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[yotipo91]

I tried iDance at my local Fitness Facility (American Family Fitness)
It was fun, but I wish the accuracy displayed in the center of the screen. It is 4 players, but it's hard to keep track of your accuracy in real-time. That's basically my only complaint.

[afrowarriornabe]

I guess my only suggestion is to promote it a little more, i have been trying to tell my buddys back home about this game...but not a lot of people have heard of it.

possibly if we could get some units in California like in LA or Long Beach.

I'm just saying there's a large demographic people that would like to play this game, all that needs to be done is exposing it more.

[Kurisu]

Thing is Afrowarriornabe, the game requres a larger than normal location that would devote such space to it, even if only for a small time each day.

The game exists as a fitness club game only still, not as anything else. If an arcade game does come of it, you can be sure that heavy promotion would ensue.

[Cata-Kai]

An arcade version has already been announced. More details will be made known most likely at the World Cup at the end of July.

[suko]

Have you considered having iDance connect to something like an iDance network? I envision it resembling the matchmaking mode for the DDR series on XBox Live, but instead of linking people for matches, perhaps if could link at-home users with an excercise group at the gym. Kind of like a web-seminar, but for excercise!

You could offer an iDance Home Version that can link up to do fitness routines with people or classes at local gyms.

I think this setup would be ideal for busy people who enjoy using the game at the gym, and enjoy the competition of playing with fellow people, but would be far too intimidated to play such a game with the "pros" over XBox Live. The iDance home version could use existing console systems, or simply be a PC game which can connect to the internet and join "fitness groups" (i.e. servers), which are hosted at the gyms when an iDance class is in session. Then a person from home can continue to be remotely active with the fitness class. They would see the class's scores, and the class could see the at-home player's scores.

This system could also be modified for the iDance arcade once it's released. Allowing players to host tournaments at one location, but allow people to compete remotely via the iDance network. In fact, using this idea, you could "link" two machines together and be able to have two players simultaneously play a doubles tournament song set at the same time! This has never been possible before in any dancing game that I'm aware of.

Also, having a webcam built-in to the iDance arcade cabinet which could optionally be turned on to record the person playing would be awesome feature, and would help deter cheating in the tournament scenario mentioned above. I imagine it could save a compressed video format of the player taken with the webcam, and it could throw a picture-in-picture (think a news reporter with the headline video playing in the corner) of what it showed on the screen during the song that was just played. It sounds far fetched, but there're arcades with webcams setup just for this reason. I'm only posing suggestions that'd allow people to do it via a more automated process.