On, sm-ssc gained official status and was renamed StepMania 5.0.
A separate development team called the Spinal Shark Collective forked the bleeding-edge branch and continued work on it, branding it sm-ssc. In 2010, after almost 5 years of work without a stable release, StepMania creator Chris Danford forked a 2006 build of StepMania, paused development on the bleeding edge branch, and labeled the new branch StepMania 4 beta. New versions were released relatively quickly at first, culminating in version 3.9 in 2005. During the first three major versions, the Interface was based heavily on DDR's. StepMania was originally developed as an open-source clone of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). StepMania was included in a video game exhibition at New York's Museum of the Moving Image in 2005. This includes In the Groove, Pump It Up Pro, Pump It Up Infinity, and StepManiaX.
Several video game series use StepMania as their game engines. Released under the MIT License, StepMania is open-source free software. It was originally developed as a clone of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution, and has since evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine capable of supporting a variety of rhythm-based game types. StepMania is a cross-platform rhythm video game and engine.
Windows XP or later, Linux, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
