Stepmania
StepMania is a rhythm video game.
It was originally developed as a simulator of Konami's popular
arcade game series Dance Dance
Revolution, and has since evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine
capable of supporting a wide variety of rhythm-based game
types.
The player presses different buttons in time to the music and
to note patterns that scroll across the screen.
Stepmania
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License
MIT License
Developer
Numerous developers
Website
www.stepmania.com
Requirements
Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron, Athlon, or compatible processor,
266MHz minimum (400 MHz recommended)
64 MB of RAM
Video card with OpenGL drivers
Support:
Forums,
FAQ, Mailing
Lists
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Custom Songs ("Stepfiles"): StepMania allows users to
create their
own custom dance patterns to their favorite songs. The program includes
a Step editor to aid the creation of the stepfiles
- Background
animations: Support for many types of animations behind the arrows
onscreen, including sprite-based animation sequences, a single
full-motion video or multiple FMV visualization overlays
- Modifiers:
Visual mods that affect the scroll of arrows and either increase or
decrease difficulty. StepMania includes multiple modifiers featured in
Dance Dance Revolution as well as dozens of additional modifiers
created exclusively for StepMania.
- Multiple arrow types:
o Mines
o Holds
o Rolls
o Lift
- Multiple game types, including partial simulation of other
dance games like Pump It Up, ParaParaParadise and EZ2Dancer
- Real-time lyrics, which display on the opposite side of the
screen for stepfiles that have accompanying lyric data
- Custom themes: users can create their own skins for
Stepmania
- Dancing
characters: 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional character models that dance
in the background according to a pre-defined routine
- Network play: support for lobby-based online play, dubbed
StepMania Online
- Typically, users connect through the StepMania Online
centralized server
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Last Updated Saturday, April 14 2012 @ 10:54 AM EDT
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