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Monday, October 26, 2009

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. :)

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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.

Friday, May 08, 2009

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. :)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Braggadocio

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

Monday, October 27, 2008

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.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Still Workin'

This is a quick note to let you know that I am still working on some stuff. I'm down to five songs that don't have complete steps, and I'm trying to get them knocked out ASAP.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

MOON

There's a new edit up now for MOON from DDR SuperNOVA. Also, I corrected a typo in Mod Party. Progress! :) Also, I'm very happy to report that I have only about two song left that have no steps of any kind. :D I plan to knock them out first, then go back and polish what's made it past that first going over. Then after I get that batch of songs done and uploaded, maybe I'll finally be able to go back and make the rest of the charts for what up there now! Or make some images! Or some new courses! Oh, the possibilities~! :P

Saturday, June 07, 2008

GET IT ALL

I was gonna make steps to GET IT ALL, and then I found out that Konami already had. Wups. ;P I already had the hard chart mostly done, though, so I finished it out, and it's up now as an edit. :)