Talk:Geometry Dash

In-game currency

Do stars and moons actually count as in-game currency? From what I know, you don't use them in-game. Reichtek (talk) 08:21, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

They're not currency. Fixed :3 BombCraft8 ^{(talk) (contributions)} 19:13, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

Thumbs up emoji Reichtek (talk) 03:59, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

theyre kind of like things to flex/achievements XD 2406:3003:2000:4846:4985:B9E8:66D4:209B (talk) 11:16, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

That is correct BombCraft8 ^{(talk) (contributions)} 11:33, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Style and Theme should be merged into one subsection

They are basically near enough the same thing Fyeeslair (talk) 12:05, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

This information has been removed. It was nearly completely unsourced and not appropriate for an encyclopedia. ZKevinTheCat (talk) 05:57, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Geode/megahack

Will things like geode and mega hack be added to this? They're relatively well known in the gd community and i think should be in here or at least mentioned. 2600:1700:1D25:B680:9761:52F8:93B5:2DEF (talk) 16:04, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

@2600:1700:1D25:B680:9761:52F8:93B5:2DEF: I highly doubt they will be mentioned given that they're not talked about in reliable sources. UnregisteredBiohazard ^{talk to me} 21:48, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Geometry Dash/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: ZKevinTheCat (talk · contribs) 11:33, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Reverosie (talk · contribs) 02:22, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I'll be your GA reviewer. I'm currently attempting to find and review high viewership articles, and this one receives 1.2 million yearly views. I also have a bit of background knowledge on this game, which will help me during this review. ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 02:22, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Spot check

I'll move to the spot check now.

• Source 9

Article says: Each level is assigned one of six difficulties: 'Easy', 'Normal', 'Hard', 'Harder', 'Insane', and 'Demon'.

Source says: The source displays a table with each of the six difficulties mentioned above. Pass.

• Source 21

Article says: He [Topala] remarked, 'It simply started as a template with a cube that could crash and jump'; 'There really was no detailed plan'.

Source says: “It simply started as a template with a cube that could crash and jump. Through different iterations I then kept adding more and more features and content until the game felt right.” and “There really was no detailed plan” for Geometry Dash, Topala says. Very obvious pass.

• Sources 27 and 28

Article says: The gameplay was also met with generally high regards. Both Downdload.com and Coop described the gameplay as "addicting",

Sources say: Geometry Dash stands as one of the most challenging and addictive games ever released on iOS (Coop) and Geometry Dash’s easy to learn mechanics combined with its tough challenges create an addictive experience that appeals to casual and hardcore gamers alike (Download.com). Pass

The spot check looks good. ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 21:59, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Format

My formatting for the review will look like this:

I'll be abbreviating the paragraph and sentence I'm referring to in my suggestions to P and S. For example, paragraph 2, sentence 2 would be P2S2. The paragraph counter also resets with each new section.

I'll be adding more sections as I go instead of posting my entire review at once and having you wait

Please use the  Done template or strikethrough to indicate that a problem has been fixed, and add any comments/questions after the points that you have. If you don't agree with one of my suggestions, please tell me, and we can discuss it. Some comments will be marked as "suggestions"; these are recommendations, not requirements, and you don't have to take them! ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 00:14, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

Infobox

• RobTop is cited as the game's only composer, though many of the game's main levels use songs written by various artists on NewGrounds. Maybe there could be a way to incorporate this? Done

Other than that, the infobox looks good

Lead

• Suggestion: P1S6: Players can collect in-game currency—such as stars, moons, secret coins, user coins, mana orbs, diamonds, and shards—from official and user-generated levels or chests to unlock customization options for their icon. This is a lot for the lead. I'd suggest saying "such as stars, moons, and mana orbs" since those are the three most important examples in my opinion, but I'll leave it up to you. Done
• P2S3: ...being inspired off of other titles such as The Impossible Game and Super Meat Boy. I'd suggest saying "being inspired by other titles" instead for clarity
  • I think this should stay personally. When writing leads I try to think of what the reader would want to know about the topic, so I try to get into the details at least a bit. Leaving it as "he was inspired off of other titles" is too vague in my opinion, and would leave the reader unsatisfied.
    • Oh no! I think it should stay too. I meant that "off of" should be replaced by "by", but the section remains there ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 16:57, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

  I got it. This is  Done now ZKevinTheCat (talk) 17:23, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

• Suggestion: P3S2: The level creating feature I'd suggest saying "level creation" instead. I'd also suggest linking the article for level editors here first instead of later. Done
• P3S2: and has spawned a large and growing community of players that have created many millions of online levels, including challenges, art projects, and even recreating other video games inside of levels. This sentence is very long. I'd suggest editing it a bit. Maybe something along the lines of "...and has attracted a large community of players who have created millions of online levels including challenges, art projects, and recreations of other video games." Done
• P4: I'd suggest mentioning GD Lite before mentioning the spinoff games Done
• Suggestion: P4S3: although feature their own levels and music separately. I'd suggest saying "but feature their own levels and music" instead for clarity Done

Gameplay

• P1S2: The game's control scheme is extremely simple; there is only one button the player can use to control their icon, navigating through auto-scrolling levels until the end is reached Loaded words. I'd suggest saying something like "The player uses one button to control their icon, navigating..." instead. Done
• Suggestion: P1S6: including portals, pads, and orbs that change the player's gravity, speed, size, direction, and gamemode. I'd suggest specifying what each of these things do instead of lumping them all together.
  • Most of these speak for themselves honestly, and the gamemodes are explained in the next sentence.
• Strongly encouraged suggestion: An image displaying another gamemode besides the cube could be helpful. I found a screenshot of Hexagon Force with dual ship gameplay on russian wikipedia's article. Maybe we could use that image here?
• This section should probably list each of the gamemodes
  • I don't know if I have a source for this and I don't think this is really necessary.
• P1S10: There are four official platformer levels which are located in a section of the game called 'The Tower'. Since this is mentioned again in the next sentence, it's redundant here. Done
• P2S3: There are three demon levels among the main levels, and the player must obtain a certain number of secret coins before they can be played. I'd suggest rearranging this sentence to read better. Perhaps something like "The player must obtain a certain number of secret coins to unlock the three demon-difficulty levels" (Listing their names isn't necessary in my opinion, but we can if it would help)
  • I don't have a source for the amount of secret coins needed
• P3S2: including the icon's design in different gamemodes, primary and secondary colors, death explosion effects, and trails. "The icon's design, colors, death effect, and trail" would be more concise in my opinion Done

User-generated content

• Possible suggestion: I'm not sure how this would work in regards to copyright, but in my opinion, an image of a user-generated level would be very helpful in this article. Any famous or high-quality level would do, but I'd suggest choosing Bloodbath, as it's not only a very famous level, but also showcases the extreme demon difficulty mentioned in this section.
  • Adding something like this would be fine in my opinion for copyright (as long as guidlines are followed obv) and it would also adress your other suggestion about showing gamemodes, but I'm still not sure about doing it. Someone earlier added an image of the level editor which I think would be better, but it was removed because of some technical issues (i explained in an edit log i think). I could make my own version of this image possibly though.
• P1S4: User-made levels of sufficient quality may be "rated" by Topala, which will set the official difficulty rating of the level. Only rated levels award collectibles. I'd suggest saying like "Which will set the official difficulty and make the level award collectibles like stars and orbs." instead to be concise.
  • Not sure how or even if I want to do this; I can't really find a way to merge the two without creating ambiguity or a run-on sentence.
• P1S6: which are collected in a similar way to secret coins I'd suggest saying "which are similar to secret coins" instead for clarity (and since many user-created levels have secret coin routes that are nothing like the main levels) Done
• P2S2: Some parts of the community are dedicated to making levels as difficult as possible, I'd suggest mentioning the demon list somewhere here as well
  • I've thought about this and I don't know how I feel about it; I just don't think this info is necessary and could easily just become a trivia section about demons, which has happened before.
    • It's easy enough to note "The community maintains a list of the hardest levels, and players who beat them earn significant prestige." or similar, though I'm not sure whether a source could back it up. Perhaps with an inline comment to specify that editors should not specify what the hardest level currently is? Corsaka (talk) 14:52, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
• General: This section should mention the gauntlets (and their corresponding contests) and map packs.
• General: This section should also mention the daily level, weekly demon, and event level.
  • Undecided on this and the above
• Something to point out: General: Wikimedia commons has an audio file of electroman adventures v3:

I'll leave it up to you if the article should use this or not.

• There was actually an audio file for Stereo Madness on the page at some point but it got removed from Commons. This song isn't even from an official level so I don't really see a reason to add it.

Logo

The game's logo should be added to this article. I found an image of it on Wikimedia Commons:  Done

GA Review Information

I'm making a slight change to the way I review GANs and wanted to let you know about it. I find it useless to point out small grammatical suggestions in these reviews that I could easily fix myself. My suggestions will relate to things that require your thought and attention, not small things that I can do myself without bothering you. So, if the review seems short and concise, it's because I'm fixing the very minor grammatical errors instead of pointing them out without doing anything. This will be effective immediately, and I'm sorry to change my strategy in the middle of the review, but it will be completed much faster now. ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 21:34, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Post-Release

This section, in general, is far too short. The article immediately skips to update 2.1 after the game's release without anything else being mentioned. Perhaps a chronology of the game's updates (as seen on French Wikipedia's article) could help here. The article also neglects to mention any of the content released in any update besides 2.2. Overall, the section needs quite a bit of work.

• This really bugs me because I have searched for multiple hours trying to find sources for post release stuff. Basically the only source I found was from the version museum, which we've cut out of this article because it's unreliable (see the talk page discussion). If you could find a source that would be great, but I really doubt there are any out there. I really am not sure how to deal with this. Even a chronology might not work because the app store only saved update release dates back to 1.2, and I have not found a reliable source for the 1.1 release date.

• I spent quite a bit of time looking, and you're right. Since I found nothing myself, I'll let you off of the hook here.

Closing remarks

The article generally looks good, but I still have a few comments before I pass it.

1. I understand the struggle with sources, but having so much information about the game's chronology/updates missing from the article as a result of this is alarming. I read over the thread explaining why the Version Museum is not reliable, and I agree that we should not use it.
My proposal for a solution is quite far-fetched, but it's the only idea I have at the moment: citing the game itself (via previous versions of it on internet archive) to point out new features released from the beginning instead of skipping to 2.1. However, I'm not sure exactly how this would work, and I understand if it does not.

• I'm also not sure how this would work and I highly doubt this would be an appropriate way to cite this info, considering an entire section would be based on a primary source. This also wouldn't give release dates.

2. I'd like closure regarding the inclusion of gauntlets/gauntlet contests, map packs, daily levels, weekly demons, and event levels in the article. I did notice that daily levels and weekly demons are mentioned in GD World's section of the article, but nothing here points to them being in the main game. I personally think that these are key features worth mentioning.  Done

3. I notice that you added the game's logo to the article, but in doing so, you replaced the app icon. Please add the app icon back somewhere.

• This image was deleted from Commons

That's all from me. This article is very well-written, but has a few gaps that need to be addressed before I can pass it ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 23:23, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

Replying to this message because I'm not sure you were notified of my edits.
- ZKevinTheCat

Courtesy ping to Reverosie. --PresN 13:30, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@ZKevinTheCat@PresN Hello! I'm so sorry this took so long for me to get to! I've been very busy off of Wikipedia lately, and I'm just now getting back. As I've already said on my talk page, the part about the game's history is an enigma to me; we don't have any sources, but the section is very desolate and nowhere near GA status for that reason. I'm not sure what to do, and may want a second opinion on the matter. ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 17:01, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Pinging Reverosie and ZKevinTheCat. — 🌙Eclipse (she/they/all neos • talk • edits) 16:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

@Reverosie @ZKevinTheCat What's the status of this review? Tarlby ^{(t) (c)} 19:36, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Not sure. A bot did send me a notification yesterday that the article was still under review, but I haven't heard anything about the article directly from Reverosie in a while. ZKevinTheCat (talk) 21:26, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Rev might've literally forgotten about this review considering she's working on other reviews in the mean time, lol. Tarlby ^{(t) (c)} 21:29, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I didn't forget about this, I'm so sorry! I'm just very much lost on where to go from here and forgot to ask for a second opinion. ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 21:50, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I've also been far more busy outside of Wikipedia, but that's no excuse! ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 21:50, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

It's all good Rev. At the end of the day, whatever's going on IRL is more important than a green checkmark on a Wikipedia article. Tarlby ^{(t) (c)} 22:47, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

@Reverosie and ZKevinTheCat: I found my way here after seeing the second opinion request at WP:GAN. As it looks to me, the article appears to be in good shape. If further sourcing existed but was missing from the article that would be a problem, but if each of you have searched extensively and come up dry, that's not a knock against the article, in my opinion. WP:GACR says good articles must be broad in their coverage, not comprehensive, and I believe this article meets that standard (if the Development section was one or two sentences long I'd have more of an issue, but what's there doesn't qualify as desolate, I don't think). So that's my two cents, but I'll leave the final decision to the reviewer. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 14:41, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

@ZKevinTheCat I'd like to sincerely apologize to you for how long this review took. Truly, it exemplified all of the things that I need to fix as a reviewer, and your experience shouldn't have been like this. I'd like to make it up to you.

For your next five GA reviews, once you've nominated the article, simply leave a message on my talk page, and I will get it done for you as quickly as possible. My conduct as a reviewer was simply unacceptable, and you, as the nominator, deserved far better than you got.

The article will be passed now. Congratulations!! ‍🌷Reverosie🌷^★talk★ 22:24, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Semi-protected edit request on 2 November 2025

I suppose Geometry Dash's abbreviations could be mentioned in the first sentence, changing the following:

Geometry Dash is a 2013 rhythm platform video game developed by Robert Topala and published by his company RobTop Games.

to something akin to:

Geometry Dash (abbreviated by the playerbase as GD and less frequently GMD) is a 2013 rhythm platform video game developed by Robert Topala and published by his company RobTop Games.

If what I suggested is a little too long, I would probably suggest a footnote instead. I hope a passive mention to a "playerbase" is fine, but again, I don't know. Here is my suggestion if a footnote is favored:

Geometry Dash is a 2013 rhythm platform video game developed by Robert Topala and published by his company RobTop Games.

2601:703:201:3840:F56A:9488:FC93:F855 (talk) 02:06, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

I believe "Geometry Dash (GD)" is the correct way for abbreviation, I'll do a bit more research. --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 02:10, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done. NotJamestack (talk) 22:50, 2 November 2025 (UTC)