pigchefer
The Girl That Made Me Hate Halloween
updated
youtu.be/cTdFESCczMk ‼️
⚠️ WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS AND LOUD NOISES. PLS BE ADVISED!
I’ve wanted to make music for as long as I’ve lived, but unfortunately life doesn’t come that easy. But after years of waiting and months of work (and pain), I finally made a song I could be proud of. This is the story of how I did. (I went insane a little!)
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CREDITS:
✍️ Written, directed, filmed and edited by pigchefer (ugh that guy) 🐷
With recording/voice help from: Santinetic, .moully, @nuggetoftruth865, @AromaticTea., @monstergamer5467, @BlueThiccFish, @febrezegamin, @kuukiko, @LopsidedChickenGD, @Anglified, @Coopersuper8, @goaldoesstuff2936, @ponponto9991, youtube.com/@kiboamiibo, lowloelo, youtube.com/@azabiphetamine, zarbl, replacementpotato, youtube.com/@InsoArtso, @jazzyjaz1099, @alexplaysgd, @Dativ, @tcl03-gd, @seazeiscool and @evangelinestuff! (Turns out u need a lot of shots for an hour long video lol)
Ending song composed by me, produced by @verticalthings!
Piano pieces played by Jedious: youtube.com/channel/UCXvOPtDvoMFTXjTtSBhoREA
FAN ART BY: Goal, Ghast, Kibo, Kun, Lavv, Jaiden, InsoArtso, Mr. Galaxy Gamr, Dativ, Vee26, SaltyFishGo, Mothzarella, .moully, AromaticTea, Loe, and i_forgot_sorry, thank you! 💜
SUPPORT EVERYONE WHO HELPED ME WITH THE MUSICAL:
- *Riifushi:* @riifushi instagram.com/riifushi twitter.com/riifushi
- *Kuukiko:* @kuukiko https://x.com/Kuukiko4 on.soundcloud.com/xHnePeZtr2DtWHXD7 open.spotify.com/artist/0Nw8NvWAFcd86D4QtCtxlV
- *Kwabzy:* @sorenstavnicky soundcloud.com/kwabzycomposer twitter.com/kwabzycomposer
- *Eva:* @evangelinestuff https://x.com/evangelinestuff soundcloud.com/eva-nge-line
- *Blue Thicc Fish:* @BlueThiccFish open.spotify.com/artist/5FFRIImeZ8pq8ZGD6F0JTq
- *Zeth:* @MrAflac_1
⭐️ JOIN MY MEMBERSHIPS to support my work (I do 99% of everything myself), watch videos early, and maybe be drawn in videos here! youtube.com/@pigchefer/join
☕️ DONATE TO MY KO-FI! (I keep more of the money this way) ko-fi.com/pigchefer
⭐️ Discord server (I talk a lot here. Sadly): discord.gg/HPPgbqtSgt
⭐️ Second channel (I post here more often. Sadly): youtube.com/@therealpigchefer
Songs I used: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLabMDvrIyl7gx3-PfUpblqVA5BDg7fP1r
Other links:
- A Friend is All You Need Instrumental: youtu.be/0dM3-mSfKJ0
- Danica Tabiola’s Instagram: instagram.com/dan.tabiola
TIMESTAMPS:
2:45 - He Who Holds the Pen
14:20 - Enter, My First Song
20:50 - A Stroll Down Animation Avenue
28:20 - A Team is All I Need!
43:37 - skip ad read
46:25 - Search for the Voice Actor of Life
This video was originally meant to be released last year, but I felt really insecure about the feelings I talked about here after a while so shelved it multiple times. It was only in January when I finally filmed this, and in April when I started editing it! But I wanted to really finish this now because even to this day, what I wrote here haunts me. It’s like I never grow from my problems, I just keep breaking down further and further. And I want to show you this video because I want you to know I’m still figuring everything out. I’m not perfect! And maybe you’ll see a little bit of yourself in me and feel less alone in your struggles. Could’ve just made an ordinary ahh BTS video but nooooo my ambition always HAS to be higher ugh
#music #movie #storytime
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Written, directed, edited and animated by pigchefer! 🐷 (me I did all the work this time)
⭐️ Support me and my videos (and my big risk over here) by joining my memberships! It’s only a dollar a month and I’ll even draw you in a future video! youtube.com/c/pigchefer/join
(Again, you really don’t have to – there are much more important things in life than little old me! You’re awesome either way :3 )
☕️ OR support me through my Ko-fi since I keep a larger percentage of the money (YouTube takes 30% from me noooooo): ko-fi.com/pigchefer
🐖 Second channel!!!! @therealpigchefer (if you don’t have any money, watching my videos here is also another way to support so I can make smaller videos and still get money lol)
Donate to other more important things because really I’m not that important:
- Gaza: donate.unrwa.org/int/en/dhulhijjah (I’ve been told this is very important)
- The Trevor Project: give.thetrevorproject.org/campaign/666740/donate
Or any of the other stuff I said in the video lol if anyone else has any more links to put here you can DM me on discord I’ll put it in
Discord server: discord.gg/HPPgbqtSgt (I talk a lot here and keep spoiling my videos because idk how to keep my mouth shut)
Songs I used in this video: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFOBXjxAAOsrmXkfo39E0eFILo8cpubFg (it’s sort of a medley between all of these, I experimented a lot with fusing all the songs together haha)
#animation #shortfilm #storytime #art #movie #college #school #university #rant
Memberships: youtube.com/c/pigchefer/join
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/pigchefer (donate $5 or more to be eligible!)
Additionally you can join my Discord server to submit fan art and I'll also include all of that in the video :) Link is in my main videos' descriptions AND my bio!!!
#shorts
Background music from my video's original soundtrack! Listen here:
-Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1oALNrxZnGa1HUHspO5TLG?si=b71334c4846146b1
-Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend-original-motion/1767968770
-YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFOBXjxAAOsp0goBrX74nE7GOYBAA0gwH
-Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/therealpigchefer/sets/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend
Memberships: youtube.com/c/pigchefer/join
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/pigchefer
#shorts
Background music from my video's original soundtrack! Listen here:
-Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1oALNrxZnGa1HUHspO5TLG?si=b71334c4846146b1
-Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend-original-motion/1767968770
-YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFOBXjxAAOsp0goBrX74nE7GOYBAA0gwH
-Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/therealpigchefer/sets/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend
This is the original musical number I wrote and composed for my video/short film “if life was meant with a friend, am i really alive?”. I’ve never written a single song before this point, but I wanted to tell a story in song form for a while now, so I made sure to go as all out as I could on my first! I first started planning the opening theme around November 2023, finished a self-produced version (which you can find here: youtu.be/XLhUpN23MkY) in late January, and now thanks to my team (links below, pls check them out) this is finally a reality! This song and its animation have callbacks to nearly every pigchefer video, since I wanted to create sort of an antithesis to the narrative and themes I’ve set up with all my animations in the past year. If you know who I am and what I’ve become over time, you’ll probably understand how much each lyric and visual beat was built to be incredibly haunting to me. And I hope I did a good job with that :) idk how often I’ll make more songs in the future lol we’ll see
WATCH THE FULL FILM HERE: youtu.be/cTdFESCczMk
🎹 Listen to this song and the full OST on streaming platforms everywhere!:
-Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1oALNrxZnGa1HUHspO5TLG?si=b71334c4846146b1
-Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend-original-motion/1767968770
-YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFOBXjxAAOsp0goBrX74nE7GOYBAA0gwH
-Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/therealpigchefer/sets/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend
🎻 And be sure to support my team who helped make this possible! They’re all very talented and I hope to support them however much I can!
-*Riifushi:* @riifushi instagram.com/riifushi https://x.com/riifushi (she sang the song!!!!)
-*Kuukiko:* @kuukiko https://x.com/Kuukiko4 on.soundcloud.com/xHnePeZtr2DtWHXD7 open.spotify.com/artist/0Nw8NvWAFcd86D4QtCtxlV?si=iCTgfHBtRii5E5xxMP6rlg (he produced the orchestral parts of the track and mixed everything)
-*Zeth:* @MrAflac_1 (he made the middle chunk of the song)
🤑 DONATE TO THE TEAM: ko-fi.com/pigchefer (be sure to type “+music” in your message so I know it’s for them! :0)
**LYRICS:**
I made a life, dreaming was her name
She knew but everything there was to her game:
Lived up to her eighties, making nothing but memories,
So the world sees better days
But he’s poor and he’s lazy
Their ambitions end up empty
She died early, never surely, feeling gay
Most I’m afraid, spend their lives in the shade
Yet life still goes on the same…
‘Cause the greatest part of life,
And what makes us all alike
Isn’t money, being sunny, or dreams~…
Yes – everyone’s a someone,
‘Cause a friend is all they need!—…
Friends are the heads that we lean on
Friends are when we can depend
Friends are the push we need to be who we believe,
And who will be there, ‘til the end...
– And with a friend, boy you can
Make the world seem twice as free
And you can scream your wildest reveries
And who you are feels nothing quite like a dream
And if your heart’s about to drown,
Turn around, you’re bound to find, you got me!
But every life you’re left behind, I’ll find you–
Listening to every silly thing, and hoping time just passes by
Looking down at who you think you knew, and wond’ring if you’re not alive
And after every boring day, you’ll walk alone soaked in the rain
But come the time you’re at your door, comes even more for work and pain
You’ll have no purpose, and no worth is,
Gonna free you up from the surface
With no cents to pay, and no folks to aid
And in a decade’s time, you’ll still be the same
The same flaws you own, the same yes and no’s,
The same woe they know, for nothing but xo,
And it’s all, ‘cause you chose
You’d be better off alone!~…
…so go~, live your life making stories,
And maybe, chase a few dreams
To say that one day, when you’re old and gray,
You’ve truly made people believe…
But believing’s merely fantasy
If you don’t get out there, it’s just not meant to be
Life’s all but over, if you don’t agree~…
A friend is all you need~.
#animation #music #shortfilm #musical
WATCH THE FULL FILM HERE: youtu.be/cTdFESCczMk
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*VIDEO CREDITS* _(warning: spoilers ahead!!!)_
A short film written, directed, edited, and animated by pigchefer (me!)
👒 💛 Life voiced by Riifushi: @riifushi instagram.com/riifushi twitter.com/riifushi
– My classmate played by my actual classmate (lol) Danica Tabiola: instagram.com/dan.tabiola
🎻 Thank you to everyone who composed *original music* for this video! Check them out here: 🎻
- *Kuukiko:* @kuukiko https://x.com/Kuukiko4 on.soundcloud.com/xHnePeZtr2DtWHXD7 open.spotify.com/artist/0Nw8NvWAFcd86D4QtCtxlV
- *Kwabzy:* @sorenstavnicky soundcloud.com/kwabzycomposer twitter.com/kwabzycomposer
- *Eva:* @evangelinestuff https://x.com/evangelinestuff soundcloud.com/eva-nge-line
- *Blue Thicc Fish:* @BlueThiccFish open.spotify.com/artist/5FFRIImeZ8pq8ZGD6F0JTq
- *Zeth:* @MrAflac_1
🪙 *DONATE TO THE TEAM!!!:* ko-fi.com/pigchefer I’d like to continue making these videos and supporting everyone who helps me so tips are greatly appreciated! I’ll give all the money that has “+music” in the message to my music team :)
WATCH THE BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO ESSAY HERE: youtu.be/bWmPsgGp2YE
🎵 Listen to the opening theme *“A Friend is All You Need”* on streaming platforms everywhere!
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/2fKuSJRUW6lHXExgVvgwdX?si=914b9828647a4588
- Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/song/a-friend-is-all-you-need/1767968778
- YouTube: youtu.be/jEJx205uF1s
- Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/therealpigchefer/a-friend-is-all-you-need?in=therealpigchefer/sets/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend
- Newgrounds: newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1365609
- Anghami: play.anghami.com/song/1176647810
Performed by Riifushi!!!
Produced by Kuukiko and Zeth
Written by pigchefer :0 (you can find the original demo here: youtu.be/XLhUpN23MkY)
(With additional help from Eva and Kwabzy thank you xoxo)
🎵 Listen to the full *original soundtrack* of the video here!
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1oALNrxZnGa1HUHspO5TLG?si=b71334c4846146b1
- Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend-original-motion/1767968770
- YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFOBXjxAAOsp0goBrX74nE7GOYBAA0gwH
- Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/therealpigchefer/sets/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend
- Newgrounds: newgrounds.com/playlist/405724/if-life-was-meant-with-a-friend
- Anghami: play.anghami.com/album/1057845518
Tracks produced by Kuukiko, Kwabzy, Eva and Blue Thicc Fish, thank you so much!
- Live action cinematography by me and Kuukiko :0
- Additional VFX and sound design help from @stcubing: https://x.com/stcubingg
-Translation help from @cosmokobold 🇵🇱 @justagdplayer 🇷🇺 @pastapalads 🇩🇰 @Lanstone1 + @pineappledasher4902 🇫🇷 @DlovanSlayer 🇸🇪🇮🇶 @nothinglee 🇰🇷 @JacobPolicediez 🇵🇭 @bereyo + @Fatal. + @PexezFps + @Klaux 🇧🇷 @ElectrifyXD + @[GD] Tofu 🇪🇸 @alimicious 🇯🇵 @MattTacc 🇮🇹 @DaniLytical🇷🇴 @artisticlion 🇩🇪 @goaldoesstuff2936 🇻🇳
Thank you to all my members who have supported me in the long months I’ve been working on this video! I hope you liked all the drawings I made of you here :)
If you would like to support me (and also be drawn in videos), please consider donating through my Ko-fi (link above) or becoming a member! This video took over 1000 hours and 3 years to complete and I would like to continue making more productions like this in the future: youtube.com/c/pigchefer/join
If you are interested in helping produce music or lending your voice for future roles for my channel, please contact me through my email (pigchefer@gmail.com) or Discord server! I need all the help I can get if I keep this up lol ctc nloc
Discord server: discord.gg/HPPgbqtSgt (I also post regular updates and accept fan art to put in videos here! :3)
If you’ve made it to the end of this description, I sincerely thank you all once again :) I know this video took so much longer than usual but I hold the message of this video so dear to my heart and I wanted to give it the love it deserves just in case others also struggle with the same problems I do. If this video touched you in any way, that’s all the reason I need to keep going. I love you all 💖
#animation #shortfilm #storytime #art #movie
My video "why I stopped trying" got nominated for the Geometry Dash 2023 Awards! I streamed playing Geometry Dash 2.2 and a full breakdown of my video with @JanyLived to celebrate! This is my first full length stream ever so there's probably a bunch wrong with it, but I still had lots of fun and I hope you have fun watching!
VOTE FOR ME HERE: robtopgames.com/vote
Watch "why I stopped trying" RIGHT NOW: youtube.com/watch?v=md24Ij2Kds8
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A video essay, documentary, and storytime animation written, directed, edited and animated by pigchefer!!!
**Check out Andrew Mahone and his channel!** He means the world to me and besides being a genuinely fun channel to watch, it's another way to support me!
-YouTube: @TrickyGym
-Twitch: twitch.tv/trickygym
-Twitter: twitter.com/enjoifriend
-Instagram: instagram.com/enjoifriend/?hl=en
-Andrew's sponsor, Full Grip Games: fullgripgames.com (you can buy and sell your cards here!!! :0)
All streams used with permission from mister gym! Find them here: @TrickyGymVODs
Every video I've edited for him: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLabMDvrIyl7iRl0BiOdX-bdbAo_tO4U-0&si=DjJMf-jjnU8Qkywq
Additional Voices (go check them all out!!):
@LuckyNS - I promised whoever would beat xo on 60hz would get a shoutout, and what better way than to include him in one of my videos? Your dedication is truly inspirational and I'm happy I get to be your friend!
@seawolfmikes2111 - he's asked to be in one of my videos for so long, here you are
Aspen - twitch.tv/aspenmp4 (he voiced my ex, thanks aspen)
ingrave_danger - instagram.com/ingrave_danger (thanks for being an epic classmate and epic voice actress!)
@azadanzans5359 - He wanted to be in this video so I let him. Watch his videos or something yes!
natakazam - instagram.com/natakazam the wife of tricky gym! happy I got her for a cameo LOL (ALSO if you have a Korean base set Electrode, you should contact her ASAP)
Full track list: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLabMDvrIyl7h2IuhhLmAEi8Z05OgxmHYk&si=2SiPmhR672H0yIpC
✨**Join my memberships!**✨ youtube.com/c/pigchefer/join (It really helps me continue making these videos! I do everything myself, and it takes months to finish, so I'd really love your support! Oh also all members get drawn in videos so yeah LOL)
Discord server: discord.gg/hxSBumEnsj (submit fan art or suggest videos for me to make here!)
Second channel: @therealpigchefer (I post here sometimes)
Chapters:
0:00 - Meeting My Favorite YouTuber (and finding the courage to)
9:50 - Finding My Place at the Gym
23:14 - Why the Gym Will Always be Special to Me
*Also I just wanna formally put out here that I take everything about Couriway back I think he’s awesome now
#animation #storytime #documentary #art
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A short film written, directed, edited & animated by pigchefer!
-- *ADDITIONAL CREDITS* (warning: mild spoilers) --
Voice Cast (in order of appearance):
@Anglified - Cool bulbasaur dude. Comprises of many angles
@TrickyGym - Never in a billion years did I ever expect my favorite YouTuber to be in one of my videos. It's truly an honor to have you here AND to work for you too!!
@seazeiscool - Makes video essays about cube game, hits the algorithm every single time
@FloofiWan - I wanted to get Tride for this video but he didn't accept my friend request, so I got another epic Australian to voice lines!!
[redacted] - redacted
@BlueThiccFish - Cool philosophical Vaporeon friend!!! I made his OC drawings, it's super cool!
@JacobPolicediez - He wanted a shoutout so I asked him to say lines in exchange for it. You're welcome
(You should check all of them out!!)
Original song in FloofiWan's part produced by @stcubing!! (also check him out)
Full Track List: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLabMDvrIyl7iUc1kP5lB9lB5m7iCRe9AR
Special thanks to @TrickyGym for buying me Premiere and for just being a cool epic mentor figure in general; @kaiz711 for giving me a very early idea for the style of this video; my brother for making the Tricky Gym character design; my parents for buying me a new computer for editing work; and maybe JJJreact if they actually accept this video into their stream idk!
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*Join my Members!*: youtube.com/c/pigchefer/join (it's the most direct way to support me, please consider if you enjoy my content!)
Discord server: discord.gg/hxSBumEnsj (submit your fan art and video suggestions here!)
Second channel: @therealpigchefer (I post stuff here too)
#animation #storytime #shortfilm
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Written, directed, edited, animated (and filmed!) by pigchefer!!
Dedicated to my best friend Emily! Thank you for always pushing me to keep doing the artsy things I do!!
Soundtrack: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFOBXjxAAOsqkLnqjEmC8fbLeHcfkICPN (mild spoilers for the vid btw)
🌟 Support my channel by joining my memberships! 🌟 youtube.com/channel/UCpLZHG1FBKsMGhKy05YXotQ/join (it really helps me out! I am a one-man team that works on videos for months straight, and I barely earn anything from YT, so it's greatly appreciated!!)
Discord server: discord.gg/hxSBumEnsj (send your fan art and suggestions for videos here)
Second channel: youtube.com/@therealpigchefer (I post random things here)
#animation #storytime #shortfilm #art
-Emily, the only sane high schooler I know
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Written, directed, edited, and animated by pigchefer!!
Slightly inspired by @theodd1sout 's old videos hehe
This video was requested by one of my teachers. He asked if I could make a video about him, but I changed the idea up a ton and this is the result!! (he gave me a 100% grade which is POGGERS)
Discord server: discord.gg/hxSBumEnsj (send your FANART and video suggestions here!)
Second channel: youtube.com/@therealpigchefer (i post stuff here sometimes)
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Written, directed, edited, and animated by pigchefer (adapted from an idea my classmate suggested)
Discord server: discord.gg/hxSBumEnsj (send your fan art and video idea suggestions here!)
Funny out-of-context behind the scenes video: youtu.be/BW1_rl69lNI
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written, directed, edited, and animated by pigchefer
-live action cinematography by me and my cousin (thanks)
-soundtrack: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFOBXjxAAOsqQeR3Fzbh_NjGuiDc-iqvj (this is a shortlist of songs i wanted to use; most used songs are towards the end)
my other animation videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLabMDvrIyl7j7gMY9D03Cp7lHMt1-e2jS
-discord server: discord.gg/hxSBumEnsj
-second channel: @therealpigchefer
While I was editing the last few seconds of this video, the person I dedicated this video to said to me, "Thank you so much for existing". And if I wasn't in the middle of editing the video on a time crunch, I think I would've cried so so hard. I've always been so used to assuming that the people surrounding me wouldn't feel a difference without me, and to finally feel like I actually mean something to someone, just hits harder than anything in the world. If she is reading this, thank you for being the most amazing friend ever! ❤️
Discord server: discord.gg/hxSBumEnsj
Raw footage: youtu.be/f633K7nDSTc (if any list people actually care about this record, I have like 8 hours of raw raw footage trol)
Attempts: 6839 (yeah I died at 95 five times ok)
Difficulty opinion: idk no one values my opinion do they
I could be using this description to pat myself on the back for the 124k attempts I spent, the dedication, the sheer difficulty of the level. But I won’t. What I will say though is that this level, unlike any other level, is so so mentality heavy. It has changed the entire way I view the world, and to that I am both grateful and regretful for. I might get to that in a different video (update: I did! link above pls watch it, it took a very long time to animate ^^). The best way to beat this is confidence, and I didn’t understand that until months after I got 48. This was quite fun at times and I’m very happy I finally beat it after a year!!
Attempts: 124,887 (I honestly thought it was 150k lo)
Raw footage: youtu.be/8leZB9whsLc
Also Cooper told me to shout these mobile players out so uhh here lo
- Zoink Doink - youtube.com/channel/UCaGtN9gENwLEX15tZMsGrow
- Mike139115 - youtube.com/channel/UCt8kdsrfS0cxwsEt8V5VMBA
- Kkbleeblob - youtube.com/channel/UCD4H6MeOKrKARSezgXh7fuw
- Biprex - youtube.com/channel/UCntgupwlC4f0pusThMt4uZw
- Thonyell - youtube.com/channel/UCECQ9rs0nSHJ8bRqrqUdPug
- dreamtide - youtube.com/channel/UChT64OAHDsWPvC0UrQyEdDg
- Slinky (90hz) - youtube.com/channel/UC1H4SlFJs8lGS6pdmHNjwlg
- Batle - youtube.com/channel/UCSXd6Nc0CeFNpOLP7JvKJnQ
- Sadius - youtube.com/channel/UCFFnthcZxtHxgz5pRugNjtA
- SubzeroV - youtube.com/channel/UCdFIF9QAdNRIqCnUYsUEzYQ
- TheRunawayGang - youtube.com/channel/UCxYVMoGsdSeGSTD5bYGedqQ
Link to the “song”: youtu.be/jiY0cM9zeso
Download the song: youtube.com/watch?v=zlJDTxahav0 (put it into a YouTube to mp3 converter)
How is this related to xo? It certainly doesn't look like it, and I understand. When I had the idea for this level, I never intended for it to be xo-inspired. When I did start to build the layout, I started to use xo as a guide. I didn't want to remake the level; I wanted to use it to guide me for the direction I was to take. I thought what was going through KrmaL’s mind when he chose the gameplay and deco style. And then I applied it to this song. Both xo and this song are break-up songs, so how did KrmaL approach this? It turns out that xo’s song is pretty monotonous which shows with the grayscale 1.0 style. The song is also kind of stringy, and you can see he applied that with the gameplay by the constant swinging up and down of the icon. Now take a look at this song, which I think is much smoother and more atmospheric than xo. Taking that in mind, I did the opposite of what KrmaL did: use Clutterfunk (1.4) style with a lot of color, and make the gameplay quite linear. It seems like how a paradox takes completely opposite ideas and makes sense somehow. This is kind of what I did: take the opposite of xo's style but convey the same meaning. You may be thinking that arrow and My Bae are better examples of xo-inspired, but they only took what xo did and revamped it. What I did was take what I think xo's idea is, and convey the same idea with a different style.
I do want to stress, though, that this is an original level which I made most, if not all, the ideas of! You can say it's one of the xo-inspired levels and group it with xo, arrow, and My Bae, but please do not treat it like it's an xo remake because it is NOT.
About the song, I think it’s perfect for this level! Probably when I first heard this song, I had the idea for the level. Not just some vague idea; I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do for both the gameplay and decoration. It's honestly like this song was made to be in this level, which is why I really wanted to use it. I'm not a big fan of NONG levels, and I know KrmaL isn't as well, but there is literally no other song that can bring about my idea for this level than the one I chose. I don't want to be known as some NONG creator in the future, so this will probably be the only level where I use an NONG song. Also I really like this song so it made me all the more excited to make this level.
About the level: As I have said, I had this idea probably ever since I've heard the song. That was at least 9 months ago. (This is why the level is called Passion, because it is a passion project of mine.) And ever since then, whenever the song popped up on the radio or on someone's running playlist on Spotify, I would think of my idea for the level. It wasn't until I remembered that I had Geometry Dash on Steam, that I started to build the level. My idea for the level was to combine Clutterfunk's style (the last cube of Clutterfunk) and an interpretation of xo. I think it turned out great! I kept building and building, and every time I finished a part, I was very satisfied. I tried to keep the 1.4 aesthetic there, but at the same time, create a very vivid environment for today's standards. I know I put a ton of blocks that weren't there during 1.4, but the main idea is that in 1.3 and 1.4, there were a bunch of new items to add color to the level (like pulsing objects and the like), and that's what I tried to base it off of. The gameplay is the last Clutterfunk cube, the one at like 80% I think, and the ship motif, which you should recognize.
It is interesting to note that I did not tell anyone of the creation of this level, kind of like how I only told like 10 people that I was going to attempt xo on mobile. There are a few reasons for this. The first is that people would probably be super surprised that the xo on mobile guy is making an xo-inspired level, and I would like to see some reactions. Also, I think that the opinions would improve if it was a surprise. The last reason is that I want to see how making a level, without anyone pestering about the condition of the level, would go. If I did show it before release, it could go two ways: people would love it and I would be so caught up in the attention I was getting which could hinder the quality, or people would hate it and I would be discouraged and not want to continue. Jayuff said in his pastebin that it is more enjoyable to create without listening to anyone, than otherwise. Reading Jayuff's words wasn't a direct cause, but it encouraged me to keep going.
This is dedicated to notlsa. I hope he/she likes what I made!


