If this sounds like something you'd like on your Vita, you can download Monster Monpiece for $29.99 / ~ £20.99 in a couple of weeks.Īnd if you need any more convincing, you can check out Monster Monpiece's "First Crush RubLevel" mode in action. With over 100 Monster Girl cards to collect, fuse, and level, Monster Monpiece also offers players a rich amount of strategy to dive into. When one member of the group turns rogue, it's up to players to quest after them and save the world. Monster Monpiece takes a unique approach to the card battler genre and puts players in control of a young girl who's seeking to become the ultimate Monster Girl trainer alongside her friends. The western version won't be as sexy as the original Japanese release, however, as some of the more provocative card art was censored as part of what Idea Factory called a very difficult decision. Monster Monpiece, you might remember, is the card battler that's famous for blending CCG gameplay with some light RPG elements, a charming story, and sexy monster girl illustrations. And then there's the question of balanced match-making, which doesn't seem to exist, either.Idea Factory has announced that its Card battler Monster Monpiece will come to the PlayStation Network in North America on May 28 before it makes its way to Europe a day later. But getting a competent deck of cards requires you to spend 15 or 20 hours with the single-player game, and it's probably not worth the trouble. You can even fully customize the rules, which is a nice touch (single-player campaign battles pretty much use the same rules over and over again). Whether via PSN or ad-hoc, you can connect with other Monster Monpiece players to pit your deck of cards against theirs. A glimmer of light can be found online, though. Getting from battle to battle on top-down maps is fine, I guess, but without a sense of discovery, without being invested in anything going on around Monster Monpiece's core gameplay, what's the point of playing it at all? It has absolutely no hook, especially if you aren't wholly compelled by its card-fighting mechanics. It's another when the world is mind-numbingly blah. There's one thing when characters are boring and dialogue is drab. Then there's the question of actually traveling around Monster Monpiece's fictional world, a world completely devoid of personality and uniqueness. Just wake me up when this conversation is over. That's weird, of course, since it's a Vita game, but either way, as a lifelong fan of Japanese games, I found Monster Monpiece to be supremely off-putting, tasteless, and embarrassing in this respect. Not only am I unsure of who this kind of gimmick is aimed at, but it's a gimmick that makes Monster Monpiece virtually unplayable in its full form in public. Sometimes, she'll shed clothes and gain some statistical boosts other times, she'll actually gain permanent statistical deficits. To upgrade a card, you have to turn your Vita vertically and rub the cards - almost always adorned with a scantily clad "Monster Girl" - in order to find all-too-predictable "pleasure points" on the body. For starters, Monster Monpiece's card upgrade system isn't only nonsensical it's stupid. Unfortunately, its aforementioned atrocious storytelling pairs with some other noticeable (and borderline flagrant) flaws to summon forth questions concerning whether it's worth getting through all of the bad to get to the good. I definitely got sucked-in to trying to master this overarching system - and even exploiting it - and, judged solely on its card-battling merits, there's definitely something fun about Monster Monpiece. And since the entire system revolves around a limited amount of mana, you have to be strategic. Placing healer and support cards behind melee and ranged cards can make them stronger and keep them from dying. You can double-up like cards, whether by color or type, to buff-out your position. In Monster Monpiece's litany of one-on-one duels, you can place up to nine cards at a time on a grid that never gets larger than three squares by seven squares. Still, some nuance can be found on the field of (card) battle. The beauty of a system so simple is that it's easy to comprehend, though I certainly would have loved something a bit deeper and more nuanced. All cards share two statistics - attack and hit points - and certain types of cards have their own statistical bonuses (like MP for healers and INT for support cards). You can customize your deck with up to 40 cards that come in four different types - melee, ranged, support, and healer - and the objective is to mix these cards up in battle to overwhelm your opponent's base. The card-battling fundamentals at the center of Monster Monpiece are intriguing, albeit somewhat shallow. The situation improves when you're not mired in needless conversations that expand upon a mindless story.
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After we indeed recommended they buy it, we have helped support them with a support service retainer after they onboarded with the platform. So one of the big markers of that shift into a higher strategic advisor role was that we got asked, should they even buy Drift? They asked if we could help them understand if and how it might fit into their sales and marketing tech stack. Throughout our time working with them over the past six years, we have transitioned really to function as a strategic advisor for the CMO. This involves us consulting and executing on marketing automation support, CRM support in sales ops – things like that. We started focusing where a lot of our work starts, in marketing operations. They’re about 150 employees and under $50 million in revenue. Nick: So what are some examples of success that you’re seeing with implementing Drift successfully at different companies – both at the beginning and perhaps after they’ve had it for a number of months?Īndrea: This first example is a client in the FinTech space. By the time we get customers to achieve mastery of Drift a few months down the road, they’re ready for goals like personalizing conversations by account and incorporating conversational conversions at every stage of the buyer journey. For the Drift customers that we support, that might typically start out at the implementation phase with focusing on qualified leads generated and meetings booked through the platform. What that means is that there have to be certain outcomes that are achieved in phases as the customer’s adoption of a platform matures over time. We do this by creating a roadmap of how increasing mastery with Drift leads to better and more impactful business outcomes. Nick: How do you help your clients to form goals around their utilization of Drift?Īndrea: Our value as a consultancy and implementation partner is to connect our client’s technology investment to business outcomes. I host a show on YouTube that’s all about MarTech, comparing different tools in a way that everyone can understand like, “How is this technology actually going to help me in my job?” That’s what I try to bring to the market in all sorts of different ways and that’s what we try to help customers do at LeadMD. If it’s new, shiny, and helps a marketer do something more efficiently or better, I’m all about it. Nick Salvatoriello: First, can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do at LeadMD?Īndrea Lechner-Becker: I’m Andrea Lechner-Becker and I’m CMO of LeadMD. I ask Andrea how her team has crafted and delivered professional services that have helped Drift customers drive transformation and accelerate revenue – and how that’s increased LeadMD’s bottom line in the process.Įditor’s note: The following has been edited and condensed for clarity. In this way, you can learn from their experience and also get to know a potential partner in your own organization’s conversational marketing and sales efforts.įirst up, we have a conversation with Andrea Lechner-Becker at LeadMD. So today, I’m starting a brand new series.Įach month we’ll introduce you to a Drift Solutions Partner that has shown quantifiable success in implementing revenue acceleration best practices for companies while putting the customer at the center of everything they do ( one of our Leadership Principles). I wanted to do more to shed light on these great stories and learnings. A big part of my job is to create content that helps educate, motivate and showcase the amazing agencies, consultancies, and technology companies that we have partnered with at Drift.įor the last several months, I’ve had a chance to meet all sorts of talented marketing and sales professionals who are helping Drift customers achieve their revenue acceleration goals.Īnd it got me thinking. I’m a member of the Drift marketing team. Placing and populating room tags, finding room areas, or making schedules can be a time-consuming task. Details and annotations are also easier with ACA, because it offers a larger library of detail components and keynoting tools. With the Layer Properties Manager, there is less cumbersome management of Layers in AutoCAD Architecture, even across multiple DWGs. The Default Workspace for AutoCAD Architecture contains all of the controls, commands, and palettes that are enhanced for Architecture so you can hit the ground running. the traditional drafting / CAD workflow of producing separate 2D projections of each view. The extraction is an inherent quality of creating a 3D digital model, vs. Wouldn’t it be nice if sections and elevations were easier to create directly from your floor plans? Just like individual elements, when you change a major element like a wall or floor in plan view it automatically updates element locations, as well as material hatching, layer, and line type properties in all other views.Ī 3D model, populated with intelligent objects, offers the ability to easily extract sections, elevations, views, schedules, etc. You can also modify all objects of that Style, meaning if you insert a certain style of window 50 times into several different walls, but want to update the style, you can modify it once and it updates every object a huge time-saver! Advantage of 3D Models So, you can insert doors or windows into your wall, and when you change the location or Style of object, you may update this same object in other drawings where it is shown. In AutoCAD Architecture, elements such as walls, doors, and windows mimic real-world behavior and construction. It can be a difficult task for drafters to ensure that a change to an element in plan view (like a door or a window), is updated across all relevant sections and elevations. Take a look at the potential time savings for all AutoCAD verticals, including 85% productivity gain with AutoCAD MEP, and 95% gain with AutoCAD Electrical! Higher-Level Design regular AutoCAD, which is a significant value proposition. Even if it is not BIM, there are productivity studies indicating that AutoCAD Architecture can save up to 60% of the time vs. Some may consider a project created in AutoCAD Architecture to be BIM, but this requires strict drafting and CAD Management standards to ensure. Autodesk Revit is a BIM authoring software that uses a standardized hierarchy of objects (Category, Family, Type, Instance) allowing the designer to build a 3D model at a higher level. These AEC Objects have hints of Building Information Modeling (BIM) which has become the standard for larger government and institutional projects. NOTE: AEC Objects are not backwards compatible, and just because you can save back an AutoCAD DWG file from 2018 format to 2013 format, you cannot save back AutoCAD Architecture components. These intelligent objects give the designer the ability to manipulate building elements at a higher level, far beyond what Dynamic Blocks have traditionally offered. In AutoCAD Architecture, lines, arcs, and circles are complemented by intelligent walls, doors, and windows, known as AEC Objects. BIMĪutoCAD is used to convey design intent, by utilizing Lines, Arcs, and Circles, to illustrate the design. * AutoCAD is available for MAC, whereas AutoCAD Architecture and all other products in the Specialized Toolset only have compatibility with Windows. Since all AutoCAD functionality is available within AutoCAD Architecture, you get more in almost every way*. AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), which is one of the vertical products available with AutoCAD Including Specialized Toolsets, has all of the same functionality as AutoCAD, plus the addition of tools designed for Architects to enhance the workflow of construction documentation. Depending on your needs, you may require more features within AutoCAD (ACAD) specific to architecture, design & documentation. In a previous post, we talked about the differences between AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. The biggest takeaway from the new recommendations is that it’s important for doctors to perform ultrasounds on pregnant women early in their first trimester (up to 13 weeks). More premature babies could receive steroids to help their lungs develop, for example, or women with complications could feel more confident in reducing their babies’ risk for the NICU. “This information is vital for timing of appropriate obstetric care, scheduling and interpretation of certain antepartum tests, determining the appropriateness of fetal growth, and designing interventions to prevent preterm births, post-term births and related morbidities,” states the ACOG. Why all the fuss about getting due dates right? Well, in addition to what I think is supporting a mother’s mental health (those last few weeks of pregnancy can be brutal), a more accurate due date provides better overall care for baby. It joined forces with the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine to recommend that doctors now calculate due dates with an early, first-trimester ultrasound and combine those findings with a woman’s menstrual cycle information to determine a more accurate due date. Now, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is cracking down on the uncertainty surrounding a woman’s due date. And let’s face it, sometimes women do not recall exactly the date of their last period. A woman who has a longer cycle and ovulated later but didn’t realize it could actually have a due date that’s off by a week - hence the reason doctors usually say there’s a good two-week “cushion” for calculating due dates. The problem, of course, is that not every woman’s cycle operates on a regular 28-day pattern, and ovulation can be unpredictable and change as a result of stress, birth control or sleep deprivation. By the time most women find out they are pregnant when they miss their periods two weeks later, they are already considered a month pregnant. Assuming a regular, 28-day cycle for a woman, ovulation usually occurs around day 14 of the cycle - so if fertilization occurs during that window, a woman is considered already two weeks pregnant, as the due date is calculated from day one of the cycle. But now, doctors have new guidelines to ensure that women are receiving the most accurate due date possible.Ĭurrently, due dates are calculated by using an estimate based off of a woman’s last period and the “average” length of pregnancy, which is a total of 40 weeks. Traditionally due dates are calculated by last menstrual period. It is a date you plan things around, and a date that you know will change everything. That is the day you conceived a baby.When are you due? When you are pregnant, a certain date becomes very important. However, if you have intercourse up to 5 days before ovulation, you will not conceive until your body releases an egg and the sperm can fertilize it. If you have intercourse on the day of ovulation, you may conceive that day. It all depends on when you ovulate and release an egg. Sperm can live inside your body for up to 5 days. Note: Conception does not always occur on the date of intercourse. This can happen if you have irregular cycles because it can be more challenging to determine your date of conception or if you ovulate earlier or later than expected. If your baby consistently measures bigger or smaller than expected for your gestation, your due date may change. They will also measure your baby’s growth by measuring your fundal height during each prenatal appointment and/or measuring your baby via ultrasound between 8 and 12 weeks gestation. Your doctor or midwife will use one of the formulas mentioned above to calculate your due date. Can your baby’s due date change?Ībsolutely. By sharing both of these results, you will know when your estimated due date is for your health care provider (the Naegele’s Rule) as well as the date you might more realistically expect your baby to be born (Nichols’ Rule). We also include the Nichols’ Rule in our due date calculator because we want to account for the woman’s average length of cycles and whether this pregnancy is the first child. However, when the game started up, it felt less stretched, and they even added in some more Switch-specific controls such as motion control. I’m not sure if Activision did this on purpose-as a joke about how old the game is-or if when they added in that screen, they didn’t re-calibrate the image. Even the Joy-Con instructional message at the beginning of the game looked noisy and old. It was clear the game was not optimized for displays of our age. The opening parts of Jedi Academy that show off the developers’ branding were slightly distorted and stretched across my screen. At the very least, it wasn’t made for modern TVs. I enjoyed the voice acting and the attempts at cutscenes-that, compared to what we have today, felt stilted and choppy-but this port doesn’t feel as if all of it was made for the Nintendo Switch. I got to make a fantasy Twi’lek persona for the game. You’re even given a character creation screen with a simple set of choices: race, skin tone, gender, outfit, and Force Crystal. Overall, this story was well executed on, with familiar settings. You’re working with your mentors to take down a Sith cult, the Disciples of Ragnos, who have planted their influence across the galaxy. The story is one I appreciate from the SW universe. Jedi Academy takes place 10 years after the Battle of Endor (or 10 years after the events of Return of the Jedi) and features some major characters. And despite its clumsiness, it was a good introduction. This crash landing gives you a little taste of the exploration and combat you’ll experience in the rest of the game. You meet your soon-to-be best friend, Rosh, and crash land after an assault on the transport taking you to the academy. (It’s technically the last of the Star Wars: Jedi Knight series, but you can play this without having played the others.) In Jedi Academy, you are the character named Jaden, who is on the way to Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy to begin training. In 2003, Jedi Academy released on PC and the original Xbox console with a positive response from Star Wars (SW) fans and gamers alike. “Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy,” which I’m going to just call Jedi Academy for short, is one of those games you might remember fondly for the same reasons. The graphics were the best for their time, and the combat mechanics were sometimes sloppy. I remember games from my teen years vividly. In the Library, you can view a new recent notes features that shows the 10 most recently opened notes.Īn updated Help Center also features articles and tutorials to learn the finer points of the app.ĭesigned for the iPhone and all iPad models, Notability can be downloaded now on the App Store for $9.99. That feature even supports audio recording and playback. And a new note switcher makes it easy to switch between notes quickly. With the Multi-Note feature for iPads, you can work with two different notes side by side. If you have a significant amount of handwriting, that process may take a while. Just to note, the first time you launch the app after updating the library will be scanned and indexed for handwriting. You can now search handwritten notes from the Library and within a specific note.Īny handwritten note can now also be converted into text. The biggest addition in the update involves handwriting. Then again, the Adobe Document Cloud integration makes the app quite unique, and works well when you frequently (or not-so-frequently) use other Adobe apps.įor those who need a note app that does it all I just wish Adobe Scan didn't force you to make an in-app purchase to turn more than text into PDF files. That mountain of receipts can become a digital library in very little time. You can take just about any paper document and make it digital. It allows you to quickly and easily import your paper-based receipts, business cards, and other documents into Adobe Document Cloud. This app works great for scanning text into a searchable PDF. The main drawback is that if you want to make things other than text into PDF files, you have to pay for a PDF Pack subscription. The built-in optical character recognition engine lets you reuse scanned content by creating a high-quality PDF you can work with in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and you can save your scans to Adobe Document Cloud for easy sharing. You scan your paper-based document, turn on text recognition if you want it, and enjoy a gorgeous PDF that you can touch up, crop, rotate, and adjust color on. Receipts, notes, pictures, documents, business cards, whiteboards, whatever. With Adobe Scan, you can turn almost anything made out of paper into a PDF. For people who have paper they want to turn into PDF files While you can certainly keep your columns (“swimlanes”) simple, like “to do” “doing” and “done” you can get creative. The initial view in Planner is organized as a Kanban board, which is part of the Agile project management methodology. These will be people from within your firm, company, or organization. When you create a new plan in Planner you will add members. A plan created through the stand-alone Planner can be linked to from a SharePoint site or you can create a new plan directly from within a SharePoint site. Through Teams you can create a plan using “Tasks by Planner and To Do” by clicking on the plus sign in a Teams channel. You can incorporate Planner plans into SharePoint or MS Teams. There are several ways to create a Planner plan. If you don’t see it click on the square of squares icon at the bottom of that column to view all the applications available with your Microsoft 365 subscription. Then on the far-left column mouse over the icons and find Planner, which looks like a green F. You can access Planner by going to and logging in with your business plan credentials. Within Microsoft 365 Planner is available as a browser-based application, on the iPhone or on Android. However, it is robust enough, especially for firms that are just starting out using a project management tool. Microsoft Planner is not as robust as other project management applications like Monday, Zoho, Asana or Trello. While To Do is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, Project is not. It is not available as a stand-alone product, unlike similar Microsoft apps To Do and Project. Microsoft Planner comes with Business and Enterprise versions of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Planner is more robust for managing a group than MS To-Do and can be incorporated into Teams and SharePoint. If you are curious if a project management tool would help your firm stay on top of multiple matters from a task-based perspective, as well as monitor your team’s progress without micro-management, consider starting with an app you already have if you are a Microsoft 365 business plan subscriber – Planner. If you have explored tools to create task lists, with assignments and deadlines, you know that there are a whole lot of options on the market. But new tools for site building, such as no-code, make dynamic, interaction-focused designs significantly easier to build. Some imagine we’re headed back to times where sites were self-contained, esoteric, and curious. The logical next step is bringing that energy to websites and creating more unique experiences there. That, to me, is the opportunity right now.” The world has gotten used to apps, where interaction, animation, and dynamic experiences are the norm. He explains: “A front-end-driven web experience that’s really overblown from a design standpoint is a whole new way of using the web that hasn’t existed before it's an app-like experience. Jeremy Beyt, co-founder of ThreeSixtyEight, strongly believes these sorts of smaller, experience-focused sites are the future of web design. It created a mysterious atmosphere with music and an opacity adjustment around the cursor that a visitor can use to reveal selective parts of the page while hunting for clues. Marketing agency ThreeSixtyEight made a scavenger hunt to reveal the location of its company retreat to its team. A scavenger hunt can be used to reveal a product launch, release a new video, or give the viewer a hidden piece of information. Just remember to give your audience some sort of hints or workarounds if you really want everyone to be able to make it to the end. Find a hidden clickable element on the page.Find a word hidden in your main site or the scavenger hunt site.Provide a word based on a riddle or clue.This is a case where you can use your web design prowess to create a puzzle that enthralls. There are all sorts of creative ways to conceal and reveal prompts, clues, and answers. You can daisy-chain pages and password-protect certain parts, making visitors provide answers or find clues to unlock the next page in the series. Websites’ structures actually lend themselves to puzzles and scavenger hunts incredibly well. Visitors could send their guns in to be forged into swords by a world-class blacksmith. It was created by MSCHF, a group that is somewhere between gonzo artists and hype app creators, to be an actual service. Guns 2 Swords is a mini-site/enterprise in full ‘80s Dungeons & Dragons glory, with a taste of Choose Your Own Adventure. An Easter-egg-style marketing site for a professional purpose can work if it’s executed well. This is an opportunity to create a site that functions in unexpected ways. Make it seem like it’s a serious site until it’s not. Bring humor into not just the copy and images but into the site navigation, menus, and interactions. You can experiment in a number of ways: by setting an intentionally playful UX design, or deliberately subverting expectations (but make sure you still build accessibly!). Sometimes creation for creation’s sake is a great way to get out of a rut. And designers are using no-code tools to enable them to do it all faster and easier than ever before.ĭay & Night, a short from Pixar in 2010 influenced animation approaches used in features like Inside Out and Soul.Ĭrafting a fun mini-site gives designers time to just be creative, to practice and experiment with techniques, and to pull out all the design stops without worrying about going overboard on a professional gig. Web design is also moving into the future with exciting contemporary techniques like advanced interactions and animations and visual effects like glassmorphism and grain. Updated styling - with a lot of muted colors, sophisticated textures, and serif fonts - keeps sites from feeling too retro. Instead, these designs find creative ways to use typography, grids and lines, and simple navigation. Designers are finding creativity outside of the more photograph-centric layouts that have become standard. Visually, web trends are taking cues from that era. Many of us have been spending time at home idly surfing the internet, looking for something diverting or exciting like we used to do when the web was first emerging. Fashion has also been borrowing heavily from the late 90s and early aughts. We seem to be in a bit of a renaissance period of the early web. This harkens back to the beginning of the web when designers found ways to show off new techniques or create websites for their own sake. Designers have started creating sites as art, sites as interactive projects, and sites that simply exist for play and delight. The scene extends for slightly longer afterwards, showing Jimmy laughing after Chris himself laughs.
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