Teen Digital Diva |
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December 28, 1998 |
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Teen Digital Diva |
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December 28, 1998 |
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A Good Concept But It Needs a New Makeover! |
Teen Digital Diva is the creation of a new software market targeting teenage girls and is based on the top-selling publication of Teen Magazine. It's one of the first software products aiming for the age group of 12-17 year-old girls. The idea is to let the user (assumed by the program to be female) design their own Teen Magazine issue. The concept here is good, but the actual product falls short of its potential. When you first boot up the cd, you find yourself at the menu which plays some music and will allow you to install the cd, play, check out some links, etc. After installing and running the game, you are met by the virtual secretary, who gives you some information and sets you up in an office. From there you are introduced to your staff and have access to all the departments in order to put the magazine together. In making the cover page, you'll find that you only have a couple of photos for the front page and although you CAN upload pictures to use, it's difficult to keep the quality of the uploaded photos good or size it correctly. The section entitled Why me? is pretty lame. It consists of a bunch of letters supposedly written by young girls telling embarrassing situations or explaining problems they are having. You're supposed to be a dear abby of sorts and give them advice. The horoscope section lets you fill in the blanks giving your name, sign, crushes, etc. The game itself will then give you a horoscope of sorts. The selections here are very restricted and the horoscope that is generated seems to be only interested in your love life. Quizmaker produces a series of questions with multiple choice answers for your readers to choose from. All the questions have to do with boyfriends, fashion or problems with other girls. Millennium Filter is VERY restricted in its content. You're given the choice of pulling fashions from the 50's, 60's or 70's and cycling them into the 90's.
Your limited make-over options |
Your main office This means that you get a total of about 20 fashions from these three eras that you can make "sleek" or "Floofy." Not a lot of imagination comes into play here. What's Hot and What's Not is also pretty limited. Here you are given a little window with some items you can choose to highlight in your magazine as hot or not. Make me over is actually pretty fun. Here you're given a model (or you can upload your own pictures) to do a makeover on. The makeup and hairstyles are hilarious and you can make a great clown from the options given, however, if you're looking for some real makeup techniques, you'd be better off going to the clinique counter at the department stores for some REAL help. Face Art is pretty much the same thing...you can mess around with tattoos, earrings, etc. but to no avail. Again, you just make the model look like a reject from barnum and Bailey's circus. Though there are a few options that actually do look fairly good. In 7th Avenue, you are given the enterprise of making some outfits from pictures of clothes that NO ONE would be caught dead in. Again, the options here are painfully few. The only two areas of the game that were interesting were called You Review and Free For All. In You Review, you get to review some music CDs and give your opinion. However, again, the concept is good here, but the freedom of choice is not given. You have only a few CDs to rate and you're given only a few comments that you can paste into the magazine. Free for All is the ONLY Section where you have an unlimited choice. Here, you can make up your own articles, etc. and include it into the finished magazine. All-in-all, Teen Digital Diva is a good concept but it needs a new makeover. The music and the voices of the helpful editors are annoying, repetitive and I think the producers missed their audience a bit. If you are a young girl between the ages of 7 and 11, you'll probably love this CD. However, if you're 12 - 17, you'd probably love the Cosmopolitan Makeover Titles more. |
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NOTES Joshua Westhoven |
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