365 Days of GDA

Well shit, I didn't even realize I've been here for so long. Guess I'll use this time to introduce myself to newer and tell my story.

-=The beginning=-

I started off just like pretty much everyone else. I was a bad player with poor understanding of the game and a cringy in-game name last summer. With the full version of the game finally on my phone, I quickly began to rise in skill, completing Time Machine, Cycles, Xstep, Clutterfunk, and Theory of Everything (as well as everything before it) in a bit over a day.

At this time i was already using amino for quite some time, so I checked to see if there would be an amino community dedicated to Geometry Dash and ended uo finding this gem of an amino. At the time it was led by XovyaN and EPC, with Flandre and Xael as curators (I believe, but may be slightly off). My first friends here were Ze Meemer and YaMi, but for quite some time they were my only friends.

I mostly lurked in public chatrooms until I got bored and ended up leaving with a bad idea od the community. Luckily though, I decided to come back a few months later in October. By this time I had already beaten The Nightmare, The Lightning Road, Demon Mixed, Clubstep, and Theory of Everything 2, as well as every other main level except for Hexagon Force, Geometrical Dominator, Electrodynamix, and Deadlocked.

As time went by I began to make more friends such as GabeLucario and Sully whilst continuing to build my skill even more. I participating in Ze's Gauntlet Contest in which you had to design your own gauntlet as if it were a part of the game. I ended up coming in 1st place and started to gain more motivation to stick around here. Around this time I had conquered about 15-20 demons.

Not too long later, I pushed my limits and really began to improve as a player. I took on the famous 1.9 level, 8o by Zobros and Etzer. This timing, memory, and skill reliant insane demon gave me hell and allowed me to tremendously improve at the game. I soon made it to 79% and ultimately gave up. Even though I quit in the end, I'm glad I took the time to do this, as it really opened a new door for me as a player. I was inspired to take on much bigger challenges.

With about 60 demons to my name, I decided to practice a legacy demon megacollab known as Hyperio Technia. It is a fast paced skill reliant demon with extremely enjoyable gameplay and great decoration. After about 2 days I managed to reach 67%. This fail honestly demotivated me much more than it should have, as I slow progressed until I pretty much stopped practicing it all together. In the meantime, I completed some hard demons such as Nine Circles and Theory of Everything 3 and began to race toward even more difficult challenges like Necropolis and Night Terrors. I finally reached 100 demons in march-april of 2018.

-=Evolution as a Creator=-

My creating career started on October 8th, 2017 when I was accepted into Spacex, a megacollab held by AnuarAtom84 that eventually died. Originally I was only making gameplay, but after messing with the editor I actually made some, er, almost decent deco? Looking back, it was quite awful compared to my new abilities.

Anyway, after this all started I spent even more time on the editor improving myself, especially in gameplay.

A few months later, I discovered the 1.9 private server which allows you to play GD with all the properties of good old update 1.9. On March 21st of 2018, I ed the first preview of 'Squidward', a solo medium demon on the server to youtube. I decided to continue with the Idea, and eventually ed it on April 12th, 2018. It is currently my most popular YouTube video, with 116 views and 6 likes.

In the span of two months I became fairly well known on the 1.9 private server discord for making good gameplay and got invited into several megacollabs. Though most were abandoned, a few survived and are still going on today. One of those being Plasma Surge.

Plasma Surge is a plasma surge inspired hard-insane demon hosted by my friend Fruitsalad. At some point he pretty much gave up creating and gave it to me to host. Currently 7/8 parts are finished, including mine. This was quite important for me as a creator as it helped me become more familiar with deco.

-=Becoming a Mod=-

Before I was a mod, I was just a really active normal member. I had quite a lot of friends thanks to being invited to a group chat with all the mods and lots of well known . Sometimes I even got involved in mod drama and issues. The main event that brought me my mod status was the debate against XovyaN that got her demoted a few months ago.

I was promoted to Junior after the long debate and remained extremely active, reporting problems and helping out mods as much as I could. It was only a month later when I was promoted to curator on May 9th, 2018.

-=Final Words=-

Geometry Dash Amino has honestly changed me tremendously as a person and really helped me become more social and interactive. I'm thankful to everyone of my friends here for sticking with me for so long. Let's hope the fun continues for another year.

Thank you.