Kyle A Ward 7 Comments October 20th, 2009 iDance, News

Exergame Fitness & iDANCE at Club Industry 2009 a success!

I’m happy to report that the second showing of iDANCE (version 2 beta) was very successful at the Club Industry show in Chicago IL last week. We are proud to be working with Exergame Fitness and their outstanding distribution team. Fun times were had by all at booth 1229!

FACTS about the new iDANCE system taken from www.exergamefitness.com:

iDANCE Version 2 Features

New easy to understand target region – Reworked for better understanding of the iDANCE star rating system. Easy for new players to know when to step and what the star ratings represent.
New Music – (36 songs in the beta and V2 is planning to ship with up to 50 new songs) (Pop favorites and custom designed music for dance steps)
Redesigned Graphical User Interface with high contrast. Improved graphics!
Teacher/Instructor friendly tools – Pause / Rewind / Fast forward / Assist Tick + Metronome – (On screen feedback from use): For use during game play
New Results screen – Reworked ranking list and player statistics.
New team based mode. (Pad 1-4 A team vs pad B 4-8 team etc)
Updated Step Charts. Difficulties reworked for new players.
5 Universal colors for each level, difficulty level names (Easy-Normal-Hard-Expert-Master – Difficulties indicator numbers enlarged )
Player Tracking (in depth progress + statistics for players)
Same hardware + pads used with version 1.
Version 2 software is a free upgrade for all owners of version 1 (from September 2009 and on)

iDANCE was the highlight multiplayer dance system from the 2009 Club Industry show. Even our competitors (BluFit, by Cobalt Flux) came over to play on our new iDANCE software and enjoy the fun that our dance team was having everyday. Our iDANCE system relies on a single universal display for realtime feedback for up to 32 players. Spectators enjoyed many of the new version 2 features and our iDANCE pads were packed during most of the show! (new players as well as experienced dance game players!)

Thank you goes out to all the players & spectators who came and had fun with us during the show. We all had a blast!

iDANCE continues it’s success at every show and I’m absolutely thrilled to be part of the team that is helping distribute the most advanced dance game product ever made. Be on the lookout for an iDANCE system coming to an area near you soon!

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Kyle A Ward 5 Comments October 5th, 2009 Music, News, SCI Recordings

New 2009 Banzai song has been released! : Land of The Lost

After 2 years of silence, Banzai is back with a new styled ethnic theme.

“Land Of The Lost” has been released and is now available at SCI Recordings. Get a copy of the new 2009 single and show your support for Banzai today!

Download the song NOW!

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Kyle A Ward 4 Comments October 1st, 2009 Life, Music, News

Banzai is back!

After all the countless contacts & emails I’ve been receiving from loyal music fans; I’m happy to announce that new singles are in the works! Banzai is back with a brand new ethnic theme called “Land of the Lost”. Will we see the original demo of Enigma surface soon? I think so!

Because of the recent success of iDANCE and Oscillator X, solo studio time continues to be difficult to schedule. However, do not fear because you’re comments have been heard. You will see new releases in the next few months by the familiar alias projects!

Thank you to everyone who continues to support my music productions and and keeping me doing what I love. I could not possibly thank all of the people who have helped contribute to to my musical inspirations and project decisions over the years. I look forward to releasing new tunes and continuing to share them with you all. Cheers! ~Kyle

Banzai - EP Cover

Banzai – Land of the Lost (lofi) preview

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Kyle A Ward No Comments September 30th, 2009 Events, iDance, News

iDANCE v2 Beta at Club Industry 2009 – Chicago, IL

I’m very pleased to announce that iDANCE v2 BETA will be presented at the Club Industry 2009 show this year. (October 15th – 17th at McCormick Place in the WINDY city) Chris Foy and I will be on the show floor with our distributor and friends EXERGAME Fitness. Please be sure to come out to the event, do some dancing, and give us your feedback! We look forward to seeing all of you in Chicago!

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Kyle A Ward 13 Comments September 27th, 2009 iDance, News

iDANCE V2 beta at LIW 2009 – Birmingham, U.K. a success!

I’m very pleased to announce that the first presentation of the new beta of iDANCE Version 2 was very successful at the Pulse fitness booth in 2009 LIW trade show in Birmingham, U.K. We were told that Pulse had a record high interest that they’ve EVER had at previous shows. iDANCE was one of four “Multiplayer dance systems” displayed at the show this year.

iDANCE features a completely new non Stepmania based engine that has been designed by our Positive Gaming team. LIW 2009 was the first time that many of the new version 2 concepts were shown to the public!

Several players had great things to say about improvements that were made from the original version that premiered a year ago at LIW 2008. iDANCE 2 will continue to make improvements off the original success of the “Multiplayer” concept that originally was conceptualized by Ole Petter Høie and the Positive Gaming crew years ago. The idea has continued to expand and seems to be the future (in my mind) for dance game products today.

As many players are aware, Chris Foy and myself have joined the Positive Gaming team to help produce future versions of iDANCE and promote the future of EXERGAMING. We’ve both spent more time in Europe than we ever thought possible when we signed on to the project. (our design work is based out of Europe) Chris and I look forward to helping promote iDANCE with all of our global distributors in the coming months. Please continue to check back for news/updates about our travels with iDANCE.

What can players expect in the future? I can honestly say that I’ve never been so excited about the potential of a new dance game product in the past years. Chris and I have continued to see a new audience build from our presentations at each event… We are both incredibly excited about the market potential and future that lies ahead for iDANCE. I believe this is the beginning of the future of dance games as we know them today. Never before was it possible to actually play with up to 32 people in such a reliable and user friendly environment. We are changing the future of dance game products with iDANCE!

I would like to encourage all players that are curious and/or have questions about iDANCE to comment on this posting. I will do my best to answer your questions (if possible) and give some insight. Please also be sure to check out some of the pictures and videos that I’ve collected from various sources below!

~Kyle