Well, a new year is beginning, and new plans are being created. I typically don't worry much about New Year's Resolutions, but this year I've resolved to work on my procrastination. And yes, I'm writing this journal about New Year stuff on January 3rd...

But enough about that. First off, my artwork-related plans can be found here, for anyone ( Read more... )

I've recently noticed that I seem to be on quite the nostalgia kick as of late. For various reasons, doing things that I haven't done in a good while. For instance, playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The game still proves to be quite enjoyable 15 years after its original release, even with the XBox 360 version's crappy sound emulation ( Read more... )

When I started my last entry, I figured I would end up forgetting something, and sure enough, I did. Specifically, I forgot about virtualVISIONS. This is a simfile pack started by Zhek and jammitch! last summer, with work being performed by numerous members of the Stepmania community. A good amount of work had been completed on this project last ( Read more... )

It's been more than a month since my last LJ update, so I figured it's about time I made one. As the title indicates, I have been pretty busy as of late, primarily with Stepmania related projects. So here is what I have been, and soon will be, doing:

DDRExtreme.co.uk's World Tour competition has finished ( Read more... )

DDRExtreme.co.uk's World Tour competition has finally moved onto the next phase. The deadline for sending completed entries in was originally May 19th, but just before that deadline the site crashed. Fixing the site required reloading it from a backup, which took several days. This resulted in the entry deadline being pushed back to May 30th. ( Read more... )

I have finally finished editing the song for my entry. It's just a bit longer than what I was shooting for, but I'm happy with the result overall. More importantly, upon starting the process of creating the simfile's stepchart, I discovered that the song WAS made using a drum machine, rather than the live drummer I was expecting. This means the ( Read more... )

Bemanistyle.com is the largest repository for fan-made simfiles, but it is far from being the only such site, nor is it the only site to run simfile-making contests. DDRExtreme.co.uk is another such site, which is currently running such a contest. As you have probably already guessed, I have entered this contest. DDRExtreme.co.uk's contests work ( Read more... )

My second Stepmania simfile is now complete.


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Well, I finally got off my backside and updated my DDR OSC 4 entry. Here's the song's banner:


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The final round of DDR OSC 4 included a total of 16 simfiles; the three top rated files from each of the four brackets, plus four additional files voted upon during a surprise Wildcard round. Here are the results of the final round's voting, freshly copied and pasted from Bemanistyle's front page headlines (with inline comments added by me ( Read more... )