When it comes to dancing, no one ever backs down and for us who have to stay in front of a shabby computer on the day, it could be very recreational to dance and move dance steps, at least virtually. The most famous singing and music games are at the top of the sales charts and among them we mention Singstar, Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
In this blog, much more humbly, we see what the web offers, for free, both for singing and for playing and dancing.
If to try yourself to the microphone test as if it were an interactive karaoke with song competition we had already seen something, as well as to create electronic, techno and house music online, in this post we see the best free games for dancing .
1) The first game, the most famous, free and opensource, available for Windows, Linux and Mac pc is called Stepmania . Stepmania is a clone of a hugely popular PlayStation game called Dance Dance Revolution (DDR).
Its operation is as simple as it is fun: arrows appear indicating the steps to follow to dance to a specific song and the difficulty lies in getting the steps indicated to dance correctly and perform rhythmic evolutions.
Clearly to play you can sit and use the keyboard arrows but, if you really want to try the real dance experience, you could buy a platform like the one you see in the arcades.
This platform can be bought on Ebay, connects via USB to the computer and is called Dance Mat or Dance Pad .
The songs must be loaded separately by downloading the szip archives which are compressed files with so many music to dance to, which can be extracted with Winzip.
2) Audition is based on a popular comic book, and is also inspired by Dance Dance Revolution. Audition is also a kind of social network with an online community that has about 300 million dancers around the world who can challenge each other with dance strokes.
The game is more cured graphically, with a 3d scenario and with the view of themselves.
It is played with the fingers and the keyboard, following the rhythm and the arrows that pass on the screen.
The playability is livened up making the game more difficult because every quarter of songs you have to press the bar and then, at the more difficult levels, red arrows appear, in which you have to press the arrow of opposite direction.
I can assure you that when the pace accelerates you will have to sweat and concentrate to take the right steps.
The nice thing is that you don't dance alone but together with other girls and boys who appear next to your character.
There are discos to join or create your own ballroom and invite your friends; in this case, the founder also chooses the music and plays as a DJ.
The further you go, the more experience points you purchase and the higher the difficulty levels.
In the course of the game, in addition to challenging other players, you can also chat and socialize and also discuss the challenges of bragging or being made fun of
The game is not open source and, even if free, it is supported by the sale of accessories to embellish your avatar.
3) If you want a very popular and popular online and multiplayer game where you have to dance better than the others then you need to register for Music Man Online (Steps) .
The game, especially dedicated to girls and all Japanese manga, works with the webcam, so you really dance in front of the computer, moving with free body.
4) For those who are in the office or who want an online game without installing anything but to play on the fly and without too much effort, I would like to point out Rhythm Fireworks, developed in flash, in which you must follow the arrows indicated on the screen.
In another post we had seen two games more similar to Guitar Hero, Jam Legend and Frets on Fire, in which you have to play the guitar with the computer keyboard following the notes and chords indicated on the screen.
To conclude, since we are talking about music and online dancers communities, I point out the virtual worlds similar to Second Life, in which one does not dance but is leaning on the counter with a cocktail watching the girls to tow.
Probably it is better to go to the disco or dance halls to dance and for sure you will not become Michael Jackson's heirs but they can be a good pastime to have fun and dream of being so.
