(TW: I will be going into some very sensitive topics in this review. Please be cautious if you are sensitive to anything regarding SH and/or suicide.)

I first learned about Bridget a couple years ago when I saw someone on Twitter complaining about one of her levels. I can’t recall which level exactly, but I remember watching it and being very confused. I’ve never been one for negativity exactly, I like to see the light in levels like this and see what makes them so “bad”. When I first saw this level, I instantly fell in love with the style. It was a very simple level, nothing too special, but it was one of those creations where you could just tell that the creator had a lot of fun making the level.

I decided to look at her profile and saw that almost all of her levels were like this, little worlds she crafted from her mind. They were always super fun, super entertaining, like a little adventure you could explore! I loved her way of creating so much that I actually beat every single one of her levels at one point, and I wish I could relive that experience again. Every level felt like a little snippet of a dream, or whatever was going on in her head, and it was an extremely fulfilling experience.

When this was all going on, I also realized she was on Twitter! I followed her and eventually she followed me back, which I was extremely excited about, mostly because my account wasn’t as big at the time. We interacted a couple times in Twitter messages and replies and she was always extremely nice, complimenting my level opinions, showing me new levels, and overall just had a really positive aura which I always strived to have.

During this time, I was also extremely confused about my gender identity and how I really felt about myself. Living in Texas, my family obviously isn’t the most supportive with stuff like this, so I always felt kind of awkward thinking like this. Eventually, I came out as trans on my Twitter, which made me feel really happy. I actually remember her commenting on my coming out post and making me tear up LOL, she was extremely supportive and reminded me that I should be who I want to be and not what other people want to be.

Her levels were also extremely inspirational to me during this time, showing me that levels could be whatever you wanted. Sadly, I never was able to release any levels during this time due to my perfectionist attitude regarding my levels, but she was always my main inspiration when I was building. Just to have fun and try new things!

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Here’s some context for why I’m reviewing this level in particular. This is where the warning will come into play, it’ll all make sense at the end.

About 2 years ago, I was having an extremely tough time in life. My parents had found my Twitter account and saw that I was portraying myself as trans. They had a meltdown and took everything away until I stopped getting “brainwashed” by the left. It was very hard to deal with, they told me many things that I wish I hadn't heard, and made me feel very little about myself. They forced me to deactivate every social media account I had and told me to message anyone that I told I was trans that “I was going through a phase and I don’t feel like that anymore.” I had to send this to everyone, including my IRL friends who didn’t KNOW I was trans, simply because they thought I had told them as well and they didn’t believe me. This essentially isolated me from my friend group at the time, and I wasn’t able to connect online since I had no access to that anymore.

My mind eventually came to the conclusion that this was my fault, and that it was my fault in the first place that everything ended up like this. So, I decided to punish myself. I won’t go into more detail regarding this as you can most likely imagine what started happening. This went on for a couple of months, until my parents unfortunately found out. This caused another meltdown and some shit happened which I will not repeat. This, unfortunately, caused me to spiral further at this point. I luckily had access to the internet during this point in time (I had found a way to sneak it and convince my parents), but that didn’t really help the big picture at this rate.

At this point, I had planned to kill myself. My father always had a gun locked away in the safe of his room that he had told me the password to in case of an intruder. I had decided that some night in the far future, I would use that to take my own life. It felt freeing, in a way. A way out. Some place I could go if things had gotten too hard. I started to feel better about life, knowing I had a way out. I decided to open GD and scroll through the awarded tab, wanting to see what levels were out. I saw a new level named “Tree World” by Bridget, it was an auto level and I wanted to see what it was like since it had been a bit since I had played a Bridget level. It was very simple in retrospect. Just a level showcasing a bunch of different styled trees with varying effects appearing in the background, changing every once in while over an empty background. Ending off with a tree by a bunch of extremely cool creators, all in different styles.

I don’t know what it was about this level, but for some reason when I played this, I burst out crying. I’m still not exactly sure why to this day, but I think I was just very emotionally sensitive at the time and this level hit me like a ton of bricks. I realized how much art meant to me, how much my friends meant to me, how much this simple game meant to me, they might have been stupid reasons, but they worked. I took a few deep breaths and planned the future with myself. I tried to plan every day from then on, avoiding any lectures and letting myself breathe online when needed. It’s definitely very hard getting yourself out of a rut like that, but I knew I had to. I had to keep living in spite of my parents, in spite of everyone who hated people like me for simply being who I wanted. Bridget went through tons of difficult times, much more than me, and she always came out positively despite constant backlash from everyone.

Flash forward to today, and I am living to my fullest. I never did end up taking my own life, and thank god for that. I’ve met so many incredible people, I’ve had so much fun playing and talking with people, I present myself as who I want to be and I’m happy about it. However, the news that hit today absolutely broke me. Bridget was an incredible creator and person and was one of main inspirations in almost everything. I am absolutely heartbroken and I hope all of her loved ones are doing well after the news. Bridget was an inspiration to many creators, including me, and her impact on this community will never be unrecognized. In a way, she genuinely saved my life, albeit unintentionally.

Fly High Bridget 🕊️

A deeply beautiful resting place. Sleep well, Bridget.

It's got a good variety of designs, but just seeing a bunch of trees over and over without a whole lot of progression can get a little old.

pretty boring tbh. it's over 2:30 long, which leaves a lot of time to make things more varied. however, that isn't done as well as it could be.

It's an auto level the difficulty is of course 0 with not much onto it, not even the effects are interesting at all

Visuals definitely impressive, though nothing else to offer, as this is an auto level of course. Nice auto level, BraedenTheCoco