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Help Wanted > DDR/PumpIt For NDS

#134245 - e3skudo - Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:51 pm

Hi,

I'm lookinf for programers. I'm not a programer, but i want to coopertate in this homebrew....

A DDR is a dance machine... so I'm thinking in a homebrew that people must push the correct botons...

If there are interested people to know more about that...

mail me to e3skudo@gmail.com

Thankx!!!

Bye!!!

PD: I'm Spanish ^^'

#134248 - tepples - Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:36 am

I've considered making a dance game, but given the result of Konami v. Roxor, I don't find it wise.
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#134252 - Lick - Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:34 am

Given that there have been more 'on the edge' projects going on around homebrew scenes, I believe that it's kind of premature to kill of ideas just like that.
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#134253 - kusma - Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:39 am

I think it's a good idea, people seem to love these kinds of games.

#134254 - tepples - Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:41 am

There is AmplituDS. It's not a direct clone of DDR, but it is a music game for DS.

EDIT: I guess there are some really bad patents out there, and the applications that haven't yet been granted or denied are even worse. I've found a recently published patent application where the inventor claims to have invented games that choose a set of events based on the song selected by the player. Trouble is that every music game back to Beatmania is prior art.
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#134273 - Lynx - Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:12 am

Well, as with most other "ideas" from non-programmers (like myself), they will never be born, as this isn't a new idea. Unless you can start the project, get it off the ground, get people to like it, it's hard to get a programmer to drop what they are doing to make a game for you.

Now, talking about a direct DDR clone, the first issue that comes to mind is pressing multiple directions at a time (if using the touch screen) or it would have to be ABXY only, as you can't press left and right dpad at the same time.

Also, prior attempts seem to have failed with timing as well.

Now, if you could hook up an external dance pad using a DSerial, that would be awesome! ;)
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#134288 - keldon - Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:07 am

Isn't that lawsuit just about Roxor refitting Konami's actual hardware, i.e. they purchased a machine and used the input device as a peripheral for their own game?

#134312 - tepples - Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:11 pm

keldon wrote:
Isn't that lawsuit just about Roxor refitting Konami's actual hardware, i.e. they purchased a machine and used the input device as a peripheral for their own game?

The lawsuit also stopped the production of Andamiro's "Pump It Up" brand cabinets for ITG2.
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#134329 - keldon - Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:38 pm

To be honest I'm on the fence with that one. The whole DDR thing is very novel, it is no result of technology since the technology has existed for years and you can hardly do anything original with it! As far as I know the only new feature since the first one is that you can hold a button.

I think that Konami deserve the monopoly on the arcade cabinets with this one to be honest, but it may not stop you from making clone games. The lawsuit was about Andamiro using (a) the hype from DDR, (b) the public's confusion of which was which and just taking a free ride on the popularity of DDR. This was about the arcade scene, since users see the floor mats and immediately put their money in it.