Positive Gaming's 'iDANCE': New 4-panel dance game?

[Nathan.]

http://www.positivegaming.com/index.php?id=history

Look at April 2008 update

http://positivegaming.com/index.php?id=movies

3rd video down, one of the PG developers introduces himself and says he's working on programming for a new upcoming 4-panel dance game.

I remember seeing a teaser page for this somewhere........what's the deal on this?

in b4 konami will sue

[Moonbeam Funk]

Weird, does it have a timing window but only tell you what you're getting on the side of the screen? I'm confused.

If it's fun, I'll play it. I hope it's more than just a home-version kind of thing. ITG and DDR are so different, so I see no reason that another 4-panel dance game would be the same as either.

Also, European dancing game championships look realllllllllllly fun.
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[recoil56]

You can only see your timing in the small box on either the left or right it appears, so I guess you can't see your combo or current score. That was cool seeing Chris Foy play Anubis in that one video.

Wish I had something like that in my school...
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Politically Correct (JFK) wrote:

some kid devised an evil plan to make the mod have to click 3 different things and sigh to himself.

[Ashes2Ashes]

[Moonbeam Funk]

[recoil56]

[icr4ck3r]

i played this before. i played the public demo. It's just on screen of arrows and 32 players are listed on the side and it shows the score and what percent they made in each box.

[__]

It's a fun, economic multiplayer approach.

It wouldn't be half-bad either for tourney seeding.

[Popcorn]

That looks insanely fun!

I wish there was something like that around here.

[yukihime]

Just watched the videos there - what a great thing. I'd LOVE to see something like that in our schools. People might actually want to go to gym class!

This goes so far beyond what even CF or anyone else in the US seems to have as a school package - plastic mats that don't attach to anything? This way, you have, say, 30 people in class, they can all score and find out how well (or not) they're doing.

If I was still teaching aerobics, I'd be nagging the gym owners about this. Would be a most excellent way to get people to work out. I may only be a 5 to 6 footer, but I know how to generally teach and encourage people.

Actually, I'm loving their metal pad for me (not the group wireless one, just the regular one) ... in the second video he says there is one for consumers/home users, and then the wireless for groups, but they're not on the site.
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[Nathan.]

All this stuff you guys are talking about is their multidance program which has been around for awhile, not their i-dance project.

Like I said before, does anyone actually know about this new game?

[ChilliumBromide]

Am I the only one seeing DDR and ITG2 machines and logos on the righthand side?
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I used to be active here lol

[yukihime]

DT, you mean the cabs in the videos? Nope you're not the only one! They definitely are ITG2 cabs

Plus in the interview section with Ole Petter, ITG is what they're using/recommending as the "best" game out there. And of course having Chris Foy, Key Step Artist for ITG says they've got to be working together.

The metal pads for consumers and schools (the wireless ones) I have no idea who's making those, just says PG Positive Gaming Impact Multiplayer (I believe that would be the wireless for up to 32 people pad).

Edit: was reading the History tonight: http://positivegaming.com/index.php?id=history
and they apparently are, as of Feb, '08, making metal dance pads.

[icr4ck3r]

This project started in 06 and was called ITG Fitness the Konami did the law suit blah blah. Then they went to iDance.