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Smiley Puzzle Project: 3D Rendered Animated Smileys

As promised a few weeks ago, here’s a new screenshot of the current Smiley Puzzle prototype!

Smiley Puzzle prototype with 3D rendered animated smileys

As you can see, I’ve been mainly working on the graphics and animations of the smileys. The biggest difference with the previous screenshots, is that each type of smiley has a different color. This makes it a lot easier to line them up! I also improved the rendering to make them look more reflective, for a glossy plastic feel.

The current background of the prototype is temporary. It will probably change to better fit the smiley theme.

I’ve rendered the smileys with DAZ Studio, a powerful 3D posing and animation tool. And best of all, it’s completely free! :) The DAZ Productions website also offers a lot of 3D models for very democratic prices. I think it’s a great tool and resource for game producers on a budget! The only drawback of the DAZ Studio application, is that it currently crashes on MacOS X 10.4. Under 10.3.9 it works fine, but I hope they can fix this issue.

There’s still a lot of work to do on the game of course, but the important thing is that I’m making progress!

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3 Responses to “Smiley Puzzle Project: 3D Rendered Animated Smileys”

  1. Anawiki Blog » Blog Archive » Smiley Puzzle Project and Jeweltopia Says:
    October 9th, 2006 at 3:17 pm

    […] I’ve found 2 interesting game concepts today. Jochen De Schepper posted in his blog early screenshot for his new game project: Smiley Puzzle. Smileys are so popular on the internet that I am really surprised that it took so long to create a game around it. […]

  2. Sneak Peek At SmileyPuzzleGames.com » Dark Moon Blog Says:
    January 4th, 2007 at 1:36 am

    […] The first one is intended to become a small online games arcade, with multiple puzzle games, all featuring 3D animated smileys. I have several ideas for puzzle games, for which I will first make a webgame version. The most popular games will get a deluxe downloadable version. Today I made a logo which should give a first impression of the concept. A larger version can be seen at the Smiley Puzzle Games website itself. […]

  3. New Flash Game Released: Smiley Puzzle » Dark Moon Blog Says:
    October 25th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    […] Some people might recognize the smiley graphics from the original Smiley Puzzle Project, that was supposed to become a game based on the Enigmatica mechanism. […]

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