The game is essentially a side-scrolling puzzle game which involves being a ghostbuster in a haunted mansion. Though the sound is weak (there's little music, and characters talk in the gibberish-style popularized by Gobliiins a decade ago), the visuals and animations are extremely well-done. The game is a perfect distraction that effectively shows off the graphics of the GameCube. I picked up Luigi's Mansion as a rental last week - it was the flagship offering when the GameCube was released last year. Having futzed around with my new GameCube for a couple weeks now, I thought I'd post a review or two. Soon I will never have to drive to FL again I enjoy listening to wind bands - it carries me back to old Virginny and all the ensembles I used to play in. Tallahassee Winds put on a good concert last night. This revealed that the programmer probably based all his future enhancements on some shoddy baseline and didn't want to stop cashing his royalty checks to ensure its soundness. The company (which was probably one guy) kept putting out new versions for hundreds of dollars (the current price is $600 I believe) but this one little bug never got fixed.
#DEFINE PYWARE 3D SOFTWARE#
I worked with that software over the course of three versions, and every one of them would fatally crash if you moved a particular rank formation across a yard line in a certain way. Back in my drill-writing phase, the de facto drill software was Pyware and then Pyware 3D. Then you have the cases of software that gets away with being buggy simply because it's the only game in town. Wouldn't it have been more intuitive to have a dialog box which said " Crescendo from 50 (pp) to 120 (ff) steadily over 8 beats"? Then you could have drop-down boxes to change the underlined parts. Finally you have to match that shape to the MIDI controller responsible for Volume (that's controller 7, geek-y). If you want to crescendo a particular amount, you have to create a graphical shape that matches the contour of the crescendo magnitude and then fit it to the occasion by inputting a numeric ratio for time scale and level scale. Consider, for example, Finale's shape editing tool.
I've never understood why programmers don't apply the same simple strictures of human-computer interaction that are used with normal software.
#DEFINE PYWARE 3D FULL#
If you're ever a full professor somewhere, check back on that idea - maybe I'll give you a discount if I like you. I'm almost inspired enough to add "write ear training software" to my long list of future activities. We used MacGamut when I was an undergrad, and while it may not be as customizable as PM, I'd recommend it any day over this tripe. Even on the instructors' end, the class report scheme (coupled with a Quit menu option than seems to mean different things at different times) makes more work than it should. PM's interface actually interferes with the learning process and more often than not it prevents students from translating what they want to answer into an expected canned response. In general, it seems that software designed by or for musicians tends to be unintuitive or slipshod (consider early versions of Finale), but here it's especially unacceptable since the program is billed as educational software. Practica Musica is easily the most poorly-designed software I've ever used. The Bush administration threw the "terrorism" keyword into the mix at the outset, but luckily they've been well-behaved so far and haven't declared war on the axis of space. I can still remember being a first grader in the library for "Reading is Fundamental" when Challenger exploded in 1986 (I was looking through the Berenstein Bears books for one I didn't have, and there were TVs set up so students could watch the launch). What happened to the shuttle Columbia during the concert was a tragedy.
I've gone to three concerts so far and they've all had their good points, although the student works' concert was incredibly long.
The New Music Festival is merrily rolling along.
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