[Announcement] DDR/Stepmania in your pocket

[BeatManiacGame]

Hello everyone,

Check out BeatX a Stepmania/DDR for Android

You can play your own SM/DWI files and there are also some original levels that i created.

Game features:
- modified DDRMax3 scoring (10M is the highest score + 3x1M for bonuses)
- Single, Versus and Double mode!
- Percent and Letter scoring
- Global Leaderboards and Achievements
- BPM changes and stops,
- Holds, Mines, Rolls
- negative BPM gimmicks
- Keyboard/Joystick/Dance Mat support via bluetooth/USB-OTG port
- Full HD resolutions
- Multiple layouts (Falling/Rising, Cross/Line, Landscape/Portrait, Tapbox offset)
- Auto unpack of smzip's
- Mods
- Speed multipliers
- Training mode
- Disable rolls

More to come...

There are some modding capabilities (Custom background/button sounds)
It will evolve in time.. check the in-game help for more info.

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Let me know what you think - I'm really open to any suggestions.
If you have any trouble just send me an email to beatx@maniacs.sk

[YoshL]

stepmania without keys to press will never work with me, especially with the caliber of difficulty alot of people play on

does this support cmods, and noteskin customization?

from screenshots, it looks like you can play kb style only while using downscroll. upscroll looks like it has a 4 directional d-pad which is bad and blocks view.

[cedolad]

I think it's safe to say that mobile rhythm gaming will never successfully catch on.

Though it is cool that you can use .SM's, I can see this being useful for judges or something that need to view files while they're on the move or something, given there's an autoplay mode.

[BeatManiacGame]

Well go ahead and try..
You can chose falling/rising arrows and line/cross layout.. I prefer falling-line.
I can add c-mod to future versions..

Originally Posted by YoshL

stepmania without keys to press will never work with me, especially with the caliber of difficulty alot of people play on

does this support cmods, and noteskin customization?

from screenshots, it looks like you can play kb style only while using downscroll. upscroll looks like it has a 4 directional d-pad which is bad and blocks view.

[YoshL]

is there rising line?

[BeatManiacGame]

Yes

Originally Posted by YoshL

is there rising line?

[GlowinUmbreon34]

hai

[BeatManiacGame]

Hello,..
some new features added:
- Letter and % Scoring
- Support for roll notes
- Updates to graphics for Full HD devices
and many more!

Let me know what do you think!

[ilikexd]

can you make it combo scoring

[BeatManiacGame]

Hello, i dont understand. What is combo scoring?

[MarioNintendo]

How much is this game different to Tapmania?

[clasko1000]

I did try it, Not a fan.

You dont make many charts do you?

Honestly, i think the worst part of this entire app was the charts, i played medium and hard and just wanted to uninstall it. Using a 2 finger setup was bad at best (#charts), so i had to switch to spread, and for my small smartphone and big hands, near impossible.

While its a good idea, Its kinda like the DDR sim i had for my Razer, it was fun when you had to hit hard song notes 3 counts early cuz phone too slow to process it. I was also in middle school.

As far as this goes, I may be interested in playing 1 "real" song on it, but thats about all.

You have lots of options, thats a plus.

[BeatManiacGame]

Originally Posted by MarioNintendo

How much is this game different to Tapmania?

Well:
Graphics
Beatmaniac is a stepmania/DDR simulator
Beatmaniac supports holds, rolls, mines, stops, bpm changes...

p.s. if you promote other game on a thread of game of someone else, at least try to make it relevant to the discussion and play the game

[YoshL]

mn was asking a legitimate question, obviously he's played tapmania, and the question was basically asking you why he should try your game - the condescending remarks dont' help much lol

[BeatManiacGame]

Originally Posted by clasko1000

I did try it, Not a fan.

You dont make many charts do you?

Honestly, i think the worst part of this entire app was the charts, i played medium and hard and just wanted to uninstall it. Using a 2 finger setup was bad at best (#charts), so i had to switch to spread, and for my small smartphone and big hands, near impossible.

While its a good idea, Its kinda like the DDR sim i had for my Razer, it was fun when you had to hit hard song notes 3 counts early cuz phone too slow to process it. I was also in middle school.

As far as this goes, I may be interested in playing 1 "real" song on it, but thats about all.

You have lots of options, thats a plus.

Hello,
The demo songs and world charts were made by me. Due to lack of my free time i focus more on the game itself, not on the charts.

You can play as many charts as you wish. Beatmaniac is a Stepmania DDR simulator so it can play almost any sm/dwi file. If not, feel free to send me the smzip to beatmaniac(at)maniacs.sk and i can fix that.

The download section just contains some links to get you started if you are new in the world of DDR/Stepmania. It is a matter of taste - so its up to you to find your own favourites

As for the performance - i always test on sony xperia mini pro-an 3.2inch screen, 400 antutu points, 4years old - so really small crappy phone.
So unless you are experiencing lags - its probably just a bad delay calibration. Go to settings/set delay to fix that.

For the buttons. Try to play different layouts (line/cross, rising/falling, tapbox offset, speed multiplies..) There is a lot that can be customized in Settings/Advanced

[BeatManiacGame]

Originally Posted by YoshL

mn was asking a legitimate question, obviously he's played tapmania, and the question was basically asking you why he should try your game - the condescending remarks dont' help much lol

I don't know, he made other threads indirectly promoting tapmania. I played that game and that are the differences i found. What is wrong about me having an opinion?

Nice. Looks like it's worth a shot. I wonder if it supports connected keyboard keys. Yep, looks like it does. Pretty sweet

[BeatManiacGame]

Originally Posted by Godnick

Nice. Looks like it's worth a shot. I wonder if it supports connected keyboard keys. Yep, looks like it does. Pretty sweet

Yes, it supports keyboards, controllers and even dance mats (via USB-OTG cable..

[rayword45]

Using a dance mat sounds like it would be pretty hilarious.

Anyways, I prefer it over the other Stepmania simulator on Android, but I have major problems with the "wait 30 seconds" thing on the free version and I'm broke as hell.

[Red Blaster]

It's cool that it supports keyboards and all that jazz, it's just..how many people actually have a on the go cable? I know I don't. Even if I did..why would I carry a keyboard around with me? That'd just be odd.

Sorry to be such a negative nancy.