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nicoles · 04-18-2009, 03:09 AM

Hey there bemanistyle!

I'm nicole, one of the members of Interpretive Arson. Back in 2005, me and 6 or so of my friends built this ridiculous flaming remake of Dance Dance Revolution. We called it Dance Dance Immolation. If you've never heard of it, it's just like ddr, except for the following:
a. It's huge.
b. When you play well, 20 foot tall flame jets shoot up out of the screen.
c. When you play poorly, the machine shoots you in the face with flamethrowers.

I'm completely serious. It's hilarious. If you've never seen it in action, there's videos all over youtube, and our official trailer here: Dance Dance Immolation Teaser on Vimeo

We've run it a number of times, in 2005, 2006, and 2007. We took 2008 off, since it was getting a bit tiresome, but it's time to bring it back. So we're dusting it all off, and have decided to make it *more* awesome. Better lighting, better fire, better electronics. The game itself runs off a slightly hacked up version of stepmania that's set up to interact with a relay board to handle the safety systems and flame effect controls, as well as adding in a few extra screens for things like 'arming' the system. In any case, one thing that's been missing from DDI is a really polished theme. You'd think that we'd have this figured out, but really, most of the people involved find plumbing and electrical a lot more intuitive than graphic design and BGAnimation files. So we're asking for some help. We'd like to take DDI to the next level. We'd like to have a theme that is as distinctive as the rest of the project.

Hopefully that's an interesting hook. If anyone's up for helping us out, I'll post our custom stepmania version up (it's based off 3.9) as well as our 'first' and 'second' mix themes, so you can get an idea of our aesthetic.

Thanks in advance!

~nicole aptekar
Interpretive Arson

ps. If you're in the California Bay Area, we're going to be running Dance Dance Immolation at a party on April 25th in Oakland! Check out the details here, and I'd love to set you on fire! I mean... see you there!

04-18-2009, 03:09 AM	#1
nicoles //bemanistyle::[User] nicoles is offline Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: oakland, ca nicoles's Collection Posts: 6 Marketplace Rating: 0	Dance Dance Immolation needs theme help! Hey there bemanistyle! I'm nicole, one of the members of Interpretive Arson. Back in 2005, me and 6 or so of my friends built this ridiculous flaming remake of Dance Dance Revolution. We called it Dance Dance Immolation. If you've never heard of it, it's just like ddr, except for the following: a. It's huge. b. When you play well, 20 foot tall flame jets shoot up out of the screen. c. When you play poorly, the machine shoots you in the face with flamethrowers. I'm completely serious. It's hilarious. If you've never seen it in action, there's videos all over youtube, and our official trailer here: Dance Dance Immolation Teaser on Vimeo We've run it a number of times, in 2005, 2006, and 2007. We took 2008 off, since it was getting a bit tiresome, but it's time to bring it back. So we're dusting it all off, and have decided to make it more awesome. Better lighting, better fire, better electronics. The game itself runs off a slightly hacked up version of stepmania that's set up to interact with a relay board to handle the safety systems and flame effect controls, as well as adding in a few extra screens for things like 'arming' the system. In any case, one thing that's been missing from DDI is a really polished theme. You'd think that we'd have this figured out, but really, most of the people involved find plumbing and electrical a lot more intuitive than graphic design and BGAnimation files. So we're asking for some help. We'd like to take DDI to the next level. We'd like to have a theme that is as distinctive as the rest of the project. Hopefully that's an interesting hook. If anyone's up for helping us out, I'll post our custom stepmania version up (it's based off 3.9) as well as our 'first' and 'second' mix themes, so you can get an idea of our aesthetic. Thanks in advance! ~nicole aptekar Interpretive Arson ps. If you're in the California Bay Area, we're going to be running Dance Dance Immolation at a party on April 25th in Oakland! Check out the details here, and I'd love to set you on fire! I mean... see you there!