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EDIT : 06-24-2009:  I’ve recently joined forces with Positive Gaming and their iDANCE product.  Pump It Up Pro continues it’s production with the remaing PIUPRO team.  I will continue to support PIU, Andamiro, and the PIU Pro team.   My thanks goes out to all the players who have enjoyed Pump It Up Pro!

Categories: General - iDANCE
krispykreme
what?
3 June 09 at 23:46
krispykreme
and hahaha i’m not using safari version 525.19 or am I on Mac OS X
3 June 09 at 23:47
wayn
Four… arrows?
4 June 09 at 06:13
Rich!
Oooo..Kyle is brewing up something =D
Can’t wait to see what is it.
4 June 09 at 13:00
Totally…. I sniff something big…………

*sniff*
4 June 09 at 13:34
Holy crap, Kyle! NO WAY!!
4 June 09 at 14:13
Back to 4 arrows….?
4 June 09 at 17:38
Bill
As much as I like Pump it Up, for the love of Christ plesae be a new 4 panel game.
4 June 09 at 17:54
Davyn
boring
4 June 09 at 19:12
Bryan Harris
Four arrows PLZ….
4 June 09 at 20:45
Bryan Harris
Maybe it’s that iDance thing that he spoke of a while ago………..
4 June 09 at 20:46
Rich!
If this does end up that this is a four panel game (or any dance game in that matter) how would this game do against ITG and it’s “customs”.
Sadly as much as I like to see Pump Pro 2 or any other dance game , due to market demands plus the fact that some arcades would rather hack their ITG Machines than buy any new dance game, it’s going to be hard for that game to be successful. The first Pro didn’t do as well due to this and future dance games are in risk as well due to the weaken arcade scene followed by R21/Hacks of ITG Machines.

But than again, Kyle could be talking about something else completely So Lets wait to see what is up before we all got nuts.
4 June 09 at 21:01
Rich!
Sorry for grammer btw :(
4 June 09 at 21:02
ZaG - X
This promises to be interesting, whatever it may be.
5 June 09 at 10:12
what the heck is idance brian? or anyone…. lol i only know of pump, ddr, and itg.
5 June 09 at 19:04
enigmaaaaaaaa plz D:
6 June 09 at 13:52
Lemme guess, DJMAX!!!!!!!!one!
18 June 09 at 18:10
I sure hope he and his team don’t move from Pro to yet another four panel dance game. I’ve already converted to five panels and I’m not sure I even want to go back to playing anything other than Pump. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy playing DDR and ITG and will always play them, but Pump has much more of a future to me.

Pro has had it rough from all sides of the community and I hate to see it fall apart so soon. It’s truly a great game and has so much room for improvement and growth. If Kyle and his team wish to move on from Pump then I support their decision 100%, but it doesn’t mean I’m not disappointed with their move. I suppose Andamiro has the final say as to what the future of Pro is and if I my judgment is right, it’s not looking too good.

- CREv.
21 June 09 at 19:56
Rich!
Sadly I agree with Crevolous, there has been alot of signs that Pro could be finished. My friend Steven who brought the machine from Kyle had inform me that the Pump It Up games as a whole (Both “Classic” and Pro”) are not doing very well in compairing with the four panel games.
The Edmonton Community here is a Prime Example, only a small hand of them played the Pump Machine now that the ITG Machine is in the same building as his machine. Most of them prefer to play the ITG Machine, Steven was planning to get Pro but due to the cost of the kit plus the fact that he didn’t make alot of money of the Pump NX, he’s unable now and he is now leading towards selling his machine.

It’s the same with alot of NA Communities sadly. Pump can’t seem to have a edge of ITG. Which is why I am leading towards Kyle and Co dropping Pro for the new four panel game.

There is something else as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQwdbDfXyHE&feature=channel_page

The new game could be none other than the arcade version of IDance.

Having Kyle and Foy work on the arcade version of IDance, a new four panel game that is close to ITG, would make sense.

If this is the case, I do hope IDance AC has many new stuff and many strong features…..cause your biggest competitor is going to be ITG due to the elements such as R21 for example.
23 June 09 at 00:46
KoNeko
If it is indeed iDance, then I wonder how distribution will work in the US. If I recall correctly, I remember reading that iDance was only “official” for European countries, but I could be totally wrong
24 June 09 at 16:58
Kid Tuesday
so, from the sound of things, it appears that Kyle’s jumped back into production work for the 4-panel style of dance games, which he couldn’t do if he was working with RoXoR, as they’re not allowed to make a dance game anymore, so he’s working with PG instead, but i can see that he’s pretty much jumping in now, rather than at the beginning of iDance’s development, just to ensure that it wouldn’t be a wasted effort first…

very clever of you, Kyle… so 4-panel dancing games aren’t quite as stale as you previously thought, i assume?
25 June 09 at 07:26
KoNeko
Happy to hear that you’re on board with iDance :D It has looked very promising from the start and I’ll be happy to see it progress further!

But, now maybe you could answer this question for me, lol. I’ve been drooling forever over the PG Impact Arcade Dance Platform and have looked everywhere for information about it. When do you think it will be available for purchase and for how much?

Thanks Kyle! :D ,
Josh
25 June 09 at 18:13
Trond
what kind of work will you do for them?

will it be stepcharts perhaps?
25 June 09 at 18:17
Cheesecake
This is some great news! I just hope idance can get to the united states somehow :(
26 June 09 at 12:18
Chris S.
I hope this does come to U.S. Arcades sometime in the future. Also, I myself would like to know how i can obtain one of those nice Arcade dance platforms.
5 July 09 at 12:56