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Montreal – Mia’s Reading Adventure – The Bugaboo Bugs has won a Gold Medal from Mom’s Choice Awards. Developed by Kutoka Interactive of Montreal, Mia’s Reading Adventure is for children aged 5-9. The game follows primary school curriculum and enables the player to lead Mia the Mouse through a reading adventure. Designed to entertain, teach and spur imagination, the Mia series of titles feature lovable 3D characters who also happen to be house pests who have moved into Mia’s mansion.

Mia’s Reading Adventures, comprised thus far of six chapters, “includes 12 exciting reading and writing skills activities each with 4 distinct levels of difficulty. Topics covered: associating images to words, adverbs, phonics, rhymes, spelling, sentence structure, vocabulary, reading comprehension, word recognition and more.” Mia’s Reading Adventure comes in DVD-ROM format, and runs on both Windows and MAC platforms.

Key Features

• Adventure game includes 12 educational activities
• Two game styles: Aventure Mode and Activities Mode
• Four age-appropriate difficulty levels that follow the educational curriculum
• Easy to consult evaluation report to follow the child’s progress
• Educational activities seamlessly integrated into the story
• Colorful environments and endearing characters in a rich 3D environment
• Feature-film quality animation
• Unique navigation system enabling real-time control of the main character
• On DVD-ROM for an even better graphic quality

Hybrid CD-ROM Minimal System Requirements:

Windows XP (sp2) / 2000 (sp4), VISTA
Processor: Pentium III – 1GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Video & Sound: DirectX 9 compatible
DVD-ROM Drive: 4X
Hard Disk Space: 1.6 GB

Macintosh OS X, 10.4, 10.5
Processor: G4 – 1GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Video & Sound: Standard Macintosh
DVD-ROM Drive: 4X
Hard Disk Space: 1.6 GB