pydance

pydance is a dancing game written in Python, formerly named pyDDR. The idea is simple. There's a floor mat with arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.

What is new in this release:

• "Click only" assist tick.
• New grading screen... with groove graph!
• Thanks to sjbrown for the grade graphics.
• Player's best/worst CRS file support.
• There are now some command line options.
• Player's best/worst and random courses generated internally.
• Added "Player's Likes/Dislikes" for commonly or rarely played songs.
• Changing BPMs are colored (thanks to xsdg).
• A great attack lifebar was added (thanks to Jooon).
• Lifebars are now animated.
• Select (Random) behaves differently when viewing the folder list. (Thanks to Pavel).
• A comprehensive new manual is available in docs/manual.html!
• Movies work again (thanks to Jon Aslund).
• A new "safe" preview mode that won't preview MP3s; this seems to stop most MP3-related crashes on Windows and SMP Unix systems. This is now the default mode on Windows.
• Start
• Select now exits to the grading screen always, by popular demand.
• .step support removed.
• All your records will be deleted upon running this.
• pydance no longer searches "pyddr" folders by default.

Requirements:

Will run on any up-to-date OSX install. OSX Jaguar or better on G4 class machine (>=500mhz) with 256M ram is recommended.