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''StepMania'' is a [[Freeware Games|free]] ''[[Pump It Up]]'' and ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' simulator for any operating system. The unique thing about it is that it's fully customizable, from the theme setup to the notes during gameplay to even the game's metrics. The one thing that gets people playing is the fact that any song can be put into the game and be playable, but sometimes this doesn't work out so well. Since the notechart for each song has to be made first before playing it, unless one goes online and looks for ''simfiles'', downloads them and puts them on the game, and then you have to hope that the simfile is good. Then there's graphics...
There's also two ways to play
Currently, there's dozens of websites for the game and three games made off of it: ''[[In
The StepMania source code is in [https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania GitHub], and executables for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux are on [https://www.stepmania.com/download/ the download page].
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* [[Announcer Chatter]]: Only if the player wishes it via packs.
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* [[Life Meter]]
* [[Lost Forever]]: Simfile archives commonly get formatted like it's going out of style. So if you think you can just upload a simfile online and think it's safe, think again.
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: The Shuffle and Super Shuffle modifiers. Also present in [[In
** The RandomVanish mod. How does it work? It's an appearance mod that makes arrows disappear towards the center of the screen; when they come back 2 beats later, they're Shuffled.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: There's a reason that StepMania and [[BDSM|sadomasochism]] have the same initials.<ref>Not to mention ssc sharing initials with "safe, sane, and consensual", a BDSM motto.</ref>
** On a pad: During the last few years the definition of "paddable" has hyperinflated with the rise of new, better and better players. Mad Matt has passed an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp54qbnotiA 18 footer]. Even 16 steps per second isn't all that fast for the best.
** On a keyboard: Any simfile by NVLM_ZK. These go [[Up to Eleven|up to 19 feet]].
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** Annoying patterns. Mashing a button/arrow down at 4 times the BPM of the song is not fun.
** Or just haphazardly throw in a bunch of arrows for no rhyme or reason, because making the song harder is better than making it fun.
* [[The Anime of the Game]]: A collaboration between Chris Danford, the creator, and Uno Shino, an upcoming anime artist. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120829100712/http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/stepmania/ Seriously].
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: X-mod unfriendly gimmicks can quickly turn a song into a complete mess if you haven't seen the crazy gimmicks (MacGravel's Mellan and r21 Freak's Silikon ''really'' stand out in this regard).
* [[Unwinnable by Design]]: Hentai Sweedevibe, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj14MynHt5I Dear Arch] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBIScSnL2mw Right Type of Mood] among other simfiles, whether they are designed to be either awful on purpose or just plain awful (see [[Sturgeon's Law]]).
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