Beginner pack project for keyboard play

[Wh1teh]

Made a spreadsheet for organizing files:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Check it out to see what people have submitted to get a better idea which areas are currently lacking.
Everything you see on the list is there tentatively at the moment.

If someone is interested in helping me with the organizing of the pack/spreadsheet, talk to me on discord.

[XelNya]

Originally Posted by Wh1teh

Made a spreadsheet for organizing files:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Check it out to see what people have submitted to get a better idea which areas are currently lacking.
Everything you see on the list is there tentatively at the moment.

If someone is interested in helping me with the organizing of the pack/spreadsheet, talk to me on discord.

This is a pretty great way to do this.

I'll try to make something for it.

[MixMasterLar]

t.A.T.u is such a good pick for a pack like this holy shit I'm a little embarrassed tat I slept on them.

I can see we need to go easier. The songs basically start at 6. Oh boy


PS: Xel lets not forget you're also working on a pack lol. I still have 2 more I want to do for that one!

[Zibang]

Yay I can finally post!!!!!

Also this pack is a great idea and I will contribute through providing charts!!

I love step mania!!!

[MixMasterLar]

Spend the first two hours of my morning pouring over songs and editing them down to 2 minutes.

I have no idea why I'm so fired up about this project. I guess because I've tried getting so many people into stepmania in the past and I'm extremely ok with anything that helps people do that.

I'll try not to get too far ahead with charts though.

[SKG_Scintill]

discord pm'd you a file

[XelNya]

Originally Posted by MixMasterLar

t.A.T.u is such a good pick for a pack like this holy shit I'm a little embarrassed tat I slept on them.

I can see we need to go easier. The songs basically start at 6. Oh boy


PS: Xel lets not forget you're also working on a pack lol. I still have 2 more I want to do for that one!

I know x.x'

Originally Posted by MixMasterLar

Spend the first two hours of my morning pouring over songs and editing them down to 2 minutes.

I have no idea why I'm so fired up about this project. I guess because I've tried getting so many people into stepmania in the past and I'm extremely ok with anything that helps people do that.

I'll try not to get too far ahead with charts though.

Stuff like this is fun. My file's got like 35 seconds and I've had more fun charting that, than a lot of things in a while.

[suicidaln00b]

hey dumb question
is it absolutely necessary to have a cdtitle for this, because i'd rather leave it blank

[Wh1teh]

Originally Posted by suicidaln00b

hey dumb question
is it absolutely necessary to have a cdtitle for this, because i'd rather leave it blank

Why?
If it bothers u too much to have your name there you could make an alter ego.



Also I didn't realize to mention that .dwi and .ssc files are not wanted or needed, I will be deleting those.

[MixMasterLar]

Not the .dwi files no we need those

j/k the game still autogens them right? only reason I can think that they'd be there.



We should make an Alan Smithee CDTitle and all make a file for him

[Elekton]

Originally Posted by MixMasterLar

Not the .dwi files no we need those

j/k the game still autogens them right?

i can't say for the ingame editor but both ddream and arrowvortex default to .sm

also i don't think dwi files play well with etterna, for example your miracle is dead shows up as -1 notes with no playtime

[Wh1teh]

Going to adjust the tentative difficulty curve a bit, because making a chart under 3 Etterna rating is quite unreasonable currently.

[MixMasterLar]

Originally Posted by Wh1teh

Going to adjust the tentative difficulty curve a bit, because making a chart under 3 Etterna rating is quite unreasonable currently.

Working on that actually.

[DourGent]

I believe charts under 3 is very doable, it just requires specific types of music and that type of music may not be suitable for absolute beginners getting into SM (I'm talking about ambience, drone, stuff similar tot hat style, that is long slow tones)

[Wh1teh]

Gonna start figuring out real ratings next week hopefully, so we don't have to rely entirely on Etterna.

[Wh1teh]

Kinda overwhelmed by the amount of submissions at the moment lmao, this thing really blew up.
Idk if I should increase the pack size to 150 or 200 songs, or if that would be too much.
Anyway, with the current speed of things the goal of 100 songs will be completed in a week maybe. No current estimation on how long the post production and chart fixing will take.

[SKG_Scintill]

we apologize for stepping a file not 2 days before the deadline
regular scheduling will return in the near future
we're sorry for the inconvenience

[XelNya]

Originally Posted by DourGent

I believe charts under 3 is very doable, it just requires specific types of music and that type of music may not be suitable for absolute beginners getting into SM (I'm talking about ambience, drone, stuff similar tot hat style, that is long slow tones)

any song can be made into an easy chart

even intense beeps and bloops stuff

[Wh1teh]

Okay so I'm gonna increase the song limit to 150 and set the deadline to 21st jan, might move it back if it seems like we can't reach 150 in time but I really doubt it.

Also the pack is going to be named Easy Songs Megapack, and we currently have no banner for it.

[MixMasterLar]

I think 100 is fine, especially since the chances are good a lot of them (looking at half of mine) are too hard and can be cut. Unless you want to try an do a pretty beefy range. That's your call tho.

I'm with Xel in that anything can be an easy file, but I think you'd want a song that people enjoy listening to, probably one that the beginner either has already heard before or sounds like something they'd hear outside the game.


On that end, I've cut/edited down the following songs and have been making what I can only describe as the most understep files for them slowly as I've found the time over the last few days:

Golden years / Bowie
Loser / Beck
Song 2 / Blur
Fly Away / Lenny Kravitz
Heart of Glass / Blondie
West End Girls / Pet Shop Boys
Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Walk like an Egyptian / Bangles (Thanks Jojo for the edit)

Now Ideally, I would pick Top 40 here but the thing about that is that you never know what top 40 song will last the ages, plus I fucking hate pop music so yeah cut me some slack on this one.

I'd say if the hardest of these its a 3 on your little scale then I'll be impressed. while I'm trying to still have form and a pattern f or the players to recognize each of these has like 50~ steps total. For a Keyboard file that is not hard at all.

EDIT: This probably will be all I do aside from tweaking/fixing/working with you on these and the previous ones I sent. I think 14 songs from a single dude is enough for now. If we need more at the end we can work on it then (which would help us judge what kind of songs/files we need better anyway)

EDIT 2: I'll probably commission someone to do Graphics for my files, so don't worry about them. I'm selfish and think they all need to be based off of their respective source/music video so I'll make sure they get down later

Originally Posted by SKG_Scintill

we apologize for stepping a file not 2 days before the deadline
regular scheduling will return in the near future

I died reading this.