Halcyon – Newest Breed of Pokemon! Add it to your DnB!

So Drugstore and I were discussing what we could use for the newest of our easy skill token songs, Pokemon DnB (by cornandbeans.. omg no {}!!), and we decided that Halcyon sounded like it could be a species of pokemon. Not to mention… one of the definitions of Halcyon is a mythical bird. So… we bring up Pokemon #653, HALCYON! It is the offspring of a Moltress and a Zapdos. It can evolve into a Halcyon-on-on (thanks to Chardish for the pun/reference). Basically, we put way too much effort and thought into this… but, it’s pretty damn amusing.

Pokemon DnB is exactly that… a light Drum n Bass song based off of the Pokemon theme song. I find the ending to be especially LOL. Stepfile is by Silver_Brian and it is a 3 in difficulty. Mostly 4th notes, few 8th note triplets at the end and a few 8th gallops in the middle. As said, you have to play Halcyon to unlock… Pass it with 20 or less averages to unlock Pokemon DnB. Halcyon is in Dance.

-Tass

Enjoy, good night, and hope everyone who was in the Subscriber Chat tonight (we maxed out at over 60 people in there at one time) had a good time and got a decent preview of what 3rd style will be.

PS – All kinds of other big news going on throughout the site… but that is news for another day.

Making April Embedded FFR Widget A Success – 50,000+ Gameplays

Thanks to the legions of fans both here on FFR and the many loyal Making April fans, the FFR widget on their myspace has become a success. In the short time that it has been available, it has been played over 50,000 and rising by thousands each day.

The widget is changing quickly. If you have not seen it lately, I suggest that you run over to the Making April Myspace page and take a look. We have added a realtime chat, highscores based upon your FFR login or IP address and a whole new look compared to last week.

Thanks again to Making April and the other bands that are adopting this widget system and realizing it’s power to draw crowds.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Reminder: FFR 3rd Style Subscriber Discussion Tonight

Just a reminder that at 7pm central (8pm eastern) we will get our scoring discussion underway. The link for the discussion will be available in the subscriber forum. I will post a link to the thread when it opens.

The link to the discussion is open early for general talk and is available by clicking –> Subscriber Discussion
Cheers,

Synthlight

Adminconf knows why …

This won’t last long .. but it has to be done:

And one has a webpage.

Chunky

JasonKey

FFR 3rd Style Live Scoring Discussion – Tomorrow Night in Subscriber Chat

“What is this? 3rd Style?” Yes, I did say 3rd style and yes we are still meeting, planning and developing for this product. Some of you have been waiting patiently for this 3rd style, many of you may not even know what 3rd style is.

3rd style is the successor to the current version of FFR which is currently considered “2nd style”. Not to be confused with R2 which is a separate development altogether. As many people know, I absolutely refuse to release 3rd style unless it kicks all the ass that I promise it will. This is not the time or place to talk about all the improvements and features of 3rd style but I assure you that the list is long.

We have been holding admin meetings every couple days trying to hammer out final details and flow. The nice part is that final decisions are really starting to solidify and the flow is really making a lot of sense. We have been holding live chats for our admin meetings and this type of immediate feedback with each other seems to be the best way to go about our final development decisions.

There is however one part that none of us agree on… Scoring. We basically have 2 or 3 camps when it comes to 3rd style scoring. We surely cannot decide this on our own and would like to extend an invitation to all subscribers to meet with us in a special live 3rd style scoring discussion tomorrow night at 7pm Central (8pm Eastern). As subscribers we know that you care very much which path our development takes and as such we would be honored to have you take part in the discussion. As we creep closer to a release date, we will have open public discussions as well.

We will announce a URL for the live discussion tomorrow night about 15-20 minutes before the discussion starts in the subscriber forum. We can’t wait to see what you guys come up with. Maybe we can finally put this scoring debate to rest.

Thanks again for everything. See you then.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Day Late… but don’t TELL anyone. New User ST #3

It is only fitting that we have an easy classical song for our ONE easy classical song. Tell is a remix of Rossini’s William Tell Overture done by Kyle Ward (under alias Symphonius) for In The Groove. I’m sure you all will be quite familiar with the tune. The stepfile is by dore, and is understepped. I accepted this file under the condition that dore make a Tell v2 that is properly stepped or overstepped. So, to get this fun song, Professor Tass advises you to play Moonlight Sonata and get at least 100 perfects.

And that will be my first and only attempt at copying Kwik’s style of writing. I’ll admit… I failed miserably.

-Tass

3rd Post of the Day! LoveHateHero on FFR!!! Valencia on FFR!!!

You now should have access to both version of Red Dress by LoveHateHero. Amity and Goodbye, My Love will be available later this week. I shouldn’t even have to tell you about these files at all… since you’ve all already played them on LHH’s embedded player on their myspace, right?? Regardless, the files are by MeaCulpa and Talisman, respectively. You can find them at the top of Rock page 1.

The Space Between is a pretty sweet Alternative song that talks about my home town, Philly. The band is Valencia, which, amazingly, is from Philly as well. And their myspace page (which may have an embedded player soon too) can be viewed here. Stepfile is by bluguerrilla, his 1st on FFR. Difficulty is rated a high Difficult because of a few small 16th bursts at 170. Mostly 8ths with some jumps. I guess it could be a low 8, but I’ll leave that for debate in the forums. You can find the song on page 2 of Rock, 2nd row. Check out Valencia, signed to I Surrender Records, they’re a real cool band and big supporter of FFR.

See you guys with another easy skill token tomorrow.

-Tass

WIDGET, WIDGET, EMBED PLAYER, WIDGET, WIDGET, EMBED PLAYER, WIDGET, IMPROVEMENT+++

News story title keywords for the win.

This news post is to inform all of you about the upgrades to the Making April and LoveHateHero embedded players. They now look snazzier than ever, they now support MORE than 3 songs, and they’ll soon be supporting other cool stuff like Spinfiles for the band’s songs and the stepfile authors names and images for each level. Y’know… awesome stuff.

Not to mention… well… I don’t know if I can even mention… but the general generic embeddable widget will be getting a similar and possibly even snazzier overhaul in the very near future. But I’ll let Synth tell you guys all about that.

Also, expect many many more new band specific myspace players in the very near future. Maybe even another new one tonight, perhaps.

Until then…. Making April and LoveHateHero! And, I’m not done for today either… I have 1 more news post to make still. So check back again later tonight.

-Tass

2 Public SotWs & 3 Subscriber SotWs

This week’s 2 public songs of the week are definitely something to enjoy. Szamar Madar is a song that, even if the file is too difficult, you need to listen to anyway. It’s that amazing. The song is by the Venetian Snares. It’s a breakcore song, but has such soothing melodies in the background. Such a cool song. AND… the stepfile is pretty darn good too. We’ve had multiple comments of “This is my favorite file ever!” and “This is the best song on FFR!”… so much so, that I believe Kit- is currently sitting in the corner blushing. The file is a 10, Very Challenging… but you’re going to want to try it. As such, I’ve put it in the upper left hand corner of Misc, so as not to bury it. It’ll be there for at least a week before moving towards the back of Misc.

The other SotW is Paranoia -Darkness Mix-, a remix off of the well known Paranoia songs on DDR. Song is by one of the two main DDR Remixers that I know, Sanxion7 (DM Ashura being the other). Solid file, overall not that difficult compared to the Paranoia songs in general. Rated a 6, Tricky. You guys will definitely like it though… approved for children of ALL ages. Stepfile is by stargroup100. You can find it near the end of Dance.

Quick blurb for the subscriber songs… all located in funk. Mute City Remix, a song by KgZ and stepped as a collab between SulferDragon and Brilliant Dynamite Neon, will be a secret song at 45,000 credits. Mocha Ocean is a relaxing yamajet song stepped by MeaCulpa to go along with Mute City. Today’s song is bbblow, a cool Onoken song stepped by Rebirth. Random factoid: bbblow is the first song on FFR to feature a 64th stream (at a whopping 40bpm). No worries to the artists, full paragraphs will be out in 3 weeks when these songs go public.

Expect more news from me later today… stay tuned!

-Tass