Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 2 for the Wii
Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party 2 is the latest version of this popular foot-stomping computer game. In the following two clips, you can view the Wii-platform game screen as two players compete by moving their feet as directed by the scrolling arrows and shaking the Will remote and nunchuk in tandem with the indicated hand-gestures:
This YouTube video is similar to the above clip, but shows more game options:
If you want to see two actual people playing DDR, watch this video. The first part focuses on feet movements and a minute or so into the clip, you can watch the hand shakes of the Wii remote and nunchuk as the players follow on-screen cues.
In many online role-playing games, users can activate "/dance" emotes to initiate one or more pre-scripted dance sequences. Game players don't have control over these dances except for activating them and doing them in tandem with other players.
Some players film their character's dances and convert them into machinima. (Machinima is making a video within a game platform or virtual world.)
I don't care for the lyrics in the opening track, but this video "Dance of the Game Engines," that pits players from Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) against Halo 3, is a good example of dancing in MMORPGs:
Once you're in interactive mode, you can push any key on your keyboard to move the dancers forward a frame at a time. Plus, you can add your own sound tracks:
Last year, Spore, the popular creature creation game that lets you evolve through multiple levels of evolution, featured a dance competition. Here is one of my favorite entries:
