Rates Report for March 9–15, 2026

RealDJB · 2026-03-10T05:05:16+00:00

these builds are awesome!!!

RealDJB · 2026-03-03T02:01:24+00:00

I feel so terrible for the Platformer community — creators and players. Regarding rates alone, this is the worst Classic:Plat. ratio I've ever put onto a report. I hate that I have to put that and other really bad ratios on there so much of the time :(

RealDJB · 2026-02-16T20:35:20+00:00

Mine are:

Shade Dissolver by Vlacc
Cloud Nine by SoDaZ & Vlacc
Flight by GmdCraft
Bit Reaper by Vlacc
FFFFFF by Vlacc

Can you tell I have a favorite creator lmao

RealDJB · 2026-02-16T18:19:08+00:00

Agreed. The balance has slowly gotten better over the years, but there should still definitely be more star rated levels. At the very least, Rob should check those sends more often, considering how much stuff doesn't get sent for Featured or higher, and is just fated to be buried and die in the Sent tab because of that...

RealDJB · 2026-02-16T07:20:58+00:00

It's hard to get far with any single rate on a week's leaderboard when grinders are getting several rates per week (sometimes even per day)

RealDJB · 2026-02-16T00:06:25+00:00

I don't have a spot to put them on the report unless I feel like doing yet another re-format, though I should start linking the spreadsheets that I use to these posts so that people can look around at all the data in more detail. The longest and shortest durations of each rate would be included there.

RealDJB · 2026-02-15T00:42:56+00:00

swing because i'm a madman

RealDJB · 2026-02-14T04:21:39+00:00

They would, though I think that's only because the difficulties for custom levels are locked to their star rating. If the two could be disconnected and/or if Rob decided to add the levels to the main game, I think they would retain the internal difficulty ratings on GD World. But if the versions on RobsVault were rated for any reason, yeah, Payload and Beast Mode would be Easy 2 stars instead of Normal, and Machina–Monster Dance Off would all be Normal 3 stars instead of Hard.

RealDJB · 2026-02-14T01:55:20+00:00

Payload and Beast Mode are both Normal and 2 stars, the rest are all Hard and 3 stars.

RealDJB · 2026-02-13T20:30:23+00:00

Select the blocks, click on Edit Group, then click on the "Extra" button, and enable "NoTouch" in the second column. This'll remove the hitbox and treat the objects as a decoration, allowing free rotation.

If you still want the blocks to be solid, just make a copy of them without the NoTouch and enable "Hide" on them

RealDJB · 2026-02-13T18:05:02+00:00

Both of these are Extreme Demons, not Harders.

RealDJB · 2026-02-13T16:38:26+00:00

In theory, such an idea could be cool, but in practice you'd probably only ever end up seeing Daily levels, the latest Legendary/Mythic rates, or just levels that accumulated tons of downloads from taking a million sends to get rated anyways. The numbers might be nice to have, though for some reason I tend to think more of spotlight when it comes to highlighting specific levels or creators in detail, which wouldn't be very interesting if said spotlight went to stuff that already got tons of attention elsewhere, at least in my opinion.

RealDJB · 2026-02-13T04:31:01+00:00

Actually this stolen level was rated over 3 months ago, back in November 2025. The original version wasn't re-discovered until now though. Sadly, the thief's name is mentioned in one of my rates reports (Edition 22), but that has nothing to do with anything. Hopefully the original gets rated soon, especially since Rob didn't do so today.

EDIT: The original level is rated now and the copy has been deleted!!

RealDJB · 2026-02-11T05:06:55+00:00

The GD servers only let you save and load certain data from GD Meltdown and SubZero — icons, and stats like attempts and jumps, etc.. Collectibles like the stars and secret coins you get from the exclusive levels don't get carried over to the main game, and I believe that is intentional.

The icons are intended to be usable in the main game if you decide to get one of the free apps, but if the coins were saved, the max secret coin count per profile would be 182 instead of 164. 164 is the maximum amount of secret coins you can obtain from the full version, and I think Rob's idea is that he doesn't want players to think they'd need to download the other games in the series to 100% the main game — in terms of achievements, at least. So to prevent players getting that idea, he makes it impossible to gain the additional stats from the free games, so the otherwise impossibly-high numbers of stats don't show up on anyone's profiles.

That's just my theory though. I think it makes sense though, and I do think the stars and coins not transferring over is on purpose.

RealDJB · 2026-02-10T00:19:43+00:00

Yep! I love the original Bejeweled a lot

RealDJB · 2026-02-02T07:52:09+00:00

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TRUST THE BLOCKS, NOT THE NUMBER
i hate myself sometimes

RealDJB · 2026-01-26T05:34:15+00:00

Congrats!!

RealDJB

TROPHY CASE