Timeline
Date |
Objective |
Notes |
| 1/30/06 | Web page is designed and submitted | Completed on Time. |
| 2/10/06 | StepMania is installed and in working order on Linux. Dancepad hopefully arrives by mail. | Dance Pad arrived, StepMania is not working in Linux yet. |
| 2/17/06 | Dancepad is in working order. ROMS are downloaded and ready to be unpacked. | ROMs downloaded, noticed limitations. |
| 2/24/06 | ROMS are unpacked and MIDI files are isolated. | Switched format to mp3 support, rather than MIDI. |
| 3/10/06 | Rosegarden or other MIDI manipulation is installed and running. ROMS's MIDI streams can be manipulated in the program. | Because of our lack of musical expertise, manipulating MIDI with Rosegarden has been taken out of the project. |
| 3/17/06 | Some kind of interaction between our MIDI manipulator and StepMania is working. We amass a large MIDI library. | See above. |
| 3/24/06 | Simple, custom MIDI music is run through StepMania to produce basic output of arrows. The meat of the project. | Stepmania will play any mp3 we give it. |
| 4/07/06 | We can run any MIDI file through StepMania to produce random output based on the MIDI beat and rhythm. Popular MIDIs can have custom output. | The random part of this was difficult, but achieved for mp3 files, with minimal knowledge of music. |
| 4/14/06 | "Step Step Classic" is introduced on an off-campus website. Popularity rises and money flows in as we charge $10 to dance to any MIDI file you want. | :) |
| 4/15/06 | Bandwidth is exceeded on our humble website. Contemplate a commercial release of SSC "Step Step Classic." | |
| 4/16/06 | SSc sees a huge market release and is endorsed by all ages betwen 3 and 58. 60 minutes asks us for an interview. Flash cartoons are made making fun of us. Life is good. | |
| 4/17/06 | SSC Inc. is sued for unlicensed use of video game music. Capcom and Konami see us in court. Masses of fans congregate outside the courthouse to offer us support. We settle by being offered high-paying jobs by any number of video game big-wigs. | |
| 4/19/06 | We couldn't miss final exams for something as trivial as the last week! |