Archive for the ‘avatars’ Category
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Our gaming community's Avatar Generator has been growing a lot since its early days. One can get pretty well detailed & personalized gaming avatar in our service nowadays. Here's my current Playray dude from the Finnish Playray service (Aapeli). Zoom in for details.
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On our sites the default view on avatar ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
This is pretty cool. Two gurus at our office (Pasi Laaksonen and Janne Puonti) created a mosaic picture out of thousands of Playray avatar portraits. Check out the full version here (2520 x 4020).
The picture includes only face portraits of the avatars - the full-scale Playray avatars are Flash based, ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Juhani Lassila, Communications Director of Sulake, and myself were interviewed today by Sula Pinta, podcast reporting about "new dimensions of media". Sula Pinta is available only in Finnish, but if that's not a problem for you, today's episode is available here. The discussion goes mostly around the virtual merchandise business ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Users of the Finnish Playray site (and later the users of other Playray countries as well) can now decorate their avatars' Playforia rooms with genuine virtual furniture by designer, professor h.c. Eero Aarnio. Playray collection includes for example the classics like the Ball (1963) and the Pastil (1968).
Over here you ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Playray avatars are increasingly important feature for our online gaming community members in Playray services. Therefore it is not a surprise that we've got a lot of wishes from users that they want their avatars to move, they want them to have a house, a dog, etc. We've now answered ...
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Friday, December 8th, 2006
I was just having lunch with Ironstar's Joakim. Ironstar is developing a very interesting product: Pocket Pal, avatar based mobile game with an online environment for customizing the player's own game content.
Funny trivia fact is that Ironstar's current office is in the same building, including exactly the same flat, where ...
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Playray is running a virtual beauty contest for the avatars that users have been creating with Playray's unique Character Generator. It would be nice to know if this is a first totally virtual beauty contest in the world? I guess there must have been some already, but I just haven't ...
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