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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: 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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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
SquareDork
For: I wanna be the GMS2 Engine YoYoYo Edition
please do not use this engine, i'm begging you, please use K&R engine or even yoyoyo gms2.3. the other reviewers do not emphasize enough how awful this engine is. i used this for my very first gamemaker project in 2022, and i severely regret picking this engine for it.

bugs:
- collision is terrible, you can very often clip into the corner of a block and just stay there
- slopes "work" but if you're using them with blocks, you will get stuck in the corner of the block
- saving & loading scripts will sometimes randomly break on you and decide not to work anymore (this happened to me twice, it was solved by random chance)

bad code:
- speaking of them, the saving & loading scripts are just not good, saving new variables with them is a pain, same with changing any of the settings
- sifting through the menu objects to try and modify them is also a pain if you wanna do that
- most gimmicks in the engine are just coded poorly in general

the most telling part of all this is that i was very much not a good programmer in 2022 but i still had to fix MULTIPLE bugs with the engine systems just to get some things to work properly

everything in this engine is just either mediocre or straight up bad, i only give this a 1/10 because ririry engine exists. i know i probably sound like a dick in this review but this engine is just not good and there are way, WAY better options out there.

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Rating: 1.0 10       Difficulty: N/A
Mar 15, 2025
SquareDork
For: I wanna Achieve Peace
it's peam

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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: N/A
Jan 28, 2025

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DIRDKILL 50.6 8.2 12