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"nothing is more important than gameplay" proceeds to put the buggeist type of level at #1

One of the things i appreciate the most about the 1.9 style, specifically in RobTop's own levels, is the variety of individual experience that comes from having so many effects using the custom colours of the player. It really felt like your icon was special and making an impact on the game

mostly agreed, the glow style should be higher tho bc of how hard ut is to make. Good glow style is really hard to build and to learn, yes its generic, but still hard to make.

My top 3 are 1. Effect 2. Art 3. Modern I’d say this as a creator they are the most fun to create and most appealing to the eyes (for me)

Also, I think hell theme is overhated. It's far from as common as people make it out to be. Extreme demons are dominated by generic glow/design stuff - with hell style just here and there.

you sound like if gd colon was in a bad mood and asked chatgpt for a video script and youre reading it for the the first time

the "space" theme is very interesting since you can do almost whatever you want if you just respect the colors and decorations. I'd say my best space theme is Dimensional from Darwin, it has this weird yet calm space vibe to it. I love it

Finally, someone brave enough in the GD community to call out 1.0 levels/""layouts"" Good video btw, I agree with your list

As a design lover, Exg isnt really good. Still, some design works are simply outstanding ( desticy’s last level, kwms’ part in quaoar, or sedulous by samifying)

Effect layouts when made well are extremely underrated and are one of the best styles next to effect and realistic styles imo

I personally really like realistic themed levels. Sadly not a lot of people use it.

It should be noted that there's a clear distinction between the terms Style and Theme: Styles are how a creator approaches design, These are the rules you follow in the editor, Everyone has a unique style but high quality decoration needs a good set of ground rules to follow, I'd recomend picking a popular style which you can then expand upon when you get familiar with the basics of it. Themes on the other hand are not made to be versatile, They are more like locations you build using a style. Here are lists to seperate the ones mentioned in the video: - Styles Traditional Nostalgia (Past Updates) Glow Art Modern Effect Core - Themes Nine Circles Hell Tech Space Horror - Gameplay Minigame

Damn bro I just started playin GD again and I had NO IDEA that there was this much depth to level themes. All the ones on this list looked pretty good to me, and that’s kind of intimidating since I’m trying to build my own level and I’m not sure how to approach decorating. I don’t want to make something people will just brush off, and I’m scared of spending so much time and putting so much care into my level only for people to view it as “lazy” or “unimpressive”

Ty for the nc levels, I owe you one for that!

this video is more or less interesting but however there are things I have points to approach with your video - 1: about design,glow and modern I can find it a little easy for people to qualify for this level of fegnant or a way to be because it's not necessarily true (and you mentioned it) and also very important: -it's often a way for designers to express their creativity, they will know more about how to use this style at their end, they will be able to do beautiful things with it and they will have more ideas with their styles than anyone else (I'm thinking of hinds, starkythesalad, licen, yunhaseu14, qmistic, flosia, ilnm ect...). -but above all it's the most accessible and fun creation styles of this game for beginners, it's the easiest styles to learn and to progress, it's the best way to start small, it's too hard for us to start with something new, we have to do the most basic things first before we start going further, that's why nowadays we see it in the levels recent and it does not bother me because some their weapon is the way they are executed and not their originality or the long work. and I don't agree with the people you quoted who say that modern is lazzy because the blocks are simple Complexity does not mean worked 2-: horror themes I think about the same thing, there are many that are not very scary (tokidfrendly) but above all even if it's the objective, levels like man man or red roms go much too far, it's so bloody and excessive that it will shock 70% of audiences (or maybe not) and some parts are sometimes really cringe. the best horor theme of gd is collab level and soon antares even if it is more a borderline horor theme. 3-: the hell themes a lot of geometry dash hell theme are an important part of history, i think a lot of hell theme level came out when we had 1 top 1 every two years and when this trend was minimal, now hell theme can be a way for many creators to express their creativity (greafer, insxne, burgadaz, icedcave ect...). I'm also not a big fan of style art as I prefer simpler blocks and a lot of it is overdetailed. You could have talked about neo design, the pure definition of simple and effective. interesting video and sorry for the length and the English (thanks google translate :D).

A style that I don't remember you adding is the realism style like Culucs part in emerald realm. In my opinion realism is a really really difficult style to do and I generally looks so damn good But I want to hear what you think about it?.

i would add bossfight levels as their own little category, and place them just above modern levels (they can look really awesome if you pull it off correctly [i.e. hhyper and xender game] but a lot of them aren't executed well)

i didn't really take it for granted when you made that "Do i sound like gd colon" short, but now i geniunly thought i had put on a colon video lmao

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="623">10:23</a> i found it very cool you used zenderwar's creations to represent tech and not just xender game's old levels. I really liked zenderwar's tech era because he made the tutorials which taught me how to build that style. Pretty sad he quit tech and is now doing art and minigames

Good video bro

No way I made it in the thumbnail

Core deco can be really good when its done well, and some of the more modern levels are great.

best modern level:Insomnia by Dimakulov best NC level:The Hallucination best hell theme level:Titanomachina best space level:Cosmic Cyclone best art level:Devin2003 best horror level:Man Man best 1.9 style level:Sinister Silence best factory level:Alika best upcoming level:Return 0

Thanks I'll try to look outside the box for preview 7 of Scorpion Circles.

I feel like core done RIGHT can look really fkn cool! Levels like Khorne are really bad tho since it always feels like they just spammed objects for the sake of... well... spamming objects. Being the creator of core... i feel like MaJacko still - after 8 years - makes super unique core levels. That style will always hold a special place in my hearr

Would be cool to rank gameplay styles

I think one you should do is pixel themed levels. They are like retro levels, but usually way better. They are almost always based off of games, similarly to retro levels, but for me personally, it is hard to find a bad pixel level.

There is one style i wanna point out that i dont know the name of and i just love it here's three levels in this style: -idkwhattowritehere by Faronium -wewas by Powidlo -HOW TO COOK MR WHITE by (i dont remember) If someone experienced told me if this style has a name, i'd appreciate it

I’m surprised you had the courage to upload this on KZfaq. I don’t agree with all of the rankings but good job at showing your opinions

Nice video, I honestly kind of agree with your list.

Personally glow is 1

I think this video has a lot of pretty sticky takes in it, but I can at least see where you’re coming from with them, even if I don’t agree. Honestly like half of this list I agree with, but there’s so much I would personally switch around; many of the things I would switch you had made comments or jokes about being controversial.

I love how so many channels use terraria music, as background music

Space theme sort of melts into glow themes

Love the Undertale Ost backround music 🎉❤

Where would you put neodesign? Also can’t believe you didn’t mention omorfia as one of the “great” effect layouts it’s one of the only ones that isn’t just searching free undeserved popularity and a nexus upload. Also autopilot, communication and transtellar are probably the best space levels out there.

I havent decided on the rankings except for the top 3: 1. effect 2. art 3. minigames

Devin2003’s horror style is so *bloody* good 😉 (that was a bad joke)

this video makes me cry in decoration pain

nearly 13 minute video?? 😳😳😳😳

I think I understand when people complain about hell theme. Like yeah, it's overused for extreme demons, but sweet Lord, their complaints are *WAY TOO INTENSE* . I don't really think the community should be developing a hatred *THIS* inflated for something that actually shouldn't be their bussiness. It's just too much of an overreaction and a cringy way to handle things you don't like.

Pretty cool list, although I gotta notice that some footage used in this video is poor quality

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="107">1:47</a> I would rank the limited objects separately from the other “1.0” styles and with an actual 1.0 level.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="251">4:11</a> also, there is a very good hell themed level called rare by greafer

why is CORE playing in the background of the art level section and not the core section

Now theres 17, the newest is lobotomy.

I Disagree With The Opinion About Effect Layout because its not important how the design how creative or artistic you are, the mission is to improve your gameplay creativity and gameplay effect (some of them abuse lol) to make more fun and enjoyable (except for Havoc) and also to respect others low devices like mobile or old computers. So, thats my opinion.

i cannot beloved you put effect layouts over actual deco LOL

Im sad to see the hell theme get so fucking overused and then get all the hate that they can while it's my favorite

This dude is really underrated

1.9 style is mostly agreed but there are a lot of special 1.9 styled levels including tartarus.

In my opinion the best type of levels are space theme for decoration, and nine circles levels for gameplay. Nine circles level are strange, cuz you can make really fun levels like Jawbreaker or Supernova, or make completly garbage, unfun and unbalance gameplay ( Crimson clutter, sakupen circles, Poltergeist)

Sorry for commenting twice but my favourites are: 5 - Nine Circles 4 - Glow 3 - Space Theme (the cold colors look so cool, specially in levels like SWI) 2 - Art Honorable mention - Effect 1 - MaJackO Core

I cant get over the terraria cave music syncing with the levels I the background

You should've added the bossfight style. I personally would put it between art and tech or art and minigame.

when 2.2 is released we might also see pixel style level that would be interesting

I love how he uses flarooni's joke video as the gameplay for hell style

I think you should have added a nature/realistic theme lvl to the list. They are often very cool

u forgot about some themes, mainly atmospheric and tech but overall i kinda agree with some of the points u made. As for glow however i kinda would agree to disagree, on one hand i truly believe that most glow levels are ass but there are some that are amazing ones that makes me forget about the bad ones thats why i would put glow a bit higher, overall good video

Art levels will always be be too of the charts in my eyes as they, more often than most levels, are trying to tell a story. This means parts that might not look the best are elevated by their dedication to the theme or story progression of the level, leading to an experience that can be best described as greater than the sum of it's parts.

I love how you used demonic hell for hell style. Gotta live flaaroni Broo you cant just represent tech with one on zenderwars worst levels, that is CRAZY

Triple six is also a really cool hell themed level

I definitely agree with the last 2, after 2.3, im planning to build an rpg C:

I would include like an experimental style

Love me or hate me but i'm still in love with hell themed levels

pov: you see generation retro and the first video on your feed is "The Worst Geometry Dash Level" by GD Colon

missed opportunity to play CORE from undertale when discussing about the gd style and not at the end

layout creators after hearing someone call 1.0 stuff bad: *insert that one spongebob meme here*

All of styles I'm in interested!

My top 3: Realistic Modern Detaleid tech glow

i will NOT accept effect slander

I would probably place core style lower because I'm on mobile and it literally is unplayable due to all the objects 😅

Nie Circles levels are the best thing ever. Modern NC levels are so beautiful and creative and fun if ur amazing at wave gamemode. Bausha Vortex and Solar Flare are my personal favourites

The style I like most is glow I struggle with it a lot but the result is amazing 🤩

I’m a big nine circles kinda dude, well not the 1,9 one but my own

I think Edge of Destiny is a combination of design and art, not really a glow level, I mean every style uses glow at some extent. Good vid nonetheless.

NeoDesign is one of my favorites.

theres like 2 hell theme levels left on the list outside of the top 25 lmao

I cant lie, but, the modern style looks really cool

Let’s be honest, terraria is a theme and is 2nd or 1st

My top 3 1. Modern 2. Glow 3. Art

What was the first level you used as background gameplay for space theme?

Background: gd Music: terraria

I just think effect levels are the best. No doubt about it. I’m not really talking about the low-effort “effect” levels. I mean the boundary-pushing, how-the-heck-did-they-even-make-that kinds of levels

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="352">5:52</a> Counterpoint: Goldcrest Palace.

I feel like it's missing quite a bit, most of which are unnamed (so I'm giving them names as I go). Such as - Era style. 1.0 and 1.9 styles got their own sections but why should other updates (1.3, 1.7 etc.) be left out? - Self-referential style. Recreating objects and style found in GD menus and such. Egzamples would include l Built a Level, Animation vs GD and so on. - Animations. They can be so unique I'd call them a separate style - first levels that come to my mind are Wysteria, GD Legends Finale and A Special Place. - Low object levels. They became popular recently and look different enough to be their own thing. - Themed levels. Some creations have such a strong identity it's hard to group them with anything else. Like, in what kind of style is Heartbeat? - Bossfight levels. Pretty self-explainatory. - Experimental/weird. Pretty much nothing from this category gets rated but they exist nonetheless. I swear, Driproom should get the stars it deserves...

I actually like glow style.

That's an absurd rating for a glow level ngl. Yes it's not that creative and really overused but it's fun to play nonetheless. AndrixGD is one of my favorite creator when it comes to creating glow levels. He's killin' it lol

Video Bit crunch go brrr

How do you rate nature style? 🤔

I personally like artcore (at least when it’s well optimized)

rootbearfloathaspop3301 :ranks hell / death theme at 12th Bloodlust : "Am I a joke to you"

everyone has someone's specialness, so I like everything

I don't care about the style of the level as long as its creative. I always hate on glow and modern levels for being unoriginal, but they can actually be done right, but nobody ever does which bothers me

The scariest level is killbot hack, it scares my sister and cousin with just two furries moving front and back

lol I'm sad sonmogaji wasn't featured for the art segment of the video

Even though you prefer modern nc more then legacy nc levels As someone who loves making legacy nc im happy you put the nc style in 8 I dont wanna bother making counterpoints to your opinion because i agree. Legacy nc was repetitive. But hey! Got any gra- its 8 and thats good enough 👍🏻

The video-Geometry Dash. Background Song-Terraria Cave Track

Glow at 14 is honestly sad as most people just seem to treat it like it's all still early 2.1 shit. Glow is actually a very difficult style to build (Advanced glow is. The deco tutorial level stuff isn't and it's ass). Just because a level is generic doesn't mean it should be that low. With MOST of the good glow levels either unrated or hard to find it makes it harder to tell the apex of the style.