(ITGMania theme, formerly "Simply Potato")
(Click here to view the trailer for Simply Spud v1.0!)
Simply Spud is an ITGMania theme that focues on:
- A balance of simplicity and stylistic flair
- An intuitive menu design for casual players, with useful features for pro players
While Simply Love SM5 (which this theme is based on) strives to include many useful features for veteran dance game players (and does a great job at doing this!), Simply Spud is focused on being accessible and easy to use for new players. An emphasis was especially placed on being ready for use at public arcades, conventions, etc. Though not as feature rich as Simply Love, Spud retains many of its core features for the players that use them.
(Click here to view a short screenshot gallery)
Theme compatibility is as follows:
This theme will ONLY work on ITGMania, as other engines do not yet support the network functions needed for GrooveStats integration.
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Install ITGMania
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Either grab the latest release, or click the green "Code" button at the top right of this page, then "Download ZIP" for the most recent version.
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Unzip the theme into ITGMania's Themes folder.
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Launch the game and switch to this theme. How to do this depends on your current theme, but is generally in the Settings menu under the Apperance category. Restart your game to ensure it works correctly!
Current major changes:
- Overhauled aesthetics - nearly every screen has more animation and stylistic flair
- Overhauled play experience to reduce stumbling points for new players
- Improved style selection - Casual and ITG mode are now Beginner and Pro mode. FA+/StomperZ are still available in Pro mode.
- Overhauled Casual Mode - now features a cover-flow style song list and improved difficulty selection
- [Reworked Pro Mode] - More open and visually stylized song selection, with two-part song, then difficulty selection
- An optional potato-inspired visual style to go along with the other styles (hearts, arrows, thonk, etc)
Other useful features and tools for public cab operators:
- Configurable song rating scales/group descriptions on the music wheel, can color song titles based on rating scale
- Default songs for profileless players now affect all play modes
- Can optionally auto-fail players at 30/51 miss combo (for players that walk away from the cab mid-song)
- A News feature, to show configurable images in the attract mode loop and to players with memory cards
- "Modfile" groups - Gives modfiles colored titles, and shows a warning to new players.
- Tweaks to the attract loop, including demo play (set the songs to play by adding a course named "Simply-Potato-SM5")
- Cab lighting test in the service menu
- More easter eggs and bug fixes!
Do note that while the original Simply Love theme was translated into several languages, Simply Spud (at the moment at least) only has English translations for the new lines of text.
- Thanks to skogaby for letting us know that Simply Spud is a much better name than Simply Potato
- Thanks to quietly-turning, hurtpiggypig, and everyone else who helped with the original Simply Love themes for SM5 and SM3.95, directly or indirectly. Your help helped create the de facto Stepmania theme for multiple generations of dance game players, and no other theme I've seen has compared to the amount of polish and love that was put into the original themes.
You need to set PercentageScoring=1 in your Preferences.ini file. Please note that you must quit StepMania before opening and editing Preferences.ini.
Your existing scores will remain ranked out of order, but all scores going forward after making this change will be ranked correctly.
See the Manually Changing Preferences page on StepMania's GitHub Wiki.
Please refer to the Casual Mode README.
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