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On The Evolution Of Dance Dance Revolution

Posted by simoniker on from the ddr-paranoia dept.

Thanks to Gaming-Age for its feature discussing the continued popularity of Konami's Dance Dance Revolution series, which starts out by noting "the DDR series now has had nearly 50 different releases, all territories figured in", and interviews Konami's Yasumi Takase about the possibility of being able to use any music CD in a DDR game ("Having access to your personal music CDs is great, but coming up with your own step data for these songs is not so easy unless you are an expert player"), before talking to female DDR player 'Lyra' about her views of female players ("We do tend to have a lot more guy players than girls, the only girls we ever get are people who either try it out once, or sluts who are trying to get a guy.") Elsewhere, DDRFreak points to an academic essay on the history of DDR (PDF link), produced for Stanford University's History Of Computer Game Design class.

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  1. Re:what about arm motion ? by skermit · · Score: 3, Informative

    They've already got it:
    http://www.channelbeat.com/products/dance/par a_par a__paradise_series.html

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  2. Re:what about arm motion ? by nekura · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out DanceManiax, which is both hands and feet.

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    "Programming is like sex - one mistake and you'll have to support it for the rest of your life."
  3. DDRFreak creators on-air next Sunday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just wanted to let you know that, through great coincidence, the creators of DDRFreak.com will be on my weekly radio show this coming Sunday (May 9th.) If anyone is interested in learning more about DDR and/or talking to them, you should listen to the show and call in to discuss Dance Dance Revolution and the music rhythm genre as a whole. The show can be heard on AM radio in Phoenix, AZ or through the internet anywhere in the world.

    Just check out www.chatterboxgameshow.com for all the info on the show.

    -Alon
    The Host of ChatterBox

  4. The article is a bit late by M3wThr33 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only real games to come out are Party Collection, and Dancing Stage Unleashed. The releases are winding down. The last arcade release was December 25th, 2002.

    It's even more sad how neglected the other games in the series are, like Beatmania and Keyboardmania. (Both now discontinued) Guitarfreaks and Drummania/Percussionfreaks found a niche.

    My very reliable friend also told me that a DanceManiaX 3rd mix should be coming out soon, though, so not all hope is lost.

    The latest arcade release of a dancing game, aside from PIU stuff would be In The Groove. /. had some article on it a couple months back. It's almost ready for release now.

  5. free clones by Stallmanite · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know of 2 freesource clones of DDR.

    Stepmania seems to be the most popular of the two, but seems to depend on propriatary data ripped from DDR (which became an issue when someone tried to put it in debian).

    Pydance only has 3 songs for it, but is otherwise ok.