
If you compare them side-by-side, nearly every part of Ebb has some sort of callback in Flow, from the colors, to the designs, to the pacing, to the title card, even down to the really intimidating mini-wave spam with no safe ground spots that used to be in the original Ebb before the several balancing updates. It's probably an upper-end hard demon, which is a fair bit harder than Ebb, but the people who grew up with Ebb are also older and better at the game now, likely with better hardware too.
I owe it to my buddies in the Spirit Day project we've been hosting for cheering me along to the finish line with this level (and for playtesting it). You'll probably be seeing some of their levels coming out today too! When we got this idea to make a bunch of levels in-line with the core spirit of what Geometry Dash means to us, it felt like the perfect opportunity to finally deliver on my promise even though I'm sure it will feel pretty old compared to the kinds of levels that come out nowadays. As a tribute to Ebb, a tribute to Michigun's honor, and a tribute to all of the people who have held space for Ebb in their hearts after all these years, I FINALLY have something that I'm genuinely proud to offer as its official spiritual successor.
Cheers to GD's 12th anniversary, to Michi's memory and long-lasting impact on our community, and to the 8 years of life you all have generously given to one of my oldest projects!
ID: 124585003
Song: Schtiffles - 236
newgrounds.com/audio/listen/993344
Eight years ago, I made a promise.
I often say I ended up so involved with Geometry Dash entirely by a series of happy accidents, and I would say the most critical domino in the chain was my early 2.0 medium demon, Ebb. As much as I take issue nowadays with how I put it together, Ebb holds a very special place in my heart for a few reasons.
For starters, Ebb quite literally put me on the map. There was once a time when you only needed 24 creator points to hit the Top 100 leaderboard, and Ebb is what put me there, and the community paid attention to that at the time. Ebb itself caught people’s eye because of the funky asymmetrical duals; creators at the time had explored that here and there but it was especially strange to see it fitting into a medium demon. I’ve never been a KrmaL or a deffie who could get people talking with every new release; it was uncharacteristically rare for me to get to watch people really sink their teeth into this thing I had worked on and recognize my name in public spaces over it. Before I was Chambers guy, I was Ebb guy.
I owe a great part of that level’s success to long-revered community legend Michigun, who had published a YouTube video of it and showed it to more people at a time when no one had ever really heard of me. I did not have a following, did not promote the level in any way, and had no established connections with the community, so if it weren’t for him, Ebb would’ve likely gone on as just another weirdly named demon that nobody played. It took a few years after that video was published before I actually met Michi and talked to him, and we really didn’t talk that often, but what made his death so crushing for me at the time was that quiet understanding that I'd lost someone who had made such an impact on my life.
In my head it's always been Ebb and Flow since 2017, and when people invited Ebb into their hearts the way they did, I made the perhaps naive and unwise decision to promise that it'd get an official follow-up someday. Much to my surprise (and chagrin), Ebb is the one level from my early years that people tell me they still remember fondly, as it comes up for them in demon roulettes and casual searches. It means a lot to me that people still care about that level, which is why I knew if I ever followed up on that promise to make a sequel, I would really need to do it right.
I have tried to make this level three times. I still have an old Sawdust Angels layout from when I attempted Ebb 2 back in 2019/2020, and I abandoned it because the duals didn't feel good. I started what would be the final draft back in 2021, which means this level took four years to start and four years to finish. It hit me that this was the one when I happened upon that cube and ship dual with the green orbs; even though it's notably harder than the rest of the level, it finally felt like Ebb.
If you compare them side-by-side, nearly every part of Ebb has some sort of callback in Flow, from the colors, to the designs, to the pacing, to the title card, even down to the really intimidating mini-wave spam with no safe ground spots that used to be in the original Ebb before the several balancing updates. It's probably an upper-end hard demon, which is a fair bit harder than Ebb, but the people who grew up with Ebb are also older and better at the game now, likely with better hardware too.
I owe it to my buddies in the Spirit Day project we've been hosting for cheering me along to the finish line with this level (and for playtesting it). You'll probably be seeing some of their levels coming out today too! When we got this idea to make a bunch of levels in-line with the core spirit of what Geometry Dash means to us, it felt like the perfect opportunity to finally deliver on my promise even though I'm sure it will feel pretty old compared to the kinds of levels that come out nowadays. As a tribute to Ebb, a tribute to Michigun's honor, and a tribute to all of the people who have held space for Ebb in their hearts after all these years, I FINALLY have something that I'm genuinely proud to offer as its official spiritual successor.
Cheers to GD's 12th anniversary, to Michi's memory and long-lasting impact on our community, and to the 8 years of life you all have generously given to one of my oldest projects!
ID: 124585003
Song: Schtiffles - 236
newgrounds.com/audio/listen/993344
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