$500 contest - Stepmania - Attn coders and DC enthusiasts

Zer0-X · Post by **Zer0-X** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:06 pm

How would you like to make $500? Now that I've got your attention...

Rules:

Contest lasts for one year. The first team to complete a fully-working version of Stepmania for the Dreamcast entertainment system will win a whopping $500.

What we're looking for in a SM DC port:

-Relative flexibility in audio bittrates (a game capable of playing back mp3s or ogg files)
-Compatilibity with existing stepfiles for the REAL Stepmania (on PC)
-Easy song-insertion ability (in other words, point, drag, burn stepfiles and mp3s or oggs)
-Possible modem-game matches
-Compatibility with PSX to DC controller porters
-Video-based backgrounds

All entry teams must include the following information:

-Team title
-Number of members in team
-Email address(es) where the lead member can be reached

Email all entry forms to: smdc2004@yahoo.com

And may the best team win!

Mikey242 · Post by **Mikey242** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:09 pm

This would be soo sweet.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:44 pm

Forgive me for being sceptical, but do you have any assurances that this money will in fact be paid?
Given that your join date is today, and you have free webbased email for all corespondance - perhaps you could put the money in 'escrow' in a paypal account in advance as a mark of good faith?

Zer0-X · Post by **Zer0-X** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:09 pm

Dr Wily wrote:Forgive me for being sceptical, but do you have any assurances that this money will in fact be paid?
Given that your join date is today, and you have free webbased email for all corespondance - perhaps you could put the money in 'escrow' in a paypal account in advance as a mark of good faith?

To all of the teams that enter, I send (through snail-mail) out a hand written and signed contractual agreement that if they are the winning team, I will pay the $500.

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:38 pm

If it is true, that would be really cool. If not hey who cares.

Zer0-X · Post by **Zer0-X** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:24 pm

You better believe it...this is the real deal...if there are any teams or groups interested, please email the above posted address...

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:33 pm

Why are you prepared to hand out $500? You must really like stepmania

Barret7sc · Post by **Barret7sc** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:24 pm

I looked into porting StepMania a while back. It is a very nice, but very complex piece of software. I doubt that with the currently available tools that it would be possible. But hey, who knows.

ambientdistortions · Post by **ambientdistortions** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:25 pm

Same reason I'd pay $1,500 for a clone of Tetrisphere (or Dream Sphere if you will

on the Dreamcast. (I would be creating most if not all music for the title, so all would
really be needed is a programmer and a kick ass graphic artist for the awesome visuals)

As far as Stepmania...Zer0-X... why don't you just get in touch with the developers that
made Stepmania and get the source... someone could port it very easily and it would
hold together very nicely. It's a thought?!

Zer0-X · Post by **Zer0-X** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:22 am

It is a question asked by many a stepmania fan to the stepmania creators, and the bottom line is they simply refuse for their own reasons...all of the source is available on http://www.stepmania.com , though...