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Dance Praise™
"Spirit-Filled Exercise for Everyone!"

Introduction
Digital Praise's Dance Praise™ Christian-themed dance arcade game is based on the immensely popular Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) series of PC and arcade games - a genre that accounts for 42% of all PC-based dance games sold to families. Digital Praise's take on DDR debuted to huge success in October 2005. The Christian-themed version won accolades from critics and the media, while also becoming a smash hit across the country with families and church groups.

Like most DDR-styled games, Dance Praise pits players against a scrolling display of onscreen arrows. Dance Praise was expected to appeal to kids, but it quickly found an audience with adults as well. Why? Because grown-ups found that the game's Exercise Mode delivers a great cardiovascular workout!

In just minutes, anyone can burn calories, tone muscles, and improve their cardiovascular health by dancing on the Dance Praise pad to the game's colorful display . . . all while listening to some of the hottest songs and most praise-filled artists in contemporary Christian music today. Dance Praise has proved itself to be fun, energetic, healthy, diverse, challenging and inspirational - traits that many believers look for in their exercise routine. Dance Praise is a workout natural!

How Dance Praise Works

• Dance Praise consists a PC disk and either one or two 30" x 40" dance pads. The pads, which players place on the floor to dance on, plug in to the PC via USB connection
• Onscreen instruction show how to begin playing the game
• Dance Praise offers four modes of play:
• Dance Mode - the basic game which scores the dancer's performance;
• Arcade Mode - offers scoring plus a series of additional onscreen challenges;
• ShadowDance Mode (second pad recommended) - allows one dancer to choreograph steps that the second dancer to duplicate;
• Exercise Mode - the cardiovascular workout format of Dance Praise.
• Players choose one of 50 songs pre-loaded with the game to begin
• Songs are not "covers" of the latest hits - they are the actual songs from top names in Christian entertainment including tobyMac, ZOEgirl, Sanctus Real, Steven Curtis Chapman, Out of Eden, Audio Adrenaline and many others
• Arrows scroll across the screen in a North-South-East-West orientation in time with the music; players must match the patterns by stepping on corresponding arrows on their dance pad at the correct moment

The Cardio Workout

• In Exercise Mode, dancers can set goals for "total time danced" or "total calories burned"
• Most people can burn nearly as many calories in a 30-minute Dance Praise workout as the amount of pounds they weigh:

WEIGHT	CALORIES BURNED (30 Minutes)	CALORIES BURNED (60 Minutes)
135	129	258
150	143	286
175	167	334

• When choosing "calories burned," Dance Praise not only automatically tracks and displays how many calories have been consumed, but also causes animated food items to "fly" off the screen!
• According to the Centers for Disease Control, 10 percent of preschoolers and 15 percent of kids aged 6-19 in the U.S. are currently overweight. Dance Praise is a great workout for kids too!

Music, Music, Music
In 2006, Digital Praise began offering an entire line of Dance Praise Expansion Packs that keep Dance Praise endlessly fresh. Each pack contains 35 new songs with three dances possible for each song - over 100 new dances each! Volume 1: Modern Worship features songs from Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Audio Adrenaline, delirious?, Newsboys, and 22 other artists. Volume 2: Hip-Hop/Rap has hits from KJ-52, GRITS, TobyMac, 4th Avenue Jones, LA Symphony and more. Volume 3: Pop & Rock Hits includes tunes from Relient K, Jeremy Camp, Stacie Orrico, Newsboys, Joy Williams, Third Day and others.

Testimonial
Rebekah Crill, a mother of school-age children from northern California, has the following to say about Dance Praise as a way to stay healthy and in shape:

Around Thanksgiving of last year, we went to a "family night" at our church. Some friends of ours had just gotten a "Dance Praise" the week before and they brought it to church for the kids to play with. I got in line with the kids and I was hooked. That night when I got home, I ordered our family's Dance Praise.

I played around a little with the kids during the holiday season, but when the new year came, I began in earnest. I committed to dancing 45 minutes per day as well as cutting my eating in half. I was at the doctor today and I have lost 50 pounds off since January. Right now, I weigh 190 and am shooting for 160 with Dance Praise's help. I have gone from size 24 pants to size 18 and those are getting awfully loose as well.

Maybe I enjoy Dance Praise so much because my brain and spirit are engaged at the same time my body is engaged. It's a whole body experience. You've got the physical, the mental and because these songs glorify the Lord and I can praise while I'm dancing, you've got the spiritual side as well.

About Digital Praise Inc:
Digital Praise is an independent developer and publisher of family-friendly entertainment software for personal computers. The company produces and publishes faith-based and mainstream titles for families looking to enjoy interactive entertainment software with principled character-building themes and "just good clean fun." Digital Praise products have achieved top recognition from leading children's gaming and advocacy groups including Children's Technology Review, Parent's Choice, iParenting Media, the National Parenting Center, The Dove Foundation, Dr. Toy and Plain Games. For more information, visit www.digitalpraise.com.

©2006 Digital Praise, Inc. All rights reserved. Dance Praise and Digital Praise are trademarks of Digital Praise, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

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