Editing Heliopolis (section)

==Trivia==
*[[Wikipedia:Heliopolis (ancient Egypt)|Heliopolis]] (Greek: Ἡλιούπολις) translates to the 'City of the Sun' and was the major city in Ancient Egypt, the capital of the 13th Nome of Lower Egypt. It is also known as 'Iunu' and 'On'.
**Heliopolis is the name of MindCap's home town in Egypt. Modern Heliopolis is a suburb of Cairo, Egypt's capital and largest city.
*Heliopolis's name is stylized as '''Heliopolis&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;''' in-game. That is because the level's name in-game has six spaces at the end, to represent the six original verifiers—Pablohh, Jif, Draxit III, Thnnder, Abdieldevil, and garbag—that either dropped the level or were still verifying before the decision of an open verification.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSoIN-hlHQk&t=403</ref>
*Thnnder's version of Heliopolis was notorious for being almost comically difficult, containing seven 240FPS frame perfects, and dozens of 2-frames and 3-frames, according to Exiled_Shade's frame window count. It was regarded as in the ballpark of levels such as [[Aeternus]] in terms of difficulty.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP6DjsZ0oHk</ref>
**Despite the difficulty, Thnnder achieved impressive runs of 17%, 48-87%, and 60-100%.
*Many people falsely believed that Acropolis inspired the level's name.
**Although MindCap admitted that the half-speed gimmick had indeed been taken from Acropolis.
*icedcave's ball-copter part received a major revamp from its original layout.
*Heliopolis was initially assigned to ItsHybrid for him to host; however, due to the absurd nature of the level, he was unable to make progress in the mega-collaboration and, as such, returned it to MindCap.
**A part for Heliopolis made by Swagmasta001 and DarkCacti looked decent when ItsHybrid hosted it; however, MindCap felt it did not match the vibe of the level he envisioned.
*MindCap initially intended Heliopolis's gameplay to be difficulty-dependent on the given FPS value: the lower the FPS, the easier the level would be, and the higher the FPS, the more demanding the level would be.
**However, he abandoned this idea because he stated that many of his experiments and tests with the level made it look less pleasant to the eye and became considerably buggier to play. The growing popularity of the FPS bypass over the past two years was also a reason.
*During Zoink's day 3 with Heliopolis, MindCap said that due to a lot of progress happening on the level, he will make a video about all the players who have made significant progress on the level so far and upload it on his channel sometime in May.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhnBPui7wU</ref>
**In that stream, MindCap also said that he will never make another Top 1 level.
*There is a poster at 85% that reads '2.2 soon...', referring to the billboard in [[Falling Up]] with '2.1 soon...', applying the message to the next update, 2.2, since Update 2.1 was released after Falling Up.
**However, because of the release of Update 2.2 after the initial showcase of the level, an extra '1' was added in spray paint to the poster to say '2.21 soon...' when MindCap announced the open verification.
*Bee Hunter, the artist behind the level's song 'Apoplexy', wrote it in 1994 on an Amiga A500.<ref>https://x.com/_beehunter_/status/2037983931140616521</ref>
*Radiopolis, an Insane Demon platformer level created by blobh, was inspired by the gameplay of the platformer Extreme Demon Radio Tower and the aesthetics of Heliopolis.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfdnkqyM6lA</ref>
*A joke remake of Heliopolis called HelioPOSSIBLE, hosted by Kaza, was verified by one of the original Heliopolis verifiers, Abdieldevil.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-aDOnyYW0w</ref>
*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.<ref>https://x.com/MindCap/status/2052525131054850185</ref>
**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 said the recent hate on Zoink for starting to play Heliopolis is pointless, and people saying he is 'stealing' the verification are in the wrong, since no one besides the two earlier-mentioned players has really tried the level since 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 begged many top players to verify Heliopolis, and Zoink jumping into the level might have been the only lifeline that could let the level get verified in a plausible time.
*Zoink's verification of Heliopolis (provided he beats the level) differs from his other Top 1 verifications, as MindCap prohibited anyone from changing anything in the level, as it is an open verification.
**Zoink thinks it is a good thing because his click pattern can become substantially more refined, and he could therefore potentially take less time beating the level.
*On 11 May 2026, Druki and members of her 'New Angels' Republic' Discord server (mainly dedicated to the upcoming Top 1 level Angelicide) completed Heliopolis in 24 runs and around 70,347 attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee8H43sLZvs</ref>
*Zoink stated that once he verifies Heliopolis, he will split the $10,700 bounty between garbag, Abdieldevil, and whoever emerges as the first victor.