StepMania

About

Dance Dance Revolution is Konami's pioneering rhythm/dance game series, introduced in Japan in 1998, in which players step on colored arrows on a dance platform in time with musical and visual cues. StepMania is an advanced, cross-platform rhythm game for home and arcade use, distributed under the MIT license, that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux and can be built from source via CMake.

How it differs from the original

Unlike arcade Dance Dance Revolution cabinets, StepMania is a general-purpose engine that plays community-made simfiles rather than fixed licensed content, and any songs bundled with it are released separately under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial license.

Getting started

Windows users need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable installed before running the game (Windows 7 minimum); Mac users need OS X 10.6.8 or higher; Linux users can get dependencies through their package manager, and the source can also be built with CMake.

Media

Licensing & legal

• The MIT-licensed engine permits selling products made with it, but forbids selling it bundled with the included songs, removing engine credits, or withholding source for MP3-enabled builds that differ from official releases.