Forums » Songs » (mediafire) First stepfile attempt - Starcadian: Dance or Die

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So if you are unfamiliar, sarcadian is pretty awesome. Synth/electronica with some very old-school/retrofuturist overtones - like listening to an 80's future/scifi action film :) There are some really cool videos on youtube - Chinatown, HE^RT, Ultralove, etc. GREAT stuff :)

One of the songs/videos is Dance or Die, and the video is basically an 80's looking dance-athon/competition with a twist - failure gets your head exploded by the evil overlord watching behind the scenes :)

Anyway - the song seemed perfect for stepmania, so I used it as the basis for my first attempt at a stepfile. Bonus: Sent the artist an email and got his approval to distribute as well :)

So the song is a bit longer than target - I actually edited the song down to just under 2 minutes, but had trouble finding a good cut spot for the video, and I really wanted to get the vid working in this one too, so I decided to do the whole 3-1/2 ish song instead. I do like playing a bit more lengthy song every once in a while anyway, myself.

so - Now it's time for feedback!! What did I do well? What did I screw up? (besides the length, anyway - though I do welcome feedback there as well, just I already know it's longer than preferred :) )

Download link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/mo6d3b6szlmjqld/Starcadian-_dance_or_die.zip

youtube link for song/vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQFszVb2IL8

Also, some other starcadian stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJlZ56CrMkI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-KlLriSLRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyO-MyJ4R1g

Yeah, I'm a bit of a fan :)

Last edited: 4 August 2015 10:56pm

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Hmm, so I tried it out. Pretty fun! It's on sync, and the steps look very doable on pad (pad play ftw). My only recommendation would be to mix up the steps a bit when the chorus repeats; variety is the spice of stepcharts in my opinion. (Also, I'd love to see a harder chart of this, heh heh.)
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