A Speical Hobby of Mine · 8:45pm Aug 3rd, 2013

Hey guys! I almost forgot that this site has the option to post blogs! I figured I might as well post one thing that I'd like to share with you all. I am a step chart artist for dance games and its been quite a hobby of mine. I am very much into the music/rhythm game fandom in general. I am a major fan of the two dance video games, In The Groove 2, as well as the Pump It Up series. I do sim file packs and I have some packs that I'd like to share if there happen to be any dance game fanatics like me. All of my charts contain singles AND doubles play modes. I will say that I am NOT by any means a standard stepper. You may notice that my singles charts may have patterns that may seem odd. Yes, if I feel it's appropriate in a song, I may use a pattern that actually forces the player to make a full spin. I do that very rarely, but what I'm talking about here is different. For instance, I use patterns like, starting with the left foot, left, up, right, down, up, right, down, right, and up, or some similar pattern of that nature. This doesn't force the player to double step or spin, but I often have fun writing patterns of this nature because it makes the player move and turn his or her back to the screen for a short amount of time. I do similar twists with five panel sometimes too, but I often do it more with four panel because I have more stepping options with five panel. You basically look over your shoulder to see the screen. It's not that hard to do, but it can be tricky to read at first. I like to do these patterns as long as it seems reasonable and fun. If you HATE that kind of pattern where you actually have to turn your back to the screen for a short time or you have to actually play no bar, then try my packs for the doubles mode only. I rarely use patterns like that when I write for doubles because I have so many more stepping options. All of my packs are made for pad, and I have tested each and every song multiple times on pad before I released them. I'm sorry if not every song feels perfectly spot on sync wise. Some songs can be pretty off sync, but I did the absolute best I could. The Unreal Tournament pack also contains a bonus five panel singles for all the songs in the pack! The five panel singles was the only thing I couldn't pad test because I do not have a five panel pad at home. However, the steps should be good because I did the best I could do with my fingers on the keyboard. There are a select few charts that are very confusing and I learned my lesson from them and would not write like that again. There are also bonus doubles charts only from the Killer Instinct pack. I found these files to be too off sync to continue to make singles out of them, but I left the doubles charts as it is because I worked pretty hard on them. Like I said before, if you are a MAJOR fan of doubles play, then you really want to try these packs out because finding charts for doubles play can be a rarity (pun intended) to find. I don't know if I plan to make any more packs in the future. I wanted to do some kind of song pack that featured My Little Pony music from various artists out there. I'd like to do some kind of collaboration with another person, but I'm not sure if others would be interested in working with me.

Below are the links to my packs, and below that are just two videos of me having fun with Pump It Up from my YouTube channel. There's lot's of video game and guitar stuff on my channel. I'll post a link for that too at the very bottom. Yes, that happy goof ball in the videos is me playing and having a good time! That's not the arcade I normally go to though. The arcade I usually go to is a place that is legendary and has an amazing piece of history behind it. That place is called, Eight on the Break.

Here are the links to download my packs below....I recommend using the latest version of Stepmania to play these step file packs if you want to play both the four panel and five panel steps and also because the older Stepamania versions do not support a certain type of step called rolls. I also enjoy using Open ITG as well. That program is my favorite to play step files in, but it will only play step files for four panel only.

Unreal Tournament (10 songs)
http://www.mediafire.com/?3ifh7gaml53j33e

Killer Instinct (21 songs. A few are doubles only)
http://www.mediafire.com/?q62xpxz71324644

Step 4 Christ! (26 songs)
http://www.mediafire.com/?9cvr4d0mmqq1g02

PIU 4 ITG (40 songs)
http://www.mediafire.com/?pjazo2j227nvvzb

Here is me being silly and having some fun with Pump It Up.