The spinal shark collective is a team who work on various projects. We're mostly known for our StepMania themes and our own fork of StepMania, sm-ssc, which has become the official StepMania 5.
StepMania 5 alpha 2, moonlight Release Candidate 1, ultralight r11 by AJ on 2012/05/05
It sure as hell took a while for us to release StepMania 5 alpha 2, huh? Now that we finally have that off our backs, I can finally start releasing updates for themes again.

The first of the themes to be updated for SM5 alpha 2 is moonlight, which has reached Release Candidate 1.

ultralight has also been updated for StepMania 5 alpha 2.

NEX2 announcement by AJ on 2012/03/20
k//eternal is working with the SSC on a new theme for StepMania 5, NEX2. Little is known at the moment, especially the release date. We will keep you posted.

moonlight pre-Release Candidate 1 by AJ on 2012/03/01
moonlight has been updated for StepMania 5 Alpha 1a. Based on the original goal, the theme is winding down into a v1.0 state. This won't be the end of moonlight, though. I need to rewrite it to bring it to the modern world of StepMania theming. (That'll be a project in and of itself, though.)

ultralight r10 by AJ on 2012/01/15
ultralight has been updated for StepMania 5 Alpha 1. There are a few new things in the theme, as well as some important fixes.

PROJEKTXV r3 by AJ on 2012/01/10
The port of k//eternal's PROJEKTXV to StepMania 5 has been updated. This release fixes problems related to the background particles and the new math.random() function.

In the Groove 3 Pre-release 1a by AJ on 2011/10/15
If you haven't been following along, I've been porting Lightning's ITG3 theme from OpenITG to StepMania 5. Granted, you could've followed along the entire time on Github, but in case you don't feel like installing git, I've packaged up a pre-release version.

Check it out in the Ports section or just click here.

Small update by AJ on 2011/09/19
Since we're not going to be making themes for StepMania 4 betas any time soon (lol), I went ahead and removed the icons from the projects and ports pages.

DDR 5th Mix Beta 2 by AJ on 2011/09/03
DDR 5th Mix Beta 2 is now available for StepMania 5 Preview 3.

moonlight Public Beta 4 by AJ on 2011/09/01
moonlight Public Beta 4 (v0.98) is now available for StepMania 5 Preview 3.

ultralight release 9 by AJ on 2011/08/28
ultralight release 9 (v0.81) is now available for StepMania 5 Preview 3.

moonlight public beta 1 released! by AJ on 2010/08/01
Not everything has to be sad. I've released a new version of moonlight for sm-ssc. We're finally in Beta.

sad news by AJ on 2010/07/29
Chris Danford has released a new version of StepMania 4 (b1) that only supports XML-based theming. None of the themes on this site work with that version of StepMania, and SSC will likely not port them back. At least AJ won't be porting back any of his themes, anyways.

If you want our themes to work correctly, it's sm-ssc or bust. (Call your local StepMania provider and tell them "I want my SSC!")

SSC on Formspring by AJ on 2010/07/14
Over the past couple of months, a few people have been sending us theming questions over Twitter. This was fine, up to a point where I couldn't fit a decent answer in the 140 character space. After much thought, I've decided that Formspring can be useful for something after all! :D

Our Formspring page lives here, and it will also be on the top bar as well.