(apologize for the mistakes, as there is a lot of text and will be updated with pictures soon :))

Hi everyone, I'm DJ Lomka. I'm slowly getting back to making music, but it's not as good as it was supposed to be. But more about that later (or in another post sometime).

In this long post I will try to tell in my own words about Geometry Dash, my origins in it and a little bit of why I ended up here on Newgrounds.

I'll start with the fact that I'm glad that 2.2 is coming out soon and to everyone in the community that developed the game to such a scale during these 10 years of its existence. Without everyone at GD. few people would know about this platformer, some musicians and eventually it wouldn't have made history for some people like me. Happy 10th anniversary to Geometry Dash. RobTop or Robert I haven't forgotten. It's sad that because he wanted to add more to the game, we waited so long for it. 

Before GD (about Newgrounds):

I found Newgrounds a long time ago when I was about 8-9 years old and saw the Sonic Oddshow animation series. Yes, that's the whole story about me in Newgrounds before Geometry Dash.

But Geometry Dash is a separate story, even though it's somewhat related: (based on my sister's retelling)

It's 2014, my sister was at camp, and when it was parent's day, I went with my parents. I started wondering about games with my sister (I may have been thinking about it at the time, I had a PS3 after all), and I ended up seeing Geometry Dash. 

I kind of thought like a cube jumping and didn't realize what could be so interesting about it. 

But did I think I would play it later?

This is where my story begins:

Sometime in 2015 at the time of the 1.9 update. Back then I saw gameplays on youtube of then popular demons like Supersonic, Bloodbath, and I wanted to try to play it. I saw that the game is called Geometry Dash and tried to download pirated version on my then Android-smartphone Lenovo A916 (because who will give me 8 years old me money and moreover I was something about the Lite version then and did not think) .

Back then I couldn't even pass Stereo Madness and ended up just trying to pass something in online levels.

I remember my first level was called "World to Dan". It was kind of a dark layout level with Polargeist music (I'm from Russia and my English was very poor at the time), named after my classmate whose name was Daniel. Now this level is gone, because I deleted it by mistake. 

There was also a small challenge, but I don't remember what happened to it, but I remember I used custom music for the first time.  

Well I forgot about Geometry Dash until 2017 because I was no longer interested. But then after the release of 2.1...

My big historical period - 2017:

After about a week or so since the 2.1 update release, I downloaded the pirated version again. Was able to pass Stereo Madness and somewhere before Time Machine I got hung up.

With my classmates we discussed new things about it and built levels. Just one of their survived levels is Arsalan Dash PRO, DOGE DOG and Stereo Madness XL (All links will go to GD Level Browser. There will be IDs of levels you can play).   

Later I found out that GD is also on PC and I played it for some time, including building levels (among them are Fast Demon, Hard Dash and Xlectro Dash).

Then I tried to fake demon walkthroughs for the first time... on my phone for YouTube using splicing and auto-versions of levels.  

When I was 10 years old, I was slowly learning to shoot and edit videos for YouTube and just trying to get high on it (I didn't even know the words back then, only MLG, 360 noscope and all that stuff)... The attempts were funny, of course, but it's a shame I didn't save them (only screenshots from YouTube creative studio).

Then summer came and I discovered about secret vaults, codes in them and The Challenge. Then I registered on Newgrounds and found out that it's a repository of music for Geometry Dash. I heard about Electrodynamix 2 and Theory of Everything 3. SoundCloud, etc. Then there was the event when I lost my YouTube channel because of my dumbassery. 

Well beyond that I didn't play GD very actively. At the end of December 2017 I found out about GD Subzero and started to active again. That's when I registered for the first time in Discord and started to build theories about levels.

After 2017:

In 2018 I built my Lomka Insane level, which I verifed with cheats and pretty much moved on to playing on my laptop. 

In 2019, I made a lot of progress in GD. I then decided to go for passing demons, starting with the underdemon The Nightmare and ending with almost 50% progress on Nine Circles. I started making music then, by the way. 

And I finally buy Geometry Dash on Steam and Play Market. Now I'm not a pirate.

But in July 2021 I lost all my progress and 2k stars with a bunch of demons by a save failure. I was sad about that at the time. Then my interest in GD was falling, because I had nothing to do in this community, I left GD until this year (as a player and community member, only my local projects).

In 2022 I tried to come back as a creator and I tried to make my rhythm game inside GD by writing a whole editor in Python, but it turned out that I didn't get it done and ended up in September 2022 I lost my hard disk with a bunch of projects and that editor + forgot to save my account inside GD before reinstalling Windows on my PC. So there is no level itself either. Only a test of the buttons themselves via collision triggers.  

Sad, of course, but what to do. Not everything ends up so happy for me. 

Thank you all for reading all this, happy 10th anniversary of Geometry Dash.