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Ohey! So I finished my most recent course not too long ago, and popped it up on Twitter. If you're still checking up here for step-related updates, that'd be a better place to go. The most activity this blog seems to get is spam comments about "interesting articles." ¬_¬ (It's a trap?) As such, I'm probably going to close it out at some point in the future. I set up a twitter account just for StepMania-related stuff if you don't want the occasional quips and retweets from my normal feed.

The course:
...for StepMania 3.95 CVS
...for StepMania 4 Alpha 5

The songs (two new and two updated):
Y&Co. is dead or alive - New
GOLDEN CROSS - Updated
VOX UP - Updated
Anisakis -somatic mutation type "Forza" - New


Main Twitter account:
http://twitter.com/XYTN

Step-related stuff only
http://twitter.com/Xytunes

Projects:

I have them.

• Read books (about 10)
  
• Resolve residual moving issues
  
• Organize my photo library
  
• Organize my music library (~300 of ~2100 through pass one)
  
• Finish stuff for school
  
• Work on art stuff
  
• StepMania
  • Songs (about 70)
    
  • Courses (about 6 in various levels of completion)
    
  • Make backgrounds
    
  • Revamp website

So yeah. I keep myself busy. To the best of my knowledge, no one really follows this blog / checks up on my StepMania stuff, so I'm not very motivated to work on it (or if I am, I'm not motivated to update the site). Of course, I'm sure that doesn't encourage people to check the site, vicious circle, etc. I'm not really emo about it or anything, just throwing it out there in case there IS someone following this stuff. (If so, please let me know somehow. Email, comment, whatever. It'll give me a reason to try and share more frequently if nothing else. ;))

Hope everyone had a happy April Fools Day! :)

I done moved!

I got a new job and moved across the country. Those two things have been keeping me busy. I'm starting to find time to StepMania here and there, but yeah.

I did get a start on redesigning my site. If I can make it easier to update, hopefully it'll happen more frequently. ;P

Okay, not long before I have to go. I'm working on Y&Co. is dead or alive, so back to that! :)

Status Update

Hello people interested in my StepMania stuff! I haven’t updated my blog in a while and my web page proper in even longer, and I wanted to take a minute to let you know what’s up. In short, I’ve been busy, and StepMania is but one of many things I try to fit into my free time. When I do get the ball rolling, it still takes quite a while to get something done of the level of quality I want. Sometimes I spend a good while working on a song before realizing that it’s just not going to work without being boring to dance. I also usually keep quiet about what I’m planning in case just such a scenario arises. What I can tell you is right now I have about 70 songs in my StepMania folder. Many of them are only half-done or ideas that may or may not pan out, but yeah. I also have ideas for roughly three courses of varying mod intensity. Stuff is happening. I’ll try to get some files completed and uploaded soon, though. :)

No Such Thing as the Promised Land Redux

So over the past while I've been working hard to finish No Such Thing as the Promised Land, and today I went to upload it and found... it was already there! o_O Well, I've spent a lot of time retooling the steps: The hard chart is a bit easier now, and there an expert chart that's harder than they old hard steps. There are also beginner, easy, and medium steps, so it should be all done except for double steps (which I don't plan on doing for a while -- there're too many songs I haven't finished on single yet). So... it's not a totally new song, and it's not the banquet I had mentioned in my last post, but it actually took a good deal of time -- longer than I was expecting; it's a slow, technical song -- but it's something. Enjoy! I'll be trying to get some more stuff out the door soon, but makin' these things can be slow work.

Food Analogy

Basically, if step files were edible, I would want serve snacks frequently. What I'd actually be doing is starving you, then putting out a huge banquet. As such, another banquet is in the works. Yeah. I guess it's just annoying to upload and update for every file, so I get backed up and do it all at once. Leave a comment or something if you're impatient -- maybe it'll hurry me up. :)

DistortioN

DistortioN is up! :D It took quite a while to put it all together, but I think it was worth it -- I'm pretty happy with the results. :) HYPE THE CORE and Smell Like This are up, and One More Lovely and Go Berzerk have been updated. On an unrelated note, and AA edit is up now, as well.

Braggadocio

Braggadocio has been updated with more steps and images. Special thanks to MC Frontalot for posing for the picture at PAX! :)

What's In the Works?

Here's what currently simmering:

• A Braggadocio update is coming. MC Frontalot was even kind enough to pose for a picture to use in the background at PAX! :D
  
• DistortioN, my next course, is under construction (GET IT?!). I'm about 2 2/3 done. There are a couple other courses waiting in the wings, but they're gonna take the back seat until this gets done.
  
• All the things I'm planning on doing in the moment have, at the very least, beta steps. The should be a bunch of stuff going up after I have a chance to comb through it once more, but they may not be soon.
  

Happy/Hardcore

A new course, Happy/Hardcore, is up! It uses two songs from DDRMAX and two from ITG3. While it's not quite as intense as Mod Party, it still has it's share of craziness. :D