A Question For Stepartists

[MarioNintendo]

I usually listen to a song on repeat around 20 times (in the bus, while doing homework (I did this with Lives Without Meaning (I flunked my Math tests the next day)), etc) before actually opening DDReam to start stepping it. I only step songs I know by heart. I love some more than others, but you can bet I know every single sound in them by memory. I could sing you every song I stepped A Cappella. Actually, listening to them a lot prior to stepping makes me able to poop a chart in no time afterwards.

At the same time, this makes it almost impossible for me to have WIPs. I'll never start stepping a file that I don't know what I'll do with because I'll have listened to it so many times.

That's basically how I work. This post will get ignored by the FFR community. xP

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

If you enjoyed stepping the song, or you enjoy playing the song then it was entirely worth stepping it.

I've made a few songs that I know quite a few people probably wouldn't like, but I really enjoy playing them. There has also been a song or two that I don't particularly like the steps to, but for some reason I really enjoyed stepping.

Basically if at one point or another between the creation and playing the final product you are enjoying what you're doing then it is entirely worth it.

[Choofers]

Originally Posted by Gundam-Dude

I always and only will step songs I like. I don't care whether or not the files turn out boring, I step for my own benefit and finish them regardless of which

I should probably do this more often lol.

[Gundam-Dude]

basically fuk what anyone says about your file and do your own thing

I've always rolled this way, it's only a coincidence that people actually like my files LoL

[dood gone krazee]

Back when I stepped files I was always trying to impress others, which lead to hundreds upon hundreds of WIPs and only a select few finished. RATO? Trying to make the hardest technically accurate song. Anti the infinity Holic? Trying to be technically hard but fun, matching the other popular steppers' styles.

When I did Eulogy For Nick Galvez, I remember someone making a remark that the end was weird because there were too many notes and the song was quiet (although technically accurate), so I understepped it since I wanted to impress people and have it right. I kick myself to this day for releasing it like that, since it wasn't actually how I wanted it stepped.

Now I have the attitude Gundam has, with no time to step ANYTHING. Lovin' it.

Now that I think about it, I only adopted that "step for yourself" attitude when I used to step solo files, but when it came to singles I shut that out. Weird.

[hi19hi19]

Originally Posted by foop101

just because a file is easy doesn't mean 1.5x rate is easy...

The file I made, I AAA'd it on 2.0x rate lol
It's like, that easy


Anyway yeah sometimes I try to make files for other people- I don't see anything wrong with that. I always try to keep a target audience in mind, even if in some cases (lol Rave7) that target audience is like only 5 people.

[gnr61]

Originally Posted by who_cares973

i just finished stepping katy perry's i kissed a girl.

that wont ever see the light of day ever

for my whole Simfile Artist Career i basically was always super insecure because of input i might/did get from, say, cetaka (who was sort of my original Stepmania Idol) and input i might/did get from, say kil (who is like the radiohead of Stepmania or something). eventually my stepping style veered into something between chaotic-hard and aspiringly-artistic (worst offender: donuts town-map) and looking back 80% of my files feel like complete messes because i was trying to step two ways at once, for two different kinds of players.

i've only just recently started stepping again, and i'm tryna take a cleaner, more '****whattheysay' approach like GD/DGK. we'll see how that goes :3

moral is, stepping for an intended audience is a good idea (ie. scoring vs. casual/speed vs. accuracy players). stepping specifically to appease other simfile artists, though, doesn't seem to work out that well :\

[Yesssss]

typically I'll only stop stepping a song simply because I don't feel like continuing with it. Sometimes I will randomly continue it later and finish it (both of my '11 Fall files have portions that are about 3-4 years old)
It's pretty rare for me to stop stepping something because I don't know what to do with it. It's mostly because I don't care enough to put the effort into making it good.

[foop101]

I only step songs that I like, however I do sometimes go through songs I like just to find the best one to step next. That being said, it takes me a while to finish them since they are probably my last priority after school, work etc.