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Joined on: Feb 23, 2022

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Hideo game

my discord is squaredork or Square#7050 if you wanna ask me anything

i only review games that i enjoyed and felt i had something to say on

fav makers and why (not in order):
- Kurath: for making most of my biggest inspiration, The Farewell Medley, aswell as Ocean Princess, big reason i love platform needle as much as i do
- Wolfiexe: for making some of the best needle i've ever played (vandal (only got through 1-10), all of his contributions to The Farewell Medley (except farewell tower))
- anxKha: for making the first fangame i played, and still the one i call my favorite of all time (heavenly host)
- UbersawMedic: for having a great style and awesome design knowledge
- EchoMask: for making the best platform needle ever (traverse the precipice stage 1 (yes, the first 3 screens))
- Gustav: for making the Best Guy series, and Justice Guy, both of which have some of my favorite fangame bosses of all time
- lilly: for making the best trap needle
- Tralexium: for making some of the best bosses i've ever played, and his incredible art design skills

honorable mentions to RedBatNick and cLOUDDEAD/ava for making the only >80 difficulty games that are a great inspiration to my design philosophy and i have great respect for despite not being nearly skilled enough to experience (UNG/K3+)

honorable mention to G4lvatron and JonathanGD (specifically for Dark Travel) for introducing me to visual spectacle back when i still played geometry dash, and inspiring me to get better at making visuals

and a questionably honorable mention to Nearigami for making me wanna do this list by updating their own profile lmao

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SquareDork
For: Delicious Level Design Contest
i hope people appreciate this game as much as we did making it and polishing it up, it's been quite a journey for us and i hope it's a journey for you too

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[7] Likes
Rating: N/A       Difficulty: 70 70
Dec 28, 2025
SquareDork
For: Renex² Engine ForkDate
renex² engine but with 10,000 extra gimmicks, some taken from the DLDC version, some taken from other places, some original

i apologize if this review is off-topic at times but i feel like this modification is representative of a few problems, both within r2e and within the wider community

as one of the maintainers of the original engine, i'm honestly happy to see people use and build upon it, though to be honest a lot of the additions aren't that useful and only really serve to add yet more bloat to an engine whose #1 common complaint is bloat

as a medleyhead myself, i appreciate the addition of common medley tools like titlecards, warnings, etc, though i fear this'll probably just contribute to the "standardization" of the medley genre, when what that genre truly needs right now is innovation, someone to take needle screens and bosses and do something original with them, K3+ and modern Happil 2 got close, but still very much stayed within the limiting 'needle mindset'

that being said, i appreciate the fact that effort was indeed put into this, that it's not just a lazy copy of the DLDC edition, and japanese character support is also a great feature

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Tagged as: Engine GM8.2
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Rating: 6.5 65       Difficulty: N/A
Jun 22, 2025
SquareDork
For: I Wanna Goodbye The Bye The Hello The Bye The Hello The 6900000000 Hard (Hello)
fucking cinema

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Rating: 10.0 100       Difficulty: N/A
Apr 28, 2025
SquareDork
For: Make it Angry a little
very nice avoidance set to 'jumper' by waterflame, one of my favorite songs from when I played geometry dash back in the day

would recommend if you're around this skill level in avoidances, it has some p cool attacks and practice mode, i'd recommend practicing the rightmost warp a lot before going for full attempts because it's pretty tricky, you can also sometimes get unlucky with rng and just get walled, but it's fine

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Tagged as: Avoidance Avoidanve
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Rating: 8.5 85       Difficulty: 55 55
Apr 8, 2025
SquareDork
For: I wanna beat the Cactus jump
Figuring this game out by myself was interesting. Games like this are almost like a real-time puzzle, figure out the weird combination of inputs necessary to do the jump.

I'm surprised I enjoyed the 30 minutes I spent in this game, both in jtool and in the actual game, as I've never been a fan of precision needle, one-jump games, or even frame perfect stuff in general.

Maybe it was the game itself that was fun to me, or maybe it was things outside the game that made me appreciate it more. I don't know. But this was enjoyable for me.

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Rating: 7.0 70       Difficulty: 50 50
Mar 16, 2025

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GameDifficultyAverage Rating# of Ratings
DIRDKILL 50.6 8.2 12