Stepmania

A Dance Dance Revolution Rythmn Game Clone

Decription Cortoursey Wikipedia: StepMania is a rhythm video game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Linux created by Chris Danford. 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. Released under the MIT License, StepMania is free and open source software.

Video games In The Groove, and Pump It Up Pro use StepMania as its game engine. StepMania was included in a video game exhibition at New York's Museum of the Moving Image in 2005.

The primary gametype features the following gameplay: as arrows scroll upwards on the screen, they will meet with a stationary set of target arrows. When they meet the targets, the player should press the corresponding arrow on his or her keyboard or dance mat. The moving arrows will meet the targets based on the beat of the song. Stepmania strongly utilizes a player's sense of rhythm in its gameplay. The game is scored based upon how accurately the player can trigger the arrows in time to the beat of the song. The player's efforts are awarded by letter grades that tell him/her how well they have done. An award of AAAA (quadruple A) is the highest award and indicates that a player has triggered all arrows with "marvelous" timing (within 0.0225 seconds under official settings). An E indicates failure for a player to survive the length of the song without completely draining his/her lifebar. Scoring and grading for Stepmania is almost identical to scoring in Dance Dance Revolution; however, timing and scoring settings can easily be changed.

StepMania allows for several input options. Specialized adapters that connect console peripherals like PS2 and Xbox controllers or dance pads to one's computer can be used. Alternatively, the keyboard can be used to tap out the rhythms using the arrow keys. Players using the keyboard found on Stepmania Online servers are able to pass songs otherwise impossible to pass on the pad. This, in turn, makes Stepmania somewhat of a quasi-Beatmania simulator with the traditional Dance Dance Revolution style of gameplay.

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