TechnoMotion

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TechnoMotion is a Korean music video game. As in other games that use dance pads, such as Dance Dance Revolution, a player must press panels in response to scrolling arrows on the game's monitor.

Contents

1 Modes
2 Music
3 Simulation
4 Gameplay
5 Company
6 Versions
7 Reception
8 See also
9 External links

Modes

TechnoMotion has three distinct gameplay modes:

4-panel mode: Uses the left, right, up, and down panels (like Dance Dance Revolution).
5-panel mode: Uses the corner and center panels (like Pump it Up).
8-panel mode: Uses all panels except the center.
Double mode (both sides), only in 4- and 5-panel modes. There is no 16-panel mode.

It is possible to change the panel mode between and during songs in the game. A player also has the option to play in Single mode (one player, one pad), Versus (two players, two pads), or Double mode (one player playing on both pads). There are three difficulty levels: Easy, Normal and Hard. Each song has step patterns for each of the three difficulties, and each pattern is rated with 1 to 12 small diamond icons.

Music

All but one of the TechnoMotion songs are of the K-Pop music genre. The Offspring's Staring at the Sun also appears.

Simulation

TechnoMotion's 4-panel and 5-panel modes can be simulated by StepMania, in its Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up modes. An add-on has been released allowing 8-panel play. It was released as a theme with new arrow skins and metrics.

Gameplay

As with most rhythm-based games, TechnoMotion's gameplay consists of scrolling objects (in this case, arrows) that rise from the bottom of the screen to the top. When the graphics reach the top, the player must contact buttons on a metal pad with his feet. To help the player determine when to step on the pad, an area at the top of the screen has a set of target arrows identical to the scrolling arrows.

These arrows are arranged in a unique way. Starting from the left:

Down left
Left
Up left
Down
Up
Up right
Right
Down Right

The pad and the arrows are also color coordinated. The colors are:

Both diagonals down - Blue
Left and right - Green
Both diagonals up - Red
Up and Down - Yellow
Center - Purple

TechnoMotion also included a wide variety of gameplay modifications, such as Drunken(arrows swaying during gameplay) and Rush(doubling the speed of the song as well as the arrows).

Company

TechnoMotion' was created by the Korean Arcade company F2 Systems. F2 Systems still exists, though production of TechnoMotion' has stopped. F2 now makes gambling style arcade games, PC MMORPG games, and standard arcade games. Many of their Gambling games center around a tropical theme, distinguishing themselves from other companies.

F2 was founded in 1995, and its first offering was a coin-op "Blank n Holdem."

Their MMO offerings are typical KMMO fare. One centers on a fantasy universe, another around creating an avatar in an online world to interact with others, and the final about space exploration.

No mention of TechnoMotion is made on F2's website, aside from an unclickable graphic on the last page of their games list.

Versions

There are only 2 editions of TechnoMotion. The first has no subtitle, while the second is called TechnoMotion The 2nd Dance Floor!

Reception

Most seasoned dance and rhythm game players welcomed TechnoMotion as a great innovation. Most people regarded it as a needed and fresh innovation to an otherwise stale genre. Had TechnoMotion been more widely distributed in North America, it would likely have succeeded very well. 8-panel mode is something many players still long to play, and recent attempts at simulating this mode through StepMania and other dancing game simulators show this. The lack of 16-panel doubles, and paltry songlists were the few complaints TechnoMotion received.

External links

[Former site] at the Internet Archive
Channel Beat's [product page]

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