Archive for the ‘Playray’ 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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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
We have just started an interesting co-operation together with Sulake and its social networking service IRC-Galleria. Part of Aapeli's online gaming catalogue is now accessible straight from IRC-Galleria as well. The players from IRC-Galleria and from Aapeli end up in the same gaming space, with IRC-Galleria based users marked with ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
We are opening our Playray service next in Turkey. More detailed info about that (and also about our recent management changes) is available over here.
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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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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Oops, I just realised that December became the first month in this blog's history without any posts. Sorry about that. There has been quite few posts on my Finnish blog as well. All this jaikuing and facebooking is reducing my blogging, no doubt about that.
Well, at least I'm writing some ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Next week will see two new Playray countries opening. Playray France and Playray Italy will get launched along the wide partnership starting between Apaja and Lycos. This collaboration includes co-operation in France, Italy, Germany, Spain and UK.
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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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