Smiley

Smiley (full title Smiley's Challenge 1.0) is a 2002 shareware puzzle and skill game by Roger M. Clary of MacMUSE Software, packaging two grid-based mini-games -- Find Smiley and Capture Smiley -- with colorful graphics, sounds, and a shared high-scores list. This particular upload is the Mac OS X-native build of the same 1.0 release.

This upload: the Mac OS X build

This is the OS X-native packaging of Smiley's Challenge 1.0, tested under Mac OS 10.1 and shipped alongside a Classic Mac OS counterpart in August 2002. Gameplay, scoring, and the registration scheme are identical between the two builds; only the runtime differs, with this version compiled for Mac OS X rather than System 8.6 to 9.2.2.

Find Smiley and Capture Smiley

In Find Smiley, players click cells in a grid to locate a hidden Smiley using clues delivered by colored lights, all while dodging Badees that multiply each round. In Capture Smiley, the goal flips: the player taps cells to box Smiley in, choosing between a slower single-click mode and a fast-paced auto-move mode. Both games share a high-scores list.

Shareware terms

Smiley's Challenge was distributed as $7 shareware with a $50 site license. Unregistered copies displayed reminder screens; registered MacMUSE Software customers received free codes. The author permitted free redistribution provided the application and its read-me were unaltered, and offered the program as-is with no warranty.

Mac OS X-era MacMUSE Software

By 2002, MacMUSE Software (macmuseSW.com) was producing parallel Classic and OS X builds of its small-team educational and entertainment titles to bridge users still on Mac OS 9 with early adopters of Apple's then-new Unix-based operating system. This OS X build of Smiley's Challenge is one such dual release.