Pulsen

[TYLR]

the disregard for pitch relevance in those poptart cat streams offends me

[Fraxtil]

The management on this project is beyond ridiculous. Pretty much everyone who's worked with Saturn agrees that he's insane to some degree, at least from what I've heard.

<vyhd> never mind saturn making an off-the-cuff remark about "black men don't have skills and that's why no one hires them"

[joe#2]

posting this in this thread because it is completely worth it

Etymology

It is derived from the name of a moving company Abraham Puls & Sons, employed by the Nazi-led Dutch police to pillage and empty the homes of the 140,000 Jews of the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

Noun

pulsen

(slang) violent dispossession, looting, destruction of property and environment of Jews in particular.

also

Oh I thought they were actually making something original but it's just an uglier SM5 that you pay for

exactly

[Spooty Biscuit]

So uh... what exactly is different from the base SM5 here? Aside from the ugly-ass noteskin and the reasonably decent looking (read: better than the default SM5) theme.

[SM MaxX]

So uh... what exactly is different from the base SM5 here? Aside from the ugly-ass noteskin and the reasonably decent looking (read: better than the default SM5) theme.

AFAIK a few more theming options that baseline SM can't do (the angled text boxes on the title screen for example).
There might be a few more things but it's not worth the $$$.

[wolfman2000]

As a developer and step chart artist for this project, I feel the need to clarify a few issues.

Also, I love how the programmers try their best to make it seem like they are more original, despite the fact that EVERYTHING was taken from SM5/SSC.

A number of features were developed for Pulsen originally, and then brought back to StepMania. Furthermore, a number of features were requested for Pulsen that were developed in StepMania first. Pulsen did not take everything. For that matter, they actually gave.

The benefit here is you gain, what we consider, the best charts ever made and no work required to get them.

The audience should not have to spend time searching for songs. Furthermore, many of the songs that can be searched are technically illegal for commercial use.

Pulsen doesn't seem to have a mac build so I can't see this up close for myself.

That is currently being looked into.

The management on this project is beyond ridiculous. Pretty much everyone who's worked with Saturn agrees that he's insane to some degree, at least from what I've heard.

I have worked with Saturn. I am not everyone. Statement refuted.

posting this in this thread because it is completely worth it *snippet about entimology*

Just about any word can be offensive depending on the context. I myself am Jewish, and I am not offended by the game title Pulsen. Furthermore, we went with the Swedish translation and found Pulsen to mean "The Pulse", as in the beat.

There might be a few more things but it's not worth the $$$.

Have you actually bought and tried the DLC?

[TYLR]

You are wasting a huge amount of time and effort with this.

[Insane Steve]

If you actually want serious ideas for this game from a commercial standpoint:

Change the noteskins. DEAR GOD, CHANGE THE NOTESKINS.

[SM MaxX]

As a developer and step chart artist for this project, I feel the need to clarify a few issues.

Also, I love how the programmers try their best to make it seem like they are more original, despite the fact that EVERYTHING was taken from SM5/SSC.

A number of features were developed for Pulsen originally, and then brought back to StepMania. Furthermore, a number of features were requested for Pulsen that were developed in StepMania first. Pulsen did not take everything. For that matter, they actually gave.

What difference does it make who gave what? You just said right there that SM can do a lot of what Pulsen does; how is that going to make people buy this exactly?

The benefit here is you gain, what we consider, the best charts ever made and no work required to get them.

The audience should not have to spend time searching for songs. Furthermore, many of the songs that can be searched are technically illegal for commercial use.

You are saying this on r21freak; the place where finding simfiles is piss ass easy to do. Illegal? maybe (if you don't delete within the 24 hour grace period, but everyone does that obviously ); but how many people actually give a crap about illegal music nowadays?

posting this in this thread because it is completely worth it *snippet about entimology*

Just about any word can be offensive depending on the context. I myself am Jewish, and I am not offended by the game title Pulsen. Furthermore, we went with the Swedish translation and found Pulsen to mean "The Pulse", as in the beat.

Okay wow that was only a joke. Nice to see people on the management still get butthurt on this irrelevant side note.

There might be a few more things but it's not worth the $$$.

Have you actually bought and tried the DLC?

No I haven't. And after reading this post you should see why really.
Give me five good reasons why I should even try this product. Convince me that it'll be worth my time and money over SM5.

[Valex]

SM MaxX brings up a good point

I can see this game being good for casual players who are unaware of Stepmania as a whole (or even just unaware of sites like r21freak) but this game is not going to get a very good reaction on sites dedicated to sharing high-quality Stepmania charts like this one

[TYLR]

Casual gamers will not buy this as long as FFR, shitty and vomit-inducing as it is, exists and is playable for free. Maybe if you made it an iPhone game and programmed it to autogen steps for songs from your libraru, it'd sell, but that's the only way I see it succeeding in the least. As long as DDR, ITG, PIU, SM5, FFR and Dance Central exist, there is no market for what you're trying to sell.

Also it's ugly and the charts are bad.

[rikame]

Casual gamers will not buy this as long as FFR, shitty and vomit-inducing as it is, exists and is playable for free. Maybe if you made it an iPhone game and programmed it to autogen steps for songs from your libraru, it'd sell, but that's the only way I see it succeeding in the least. As long as DDR, ITG, PIU, SM5, FFR and Dance Central exist, there is no market for what you're trying to sell.

Also it's ugly and the charts are bad.

If it did that and the controls were good I'd consider it for Android. Other than that I agree with what's been said by the majority in this thread

[CondorTalon]

words

YOU MADE AN ACCOUNT. JUST TO POST THIS.

DO YOU REALLY HAVE SO MUCH FREE TIME THAT YOU CAN SPEND IT FINDING EVERY INSTANCE OF CRITICISM FOR THIS GAME AND TRYING TO REFUTE IT?

[wolfman2000]

YOU MADE AN ACCOUNT. JUST TO POST THIS.

DO YOU REALLY HAVE SO MUCH FREE TIME THAT YOU CAN SPEND IT FINDING EVERY INSTANCE OF CRITICISM FOR THIS GAME AND TRYING TO REFUTE IT?

You never noticed the date of my registration, did you? April. Before Pulsen was ever out. My original point of joining was to confirm some things regarding one of the crazier simfile packs you guys have for StepMania 5 (StepMania SSC at the time) purposes.

I'm personally fine with criticism. It just has to be constructive. I haven't seen much of that in this thread.

[Psychotik]

I'm personally fine with criticism. It just has to be constructive. I haven't seen much of that in this thread.

Pulsen doesn't seem to have a mac build so I can't see this up close for myself. Although I personally think it'd be worth checking out just for the appearance. I personally see the dark purple color scheme to be very appealing to me, if it was made into a 3.95 theme I'd get it in a heartbeat (Of course the chances of that are next to none, so not worth digging into).

Otherwise the charts look very DDR standard, nothing I find too fun or worth playing. At least some of the songs sound pretty interesting. And I have to give them credit for those custom made CD titles.

If you actually want serious ideas for this game from a commercial standpoint:

Change the noteskins. DEAR GOD, CHANGE THE NOTESKINS.

As a developer and step chart artist for this project, I feel the need to clarify a few issues.

Also, I love how the programmers try their best to make it seem like they are more original, despite the fact that EVERYTHING was taken from SM5/SSC.

A number of features were developed for Pulsen originally, and then brought back to StepMania. Furthermore, a number of features were requested for Pulsen that were developed in StepMania first. Pulsen did not take everything. For that matter, they actually gave.

What difference does it make who gave what? You just said right there that SM can do a lot of what Pulsen does; how is that going to make people buy this exactly?

SM MaxX brings up a good point

I can see this game being good for casual players who are unaware of Stepmania as a whole (or even just unaware of sites like r21freak) but this game is not going to get a very good reaction on sites dedicated to sharing high-quality Stepmania charts like this one

Casual gamers will not buy this as long as FFR, shitty and vomit-inducing as it is, exists and is playable for free. Maybe if you made it an iPhone game and programmed it to autogen steps for songs from your libraru, it'd sell, but that's the only way I see it succeeding in the least. As long as DDR, ITG, PIU, SM5, FFR and Dance Central exist, there is no market for what you're trying to sell.

If this isn't constructive criticism, I don't know what is.

Also, keep calm and carry on, CTalon. Gotta keep the Canadian rage inside.