Unused content

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There some things in *Just Shapes & Beats* that either got scrapped or never made it past beta.

## Gameplay

The following GIF features a player indicator that would display all player shapes. This now shows before entering levels.

Additionally, an unused background effect features, comprising of moving transparent grey squares and rectangles along the top and bottom of the screen. This was most likely cut due to the simplistic style of JSAB.

Supposedly, dialogue was going to be seen in boss battles, but it is unknown if this is actually true.

There were two other shapes that are unused in the game, being the star and the positive symbol (or also known as the cross). Both of their colors are white.

## Unused Cavern Chapter

As stated by Lachhh, the developer of the game, a "Cavern World" chapter was to appear between Tutorial and Paradise, and was subsequently cut due to time constraints. More information can be read here.

Somehow, users from the Berzerk Studio discord server were able to obtain the game's files and discover the content from the cut chapter. One such user is a popular JSAB YouTuber called ThatLostGamer who showcased the cut chapter here

Luckily, the chapter was later re-added into the game with the name 'The Lost Chapter' on July 23 in 2021 with some slight adjustments, such as an actual boss, filled levels, and many more (and as such most of the following has been added to the game).

The following are scrapped image files:

The level icons were also going to be squares but got changed to hexagons. The name of the songs are unnamed presumably due to the chapter being cut. Lachhh explained in one of his streams that the songs in the cut chapter were from the artist Kubbi, but he specify the songs.

This is a unused model that of the birds carrying The Big Cube with rope. The Big Cube holds the player on it but the birds can't handle the weight so The Big Cube cube tosses the player off.

This is one of the triangles trapped in a cage. The player needs to free the triangle so it can let you progress through the chapter. This was one of the models that was in the cut chapter.

This is The Big Cube trapped in a cage. After the player frees them by completing the level, they proceed to hug the player, before the player escapes The Big Cube's hands. It starts to cry as a result of the forced separation. There is also a level portal inside the cage.

This is the birds trapped in a cage. The animation that plays is one bird trying to free the other birds but keeps failing. When you free the birds they make lines on a platform to carry The Big Cube.

The other player characters were going to be different colored squares but it got changed to other shapes. The colors, however, remained.

## Scrapped levels

### Count five and die

Count five and die is a scrapped level from Just Shapes & Beats, however, unlike the other unused levels (Sugar Rush and Killbot), this level is fully playable but it has no checkpoints.

#### Layout

The level starts with 4 saws in the middle and 2 lines launch the saws to the screen. 2 more lines come and make a wall of saws both left and right with the ones that were up and down disappearing. Both saws come at the player, and then big lines start to come making 2 squares with more lines making both of them smaller and smaller. Many lines appear in the left square closing it.

Link to a youtuber who showcased the level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zHdlH-RsI8