The Winter

The Winter is the 9th level in Dancing Line.

## Soundtrack

The song in this level is copyrighted music called *La Serenissima*.

The BPM is 70 for the entire song.

## Scenery

The level begins in a snowy, winter scene with cubes popping up on alternate sides of each other.
At 15%, the path elevates and lowers slowly to the rhythm. The cubes pop up again and have the same rhythm as before from 22% to 40%. After 40%, the path once again elevates, but instead of lowering, continues upwards. There are also pillars on the sides that lower to the song's rhythm.
At 58%, the rhythm stays the same, however there are now rails on the sides, making the platform narrower.
At 70%, many cubes begin to pop up in the scenery.
At 83%, the season changes from winter to spring, with flowers blooming and grass appearing. This continues until the end of the level.

## Difficulty

* Because of the slower pace of the music, this level is not as hard as future levels.
* At 70%, many more blocks will appear quickly, making it harder to focus on the line.

## Note for gems

 5
 10

## Strategy

* Be careful with the blocks! They can distract you and make you lose.
* The snow falling down can be a bit distracting. Listening to the rhythm will always be the key.
	+ Alternatively, turn the graphics down low so that the snow wouldn’t appear.

## Gallery

Autumn TreeBlue Block SmallBlue Block TallBlue BlockChrismas TreePlatformSpring BlockWhite BlockWhite Block 2White Platform10% Block Sign20% Block Sign30% Block Sign40% Ground Sign50% Block Sign60% Ground Sign70% Wall Sign80% Block Sign90% Block Sign
## Trivia

* This level starts off as the end of autumn & ends at the beginning of spring.
* At the beginning of the level, a leaf appears to be blowing off of a tree, hinting that autumn is over and winter is taking over.
* At the end of the level, flowers blossom on green patches of grass and a tree is starting to grow leaves, hinting winter is over and spring is taking over.
	+ Coincidently, The Spring and The Spring Lullaby begin in a similar way.
* The ending of the level looks similar to "The Storm".
* In the earliest version of Dancing Line, The Winter was slightly harder, due to having a more narrow path. Also, the color of the flowers in the end can bee seen as white instead of pink.
* The Winter is the first level to be given a remix.
* The Winter is the first level to be based off of a season.
* The 80% sign in this level is the smallest percentage marker in any level.
* This is one of the first three levels of Dancing Line, ever. The others are The Desert and The Storm
* The crown checkpoint position is change differently.
	+ At first, it was 29%/69%/99%.
	+ The West update changed to 29%/60%/69%.
	+ Dream of Sky update changed to 24%/56%/83%.
	+ The latest change are The Faded Original update 20%/40%/70%.

## Percentage markers

* The 10% marker is on one of the pop-out blocks to the left of the path.
* The 20% marker is on a block to the left of the path.
* The 30% marker is on one of the pop-out blocks to the right of the path.
* The 40% marker is on the path.
* The 50% marker is on one of the pillars to the right of the path.
* The 60% marker is on the path.
* The 70% marker is on the wall before entering the small blocks area.
* The 80% marker is on one of the small blocks.
* The 90% marker is to the right of the path on one of the grassy blocks.
* The 100% marker is not shown.