Show Notes: Episode 96
Chief Creative Officer - PopCap Games
Gaming isn’t just on consoles or computers — one of the fastest growing segments of gaming is on handheld devices like cell phones and PDAs in the form of “casual games”. Casual games are games that are meant to be played for a few minutes at a time, rather than for extended periods. Jason Kapalka - the founder and Chief Creative Officer of PopCap Games — talks about the challenges of bringing gaming to the small screen, as well as what’s involved in making them appropriate for “casual” gameplay.
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a) iWork as an MS Office substitute - pros and cons
1) pro: can read most all MS Office documents
2) pro: it’s an Apple product - re-thought from ground-up
3) pro: simpler - based on appearance and beauty
4) pro: works with Open XML
5) pro: MS Office for Mac delayed until Jan 08
6) con: “fancy” functions don’t translate (no Excel macros)
7) con: you can’t be sure if they can read it
8) con: fonts and layout differences
9) depends on your situation if you can “get away” with iWork only
10)best solution: iWork and virtual machine with MS Office for Windhose
b) new common functions
1) Inspector (as before)
2) Format Bar - fabulous
3) Masks and Alphas
c) updates for Pages - word processing and layout
1) now separating word processing distinctly from page layout - made it
simpler
2) new “Track Change” function
3) go through brief Track Change demo
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Air Date: October 24, 2007
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