Editing WHAT

{{IB-Level

|image      = WHAT.png

|creator    = [[Spu7Nix]]

|verifier  = [[AeonAir]]

|difficulty = {{Hard}}

|stars      = 5

|length    = 1m 15s (Long)

|downloads  = 7M

|music      = [https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1245665 Babaroque (WHAT Ver.)]

|musicid   = 1245665

'''WHAT''' is a [[Update 2.1|2.1]]/[[Update 2.2|2.2]] Hard level by [[Spu7Nix]], verified by [[AeonAir]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfn5pZeCbRs</ref> and published on 6 October 2023. The level is a spiritual successor to [[HOW]], featuring more elaborate 3D effects produced with external programming.

==Description==

*'''0-10%:''' WHAT begins with the player appearing as an actual gray cube, and then a section containing multiple three-dimensional objects appears. This part is tricky to sight-read because some objects are platforms while some are not. There are indicators for when to jump, but they are hard to see and disappear as quickly as they appear. Memory may be required in this part. In the last segment, the player must jump onto a yellow pad after switching gravity between two blue pads. When launching from the yellow pad, the level will show the player turning into a 3D wave and transitioning into a representation of a third-person perspective.

*'''10-29%:''' Now, as a wave, similar to the one in HOW, the player must travel through a circular tunnel-like structure with different coloured L-shapes while avoiding numerous cubes of obstacles. The final obstacle consists of two hollow shapes. When going through that obstacle, the level will show the obstacle facing forward, then zoom out far, transitioning into the next part

*'''29-48%:''' The game-mode switches to a very unique-looking ship that has blue fire coming out of it (similar to how the engine is in the real Geometry Dash ship), and the player must manoeuvre between dodecahedra and tesseracts of different colours. Then, the player enters a transition, with their ship control taken away. The screen fades to white, with some minor effects.

*'''48-66%:''' Once the screen has gone white, the white 'wall' covering the screen breaks into cubes, revealing a magenta background with more purple-ish cubes getting created. As the level's title appears on screen letter-by-letter in tune with the piano in the song, the background first pulses to an orangey red when 'W' appears on screen, then it pulses to a more yellow colour for the 'H', then green when the 'A' appears, and then teal (similar to the one used for the background of the first part of Time Machine) when the words 'WHAT' are finished. During all this, the 3D cubes move out, and there is a faded, white outline of the fourth default cube in the game. As the icon goes from a white outline to the normal cube coloured yellow and blue (the colours of it on the Geometry Dash app icon for all devices), the font of the 'WHAT' text constantly changes, and the background of the part, now black, splits in half to reveal the default background and ground, along with the gameplay for the next part (at least in the low detail version).

*'''66-80%:'''  This part is the only one where the gameplay changes if the low-detail mode is enabled and only requires a single input. After clicking, the screen cuts between multiple levels in sync with the music as the cube jumps in slow motion. The levels in order are:

**WHAT (Low-Detail Mode)

**Another World by [[FunnyGame]]

**Lucid Dream by Dverry

**Hallucion by Spu7Nix

**Bionic Belly by MisterM

**Drift by [[G4lvatron]]

**Colorful Sky by [[AbstractDark]]

**Prism Break by ilrell

**Fiji by [[nasgubb]]

**Glyph by Optical

**[[iSpyWithMyLittleEye]] by Voxicat

**[[Azimuth]] by [[Knots]]

**Sha by vrymer

**Sedulous by [[Samifying]]

**[[Change of Scene]] by [[Bli]]

**[[WELL RESTED]] by [[100foxes]]

**[[White Space]] by [[XG]]

**HOW by Spu7Nix

*'''80-100%:''' Afterwards, the player jumps through an animation showcasing distinct styles and dimensions of the editor, followed by a short staircase switching the creating style and cube with every step downwards. The icons are:

**Back to the logo-styled icon

*The end screen follows, showing a minimalist image of the Geometry Dash logo with '2.1' and a heart below, indicating Spu7Nix's farewell to Update 2.1. The '2.1' text briefly changes to '2.2' for a split second to indicate the upcoming update. The level ends with Spu7Nix's logo.

 

*WHAT formerly held the record for the most objects in any rated level in the game at the time.

**Upon release, WHAT contained 655,350 objects, now reduced to 592,485.

**This record was beaten by a level titled STUDIOPOLIS ZONE, which contains 792,707 objects.

***This record was beaten again by an Extreme Demon platformer mega-collaboration level by TMco titled Dead Of Night, containing 950,460 objects.

*WHAT received an honourable mention in GDToday's '100 Greatest Levels of All Time' list. It was not featured in the Top 100 because it was unrated at the time.

*WHAT was nominated for and won ''Best Hard Level'' in the [[The Geometry Dash Awards|Geometry Dash 2023 Awards]].

*Before Update 2.2, the high number of objects and triggers in WHAT would cause the game to crash on most devices. Due to Update 2.2's optimization and Geometry Dash now being a 64-bit application, the level can now run without crashing on most devices.

***A Geometry Dash YouTuber made a 'joke' video on how Spu7Nix nearly killed the game itself, saying it was because of WHAT.

*The low-detail mode version of WHAT stylizes it after [[Update 1.6|1.6]]-[[Update 1.8|1.8]] levels.

**The same style shows up in the non-LDM mode after the cutscene.

*The cube, wave, and ship parts mimic game-modes with collision blocks and move triggers, making the ship feel heavier at 30%.

*WHAT features a unique version of cYsmix's original song, Babaroque, specifically created for Spu7Nix.

 

[[Category:Classic levels]]