Backo

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*This page documents the developer. If you're looking for the guy in the shop in Cookie Hedgehog, go here.*

Backo (also called BackThePortal or Alex, his real name) is the second main developer of A Weirdo's Games. He lives in Catalonia, Spain. He contributed to every AWG game so far. He's a Geometry Dash player and level creator. He's also Weirdo's closest internet friend.

He currently owns a Geometry Dash YouTube channel. He used to have a Twitter account, but in January 2022 his account was deactivated for personal reasons.

The word "Backo" originates from his actual username everywhere online "BackThePortal".

## Biography

### 2018-2019: Fortnite

One of his first activities online was the game Fortnite Battle Royale in December 2018. The account he played in used to belong to his father, who bought the Ace starterpack when he started playing. "Backtheweb" was the username of that account. Alex liked that username, so he didn't change it. While he improved his Fortnite skills, he joined a Fortnite clan with some of his classmates. The clan required adding the word "Gold" to the begining of the username of all members. Alex did so, and his username was changed to "Gold\_Backtheweb".

Alex has played Fortnite ever since, however not as often as back then.

### 2019-2020: Scratch at school

#### The Chirstmas postcard

In October 2019, Alex choosed Scratch as an optional subject in school. His Scratch username had to include his real name (even though Scratch doesn't allow it), but he didn't want to renounce to his Fortnite username. He joined both of those things, resulting in "GoldBackthewebAlext". The first term of the subject had the target of making of a Christmas postcard.

In December 2019, Alex presented the postcard project. His project was based on two interactive stories, and included music made by himself using GroovePad. The project can still be viewed in his old account.

#### CAXPros

Alex continued with the Scratch optional subject in the second and third terms, the purpose of which was to create a game. This time, the target was meant to be achieved as a team of three people. Since only him and two other people, a girl and a boy, repeated the subject, a single team was created, called CAXPros (CAX being the acronym of the first letter of the members' name). The team worked hard on multiple ping pong practices, while thinking about the final game.

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown forced the team to quit due to communication problems, and work separately in their own solo project. Alex felt sad about it because he believed that it was a great team.

#### Scratch Party

Prior to April 20, Alex had already started working on his solo game. It was called Scratch Party. It was made up of 5 minigames (Flap Flap, Rhythm Battle, Dice to 6, Fruit Memory and W\_rds) in a single project, as well as a pen animation as an extra. These minigames were available both in English and Catalan. After more than a month of work, in May 26 he delivered his project to the teacher by email, with two days of delay due to Internet connection issues. The teacher congratulated Alex, and told him that he had a future as a developer.

He also remixed the game of one of the former member of CAXPros, which was called Scratch Party Series 2.

### 2020-2021: Scratch at home and Winodows 88

#### BackThePortal Music

In March 30 of 2020, Alex started a YouTube channel where he would upload songs made with GroovePad, an EDM music creator, such as the ones mentioned above. He wanted the channel name to have the same style as he Fortnite username, but he didn't want it to have the word "Web" with it, because the channel had nothing to do with websites. After two thoughtful seconds of brainstorming, Alex found the perfect name for his channel: BackThePortal Music. He also changed the username of his Fortnite account to BackThePortal.

#### Scratch

In 2020 and early 2021, Alex continued working on various Scratch projects, following his subject teacher's advise. Some of his old projects include: a showcase of the lyrics of DJVI's Back on Track Again song, which had synced visual effects; a prime numbers finder, which was put in a maths studio; a radio of multiple songs by Panda Eyes, a drumstep producer; an encoding and decoding system called iHash, between many others.

#### Scratch Addons and Weirdo

In Summer of the year 2020, he started watching tutorials by Griffpatch, the most famous Scratcher. Through his videos, Alex discovered his Chrome extension and installed it on his browser. Through Devtools, he also discovered Scratch Addons, a popular Chrome extension which collected many useful addons, as well as Griffpatch's Devtools. He joined Scratch Addons' Discord server, where he met TheWeirdGuy600 through a conversation about Tera. Alex changed his server username to "BackTheTera" as a joke.

In July 23, Weirdo sent the first message to Alex, which contained the words "back the tera". Weirdo asked Alex to join his server, which back then was called Microosoft Winodows™. Weirdo asked Alex if he wanted to work on Winodows 88 with him, and Alex accepted. They worked on the parody OS for a month and a half, and in September 9 they released the project to the public. That was also the day where they first used the microphone in a voice channel.

## Contributions to AWG

### Winodows 88

* WeakPoint 88
* Old Start Menu Changing System (removed by Weirdo because of its messy structure).
* Third-Party Antivirus Cleanup
* NotePillow
* Calculator buttons (were already coded by Weirdo, but Backo optimized the code)
* Windows Hunt DEMO (Originally coded by Weirdo, expanded by Backo)
* MineCrafter (fixed a bug and added stuff)
* About Winodows Credits
* Linus Torvalds wallpaper
* Bliss in the Fridge wallpaper

### Sandwicho

* Ingredient editor
* Ingredient name when hovering shelf
* Code system

### Plants Vs. Zombies F

* Grid System
* Zombies hitboxes
* Shovel
* More games section

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## References

1. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/893891851042586624/911938981149683744/924706750228209745
2. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/893891851042586624/895001935357296670/931566689366200340
3. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/users/goldbackthewebalext/
4. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/336133939/
5. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/users/CAXPros
6. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/391292614/
7. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/387077793/
8. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/399912668/
9. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/440620875/
10. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/469324622/
11. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/27237622/
12. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/459982536/
13. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/543372745/
14. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/827822897317543996/827834804158332948/885566204146757662