On April 14, 2025, the final beta crashed during a live internal test. The screen froze on a pixelated cube mid-jump. Frustrated, RobTop slammed his fist on the console. The impact was light, but it was enough to jostle a loose cable in the legacy server—the one still running on code from the original 1.0 release.

At 6:00 AM, RobTop uploaded a single video to YouTube. No thumbnail. Just a black screen and the Geometry Dash menu theme. The title: "2.21."

He leaned back, heart pounding. The date on the wall calendar read April 14, 2025.