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Editorial
Gearing up to go back to
school used to mean
plaid pencil cases,
Velcro binders, coloured
subject dividers and
various pens. pencils.
protractors and the like.
‘u‘ Now, gearing up has as
much to do with personal digital assistants [PDAS],
leaving more leisure time that generations past
enjoyed. While it's almost universally understood that
this utopian future vision from days past is a far
cry from reality, personal technology can still
be empowering. m m m m -
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And while many of the devices we have access to today
are powerful tools, they are often also powerful EDITORIAL
Edltor~lrt~thlof Andrew MooroCrrsprn
entertainment devices. It's all about balance. as they say.
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PCs. cell phones and assorted other tech tools or Enjoy the Issue, Contributing Editor: Scan [arrutlters
toys, depending on your perspective. Andrew Moore-Crispln Ray Richards, Leo lircitwootl
Marc Saluman. Davrrl lanaka
Organization is often a sticking point for students. The Edltor-ln-Chlof
Art Director Steven Sloner
year starts off with the best of intentions, but within a
few weeks. some students are invariably searching Last month, we asked for your suggestions on the best
around in cluttered book bags for a pen, asking more gadget for back to school.
organized peers fora copy of yesterday's notes or what ONTARIO/TORONTO
Vi Phung writes: Most students don't even know about Corporate Account Ralph Ventrtglra
time the math exam is next week. At the post‑ Mon-gore ralphflppublrshmgto
the existence of what is called a digital notepad. It is
secondary level, a host of new distracting factors are A dS l l o l Karim e r k
basically a notepad with embedded electronics to
introduced, making organization that much more difficult. karrmlSVpubI-shrngca
capture and store everything you write so you can Vrk Doonanan
Keeping track of due dates, class schedules, transfer it to your computer or PDA. vrtGppuhl-snmg ca
assignments and tests is easier than in days past Ifound a $100 digital notepad such as the ACECAD Heather Knight
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thanks to technology. Students can keep appointments DigiMemo 592 with 32MB of memory much more MONTREAL Karim Sahnrne
up to date on a home PCor mobile laptop, all the while useful than my $500 iPAO when it comes to taking urrmseppuhirsnmg ca
WESTERN CANADA Viv-an Jrn
syncing ‐ either directly or over the airwaves - using notes in lectures, After school, the day's notes can be
vtvunGppublrshmg to
PDAs, online calendars, a smart phone or similar. downloaded to a PCand send it to everyone. If you are Jason Hay
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With a wealth of tech tools at a student's disposal, sick and missed a lecture, no problem, just ask your
classmate to take notes on his digital notepad and
keeping organized is theoretically easier than ever. The
email you the notes after school. Noneed to beg your Business Group
one thing that hasn't changed from the days of pen and Prolldcnt/Publllhor Scott Piccolo
classmate to let you borrow his/her lecture notes. No
paper-based organization is that the tool is only as smuEppublrshingu
need to spend time lining up at the photocopy machine. V.P. Finance Frank Dicciduo
effective as its end user. My 580 digital notepad got me through four years of and Operation: tmnlteppuhlrsltingm
Technology has always been sold as a solution to make Production Coordinator Christie Swail
Engineering school. This is one ofthe best investments chnsrieEppuhtrshingn
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There are several important factors to consider when shopping for a inch LCD touch screen will have to constantly be cleared of
PDA or smart phone. Among them. synchronization, battery life, face smudgesr
wireless capabilities. storage space. operating system, text input
methods and a host of others. Sony Ericsson p910a
The p910a feels quite natural
HP iP/‘tO hi3325 asa phone. With the flip closed.
HP's iPAU h8325 is the a slightly users have access to atraditional
more expensive version of the cell phone dial pad. Upon
hB320, and forthe extra expense, opening it, convening the device
users get an incorporated into PDA mode, a tiny but still
camera that takes decent shots usable removable QWERTY
at 640x480. keypad useful for composing
Leaning more toward the PDA emails. SMS messages,
side of the FDA/phone combo inputting appointments or
equation, the h8325 includes a contacts and so on is revealed.
tiny snap-on DWERTY thumb The tiny keypad with character
board that works well for buttons that are longer than
composing notes, emails. SMS they are wide takes some
messages etc. but doesn't make getting used to but ts surprismgly usable, despite the fact that the
dialing out particularly easy. To individual keys are about 6:35 mm [LxW] spaced 1 mm apart.
dial, users either tap buttons on The organizer functions are well thought out and integrate wrtlt
the touch screen or hold down existing PCcalendaring and organization programs like Outlook and
ggr9599303003 A ‘l the blue secondary function iSync. Some end-users of both software suites have reported
u ., . m - key to access the number pad. synchronization problems. Weexperienced none using Microsoft‘s Outlook.
0833338283 ’ Said number pad is distinct in
Relative to other phones with PDA functions tested here and
0993 5 3 0 39 colour only, ustng a darker shade previously, the p910a feels a bit sluggish when opening programs or
of grey than the rest of the changing functions. Thanks to its well thought out organization. email
thumb board and web browsing functions, though, it’s by no means a terminal blow.
Byincorporating WiFi in addition to the GSM/GPRS phone functions, the With onboard utilities for viewing common email attachments such as
phone is able to connect to retrieve email, surf the Web or instant Microsoft Word and Excel files and Adobe PDF, the p910a is an excellent
message anywhere there's a signal. The fact that it's a smart phone solution for mobile professionals.
running Windows Mobile 2003 means native support for widely-used An incorporated VGA [840x480] still camera and 176x144 video
office documents like Word and Excel and a wide variety of add-on recorder sweeten the deal.
software applications, both free and otherwise. While users can connect over the cell network (thus incurring data
Users familiar with Pocket PCs will find the phone component an easy charges) and to other devices via Bluetooth and infrared, the only thing
adjustment as it's accessed in the same way as any other program. missing is WiFr connectivity. Perhaps in a future iteration of the already
What might take some adjustment though is the fact that the large 3.5‑ well received line.

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Where many smart and PDA
phones include options for
text entry ‐ touch screen
block, handwriting recognition
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sticks with the alphanumeric
pad found on any standard
phone. Its T9 word completion
/ recognition makes things
easier and, with a few
exceptions. works very well to
speed up text entry.
As a stand-alone organizer
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function PDA or PDA phone is a
better way to go], but synced
with a PCwhere appointments are logged and maintained, it works well.
The 6670 is also the smallest of our roundup and as such, and given
that it‘s a “world phone [850/900/1800/1900]' it travels nicely.
For good or inthough, it's a phone first and everything else second.
A 1-megapixel camera takes excellent stills and video, and relatively
large pictures are automatically scaled down when sent as a
multimedia message [MMS].
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Microsoft Office, and PDF documents can be decoded and viewed on
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The company has greatly improved the design from the bulky original,
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video (raw footage on a camera tape].
Many of you said there was a tonne of video footage in the closet,
perhaps never to see the light of day, because it needs some editing.
But we all know that sorting through hours of videotape can be a
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Searching out the good parts means watching all the bad pans, too ‑
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moments all have to be edited out before the opus is really ready for
prime time, accordingto most people who wrote in.
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available for well under $1,000. Also, if you're going to be living in a
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just fold up your computer and tuck it away under the bed. Also, if
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will have lower-end processors, like the mobile Celeron, and will feature
pretty basic graphics components. Because ofthat, they'll be best suit‑
ed for tasks like writing, surfing or checking email.
Ifthat wasn’t bad enough, notebooks have even more limited potential
for upgrade; you can increase the RAM in some cases, or swap out the
hard drive, but you're stuck with the motherboard, graphics card and
screen for as long as you have the notebook. For that reason, it's smart
to get the best you can afford, and then borrow a bit more so you can
get something even better.
Unfortunately,the cost tends to really add upquickly when you’re get‑
ting a notebook: for a machine that will double as your DVD player and
play a few ofthe mid-level games. budget $1,500 to $2,000. Don't even
think about buying a notebook that'll play the newest games unless
you have cashola coming out of your you-know-what. As an example,
the base~level Dell XPS game-friendly notebook is over $2,800, and you
can pump it up well over 55,000.
Mac fans will have to pony up a bit extra for the 12-inch iBook, which
starts at $1,249. The good news is that it comes pre-Ioaded with the
newest version of the OS, and features the iLife software bundle - in
other words, hours and hours of GarageBand fun, the ability to play your
DVDs and organize your photos, and tonnes more.
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 HUB‘s personal computing columnist Ray Richards recently sat down cated forsome consumers.Sowe rolled it into one tool, the Spot Healing
with Adobe's senior application developer Colin Smith to talk about the Brush, and it does kind ofarandomizing pattern which is really good for
new version of Photoshop included in Adobe's imaging and publishing things like, lets say you wanted to take a sprinkler out of a front lawn,
collection Creative Suite 2. you just simply brush over the sprinkler and it will grab grass from
around the sprinkler and fill in that area for you.
HUB: Colin, give us an idea ofsome ofthe new features you‘ve devel‑
oped for this version of Photoshop ‐ for example, the one-click red~eye HUB: What about Image Warp?
correction, which instantly eliminates this persistent photography Colin: Oh, that's a tremendous feature. It's the same technique that
problem. we've had for warping text and we can now apply it to an image and it’s
Colin: Definitely, that’s a beautiful feature. Weactually stole that from really powerful because we can use the typical things we have in
Photoshop Elements and we created itjust because of the ease of use Photoshop [fortext] like make it wave like a flag, but then you can also
that our customers have in that, our consumer level product. I just just manually move areas. Sofor instance, I extended a model's hair so
showed it last night to a bunch of [Photoshop] users and they just that it was blowingin the wind a little bit more and Ijust grabbed it and
flipped out, I mean that's something people want ‐ they want us to started warping it and in the past that would have been a difficult job to
make it easy doin Photoshop.

HUB: Sodo you see more of these one click features being put into HUB: Well speaking of blowing in the wind, you also have animation in
Photoshop? the application now.
Colin: Yes, and wedefinitely have, including something called the Spot Colin: Yeah, we're starting to move more of the features of Image
Healing Brush tool ‐ and that came again from Elements.Weadded the Ready into Photoshop with the final goal of merging all of the Image
Healing Brush in Photoshop in previous versions and it required click‑ Ready features into one application so we're just using Photoshop.
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over: One app to do all yourwork.
HUB: Another new feature l was really impressed with was the new
Vanishing Point tool, which allows you to dynamically clone areas of a
photo and paint them into another area while retaining perspective.
Colln: Customers have been using cloning and painting for years, and
any time they encounter an image with some level of perspective~ lets
say the side ofa building or a sidewalk ora wooden deck, that you can
obviously see the change in
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for instanceona deck, asyou
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er and if you bring it closer it gets bigger. In fact, I show a demo when I
work with customers where I take a deck and l remove a couple of
objects from its surface. I can do it with Vanishing Point in under two
minutes where before asa professional that job would take me two to
three hours to try to clean up.
HUBzAnother improvement that We been looking for a long time for in
Photoshop that Adobe has finally addressed is the change to the font
menu.
Colln: Yep, that's been a big request for a long time to make the font
menu a WYSIWYG menu. I’ve heard that request over the years and the
old adage used to be 'Iook, if you're adesigner, you know what font you
want.” But most people now have so many fonts that we can't remem‑
ber what they all look like.
HUBt Colin. thanks for speaking with us today.
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doubling my value for money. Sure, I wouldn't get as many monthly Pmrchtim
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minutes any time over the “net.
Next on my list was coverage. Rogers Wireless has the largest inte‑
grated voice and data network in Canada with Bell running a close
second. Telus, on the other hand, has fairly impressive coverage too,
but depends on analog service for a substantial portion of it. Fido,
havmgjust announced an arrangement that allows its customers to
access the Rogers cellular network, and the fact that their GSM serv‑
ice ISavailable in over 155 countries is now also among the largest.
This fact, combined with the tabled pricing structure, gave the nod
again to Fido.
Finally, I wanted something that was cool ‐ a phone with a camera,
Bluetooth [to interact with my PDA and support wireless headsets],
colour screen, Internet access, text messaging and infrared [to con‑
nect to my notebook], and I didn't want to pay more than around
5300. While each provider has devices that meet these require‑
ments, none save Rogers and Fido were also able to meet mypricing
criteria. The top contenders were the Nokia 5620 from Rogers at $304
and the Sony Ericsson T610 from Fido for 5300. Both phones had
everything I wanted, yet the Nokia had a better screen resolution
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summer, or maybe a model to take back to school?
Here's a quick overview:

Apple
Between the Shuffle and the iPod Mini, Apple’s MP3 players continue to
be the hottest thing on the block. The Mini line now comes in two
flavours: 468 [$249] and SGB [$319], which works out to about 1.000
or 1,500 songs. While there's speculation that an SSS model is right
around the corner, there's been no announcement at press time.
While there have been a few rumours ofiPod Shuffle models in 258 and
4GB capacities, the compact screenless player is still only available in
512 MB( $129] and 168 [$159] capacities at present.
One interesting note is that all full-size iPods are now photo~enabled,
and as such the iPod Photo moniker has been dropped. The 2058 model
goes for $379, and the SOGB version will set you back 5519.
There's continued talk that Motorola will soon announce the new iTunes
phone, but asof yet, nothing has materialized.

Creative
Aftera bit of a slow period, Creative has some big news.
first up, the Zen Micro Photo ‐ first offered as a sneak preview at the
Consumer Electronics Show in January ‐ is scheduled to launch in
August. Though it still comes with the small DLED screen for showing off
small versions of your photos, the player will now come with an BGB
hard drive. Price is to bedetermined.
The Zen Vision, an updated Portable Media Center design, will also
launch in August. Thoughthis player will also feature a 2058 hard drive,
the physical size will be much smaller than the original Zen Portable
Media Center, and consequently more portable. There's still no ability to
recordvideo directly onto the player, but the player will feature a built-in
CompactFlash slot. so you can add media from your other portable
devices while you're on the road. Price is TBD.
Incidentally, if you were wondering what the Zen Nano is, it's just a
renamed version of the MuVo Micro. It's still the same ultra-compact
player otherwise, with upto 1GB of flash memory onboard, and a built‑
in FMtuner.
iRlver
The SGB version of iRiver's compact H10 hard drive player was so pop‑
ular that the company also added 168, 868 and 2058 models to the
lineup, all with built-in FMtuners in addition to the MP3 and photo dis‑
play capabilities. All models are now available in the US, with Canadian
availability and pricing is still to be determined.
Samsung
The new mantra for the Yepp is multimedia, which is why three of the

new models feature colour screens with photo display capabilities.

The Yepp YH-820 features a 558 hard drive, and displays photos on its
small colour screen. The 2058 YH~925 model also displays photos, but
onaslightly larger 1.8-inch [160x128 pixel] display.

Sony
The Walkman brand name has been around for quite some time, but
since everything went digital, Sony has had to fight for its place in the
portable music space. Earlier this year, the company introduced three
new series of the Network Walkman.
The Network Walkman 500 series of flash-based players features the
512MB [$220] and 168 (5280) models, both of which come with a
built-in FMtuner. The 400 series models come with 158 [$250]. 512MB
[$199] or 256MB [5170], skipping the FM tuner to come in at that
cheaper price. Both the 400 and 500 series models feature an lntemal
rechargeable battery in adesign that looks almost like a mini hip-flask.
if you're looking for something more basic that takes off-theshelf bat‑
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In the Groove is Red0ctane‘s first foray into game publishing after "non-stop" mode and let it cycle through an endless supply of songs
making a name for itself as a manufacturer of quality third-party without break until the goal has been reached. [Contrary to other games“
dance mats for the home versions of Konami's Dance Dance workout modes that don't offer a non-stop mode to keep your heart rate
Revolution franchise. elevated] All in all, the workout mode is one of In the Groove's strongest
lt's perhaps not surprising. then, that In the Groove owes a lot to Dance features, despite the fact that its calorie counter is basically useless [the
Dance Revolution conceptually. The game uses the same dance mat suggestion that 20 minutes of dancing burns 1,000 calories seems a
Controller and features the same familiar arrows that scroll down the tad optimistic r..]
screen, requiring players to tap the corresponding arrows on the dance Two other innovations of note are mines that litter the field in more
mat in time with the musical track. advanced songs that explode and deplete the life bar if a foot is left
That said, In the Groove does bring some interestinginnovations to the down too long [requiringthe playerto rethink traditional DDR gameplay
table that tweak the formula for the better. of leaving the feet down as long aspossible], and the fact that three
In addition to a slew of aesthetic customization options, the game also or even four arrows sometimes need to be pressed simultaneously,
features a great workout requiring the hands or knees
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Still Life has one ofthe most gripping, mature and immersive storylines
in recent memory. It spins an intriguing tale of murder and mystery,
tinged with brutality and the macabre, and fleshes the plot out with
believable and endearing characters. The only problem is that it all falls
apart in the last two minutes. The story centres around Victoria
McPherson, an FBI agent in Chicago who is on the hunt for a serial killer
responsible for a string of gruesome murders ‐ the victims all women.
While puttering around in her father's attic, Victoria stumbles upon the
case files of her grandfather, private investigator Gustav McPherson,
which describe a series of murders in 19205 Prague that bare an eerie
resemblance to the work
either Gus or Victoria to die. Without the constant threat of Physical
danger and relying onsurvival-based reflexes, the game instead unfolds
like an interactive story book with the player asan active participant,
Pacing is good, thanks to design decisions that leave out a lot ofthe
baggage that can sometimes weigh down adventure games [there
aren't a lot ofsuperfluous books or documents to sift through looking for
obscure clues, for example, and area puzzles generally use objects that
can befound in the same area to negate a lot of backtracking.)
Puzzles, when they do arise, generally aren’t too obtuse either, save for
a few really nasty ones that involve lockpicking and baking cookies.
To explain why Still Life comes up short of being a complete master‑
piece would mean giving away spoilers; suffice it to say, the ending is a
cop-out. Although developer
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has since been absorbed by
Ubisoft Montreal so it doesn’t
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any time soon, Pity.

- ..,. Time well spenL By Erin Bell

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Gamers who played Cookers Bad For Day for the
Nintendo 64 already know the Single‐player drill
Obscure objectives uncovered while running from
scripted checkpoint to scripted check point ‑
marked with varyingly a m u s i n g cutscenes ,, in. a
pseudo platform run through a satirical and some‑
times cute 3D adventure worlrl Throw in some
shooting elements and a few vehicular m i s s i o n s like
hoverboarding over molten lava and you get
the idea
3 What's new is an extenswe online element that
1 allows for up to 16 players at a time With reason‑
ably balanced user-selected character classes like
Sneaker, a stealth character sniper, and qrunt
Gamers compete in a variety of games in well.
o‘eSigned matches on well-de5igned maps Players
can stay on the ground and use a good variety of
.~:eapons to talze out the opposmg forces or i t i m p
into one ol several vehicles, land- or airbased
F /hrii' Li.'e gamers, the online portion of Cooker
p u t as it beyond the sometimes lacklustre single
p‘eyer gameplay.
Fth-screen and but matches might help with the
m‘ue r i c p o s i t i c n for non-Live gamers a s both
L’s; .‘;e'l.
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It's hard n o t to compare Fantastic 4 to the superb X-Men Legends. The two share the same
four-character co-operative beat ‘em up gameplay, where the player can switch between
each ofthe characters on the fly to access various special moves and combo attacks.
However, Fantastic 4 is simply n o t as polished or engaging. Part ofthe problem may be
that while X-Men Legends drew exclusively on the rich comic book lore of the X-Men uni‑
verse for its inspiration, Fantastic 4 is loosely based on the recently~released Fantastic Four
film, which has been getting lukewarm reviews.
Perhaps that’s the reason for a plot that seems flat and hurried, with bland levels that
seem designed to push the characters through as quickly as possible.
Though uninspired and a tad buggy [the wonky camera especially], Fantastic 4 is hardly a
train wreck. The gameplay is decent beat 'em up fare, and the four heroes do have one or
two interesting moves. The game's environments are destructible to a degree, and there's a
great deal of satisfaction to be had by rampaging around as The Thing reducing the sur‑
roundings to rubble and flinging enemies around like rag dolls.
Fantastic 4 also features the requisite nifty unlockables, including comic book excerpts
and covers, character bios and interviews.
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Tho Bomberman tranchise is now 20 years
old and Ell“ apparently going strong. But
while recent additions to the s e r i e s have
taken Bombermsn l ' l new directions [such
as the 30 platlcrmer Bomber-man
Jettersl, developer Hudson and publisher
Ubisolt have derided to play it safe with
Bomberman‘s Nantendo DS debut.
in essence. the gameplay of this most
recent title remains preserved in amber
from toe 1985 versron of Bomberman for
the Nintendo Entertainment System“
Bomberman must bomb his way through a
9nd at obstacles ‐ some explodable and
some not ‐ collecting powerups, destroy‑
ing enemies, and ultimately trying to lind
his way to the end gate before time
expires. an enemy touches him. or he
accrdentally blows hlmSEll up a whichever
comes first.
One innovation to Speak of is that the
lower screen of the DSis used as an
inventory Window. meaning that items can
be stored and used later instead oi acti‑
vating the moment Bomberman runs
over them
While srngle player mode doesn‘t have the
addictiveness of trulv classic puzzlers, the
multiplayer mode is. as always, excellent
By Erin Bell
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Final than":
Party like it‘s 1985
cessful. The decision to severely limit the inven‑
tory capacity results in having to constantly
delete items to make room for new ones. As
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Kirby takes a new approach to platform game‑
play in Canvas Curse. in traditional platformer speed that also
style, players hit timed jumps, solve little ‘ takes out enemies.
gameplay puzzles to find power-ups and col‑ 3 Some enemies give
lectibles and defeat enemies along the way. it's . up special abilities
all pulled off in a decidedly non-traditional that factor into the
way. however. gameplay puzzles.
Nintendo calls the game a "touch platformer." The non-traditional
The DSface buttons don't factor in to the game‑ , scheme
play at all. Rather, players draw rainbow lines takes some getting
usingthe DS’ stylus for Kirby ‐ in ball form ‐ to . used to, but feels
travel along. The direction in which lines are very natural once the learning curve has been
drawn determines Kirby‘s direction of travel. overcome.
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of the party. ltem hoarders will find these
game that puts a twist on some of the genre’s
adjustments hard to make.
more entrenched gameplay traditions ‐ in this
The requirement of"turn points" to investigate
case, by abandoning the aimless wandering
most of the objects in the environment can also
around and incessant random battles that can
put a damper on the adventuring, since once
make RPGs soannoying.
the points run out, it’s impossible to do any‑
Instead, characters travel from one “screen" to thing except move. It’s hard to know when to
the next, with the option to “Move" to the next
spend points or hoard them for later ‐ and once
screen or “Look" at various objects in the sur‑ each area is cleared, there's no going back to
roundings which can be investigated further
check those unopened chests or unexplored
[i.e. opening atreasure chest or investigating a
nooks and crannies.
suspicious looking tangle ofvines on a wall]
Battles, like dialogue, are scripted events that ByErin Bell
happen at set places throughout the adventure.
Some of Riviera’s genre twists are less suc‑
-Unlr|uo level-up system based on
3 equipment
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battles
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Gone are the days when entire videogames were created by teams of
two or three people doubling as programmer, artist, animator, writer,
producer, level designer and audio engineer.
And gone too are the days when a bit of self-taught tech know-how and
a whole lot ofenthusiasm would guarantee you a job in the industry.
Now, with many of today's games having the production values and
technical sophistication of Hollywood movies, it's not surprising that
the size of an average production team on an A-Iist title has swelled to
the hundreds, with each person filling a highly specialized role.
“Considering the high quality of our games, we really consider a
[college oruniversity] degree to bea necessary part of working here,"
says Frederick Brassard, talent network specialist at Ubisoft Montreal.
Another advantage of getting a degree or diploma in a game-related
subject, according to Dave Warfield, program director of the Game
Design program at the Vancouver Film School, is that it allows graduates
to vault over the traditional game studio entry-level position for
unqualified individuals: the demanding, repetitive role of the game tester.
“That's how the industry grew to where it is now, by friends recruiting
friends, by starting off as a game tester and moving yourway up.” says
Electronic Arts spokesperson Tammy Schachter. “But the industry is
now at a crossroads where it has become mainstream entertainment
and is on the verge of becoming very, very big business, and we can't
continue to grow by trial and error.
“We need to have people entering the business who are already
knowledgeable and n o t starting from ground zero.“
Edmonton-based BioWare prefers candidates for programming and
tech design positions to have a computer science or software
engineering degree as well as a few years of software experience,
according to HRCoordinator Leanne Korotash.
For art positions, where creativity and artistic talent is as important as
the training, companies may also admit people based onthe strength of
a portfolio. But as Theresa Baxter, also an HRCoordinator at BioWare,
points out, “a good portfolio will be best supported by receivingtraining
from a reputable technical, film, or digital media program.’ For artists,
she suggests a degree or diploma in fine ans that combines natural
artistic skill with knowledge in digital techniques (modeling, texturing,
animation] and popular programs such as Maya.
14 H U B :DigtaILMng - A u g u s t E D D S
Canada's largest game studios frequently trawl for new recruits at
Canadian universities and colleges with strong programs in computer
science and software engineering [such as the Universities of Victoria.
Alberta, Toronto, Calgary, Western Ontario, Waterloo, Simon Fraserand
Dalhousie] and art and animation [such as the University of arms“
Columbia, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver Film School, Sheridan College
and Seneca College].
Several schools also offer specialized game-related courses. Through
partnerships with Eegep de Matane and Université cle Sherbrooke.
Montreal‘s Ubisoft Campus [www.ubisoftcampus.com) offers courses
in production, programming, 30 animation, 30 modeling and let/El
design. Students can take a 45 week college program or PU’SU‘? a
graduate degree in computer science or software engineering including
courses in programming, digital imaging and electronics.
This April, McMaster‘s Faculty of Engineering introduced the fi'f5(
software engineering program in Canada to focus on game lies'En
[http://gamer.mcmaster.ca/index.html]. Students completing a
bachelor’s degree in software engineering can opt to enter the game
design specialization after first year and focus on game-related
applications like creating physics and rendering engines and user
interfaces to become qualified for the positions of project lead, user
interface designer, and core programmer. _
The Vancouver Film School [www.vfs.com] offers a one-year diploma In
Game Design. Headed by former Electronic Arts Senior Producer Dave
Warfield,the program offers awell-rounded curriculum emphasizing the
creative skills of game development, such as game theory, cinematics.
art, animation, Storyboarding, creative writing, and production
methodologies. According to Warfield, graduates would be suited to fill
some of the creative “visionary" positions on a game development
team, such as game designer, level designer, or producer.
Regardless of what school a student chooses, the companies we
spoke to stressed that it's not necessarilyjust the school, but also what
the student absorbs and learns from the education that's important.
By Erin Bell
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