From: http://r21freak.com/

This week’s File of the Week goes to Spooky Song by Carius. Carius is a brand new member of the r21freak community but has nonetheless become a part in the simfile scene here. With packs and new simfiles on the horizon, I can’t wait to see what Carius shows us next. This week we honor his Spooky Song, a really cool 9 footer with all sort of things going for it.

The file starts off pretty chill, steps following Stephanie’s bouncy vocals (it’s a LazyTown tune, btw). Carius follows them very well, with good patterns that just look like a blast. He’s pretty accurate, too, for the most part. After a cool stop at beat 21 (Stephanie goes “ssssshh” and everything cuts out briefly), the fun 16th note patterns continue until…

“BOO!” Carius accentuates this emphatic moment by using a cool negative BPM trick. Out of nowhere, steps with mines appear right with the “BOO!” It’s a really neat trick that happens three times in the file, all three of which are definitely worth learning. Moving on, we encounter slowdown in m33 that segways into another negative BPM section followed by more fun chorus patterns. The chart ends with another short slow part and finally one last “BOO!”, this time spelled out with mines (a somewhat tired gimmick that actually works well here).

As cool as this file is, there are definitely things that could be improved. My main gripe with the simfile was the amount of ambiguous steps (notes that could potentially be hit with either the left or right foot but also potentially make for subsequent awkwardness). For example, at beat 116 and later on at 150.5 there’s an LR jump followed by an up arrow. It’s not entirely clear which foot is supposed to hit that note, and if hit by the “incorrect” foot, the following notes would end up doublestepped. But other than this, there weren’t any serious problems with the file that would outweigh its sheer fun.

So yeah, major props, Carius!. I really hope you keep up the good work and keep releasing cool simfiles like this. I’m definitely looking forward to your future files, and I know I’m not alone here.

- Zimlord, R21Freak FotW Helper

I feel happy about that because I’ve only really been posting stuff there over the past week, also promotes my upcoming song pack a bit more too which is always a good thing, since you have to be a member at R21Freak to download the song; I’ll drop a link to the one I’m hosting here, though I do urge any aspiring step artists out there to sign up and show them what you have to offer as well as look at what they have already offered you upon registering.

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In other news I tried my luck as a sound editor today to try and make a Megamix song for my pack; titled “Blueberry Flapjack”, the song is a mash-up of 6 songs that I have already completed the steps of, you can Click Here to download the mp3 of it, or if the song player at the top is still playing it then you can stream it from there.

All-in-all for a first try at mashing music together I think I did a pretty good job, everything matched up nicely when I stepped it out, there were no real glitches so I’m confident that people will enjoy it.

Woke up to a surprisingly sunny day today (rain is cool and everything but the sunshine was welcomed despite it still being cold), decided to play some ITG later in the afternoon and just hung out at home in the meantime…

Surfing the youtubes as everyone likes to do I stumbled across more of Mandodo’s accomplishments…

Ahhhh how can he talk and play a weird song like that and still get a quad?
His awesomeness never ceases to amaze me, also I love watching his reactions after he plays, he’s so cool.

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Anyway… there’s another gadget that I’m too poor to afford which came out today, for those who don’t know; it was the iPhone 3Gs, Nate Burr or as he is known on youtube; “Blunty3000″ was there at the launch to give a speech and was also showing off how good the video quality is I guess by recording a video and uploading it to youtube using the new iPhone.

Now, this was about an hour ago so it’s pretty fresh stuff (not that any of you care or anything, heh), but yeah there you go, iPhone 3Gs looks pretty good I guess but it ain’t something I’ll fork out hundreds of dollars for, touch screens are just… eugh…

Anyway, I went to timezone, played a heap of ITG (I think I played for about 8-hours on and off), won some chocolates in the never-fail-to-pay-out sweet land game annnnnnnnnnd yeah…

That was my day.