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The Sandbox – 90’s Nostalgia Voxedit Contest and Care Bears Game Jam
In Parallel to the Alpha Season 3, The Sandbox has announced two new contests for creators. First, the “90’s Nostalgia in Web3” is a themed contest in which participants have to create a digital asset of their favorite icons from the 90s using the VoxEdit platform. The second contest is the Care Bears Game Jam, […]Read More -
Play to Earn Games to Watch in September
Though the official months of summer come to a close, the blockchain summer seems to keep on rolling. Several new play and earn opportunities open this month, with a wide variety of gaming experiences to choose from. Players can duel as gods, fight pirates in the depths of space, claim ownership of asteroids around a […]Read More -
The Sandbox Invests $1.7 Million In Metaverse Start-up INDEX GAME
INDEX GAME, the Hong Kong based metaverse agency, has signed an investment agreement with The Sandbox. As a result, the company has become the first officially appointed metaverse agency by The Sandbox. Together The Sandbox and INDEX GAME will work on metaverse development, creating play-to-earn games and enhancing the Web3 ecosystem. INDEX GAME is a new company in […]Read More -
MetaRealtor Sci-fi NFT Series in The Sandbox Marketplace
OUTR Studios has announced the launch of Sci-fi theme based MetaRealtor NFT assets that will allow builders and landowners to create and develop their lands. The OUTR Studios is a company that provides architectural building blocks and toolboxes for The Sandbox metaverse. Players can use these MetaRealtor assets containing several Sci-fi props and objects to […]Read More -
Ledger Partners with The Sandbox to Develop Ledgerverse
Ledger, the French-based crypto wallet company, has partnered with The Sandbox to create the Ledgerverse that will help educate people about crypto security and learn how to protect wallets in this era of frequent crypto hacks and breaches. In addition, this collaboration will introduce a game called “The School of Block” in The Sandbox, which […]Read More -
Phantom Galaxies Episode 4 Coming on August 31
The final Episode for the Phantom Galaxies alpha arrives at the end of this month. Players can continue the storyline, completing missions, and possibly even earning ASTRAFER tokens along the way. Episode 4 brings a new Starfighter to the game, new quests, and new dangers! Phantom Galaxies launches Episode 4 of their play and earn […]Read More -
Hell’s Kitchen Partners with The Sandbox and Brings Gordon Ramsay to Metaverse
Gordon Ramsay, the celebrity chef and owner of 12 Michelin-star restaurants, has collaborated with The Sandbox to bring Hell’s Kitchen to the Sandbox Metaverse. As a result, the Hell’s Kitchen show will have a special land in the metaverse where players can take the challenge of becoming the head chef by cooking delicious recipes. Hell’s […]Read More -
Play and Earn in The Sandbox Alpha Season 3
On August 24th, The Sandbox launches their third Alpha Season. Following up on two previous alphas, The Sandbox raises the ante again with over 90 experiences and thousands of SAND tokens up for grabs! After The Sandbox ran their Alpha Season 1 last year, and Alpha Season 2 earlier this year, players have been eagerly […]Read More -
Create and Earn in VoxEdit / Lords of Light Contest
VoxEdit continues to launch a steady stream of creative contests. The latest, a partnership with Rainiverse, brings prizes including 15,000 SAND tokens and special NFTs from Raini. The theme for this contest centers around creatures from a trading card game called The Lords of Light. VoxEdit is the official, voxel-based, asset creator for The Sandbox. […]Read More -
Leading Web3 Platforms Form the Open Metaverse Alliance
Believing in “a metaverse without restraining walls,” Animoca Brands and other blockchain-based platforms such as Decentraland and The Sandbox have come together to form the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3). The organization proposes to connect multiple virtual worlds and Web3 platforms in a frictionless way. Currently, the blockchain industry faces challenges in interoperability, and […]Read More
The Sandbox
The Sandbox is a virtual world in which players own and customize the 166 thousand different land parcels its made out of. On those land parcels, which are represented as non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the landowners can do whatever they want: build games, virtual museums or other creative creations.
The world of The Sandbox is made out of voxels. From that perspective it’s very similar to Minecraft. However, in The Sandbox everybody can make a game, can design fashionable characters or earn SAND tokens by completing quests. Everybody in The Sandbox contributes to the game’s ecosystem, and therefore everybody earns rewards. That’s a true play-to-earn business model.
Creating in The Sandbox
The Sandbox provides free tools to create assets. VoxEdit is a free creator to make voxel assets, including for example game characters or non-player characters. Creations made in VoxEdit can be sold on an open and player-driven marketplace, and other people can then use those assets to decorate their lands.
Aside from VoxEdit, The Sandbox has free software GameMaker. This software can be used to make games or other interactive installations. To make these, creators can use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) made with VoxEdit. Once the game installation is complete, all used assets are saved into one ERC-1155 non-fungible token. In essence this means that these interactive creations can also be sold as separate games within The Sandbox.
