Dance Dance MeeGo Revolution: Pushing QML to the MAX!

Dance Dance Revolution was a very popular dancing game back in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Then, in 2005, an open source version of the game, called "StepMania" was released. This brought the popularity of Dance Dance Revolution back with a small but strong fanbase. However, StepMania was developed for the desktop environment and uses "SDL" which uses the desktop version of OpenGL, limiting its portability.
Therefore, a QML port would have the following advantages:

• It can run on mobile devices like cellphones and tablets without having to worry about differences in capabilities
• It can natively handle things like multi-touch and other types of input easily
• It can also do things like video and animation natively

This presentation will go over what needed to be done to make this port, what issues arose and things to think about in game development using QML for MeeGo.

Here is a gitorious link to the code. The music and videos used in the demo are not included because they are not GPL. Please contact me at tshah AT ics DOT com if you want to know how/where to find the music and videos I used.