The Lost Factory Verified
24There it is, after hundreds of hours, many changes, a lot of ideas, it's finally out. Abandoned factory themed level. I started this project on 20th of January 2017 during winter holidays. Why did it take me 3 years? So, here is a story behind it.
Over 1185 days ago, when I came back from a ski camp, Geometry Dash 2.1 was released. As probably every gd player, I really wanted to get a star for my level. So I thought that if I made a 2.1 style level, I would get a featured level for sure and that is how it all has begun. I started with a concept. I'm interested in abandoned and forsaken places, there are always a lot of interesting details there, so I thought it would be a perfect idea for a level. Then I had to choose a song that would match not only the factory theme level, but also this feeling of being forsaken and lonely in a dark, abandoned place. I didn't konw many songs but I knew which one would fit perfectly, Goukisan's Betrayal Of Fate. I knew it from “A Bizzare Phantasm” which was my inspiration for doing some parts of the level, especially “The Duall”. Then I started building. My experience of making gameplays and decorations was so poor because before I had uploaded only one level “Dance Of The Violins” which I had mostly built on the phone. I didn't know how toggles worked and I knew almost nothing about game mechanics and difficulties because my hardest demon was “Forest Temple”. I didn't worry about all those things because my plan was to make the level as fast as it was possible to get the star. I quickly changed my mind and I decided to do something more than only a quick 4-5 stars generic level. Like I said, I didn't know a lot about building levels so it occurred that everything I had been doing since the beginning was wrong. I should have started from making a layout of the level first and then move on to decorating it. Instead, I made each part separately one by one, sometimes getting stuck on particular parts even for few days without the idea for a gameplay or deco and then I had to change everything and start all over again. In a couple of months the level was finished. I was so proud of it and I decided to upload it on 12th of July 2018. And so, I started verifying. It was a nightmare, the gameplay wasn't optimized and I also played on 60hz which didn't make it any easier. I tried to go through it for hours. The deadline was getting closer and after 80% fail I knew that I would not make it in time so I gave up. After some time I decided to get back to the level. I wanted to refresh it. My standards in terms of appearance and gameplay had changed as I played so I had to improve almost all parts. Some parts needed to be made all over again. It took me extremely long to finish the level because I wanted to make it as good as I could. And so some parts were changed even 5 times. I also have this obsession about copying and pasting so there were no copied and pasted art elements in the level. It took me months to decorate some parts. Sometimes I was out of ideas and I was stuck on other parts. Smoetimes I wasn't sure about things. Sometimes I was just doing other stuff because playing Geometry Dash wasn't the only thing I was doing in my life :^)
In December 2019 I had only a few things left to finish and I planned to release my level on 20th of April. When the quarantine started, I knew that I would be ready to complete this project. At the end of March the level was ready. I started verifying it on 29th of March and I finally finished on 8th of April. The verifying process was really stressful for me because I terribly didn't want to expeirience the situation that had happened 2 years ago again. Feels good to have finally finished it.
Some people didn't believe that this level could ever come out and they were telling me to give up. So I would ilke to thank other people that have been supporting me:
- Robotchief for being my gd dude
- my friend Marcel for giving me hope and support in game and at parties ;)
- my brother Jeremi better known as 42q0
- and my best friend Jack for being with me from the beginning to the end of this large project.
Thank you guys so much, it means a lot to me.
At the end I would like to thank a person who is the reason why this level exists, KrmaL. He is my favourite player and creator since the very beginning. He inspired me to start making a level in general. This level was supposed to be dedicated to him since I have started.
I have also put some easter eggs in the level so let me know when you find them.
If you have any remarks about the level please let me know in the comment section, I read all the comments :)
Song: Goukisan - Betrayal Of Fate
ID: 61023938
Note
some parts may be buggy on practice mode, especially the third part with moving objects, sometimes they are moving to fast and I can't do anything about it LOL
About attempts, I have made so many because this is the main copy of the level which I used to make all the changes.