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Reviewing Geometry Dash's Menus
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- Published on Mar 11, 2026
- You know the part of Geometry Dash where you're not actually playing the game? Let's talk about it for twelve minutes!
🎨 Character art by Loafee! / loafeebuns
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🎵 Music:
sans. from Undertale (Toby Fox)
Flower Garden from Yoshi's Island (Koji Kondo)
Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod
Jungle from Terraria (Scott Lloyd Shelly)
Dating Start! from Undertale (Toby Fox)
Jungle Night from Terraria (Scott Lloyd Shelly)
March of the Spoons by Kevin MacLeod
BossaBossa by Kevin MacLeod
Helpy Loves You from Will You Snail (Jonas Tyroller)
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If you're reading this, don't ever trust me to make an interface I have no idea what I'm doing
Agreed, but probably not something that will be fixed until after 2.2 :)
hie
yeah, when 2.2 actually *COMES OUT*
Hello robert
hi rubrub
Rob comment with 7 likes?? Also Robtop I also agree
He told us he hated generation retro without telling us he hated generation retro.
The fact that most of these are now in 2.2
Rob listened
1:16 bro had vision
maybe robtop bases his update frok colon's vid
crazy parappa the rapper reference
@person-ef7dg he infact DID
Job had bro💔 one
12:12 by far the best gui
- simple
- easy to understand
- not overcrowded
- nice minimalistic design
- unique
- memorable
Very true
agreed
yea iz lit
I actually remembered it before seeing it in the video. It's so simplistic it's impossible to forget
yessirrrr
i really wish there a dummies version of the editor, because the current menu looks terrifying
Ayyyy crafty, you watch gdcolon?
You get used to it pretty quickly, thankfully :)
@VerseArchie bro played with Tride
mrcrafty is prob watching gd more cuz of the simon vid idk
Yeah, like the Trackmania "simple" editor
another thing i would add in the pause menu or gameplay is a sign showing how many coins you have collected in the level on your current attempt. when you collect a coin it shows briefly along the other 3 coins you can collect, kind of Rayman Legends’ teensie progress bar, and also WHICH coin you collected (whether its the first, second or third coin)
Yeah...
As a person who used to play Rayman Legends on the PS3, i agree with this idea
If robtop does end up adding this, it'd be neat but also kinda cheap if it showed the percentage the coin is at. Only problem is if the coin moves
Memories brought back
wait thats actually a great idea
i think the real problem with the menus is that pressing escape on the pause menu should unpause, *not quit the level*
*Phobos 90% take a rest screen appears.*
(Accidentally presses Esc 2 times)
You know what happens.
YES
@thischannelis_bad123bloodbath 98% right before the triple
REL
*confirm exit*
Colon: *Talks about how this video editing is trash
Also Colon: *Makes the video editing very good
yeah sounds about right
I think colon was that kid who told everyone his drawing is terrible
True man.
It's good to downplay urself 😉
@chibk Sometimes it's just too noticeable.
Honestly Colon is one of my favorite content creators because he is very accurate
in 19 seconds you came up to that conclusion
Edit: ok i meant 19 minutes
Also he's a furry
@yes-is5wf ye
you know what i love about colon? consistency
@GDColon That too
7:45 The fact that is activates the YT like button
I knew I wasn’t the only one.
I didn't knew this channel, discovered this after 2.2, and coming back on this video after the update and realizing that some things you suggested were actually implemented is so cool
lol I wanted to say that
yh
yeah
I like how you're well into your fixing GD arc lmao
Omgg I found a wild tridee
Wow 2nd comment
But who asked
bird
Ok
Hello tride
Geometrical Menu
I agree
Very innit indeed
Very symmetrical
True
Geometrical Denis
10:14and just like that, therapists were losing their jobs.
PowerPoint Quality represents these GD Slides. Unique in one way.
1:14 That's actually a great idea,maybe what i would do is,the closer you are to unlocking a new icon the icon becomes more and more visible so for example :
Icon unlocks if you have 2500 stars
If you have 0 stars at the moment you wont see the icon at all
If you have 1000 stars you can see the icon behind the lock a bit more
And so on and so on.
ooh that's clever!
Thats an interesting idea
Nice one
But what about ones like for saying certain things to the black circle guy (don’t know his name)?
@GDColon fsir
I would also like to add that you can add a function to the level search filter that, during operation, will issue levels with EXACTLY the same name that you entered. For example, if you write "blood" in the search, then you will get not bloodbath and bloodlust, but a level called "blood". Still, it would be possible to make a function to search for levels by the creator. This would be more convenient than logging into the person's account and then going to "my levels" . And one last little detail that pissed off my inner perfectionist. In achievements, the "60 demons" achievement comes after "40 demons" and before "50 demons. Aaaarrghhh
rob should just let us search with regular expressions, ^.+ circles$ to find every level that ends with 'circles'
@GDColon yes yes yes that's what we need
@InstagramUser2says the person who has “instagram” in their username
would be nice to search levels with only numbers as their title
@GDColon regex
1:45 To add on here, the icons you dont have will always have the classic grey shown, but the ones you own will have the colors you set, showing a preview with the colors without having to equip it.
some people use grey icons tho
8:15 stop smashing my name baka >.
🤨
The mysterious 5th button can be the settings button too!
Personally, I'd like a record trails option in editor levels in play mode that you can then find in edit mode. Sometimes you do a weird jump pattern and you fall somewhere you're not supposed to be, so a feature like this would be quite useful
Ok I pull up
Like bottling, but just for the editor?
100%
6:38 Search bar :D
10:16 a sneak peak 1 year before the actual video?!
fym, that was just generation retro
He made a video about why generation retro sucks. @CandahhYT
@unnamedzero Yeah I know its in my playlist "Watch this and that (30th time)"
10:16 our hero deleted generation retro
W
Foreshadowing
@Elfilinfanforeshadowing what?
@Incineration72the new vid he made
(I’m going to get flamed for this) generation retro isn’t that bad tbh
The account registration menu is the best website design I've ever seen.
OMG. the buttons are square 9:03
10:16 This was colon's one of the newest video cue
10:17 Deleting Generation Retro is the most based thing I've seen all day
A seizure warning option needs to be in the game, accessibility is really important
6:47 why does this make me laugh
10:18 i love the detail that he deletes generation retro lol
Great video! I genuinely don't get how you so consistently make these videos interesting, and I never disagree with anything you say because your takes are simply too based.
for the title screen i think it would be cool if you could have a button at the top to remove the buttons so you can just play with the icons on screen. could be similar to the megahack thing where you can press a button to hide the level complete screen to see an endscreen of a level better.
that's kinda cool, but I think it would be better if the menu hides itself if no buttons were pressed for too long but the icons won't count, kinda like a screensaver or smth.
11:43 Because saving causes your level to be unverified and you have to beat the level again.
then, why is there no confirmation for the save and exit and save and play
0:10 WHAT DO I SEE IN THE BACKGROUND COLON
WHAT DO I SEE
3:39 He should do something like Mario maker by making the preview a picture of the level from the level editor
7:45 I think if setting and info button were swapped it'll be better
theres’s actually a mod that fixes the settings menu called Sai’s Mod Pack. it organizes all of the settings to different categories and lets you add icons in a really complicated way
At 7:45 the actual YT like button got highlighted when he said that and I jumped a little lmao
9:43 damn it goes of the screen
The account registration page is definitely very minimalistic
most of these exist now 🚡
Please stop using the tram emoji
Huge respect for the Will you Snail ost included. I see you're truly the man.
Yo!
Jdrocco Yo
My brother just missed the first coin in clubstep
11:13 i’d give the ability to change what buttons do what yourself. or even the ability to rearrange editor UI entirely
12:00 Blåhaj plays Geometry Dash
Gdhaj
2:21 what I would've done is swap the icons with RobTop's logo
8:52 Will you Snail OST Pog
Its incredible that robtop actualy added somethings from this video xd
8:09 lol
I really like the ideas you suggested for the icon kit!
Also settings should be accessible from everywhere, you're right!
+ Great video :)
Yeah and he is right on saying that and that might also help the game organizing itself
@InstagramUser2 nice colon is so popular he's starting to get bots
@tunaplanto7327 thats... not a good thing... bots arent good...
@smoothiepop2253 yeah but it means he is popular
Omg
4:18 holy moly rhythm doctor reference
colon is a developer of rhythm doctor
*Beans Hopper*
Love that icon added to menu as you unlock them idea 🙏
1:50 spider is mega gengar?
I would honestly add a select all type button that selects all of a specific item because to do this right now, you have to select the object, go into the delete tab and select only, and then pause the game and click select all. Very complicated
3:53 well maybe if this happened he can make it to where the thumbnails can only come from a frame in the level
I think robtop said he might do an “interface remaster in 2.4”
That’s assuming we ever get to 2.3 💀
9:28 Honestly this should just be available as an option for the WHOLE game, just a UI Scale option like Minecraft where u can set it to like 0.5x for every single interface in the game. Can't begin to explain how much i would love that.
0:27 You saved yourself with that one cause since that was my first thought I knew that people would complain about it
8:52
YOOOO GD COLON KNOWS ABOUT WILLYOUSNAIL
I always thought it was odd that the most often used button is not the big play button in the middle, but the creator button. I mean, when you think about gd, you don't think about the main levels, you think about the other tabs
well, it makes sense from a game design standpoint that the main levels would be the main focus of the menu, but yeah the fact that 99.9999998% of all levels in the game are in one tab is kinda strange
10:16 was this foreshadowing the "worst level in geometry dash" video?
9:10 I want to view an ORB!
0:09 @Sikky when he realizes what is behind the UI 😂👀👀😭☠️
no worries if the menus are good, with a blackout texture pack you can instantly lower a menu’s quality
a thing that i think could be useful, is if Rob adds a ‘recent’ section in editor, where u have the recent blocks, portals, triggers, etc you used in that level, instead of looking one by one in the whole objects thing
Ok
Ok
I would probably put a button that creates base, edges and outlines for the rock and cave crystal blocks.
6:33 that happened
I've been playing gd for like 4 years and I just now figured out from your video what those badges mean at 5:23
There should be an option for reshaping nearly everything into circles.
Also should be in the settings.
Maybe called “More than Nine Circles”
Just a joke setting. Also it just reverts the icons and buttons, not editor objects, if you’re wondering.
@bLuegalootsixty round mode
About the icon slide thing, there are steam icons too so I doubt Rob will add it.
2:39 everybody wanna be a superstar
0:54 to be honest, the clean up makes it worse for me (AND I KNOW IT'S MY MUSCLE MEMORY THAT'S TALKING!!!!). i wonder if Rob would add a way to revert back
0:33 what is this meme
6:47 HELP I CANT FIND LOW DETAIL MODE!!!!
Looks in help menu
I FOUND IT
Robrob added a ton of these things in 2.2!
8:52 omg based music
6:54 roptop actually did it
Yea
im also colorblind haha
Colorblind portals was one of the first things robtop said would be in 2.2
8:52 I am hungry too. (Check top right corner)
7:23 how is he a mini cube
version of the game when lvl was created is really good, it shows you some history and how the game and design evolved, like 1.9 and 2.0 have each distinct style of the levels
3:51 maybe the thumbnail can only be a screenshot of the level so people can see a little preview to know what kind of level they’re gonna play
but how would they know its actually from the level you made
@ozzienemomaybe make it so that you can only put a screenshot of when your playing the level, and it’s not like you take an actual screenshot but in game, so that the game actually knows it’s from the level
@themasterbee that could work
@ozzienemoYou verify the level, it records your replay, and from there you watch it and click a button to screenshot the current display of the level for the thumbnail.
because its a screenshot of the darn level dummy @ozzienemo
They object warning is really useful Especially if Your iPad is slow like mine
0:47 possibly the funniest thing I've seen this month
Vent
AMOGUS
I have one more idea for trigger boxes: So you know how if you select multiple types of triggers and try to edit them, another box pops up where you can only edit touch, spawn, or multi triggered. What if, a box for “target group id” is added there, so you can change the group that the trigger targets for multiple triggers at once? I’ve run into this problem a lot, and I think it would be quite helpful!
4:18 i appreciate the rhythm doctor reference
i have memorized the lyrics to wish i could care less and am able to recite them at any time and this even caught me off guard
Haha funny song of the svt ward guy
stare at nothing.jpeg
Colon literally preticted half of the 2.2 update
7:27 bro predicted future 😱
Since creating process have been evolved and more advanced from time to time, I feel like we deserved some more Quality of Life features, as a creator like myself it would makes life much easier and saves tons of hours of creating. I'm glad that we have stuff like Autobuild, Keyframe, Random Trigger, Advanced Scaling, etc in 2.2, so I hope this is just a start and we're going to have more useful tools later on.
i think the idea of only icons you've unlocked showing up in the menu is a great suggestion! but on the other hand, i do think it is nice that newer players may discover an icon through the menu and go like "wow that looks so cool i want that!", although, your change to locked icons in the icon kit showing up partially would remedy that, but still, i think it could be a more interesting way to see new icons in the menu that way, it's nicer to see them in color and moving, as opposed to a grayscale thingy behind a lock symbol! maybe if you click on an icon you haven't unlocked in the menu it can show up in the icon kit telling you how to unlock it? e.g. i click on the "beat ToE2" icon in the menu, and then the lock that says "beat ToE2" now has that icon behind it! i think that'd be even cooler!!
my gd menu would not change at all from this until more icons came out
10:57 when Craig gets angry you already know what happens
I loved the idea of hovering over a chest in the treasure room and seeing what you got from it, for some reason I would love to see that in 2.2 or maybe 2.3.
Editing a comment right after posting it because I immediately noticed an error. Why do I always do that?
Happens quite often with me too
Wow these are wonderful ideas!!! I hope Rob sees this video and implements them someday! Really good work in this video ;)
1:42 Jokes on you Colon, I can see them very clearly
jokes on u colon, I can download it early
Put an icon kit in the pause menu
Tbh most of these ideas are very very good. I would love to see most of them in the game. It would really make it look better.
10:27 whoops
Great video man! I really, really liked the abbreviated idea with instead of 15000000, it says 15M. Or robtop could have at least added commas so it's 15,000,000
huh? no replys and 3 likes? lemme fix that, also yee true
bro didnt get any fame for 11 months...
HOW DID YOU GET NO FAME
KINGSAMMELOT
Yooo
7:22 That actually happened in 2.2.
Well, Rob actually did some of this. keep it up, Colon, especially in the editor tabs.