MindCap

MindCap is an Egyptian level creator and player, mainly known for hosting numerous mega-collaboration projects, such as Gamma, its official sequels Sigma and Omega, the dual-based Extreme Demon Celestial Force, the memory-based Extreme Demon LIMBO, and the orb-based Extreme Demon ORBIT.

History

MindCap created his YouTube channel on 27 February 2013, but he did not upload any videos until four years later. His first upload was on 4 February 2017, a relatively tight four-second-long wave challenge level. His next video was uploaded on 2 May 2017, in which he showcased his part in a collaboration level. On 21 June 2017, MindCap uploaded a video of his part in an Extreme Demon collaboration called Gamma. After this, MindCap stopped posting frequently. His next upload occurred on 24 January 2018; it was an official preview of Celestial Force, an upcoming Extreme Demon collaboration. A second preview of the level was posted two months later, on 5 March 2018.

After Celestial Force, MindCap posted several previews of the layout and decoration of Sigma, the planned sequel of Gamma. Several other previews of upcoming levels were posted shortly after, such as Breakout Redux, Gang Plank Hell, Volume, MADMANSION, and Omega.

In March 2021, MindCap was wrapped in controversy after mistakenly leaking that Michigun had passed away to a few other players ahead of the official announcement. He quit playing and deleted his Twitter account, but returned and made a new account three months later.

Several years after his initial debut in his Extreme Demon collaborations, MindCap posted the first-ever preview of the infamous key part in LIMBO. A full level showcase was posted shortly after (which would go on to be his most viewed video), and, afterwards, progress reports from BGram. He also posted the first teaser of RETURN 0 during this time.

During the verification of LIMBO, MindCap posted the first full showcase of his bait-and-switch horror level, Collab Level, on April Fools' Day 2022. The level received mixed reactions from the community, with some calling it one of the scariest things they had seen in Geometry Dash. TrusTa notably reacted to the level in an outrage, stating on Twitter to 'not make surprise horror in gd. Label it as horror, fine, so I don't have to watch it.' He has since deleted this tweet after receiving backlash. MindCap stated that the purpose of Collab Level was to 'scare as many people as possible' and to make fun of the horror trends in the community at the time.

After MindCap posted the Halloween update of Collab Level, BGram finished verifying LIMBO. After release, the level received immense praise from the community. Even long after its release, it is widely regarded as one of the greatest mega-collaborations of all time. MindCap took advantage of this newfound popularity and released the full showcase of Heliopolis, his upcoming Top 1 timing Demon. However, this project would take a backseat to another of his upcoming levels, Every End, a potential Top 5 Demon level consisting solely of normal-speed cube jumps, initially being verified by ViperVenom95. The verification would soon be passed on to BGram, who later dropped the level due to stress and a lack of interest in Geometry Dash. The verification was then passed on to Hqmy, who would quickly make progress on the level, reaching 61% on 29 November 2024, and 79% just a few months later on 17 January 2025. On 16 March 2025, Hamilton verified Every End, where it would be placed at #4 on the Demonlist.

Before the Heliopolis and Every End showcases, MindCap released the full layout of ORBIT, an Extreme Demon consisting only of orb clicks. In November 2025, the teaser for the fully decorated version of ORBIT was released, and on 1 December 2025, the full level was showcased to the public. Zoink would be the set verifier of the level, and he would do so on 10 February 2026, where it would be rated Mythic and placed at #5 on the Demonlist.

With nothing else left, MindCap pursued Heliopolis, making it an open verification and ensuring its placement at the #1 spot by essentially super-buffing it into its current form. Because nobody but the set verifiers wanted to play the level, MindCap set up a fundraiser for a bounty on it, which eventually raised $10,700. Furthermore, npesta organised an event in which at least 100 top players would race to gain progress on Heliopolis, with a 1% increment required each day. These two factors pushed Heliopolis into Geometry Dash's mainstream. During this time, Zoink picked up the level and made progress, sparking mixed reactions from the community. Currently, Zoink holds the world record for progress on Heliopolis, reaching 51% on 8 June 2026.

Levels

Unrated levels

• Cake Level (unlisted) - A cake-themed level created as a joke level for April Fools' Day on 1 April 2023. It features cake and various sweets decorations but quickly morphs into modern pop culture art, including Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, weed shots, SpongeBob, etc. Jif verified it.
• orbit copy - A joke level regarding the Extreme Demon ORBIT. It consists of a large row of yellow orbs spanning the entire song of the level.
• Heliopolis - An mega-collaboration level inspired by Acropolis, projected to be Top 1-difficulty. MindCap initially gave the level to ItsHybrid. However, ItsHybrid was unable to finish it, so he returned it to MindCap. The level was made an open verification on 25 March 2026, in addition to garbag and Abdieldevil already verifying it, with a potential $10,700 USD bounty on the level.

Harder levels

• Cosmic Level (Epic) - A mega-collaboration level commemorating the Space Gauntlet Contest, released on the date of the Gauntlet Reveal. It is currently MindCap's only rated level that isn't a Demon.

Medium Demon levels

• Collab Level (Featured) - A horror-themed level that was verified by Cursed. Previously, MindCap stated that he would not upload it to the servers due to its inappropriate art and horror nature. However, he later posted a Twitter message about downloading the level that requires GDShare to play. As of now, the level has been uploaded to his account, with a warning at the start. The current version of the level (dubbed the 'Halloween Update') features all scares after the level has concluded, focusing less on jump scares and more on tension and terror. The old version is archived on the servers by a separate individual.

Hard Demon levels

• bb circles (Featured) - A joke Nine Circles-styled mega-collaboration level using the usual style of Nine Circles gameplay but without any wave sections. It stands for 'blue balled circles'.

Extreme Demon levels

• Celestial Force (Featured) - A dual-based mega-collaboration level with GaidenHertuny, GeometryTom, MrLorenzo, JustBasic, EndLevel, Xyriak, HelpegasuS, Jghost217, ElayaD, ManHeadRambo, Stormy97, InsanE03, HoshiKido, Zafkiel, and Wolfless. It was verified by Dagger and rated within a week. Some months later, Gizbro verified a bug-fix update for the level.
• Gamma (Featured) - A mega-collaboration level with several famous creators like Lemons and Metalface221. It was verified by Sunix and later reverified for a coin update by Technical.
• LIMBO (Epic) - A memory-based mega-collaboration with several creators and the former hardest memory Demon in the game, verified by BGram.
• Omega (Featured) - A mega-collaboration level with several other creators. It is the sequel to Sigma and the trequel to Gamma. Technical verified it on 15 February 2020 and later reverified for a balance update by xander.
• Sigma (Featured) - A mega-collaboration sequel to Gamma. Technical verified it.
• Every End (Star-rated) - A mega-collaboration level hosted by MindCap and Djoxy set to be a Top Demon accessible by everyone in the community, according to MindCap. The level only uses blocks and spikes without additional mechanics, such as orbs, pads, and portals. It features many famous creators, including Pennutoh, npesta, KrmaL, and more. Hqmy verified it on 16 March 2025. It is also his only level that is not featured or above.
• ORBIT (Mythic) - A space-themed Extreme Demon mega-collaboration where every input uses an orb. It features many famous creators, such as Pennutoh, knobbelboy, and others from RETURN 0. Zoink verified it on 10 February 2026 and became the first Mythic-rated classic Extreme Demon later that day.

Collaborations participated in

• Breakout Redux (Featured) - An Extreme Demon remake of Breakout hosted by GdTheTactiq. It was decided as a verification race between MirQ and Waivve. It was verified and uploaded by Waivve.
• MadMansion (Featured) - An Extreme Demon remake of MadHouse hosted by him. It was verified and uploaded by GunnerBones.
• Volume (Featured) - An Extreme Demon collaboration level with Metalface221, YakobNugget and EndLevel. Metalface221 verified it.
• Dualies (Featured) - An Extreme Demon mega-collaboration level hosted by him, using gameplay made by Gablor, who also verified and uploaded the level.

Cancelled/deleted levels

• Celestial Force 2 - The sequel to Celestial Force and a mega-collaboration with GaidenHertuny and more. It was jokingly renamed to 'Celestial Horse' and cancelled.
• Hinds style - A level meant to replicate Hinds' creating style.
• LIMBO - A joke version of his mega-collaboration level of the same name. The level featured the first few timings of Juhou's part in the real level before teleporting the player to an area with the art of a troll face.
• Operation Big Demon - The codename for a mega-collaboration with Minus, Nico99, and more. It was intended to be Top 1 in difficulty.
• RETURN 0 - A machine-themed Extreme Demon mega-collaboration level featuring many famous creators such as Pennutoh, Stormfly, and TrusTa. It was meant to be the sequel to LIMBO and was set to be verified by npesta. MindCap originally announced on 12 April 2023 that the level was discontinued. On 28 November 2023, he later announced that it may be revived in the future. Currently, there has been no news about its potential revival.
• retoguitar - A challenge level for GuitarHeroStyles that is his first and only unrated level ever created.
• ship challenge - A ship challenge level he released on his account for only one hour. It was designed to be highly annoying, requiring the player to straight-fly through the middle of three breakable blocks and then go through a tight gap at the end.
• Sweet Tooth - A collaboration level with 'Wobbly Tooth, Crunchy Apple' as its song.
• The T Puzzle
• Valley Of Bowser - A Mario Castle-themed mega-collaboration with gameplay by Hawkyre. It was later given to Vorp, but they soon went inactive, and no progress was made.

Nominations and awards

The Geometry Dash Awards

Nominations

• Nominated in the 2022 Awards for Best Story Level with Collab Level

Awards

• Awarded in the 2022 Awards for Best Demon Megacollab with LIMBO

Other honours

• Placed 2nd in GDToday's 'Top 100 Greatest Levels Of All Time' list with LIMBO

Trivia

• MindCap has garnered over 292,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.
• MindCap was the seventh guest of The Dasher Podcast.
• MindCap's input device is his laptop, on which he plays with the up-arrow key.
• Except Cosmic Level (a Harder 7*), all of MindCap's rated levels are Demons.
• MindCap's levels have pushed two former Top 1s out of the Main and Extended Lists, respectively, on two separate occasions.
  • These occurrences happened with the placement of Every End pushing Zodiac out of the Main List and Bloodlust out of the Extended List, as well as the placement of ORBIT pushing Tartarus out of the Main List and Crimson Planet out of the Extended List.
• On 7 May 2026, MindCap hosted a discussion podcast dedicated to Heliopolis and the controversy that started brewing around it a couple of days prior on Twitter.
  • Not long after the podcast ended, MindCap released a statement, explaining more about the Heliopolis situation.
  • MindCap said that he knew that the $10,000 bounty would not convince many people to play the level, because, as of recently, only iIiLaseriIi with a 48-100% run and Komet01, the winner of npesta's '100 Pros vs Heliopolis' event, had committed to really trying the level.
    • MindCap also mentioned that the recent hate spilling on Zoink because of him starting to play Heliopolis is pointless, and people saying he is 'stealing' the verification are not in the right, as no one besides the two earlier-mentioned players has really tried playing the level after MindCap announced the $10,000 bounty.
  • In MindCap's opinion, Zoink did not start playing Heliopolis for money at all.
  • Despite being happy about Zoink verifying the level, MindCap's dream verifier has been garbag, who beat RUST, then jumped to Every End, and then jumping to Heliopolis would—in MindCap's opinion—be a perfect underdog story, making the Heliopolis verification very unique and 'magical' in a way.
  • MindCap is certain that npesta's 100 Pros vs Heliopolis challenge brought more people into the Heliopolis playing scene than the bounty itself did, thanks to its approachability (since contestants only needed to improve their previous record by 1% every day, not beat the entire level).
  • MindCap said that the $10,000 bounty he will give to the first victor of Heliopolis is located in Djoxy's (his friend's) bank account due to him living in Egypt, because, as he said, withdrawing a large amount of money and keeping it digitally might cause the Egyptian government to steal it potentially.
  • MindCap initially made the first half of Heliopolis harder and the second half easier because the nerves a player would have while getting past 49% would be enough to balance the level's difficulty.
  • MindCap supposes that the only plausible condition for him to build a fully solo level would be in a situation where he would create an alternate Geometry Dash account and upload it there.