beat man - THE THEME
Target Platform: StepMania 4
Developers: Artful Dodger (Lead), Mr.H (Graphics), AJ 187 (Support)
Target Platform: StepMania 4
Developers: Artful Dodger (Lead), Mr.H (Graphics), AJ 187 (Support)
beat man - THE THEME was going to be an IIDX Happy Sky styled (at first) theme for the beat gametype in the upcoming StepMania 4. However, since finding a perfectly stable version of SM4 with the beat gametype is kind of hard, development was halted. The main problem with developing a theme for SM4 is the speed at which things can change. One day, XML was supported as the default scripting for BGAnimations, the next, Glenn Maynard commits a fix that allows BGAnimations to be loaded from Lua scripts and the development moves from XML, which is easily human read, to Lua, which I think only Glenn really knows.
RenegadePrime contacted me about taking control of beat man - THE THEME, and I agreed without consulting Artful Dodger or Mr.H. The latter's never around, and the former wasn't online at the time.
For this article, I decided to be a jerk and try and get beat man - THE THEME running in the latest version of SM4. Somehow, I was able to get it to work, even though there's errors when loading up the Title Menu.
