GD SemicolonWATCH THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FIRST: youtube.com/watch?v=h7UD0lotTVM In this video I try my best to go over how my April Fools video was made, and all the modding/editing/trickery that went on behind the scenes. The video was easily one of my favorite YT projects of all time and I'm more than happy to take some time and talk about how it was made over the course of a few weeks.
Behind the Scenes - 150th Secret Coin VideoGD Semicolon2021-04-04 | WATCH THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FIRST: youtube.com/watch?v=h7UD0lotTVM In this video I try my best to go over how my April Fools video was made, and all the modding/editing/trickery that went on behind the scenes. The video was easily one of my favorite YT projects of all time and I'm more than happy to take some time and talk about how it was made over the course of a few weeks.
Zoo is a free Discord minigame that I started two years ago for my old Discord Bot, RoboTop. Over that time, it kept growing bigger and bigger until I decided that it's finally time to make it something independent. After six painstaking months of rewriting everything from the ground up (as well as adding TONS of new content), it's finally ready to see the light of day!
trade me all of your foxes btw
Music: sans. from Undertale Goat Feeding from Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Main Channel: @GDColon Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColonTreacherous Trials - Developer Commentary (i made a game no way)GD Semicolon2022-10-03 | I made a game!!! Treacherous Trials is a short puzzle platformer made in ten days for fellow friend and artist @Loafeebuns's birthday. It's based on her cool personifications and lore for the Geometry Dash level Nine Circles!
(in case it's not obvious I am NOT good at unscripted content, I sorta just rambled and cut out any parts where I totally lost my train of thought. apologies for any background noise, i'm living in a university dorm now)
Main Channel: @GDColon Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColongeometry dash but the game itself hates youGD Semicolon2022-08-08 | all you have to do is select the game window and press edit group, easy
(okay jokes aside it's just a quick python script that checks the position of an object every frame and moves your window to its position. so yes, it actually is 100% controlled by the move triggers in the level. matcool did the code for getting the object position and i did everything else)
Main Channel: @GD Colon Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColonRhythm Doctor Custom Level - Ghost City Tokyo (Rachie Eng. Cover)GD Semicolon2022-06-23 | I started this level about four months ago and if you went back and told me I would have eventually finished it I would have thought you were crazy. Extremely proud of the final product, and I'm so happy that this level finally got to see the light of day!
• Charting, VFX, gameplay, etc by me • Art and assets by NetBa • Japanese text by tepid, also helped with VFX • A couple ideas pitched by Het • Top secret vfx hack by Giacomo and Jose (devs) • Playtested by Xeno and bunner
Main Channel: @GDColon More RD Levels: @RDColon Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColonNock Em is completely beatable in 2.1 (Geometry Dash)GD Semicolon2022-05-01 | Nock Em from Geometry Dash Subzero is still 100% beatable if you play it in version 2.1. The data for this level was ripped directly from the game, no extra objects or weirdness was added. The coins were replaced with user coins since normal coins can't be loaded in the editor. ID: 77243257 Check out the RobsVault account for perfect copyable versions of every RobTop level from every game!
Main Channel: @GD Colon Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColonWhat was real in my April Fools video? (Lost and Unused GD Features commentary)GD Semicolon2022-04-21 | WATCH THE ORIGINAL VIDEO FIRST: youtube.com/watch?v=tW_JsjOlTEs In this video I ramble for way too long about this year's april fools video where I tell convincing lies about Geometry Dash then go haha just kidding at the end. Some of the facts were partially true, so I figured I'd make a video talking about the thought process behind each fact and if there's some truth to them. Sorry for taking so long to release this, I recorded it a few days after the initial video went live but then I totally forgot it existed haha oops
0:00 - Intro 1:42 - Unused objects (mostly true) 5:37 - Future level leaks (partially true) 7:54 - Help messages (mostly fake) 8:51 - Dark spritesheet (made up) 9:32 - Diabolical monstore (made up) 10:22 - My background music preferences 11:02 - More games levels (made up) 12:04 - Ultra LDM (made up) 12:56 - Unused dialogue (made up) 15:44 - Official level adjustments (made up) 22:32 - Firebird guidelines (partially true) 23:44 - Firebird guideline charting process 26:38 - Outro + final thoughts
YES i know i'm terrible at talking without a script, no need for a million comments about my constant usage of the words "like" or "just" or "now"
(yes, the level always shows your actual ip address. i coded and connected to a gd private server that gets your ip then adds it to the level while you're downloading it)
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonwhat happens if you respawn the monster in geometry dashGD Semicolon2022-03-02 | i reset all 24 of geometry dash's game events ("unlockValueKeeper" in the save file) because i wanted to see what would happen
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Doctor Custom Level - Paper Dolls but its 4-XGD Semicolon2022-01-16 | Rhythm Doctor is currently in early access and doesn't have a boss level for Act 4. In fact it's been several years since any sort of new boss level was revealed. So I decided to redesign Paper Dolls (an already train themed custom level) as the boss for Act 4 (the train act). The gameplay remains unchanged but the dialogue, visuals, and even cueing has been redone to more closely match the style of official RD levels. Very fun to make! Insert lockstep joke.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonGeometry Dash - ReTraY Comparison (True Original vs. Update 2.11)GD Semicolon2021-12-05 | I've seen some people attempt to showcase the "original" version of ReTraY by DiMaViKuLov26, but in reality most of these videos fail to use the actual first version of the level from 1.9. After a bit of digging around, I managed to find an archive of the original level by searching for the first ever unmodified copy of ReTraY (ID: 6613034). Please note that not every change is mentioned in the video, there are plenty of subtle ones I either missed or didn't bother to mention. Some sections are slightly sped up or slowed down in order to keep both recordings in perfect sync.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Doctor Custom Level - Newton DanceGD Semicolon2021-10-18 | this song premiered saturday morning and after one listen i immediately knew what i had to do. mannn this one is such a banger 😤🙏 very quick and simple vfx but i'm still quite happy with how it came out. extremely energetic, i like it a lot this level also features a bit of a unique 8beat gimmick ('ding' cue = pause after beat 1). some people pointed out that i definitely could have handled it differently but honestly i like how it's cued and used. i wanted the level to feel like it was built around the mechanic rather than just using it once or twice when it works best.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Doctor Custom Level - talented dude makes a beat from scratch then jumps in the poolGD Semicolon2021-08-13 | 0% drugs, 0% clickbait, just a talented dude making a beat from scratch and then jumping into the pool
So this was an interesting level to make. Love the song and the chart, but I'm not particularly proud of the visuals. Might have made them a little bit *too* energetic and probably could have done more with the background, still better than underdecorating though. Anyways this level is all about high speed swing+syncopation+freezeshots, clocking in at a whopping 220 BPM. Also the lyrics really really hit close to home haha Special thanks to Mak for helping with the awesome row movements in the chorus (I learned a lot from them!), and Moplo for the awesome s_shake effect on the lyrics. It's a YouTuber staple and I love that we managed to recreate it.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Doctor Custom Level - wish i could care less (Minecraft Parody)GD Semicolon2021-07-15 | I got bored™ one day and was like "hey wouldn't it be funny to humiliate myself by recording and decorating an ironic minecraft parody of 2-1N from Rhythm Doctor?" So I did that and it came out surprisingly good
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonScott The Woz - Speed Dating but its a Rhythm Doctor custom levelGD Semicolon2021-06-26 | Rhythm Doctor is a video editor. It just is. I probably could have tried charting gameplay in this but I'd rather just make it an auto level. So no gameplay this time around, just memes.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Doctor Custom Level - Onegai! Konkon Oinari-SamaGD Semicolon2021-06-14 | Note: Autoplay was used for this recording "Hailey and Logan found their way into yet another Japanese chart, but at least this time there's fluffy kitsunes so it's justified."
Wheee this was a fun level to make. It's pretty difficult but I really like how the gameplay turned out, especially how every freezeshot feels extremely satisfying to hit. Despite losing motivation to finish this level at least five times, I ended up pushing through and I'm extremely happy with the final product! This is actually my first time making a level with "proper" flashy VFX as opposed to just messing with row movements and backgrounds like a video editor. I experimented a lot with camera movements, pulses, screen flashes, etc and looked through dozens of existing RD levels to try and pinpoint what makes them look and feel good. Special thanks to Xeno for polishing the gameplay and thefinals for helpful feedback on the visuals.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Heaven Custom Game - Unreachable (from Rhythm Doctor)GD Semicolon2021-04-17 | In the Rhythm Doctor community, it's pretty frowned upon when you use the editor to recreate Rhythm Heaven gameplay. So I decided to do the exact opposite, because I've lost my mind. (gameplay is nearly identical to 2-2N from Rhythm Doctor)
Also sorry for hitting a ton of beats early/late, the latency on Citra (3ds emulator) is really inconsistent and a pain to work with. I spent like 30 minutes trying to record this and ended up just using the BRF exploit like a loser.
Original Rhythm Doctor level / gameplay: youtu.be/Kwi0A05epMw Song - Unreachable by AceMan (RD cut version): youtu.be/SXtYbaHP2As Mod download: Probably not happening because seriously why would you ever want this??
For some reason I really felt like charting this one, so I took two days out of my life to do it. Despite the fact that I am drowning in homework and assignments haha oh well this is more fun. I'm a bit unhappy with the second half of the level's charting but the singing is so off beat (in a musically impressive way) that it's nearly impossible to get right. The people who sing this song are actually really talented, but it's a real shame that they went this far in life just to say "toast acting sus with no one around"
Special thanks to Chloe (@LoafeeBuns) for helping with the crewmates! She made the main neutral sprite and I did the animating + expressions.
Original Song/Performance by Michelle Khare Taken from the now deleted YouTube Rewind 2020 musical
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Doctor Custom Level - Marisa Stole The Precious Thing (IOSYS)GD Semicolon2021-02-26 | Samurai stole the precious thing! Yes this is indeed a parody/recreation of the Touhou music video. Absolute blast to work on, and it even contains a whole bunch of the new editor features that came with the alpha release of the game! Special thanks to Xeno and Lugi for making the gameplay just a little more bearable.
Okay so I did this all in four hours (during online school but who cares), here's a quick rundown of how it all went:
Step 1 - Download the Bad Apple!! music video, then use FFmpeg to extract all the frames from it. The video is nerfed down to a resolution of 50x38 pixels, and 30 frames per second (6572 frames total). 50x38 is important because it equals 1900 pixels total, which is just enough for GD's limit of 999 group IDs and 999 color IDs. It also takes up just enough space in the ship gamemode.
Step 2 - Write a program to convert every frame to 0s and 1s, where 0=white and 1=black. Any pixel with a combined RGB value of more than 128*3 is considered white. Save every frame in a massive .json file (12 megabytes)
Step 3 - Write another program to create a 50x38 canvas in Geometry Dash using pixel blocks. The first 950 pixels are colored black and assigned groups 1-950, and the last 950 are assigned color channels 1-950 (are all black by default). The pixels with group IDs can be individually toggled off to reveal a white pixel behind it.
Step 4 - Create the 'base' GD level in the editor, while you're still able to open it without crashing. This basically means anything that I'm not using code for. The frame around the video, the background color, syncing with the audio, etc.
Step 5 - Calculate how fast the player moves at 4x speed by recording a video and going frame by frame. You travel at 3.125 frames/tile at 60fps, which means 0.64 tiles/frame at 30 fps. 1 tile is 30 editor units, which means that a player at 4x speed is travelling at 19.2 units per frame. This means that we will update the pixels every 19.2 units (a little bit over half a grid space, 0.64 to be exact)
Step 6 - Loop through every frame in the video and check for any pixels that change color. For each changed pixel, a color or toggle trigger (depending on which pixel) will be added to the level's code and flip the pixel from black to white or vice versa. Note that triggers are only added for pixels that CHANGE, because using 1900 triggers for every single frame is a recipe for disaster.
Step 7 - Upload to the GD servers! At first I thought the level was too big to upload but turns out it was just because I had exclamation marks in the level title. So I removed them.
mmm yeah that's about it, i had a lot of fun working on this. i'll probably update the level once or twice to fix sync or optimize it further, we'll see.
I was very aware of this video but wanted to try coding it myself. The main difference between our versions is that mine only uses legal values for group+color IDs (1-999) which means that the level is playable in 2.11 and also uploadable to the servers. However, this also means that my version has a much lower resolution.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Doctor Preorder - SBI With a Giant Enter Key (no miss)GD Semicolon2021-02-07 | The ideal way to play RD is with a giant button of some sort. Am I wrong? Exactly.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonRhythm Doctor Custom Level - Everybodys CirculationGD Semicolon2020-12-19 | "Breaking: Dozens of people hospitalized after excessive exposure to mashups" i had way too much fun making this, rhythm doctor is amazing lmao
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonInvading a Stream with GD YouTubers (lost video)GD Semicolon2020-10-27 | This video was originally edited for @Flub in January 2018, but never ended up actually being released. I recently found it on my old laptop so decided to reupload it for everyone to see!
A while ago, Flub and I decided to hop on some small GD streams and surprise them. One of the reactions was so good that we decided to get as many GD YouTubers as we could to join in as well. Through a bit of contacting via Discord and Twitter, we somehow managed to get Juniper, Riot, Huseey, and a heck ton of other people on the stream. The reaction was legendary.
This level originally started as a total joke, but after discovering how well it charted I decided to turn it into a full, decorated level. The practice music was created by none other than my main man @Mudstep
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcoloncaramelldansen but gd colonGD Semicolon2020-07-16 | you think i'm making videos but i've actually been doing this all summerVVVVVV but I recreated it in PygameGD Semicolon2020-05-27 | ...and also submitted it as my Computer Science Final This is a complete recreation of the indie game VVVVVV, programmed from the ground up using a Python library called Pygame. The mechanics, assets, etc are all taken from the original game, but I kept the level design unique because it's something I've always wanted to brush up on. I'm extremely happy with how it turned out!
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: youtube.com/gdcolonGeometry Dash Vault Theme but its plants vs zombiesGD Semicolon2020-05-18 | DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/2UuR2yk I DID NOT MAKE THIS! This song was made for me by @Mudstep, for usage in my GD April Fool's video. He asked me to upload this to avoid random people reposting his work.
The Plants VS Zombies image was created by @GeoBlitz
GD Menu Theme but it's megalovania: youtu.be/yea4jPSwpYE April Fool's vid: youtu.be/78Tzrp3go1IGeometry Dash Menu Loop but its megalovaniaGD Semicolon2020-05-18 | DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/2UuR2yk I DID NOT MAKE THIS! This song was made for me by @Mudstep, for usage in my GD April Fool's video. He asked me to upload this to avoid random people reposting his work.
GD Vault Theme but it's plants vs zombies: youtu.be/pfJxsrKFgTM April Fool's vid: youtu.be/78Tzrp3go1Ilayout thing.mp4GD Semicolon2020-01-25 | things worth noting: - i used a startpos because i'm lazy - this isn't going to be a punctuation level - i might try to decorate it - tried to make the sync as good as possible - some parts need to be adjusted because the sync is too late/early - song is classic pursuit - made in two days
- wave is the worst gamemode - you are now breathing manually - e
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: http://youtube.com/gdcolonBEHIND THE SCENES: Ice Carbon Diabolo X Life Goal AcheivedGD Semicolon2020-01-22 | The """leaked""" full recording of my first public video on GD Colon. It has no sound, and the whole thing was indeed staged. Recorded April 2015 on my old tablet with a bunch of terrible apps.
Twitter: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon Main Channel: http://youtube.com/gdcolonhappy new decadeGD Semicolon2020-01-01 | we watched the whole first 7:30 of the episode for this. i've wanted to do this since the beginning of 2019.Donkey Kong recreated in Baba is You (Custom Level)GD Semicolon2019-12-02 | BABA save KEKE
Main Channel: http://youtube.com/gdcolonOrdinary Geometry Dash LevelGD Semicolon2019-10-27 | just a "normal" geometry dash level that "i" went and "made" in the "editor"Coming soon...GD Semicolon2019-10-08 | coding is fun
(music is sunken field by waterflame, if robtop can use it i can too)just an ordinary terraria hellevatorGD Semicolon2019-09-05 | demonite sure generates weird sometimes lolfurret dashGD Semicolon2019-09-02 | he dash
(made to test my new video camera)Creeper?GD Semicolon2019-08-27 | just when you think you're safe, overhear some hissing from right behind...
(full stream: youtu.be/xlV1NkGttTE?t=5288)Shoot Em Up but i play it next to my geometry dash recreationGD Semicolon2019-07-09 | idkHow To Remove Background Noises in AudacityGD Semicolon2019-06-17 | Finally, a to-the-point tutorial that doesn't suck.A Hat in Time Music - Rush Hour (Alternate In-Game Version)GD Semicolon2019-06-15 | An alternate version of Rush Hour which plays during certain (less intense) parts of the stage. Ripped from the game files. (not monetized)
Obviously I don't own this song, and I'll take it down if needed.Exploring My Old Minecraft World From 2014GD Semicolon2019-05-28 | Exploring my creative world that hasn't been touched since 2014, featuring too many command blocks and a build stolen from a Minecraft Handbook 👀 Twitter thread of other old worlds: twitter.com/TheRealGDColon/status/1133144252379279361
apologies for my brother screaming in the background